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LABOR (Connecticut) NEWS
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CLERGYMAN OF
N. C. DEFENDS
DIXIE LABOR
Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 15. With
ridicule and sarcasm Rev. Tom P.
Jimison replies to an evangelist at
Cramerton, a mill town, near here,
who
'.thanked God that our southern
mill operators have sense enough
to run their own business without
allowing foreign immigration to
come in and dictate how they
shall work. I want you fellows,
when these agitators come in, in
terfering with your business, to
go out and hold prayer meeting
with them. Make it so hot for
them that they will have to leave
town."
Following this incitement to vio
lence, the evangelist praised the one
textile mill owner in that town for
"keeping his hands satisfied."
Writing in the Charlotte Herald,
Rev. Jimison defends labor, while pro
fessing alarm at the. growing discon
tent "of these textile hands."
"Of course we want our hands to
- be satisfied," said the clergyman. "But
tnanyof these workers are wondering
how it is that being built up spiritu-
'vtlly will keep the pangsi. of hunger
from gnawing when the larder is low.
"They are asking how we expect
them to be sustained spiritually ; when
for education, for a me&sttw of inde
pendence, for all those things which
make tor spirituality are denied them
by reason of low wages and long
hpurs.
"It is really alarming how informed
and discontented and stubborn some
of these textile hands are getting.
"Christians praying for a man, even
though that man be an agitator, would
hot run him out of town. That sort
of a meeting would not be hot. No
one would run from it. And even
were, it true that such a procedure
would run the agitator out, we must
not encourage it. Praying- is a dan
gerous thing when you connect it up
with industrial institutions. You get
real Christians to praying for agita
tors and they will remember to pray
for children, for children who are
overworked and underfed. They will
pray for women and for ignorant and
oppressed people.
"Can't you see how dangerous that
is? It will create more discontent
than a thousand welfare workers can
handle. Better leave the praying off,
if we are going to try to keep out
hands satisfied. If the agitators come,
have them arrested by the company
policeman. If that don't work, get up
a. mob and bluff them off with threats
of tar and feathers."
Logan County Thug
Rule Given Publicity
Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 15. Lo
gan county, its industrial autocrats
and defiance of law, were subjects for
Labor Day speeches in the principal
cities and towns -of the state. Again
were recounted the denials of consti
tutional rights by anti-union coal
owners, operating through political
agents and gun meet- -
In urging West -Virginia unionists
to emphasize conditions in Logan
county, officers of the State Federa
tion of Labor said:
"The existence and recognition of
primary civil rights, lying at the very
foundation of free government, it is
imperative that these be recognized in
all parts of the state before other
rights can be safeguarded."
Win Long Strike
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 15. The mo
tor fleet of the Yellow Motor Car
company appeared on - the streets
with this sign on each car: "Union
Cab."
The company took this method of
informing the public its 31-months'
fight with organized chauffeurs, affili
ated with the Brotherhood of Team
sters, was anded. 1
The strike started New Year's eve,'
1021, when the company attempted to
cut wages from $27.50 a week to -$20
a week and commissions.
The workers' victory is practically
JOO per cent. Their old rate is re
stored, and only union men will be
employed. The union agrees to ac
cept as members any employe of the
company now engaged. The company
will withdraw a $250,000 damage suit.
Mine Massacre
(Continued from Page One.)
us uprisings in southern Illinois and,
if possible, in the vicinity of Bellaire,
Ohio, which also was a hotbed of
Communist agitation and propaganda,
and in the region surrounding Union
town, Pa.
"A telegram sent to local union of
ficials at Herrin, by John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers, placing workers of the strip
mines in the category of 'strike break
ers' was shrewdly twisted and dis
torted, according to the boasts ofNthe
Communist lades at Chicago, intov an
'invitation' to attack the strip mines
and the workmen empJoyed there.
