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LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.
labor Must Concentrate or It Must
SufTer — International Typographical
Union Relies Less on Sentiment and
More on Power That Makes Things Go.
The West Wind.
Blow, wind*, blow out of the 'wUdeving
West—
The West of the setting sun,
The cup that has caught the sinking
light
Of all the days that are done.
13Iow, winds, blow out of the clouded
wake
Of tire sunbeams tired of play—
The beams that lean on the edge of eve
And slip in the dark away.
Klow over the cheek of panting hope.
At rest In his goalless climb;
Come back from the- toll that doubles
age,
And teach us the youi^er time.
Chasten the lip of the bitter cup
I stained with a sin of yore.
And biing it back till I taste again
Of the sweets I left before.
Give birth to Joy In my heart, grown old
In the history of its grief,
And death to pain while his fangs are
dull.
The sting of their poison, brief.
Blow, winds, blow out of the grave of
light;
Come up from the tomb of day.
And lead all the spirit lovers back
From the dreams I dreamed away.
Blow, winds, but loave the sun of the
East—
Not long may I hold him guest—
For he will turn with the tide of noon.
While I sink Into the West.
—J. A. Coll In "Midland Magazine.”
fn Heady Cash There Is Strength.
Day by day it becomes very apparent
that labor must meet capital on more
nearly equal ground by opposing or
ganizutiou of men to organization of
money. It is idle to think that close
and ever closer organization of capital
ran be prevented. Xerxes tried to chain
the tide, but it rushed past his chain;
he then chastised the dlsobodlcitt wa
t«rs by hc-ating them with rods, but It
is not of record that he hurt them.
The world has come to the conclusion
that Xerxes wasn’t wise. Yet now there
exist legislators and economists who
want to do exactly what Xerxes tried
to do. They want to “stop" profitable
concentration by having congress and
state legislatures say that there shall
be no more concentration. However,
not all men are descendants of the
foolish Persian potentate. The wage
trust Is already casting Its shadow be¬
fore. The organization of a union of
600,000 workmen in Greater New York
has been begun by a committee ap¬
pointed by the Central Federated
union. Mr. William A. Perrin*, secre¬
tary of the Iron Holders’ Conference
board, and one of the leading members
of the committee, said: “This new
union will be one of the biggest local
central labor bodies on the face of the
earth. All the unions In the five bor¬
oughs of New York city will Join.
It will be more powerful than many
great national and international
unions, and will have more influence In
New York city than any labor organ¬
ization which ever existed. The busi¬
ness of conducting the big bodies which
now exist independently will be great¬
ly facilitated. Employes will also ben¬
efit by the centralization of central la¬
bor unions in New Y'ork city. Strikes
are bound to become fewer in number
year after year through the influence
of the great central organization. The
principle of arbitration will triumph at
last. For twenty years the bricklay¬
ers’ union have had no strikes, because
all bricklayers have been In one union.
There are many fine examples of the
centralization fo be found in Greater
New York.” It Is not a matter ot
choice with labor whether it will con¬
centrate its forces, other than the
choice between adopting the only avail¬
able means of self-defense, or per
Ishing.
International Typographical.
A few days ago the International
Typographical union met in annual
convention in Detroit, Mich. It was the
largest convention ever held by the
union. It was up to date. It believed
In usings the power of eoneentration
and money, rather than resorting to
open breaks between employer and em¬
ploye. It was prudent. It believed that
it is wise in time of peace to prepare
for war. It realized that you cannot,
as a rule, get a good thing without pay¬
ing it; so it adopted the following:
‘•Resolved, further, That every member
.shall pay, in addition to the 30 cents
before mentioned in this section, the
sum of 10 cents per month, the money
so collected to be converted, as each
<1,000 Is accumulated, into United
States bonds or securities of equal sta¬
bility, the same to be known as the
permanent defense fund, in the keeping
of the executive council, the Interest
on which, after the $100,000 shall have
been accumulated, shall be turned over
to the temporary defense fund, by
which name the union fund shall be
known, In charge also of the executive
council, the further disposition of the
permanent defense fund to rest solely
with the International Typographical
union, ae determined by the referen-
THE <7 RECORD.
KOI
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF JOHNSON COUNTY AND MIDDLE GEORGIA.
VVItIGnTSVIliLE. GA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1899.
Sum.” One hundred thousand dollars
is much money, but it will not take
many men long to accumulate it, and
money talks every time in business.