"This telegram was pounced upon
by the Communist agents and distort
ed into an excuse for an attack upon
the strip mine. The workers there
were captured and, under the leader
ship of the 19 Communist agents who,
according to Nick Dozenburg, one of
the Chicago agitators, had been im
ported for the purpose of starting in
surrection and revolution, the men
were shot down."
THOSE "WEALTHY" MINERS.
Denver, Col., Sept. . 15. Colorado
coal miners worked an average of 87
days in the first seven months of this
year, according to a report by the
state mine inspection bureau. The
miners' income during this period av
eraged $87.50 a month.
Cigarmakers
(Continued from Page One.)
of a fine upon a member of the union
because of the introduction of the mold
system and rolling up, I voted against
the imposition of the fine. I felt, as
I feel now, that there has come into
our trade a change with which we are
compelled to reckon.
Delegate Hilifers referred io the glass
bottle blowers. He gave a graphic de
scription of what occured. That or
ganization has dwindled, but in addi
tion it has made every automatic bottle
blowing machine operator, every man
who operates one of those machines a
mortal enemy of the organization.
President Perkins adds at this time
to my remark, and I want to incor
porate it as my own, giving him credit
for his statement, that they will not
come into the union now.
The water carriers of Egypt pro
tested when pipe lines were being laid
to carry water to some central parts
of the cities because it did away with
their trade of carrying water . The
rickshaw runners of China raised a rev
olution because horses were put to wag
ons to carry people. In some of our
cities hack drivers protested against
the erection of railroad stations near
the cities because it took away their
jobs.
Some years ago I had occasion to
travel in the southern states, and there
I saw in the middle of the rivers col
ored men who were dredging with buck
ets and long poles. They were get
ting 20 and 30 cents a day. Where
ever men are cheap no machinery is
used in industry or any other way. It
is only when men are dear and wages
are high that machinery is brought in.
The Typographical Union has been
mentioned. I had the great pleasure
of having the opportunity to meet the
late William B. Prescott, then presi
dent of the international Typographical
Union ; his office and the office of the
American Federation of Labor were in
the same building, the De Sota Block,
Indianapolis, Indiana, and I talked to-l
him on this question. With his coura
geous spirit he went before the people
and pleaded with them to recognize the
Mergenthaler machine, and instead of
What would have occurred, that girls
running typewriting machines to operate
the Mergenthaler typesetting machine,
it was the printer that was given a
chance to learn the trade over again.
What has been the result ? Wages
higher in the printing "trades, hours of
labor lower, the eight-hour day pre
vailing in the industry, and on the news
papers the 44-hour week, and the Inter
national Typographical -Union, to secure
the 44-hour week for the printers in
the book and job trade has expended
more than $15,000,000. And it has more
members and more money in its treas
ury than before the strike took place.
The garment workers sewed with the
needle, and then there was a riot and
a revolt when the sewing machine came
in. Ther are now many tailors who do
nothing but make fine clothes by hand
sewing. But what has happened to the
men in the garment industry? Work
ings instead of in the old-time sweat
shop, in sanitary factories, working not
more than eight hours a day, working
not more than 44 hours a week, and a
better organization than ever obtained
in their history.
The miners of old worked with the
pick nd shovel, and they were slaves
in " the mines. From miserable condi
tions!, slavish conditions, electrical pow
er has been employed and the men are
earning more wages, working shorter
hours, not because they opposed the ma
chine, but because they accepted it.
The shoe workers, the old cobblers
that made shoes before the time of many
of you, worked long hours and for a
mere pittance. The modern shoe in
dustry requires about 64 operations. 64
different people to do certain parts of it
before the shoe is completed.
I don't want anyone to infer from
what I have said that I am content with
the conditions those men enjoy. There
isn't anything in this world or beyond
it that I do not want for the work
ers of America to have. I have gone
through many of the struggles for the
cigar .makers of our country. In 1864,
I first became a member of the inter
national union, and then but 14 years
of age. I have ' not joined the union
many times, I only joined it once, but
I stuck. I have always believd it was
our imperative duty," a duty which we
can not shirk, to organize every wage
earner, I do not care at' what he works.