Then the convention did another very
good thing. It wants official printing
everywhere done by union men. The
Official printing of Michigan is not
done by union men. So the executive
council was authorized to expend not
mere than 510,000 for the purpose of
securing the Michigan state printing
contract for a firm that will enter into
an agreement to employ union labor
exclusively. It's a matter of politics
who gets the state contracts. Money
tulles in politics. The Typographical
union is ready to talk to the extent of
$10,000 to gain this particular thing it
wants. Years ago this union used to
rely largely on sentiment. It issued
“statements” to the world, calling at¬
tention to its real or Imaginary griev¬
ances. It found that the world had lit¬
tle time to read and less inclination to
heed these tules of woo. It doesn’t issue
so many statements now. It does busi¬
ness, and recognizes that to do busi¬
ness with success, you must have
money. So it appropriates money.
The shorter workday committee pre¬
sented its final report. In the report
the craft is congratulated upon the
substantial progress that has been
made, and it states that not the least
beueficial outcome of its labors has
been the mutual understanding arrived
at between the employers anil the em¬
ployes of the allied printing trades.
The interest of employer and employe
alike can be best served, the commit¬
tee finds, by resort to a system in
which negotiation is substituted for
obstinate insistence on demands, and
argument and reason take the place
of strikes and lockouts.
Massachusetts Industries.
The Bureau of Statistics of Labor of
Massachusetts has Issued its annual re¬
port. The number of establishments
considered in the report is 4,701, as
against 4,695 in 1897. The value of
goods made and work done during the
year in the nine leading industries was
$S65,G19,1S5, of which boots anti shoes
contributed $131,162,578; cotton goods,
$90,986,469; leather, $25,907,780; rna
clrines and machinery, $34,797,770;
metals and metallic goods, $40,426,780;
paper and paper goods, $28,625,357;
woolen goods, $30,359,533, and worsted
goods, $25,G64,722. The report shows
that the production of the textile in¬
dustries in some of the cities has de¬
clined iu value. For example, Fall
River, which leads in textile produc¬
tion, produced during the year textile
fabric* to the value of $30,230,934,
being a falling off of $3,096,454 or 9.28
per cant, as compared with 1895. It Is
shown that the various mills following
a systematic plan not only cut down
the number of pieces of cotton cloth
carried over from the preceding year,
but also cut down production material¬
ly. The number of textile establish¬
ments shows a decrease of 93. The re¬
port contains a table showing the
amount of capital Invested in the
ing Industries, as follows: Boots and
shoes, $22,414,635; cotton goods, $112,-
702,330; food preparations, $19,040,852;
machines and machinery, $32,683,813;
metals and metallic goods, $17,191,783;
paper, $20,733,967; rubber and elastic
goods, $10,875,308; woolen goods,
930,024; print works, dye works,
$12,674,871. The cotton goods industry
gave employment to 81,385 persons,
who received In wages $26,294,240. In
the boot and shoe industry 51,897 per¬
sons were employed, at wages aggre¬
gating $23,904,714, while in the pro¬
duction of machines and machinery
188,628 persons were engaged, who
drew In wages $10,068,181.
Unnecessary Business Disturbances.
Gunton’s Magazine, a periodical
discusses economic aud labor
from a very fair standpoint, says
Brooklyn, New York and Cleveland
street car strikes are manifest unuec
essary business disturbances, which
need not, ought not, and would not
have occurred if the management of
the corporations had lived up to the
spirit of the ten-hour law and recog¬
nized the now conceded right of labor¬
ers to act as organized bodies. The
strikes emphasize the need of better
and more intelligent organization
among laborers, and of a permanent,
established system of conferences be¬
tween representatives of the corpora¬
tions on one side and labor unions on
the other. The Brooklyn and New
York strikes were precipitated unwise¬
ly, without specific statement of a
strong case, aud without unanimity
among the men themselves. More ef¬
fective organization aud discussion of
the case in a joint board of representa¬
tives of employers and laborers—a la¬
bor senate—would have either made
the New York strikes successful or
prevented them entirely, and in the
Cleveland case would have forestalled
the chief and almost only cause of the
whole disturbance.
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A rough estimate based on various
reports indicates that fully 25,000 men
can now find employment in the har¬
vest fields of the Dakotas, Montana and
Western Minnesota.
The Mine Workers’ Journal advo¬
cates a defense fund of *100,006 for
that Organization, and states that it
could be created without much sacri¬
fice and would insure better conditions
and higher prices. •
LIBERTY.
POLITICAL LIBERTY THE MEANS
TO THIS END.
Upon the Tendencies of
These Gold standard Times—Universal
Monopoly To our .is Which the Ship of
State Is Driving.
“Take no thought, therefore, saying
what ye shall eat or what ye shall
drink,” etc. You are told to trust in
God and all will be well in the end,
and you have gone on for years trust¬
ing aud praying, but the conditions re¬
main much the same as they were
years ago. I believe iu the one Go.l,
I believe that this is the best world
that we could live in. Even our friend.