Every man or woman who works for
wages should be organized; it is not
only his right but his duty to become
a member of a union to protest him
from the xeploitation of the employ
ers. I also hold as an equally positive
duty and obligation that no union has
the moral right to deny or close its
doors to any man or woman who works
in the industry.
I want to ask you men and women in
this convention what are you going to
do? I know that ther may be several
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and Cap Makers
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Cloth Hats and Caps bearing
this Label- are made under
Sanitary and Union Conditions
men who have charged the American
Federation o.f Labor as such to be
against what they are pleased to call
industrial unionism or the one big
union, and I venture to say that when
they come to consider this proposition
outside of out international union then
they are industrialists ; but when there
.is a proposal to open our doors and go
into the highways and byways and or
ganize these men and women against
whom literally we are closing our
doors, it is opposed.
I ask any delegate in this convention
whether he knows of any trade where
the union has recognized the machine or
improved tool where the conditions of
the working people were made worse.
It is not in the order of nature and
of things. The better we organize the
more thoroughly will we be in a posi
tion to defend, not only that which we
have, but to move onward and for
ward for the things which ought to be
ours and which we can obtain.
I can see no danger to the men in
the industry in New England. I am
proud of being a member of an inter
national union of which they have
shown themselves to be sudh valiant
fighters. I am proud of the record of
our international union and of our local
unions, even the smallest of them.
Something in this convention struck me
with great force. Look through your
roll call of delegates and you will find
there are more delegates here repre
senting two, three or four local unions
than at any time in the history of our
international union. And why? Be
cause the trade has left these small
places and they have little member
ships. And so a thousand miles away
from each othey they have been re
quired to combine and send a delegate.
Is it not a lesson for us? Are we to
go on and let well enough alone? This
is not well enough, it is bad enough,
and in the name of all that is good
and right and in the interest of our
members and our wonderful internation
al organization let us see things as
they are and deal with them, open the
door wide our international union so
that every man and woman will be a
member. Let us come to them with the
invitation to come into our organiza
tion. What we have at the present
time is a great ' tribute ' to what we
have built, but the time has come to
change.
I don't know whether it will ever be
my privilege to again attend a con
vention of the Cigar Makers' Interna
tional Union. I have no misgivings, I
have no false notions. I have work-
. 1 .11 1 t ( 1 -
ea au my me, ana so long as lite snail
remain in me I shall work, and work,
and work in this great movement to
which I have devoted every ounce of
my energy. I want to continue, and
will continue, Avhethe in office or in the
ranks, so long as there is a breath of
life in my body and until the end.
I repeat, it is exceedingly doubtful
that I shall ever have the pleasure of
being at another convention of the Cigar
Makers' International Union of Amer
ica. I have been a delegate to every
convention from and including the Ro
chester convention of 1877, a record of
46 years. I repeat, I don't again ex
pect to be at a convention of the in
ternational union, but whether I shall
or shall not, I propose that while I
am here I shall give exoression to the
best though of which I am capable,
and the best advice that my life and
experience has given to me to share
with you for the good of the men and
women of- our industry, so that you
may resume the great part . which we
have heretaofore played in this most
wonderful movement, the American
Federation of Labor.
FURNITURE WORKERS WIN.
New York, Sept. 15. More than
2,000 furniture workers," affiliated with
the. Brotherhood of Carpenters, have
won their demand for an hourly rate
of $1.25. Settlements have not been
made with several hundreds of these
workers who are on strike.
President
GEORGE R. COAN
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New York, Sent. 15. Criminal pro
ceedings disclose that millions of dol
lars have been swept into bucket
shops and brokers' offices by credu
lous people in every section of the
country.
These offices have been often main
tained by vicious characters, who se
cured the secret backing of so-called
respectable citizens. The crooks were
interlocked with bankers, politicians
and busines men in such devious
ways that no court procedure has
yet untangled them.
The public's losses are estimated
from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000. These
vast amounts were furnished by peo
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It is believed that not one per cent.
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