Col. Ingersoll, could not have planned
it better. His striking statements were
made to call attention to bigoted er¬
rors. When the laws of God and na¬
ture are obeyed it will be just as Christ
said it would. We would be satisfied
with the law if we did not violate it.
We have political liberty. What is
it but the means of getting economic
liberty? There is only one way of get¬
ting a living. That is by labor. There
are two ways of laboring; for your¬
self as your own employer, or for some
one else for wages. When government
takes away the first qpportunity it
forces man to take the other, but pro¬
vides no employer.
I was in Columbus this time last
summer and I spoke from the state
house steps. While I was there this
thing was brought to my attention:
They have the state prison in that city.
The state house and the state prison
generally go together. Once or twice
a week several hundred men and wom¬
en come to the back door of the prison
and beg for the scraps and bits of food
that the convicts had thrown away—
white men and women. And there were
many in that crowd who would try to
break into the prison if they thought
they could stay there. In our prisons
the convicts are better fed than many
hundred thousands of free men.
The governor of one of the western
states was once himself a tramp, anti
when It was proposed to whip them
out of the state he said: “None of that.
I was a tramp once myself, and may be
again.” Thomas Jefferson once wrote:
"I have never on the streets of my
country seen a beggar.” He was com¬
paring this country, at his time, with
the countries of Europe. There were
no tramps then, but there are now.
Some of us think the tramp is a hard
citizen. You would be just the same
sort of a fellow. I have seen tramps
w! i have graduated from college with
high honors—men who are well edu¬
cated. I have met men who had happy
homes. But some fools say any man
can get work who wants it. Some say
they don’t want it. I was in the west
once and was talking to a railroad' of¬
ficer. He said that they had had a
great strike on that road. Seven thou¬
sand men struck and that officer said
they had no trouble to fill their places
immediately with 7,000 unemployed
men. Yet some say that men don’t
want to work. It’s a lie. Any man
who has a fair chance to work would
rather work than steal or beg. God
never created a dishonest man. God
does not make dishonest men. They
are the product of unjust laws.
You remember the French revolu¬
tion? In France all the lands had
come Into the hands of a few people;
the king and nobles and a majority of
the people were depending on them for
a living. The time came when these
down-trodden people rose up and Paris
streets ran with blood. Your country
will have the same experience if you
keep on fooling with the laws of God.
Koine was once the mistress of the
whole world. She lorded it over the
other countries. But she fell, and
pliny, her historian, lays the cause of
her downfall to land and monopoly.
JOHN S. CROSBY.
"BAYONET” POINTS.
Labor organizations, like almost all
other organizations, are very frequent¬
ly narrow and unjust, but this fur¬
nishes no excuse for opposing them.
That injustice and narrowness are not
properties peculiar to them a study of
ail mankind bears evidence. The la¬
bor organization grows out of the in¬
stinct of self-preservation and no man
who has given their work careful con¬
sideration can deny that they have in¬
terposed a barrier to the iron pressure
of the law of rent, which says that the
wages of labor must be determined by
the average return to the laborer from
free laud, or if there is no free land
worth working, by the average return
to the laborer after deducting rent. It
Is a pity, however, that the vast ener
gies of labor organizations and tho
vast sums of money they have expend¬
ed have not been devoted to secure the
removal of the cancer, Instead of for
palliatives, which are rendered largely
Ineffectual by the laws of nature.
High wages and free lands go togeth¬
er; low wages and no free lands go to¬
gether. The way, therefore, to get
high wages is to get free land, and the
way to get free land Is by unlocking
the door to the millions upon millions
of acres of laud in this country, held
out of use by speculators who have in
these vast natural opportunities the
basis of fortunes beyond even the
dreams of the lords of England.
Jf It were not for the fact that ill
Michigan a majority of the legislators
elected must vote for a measure before
it becomes a law, the right to raise
necessary revenues from a single tax
on land values would now be extended
to every municipality within its bor¬
ders. A measure providing this only
failed by one vote of becoming law
and had a majority of seven out of
the total number of members actually
voting. This vote in Michigan is an
indication of the remarkably rapid
growth of the single tax movement,
which, though only twenty years old,
has already been partially successful
In New Zealand and New South Wales,
is the leading Internal issue in the
politics of England outside of her for¬
eign affairs, and has a propaganda
established in all the countries of Eu¬
rope, aud in Japan and China.
Land values are highest where pop¬
ulation is thickest. They are created
by all the community, but they are ap¬
propriated by a very small percentage
of the community. Farmers, while
holding large quantities of land, own
very little land value. A lot was sold
not long ago on Wall street, New York,
at the rate of $10,000,000 an acre. This
was for the land alone, as the build¬
ing which stood upon it was subse¬
quently torn down. How many farms
are there in Kansas which, stripped of
house, barns, fences and other im
provements are worth $10 an acre?
The valuo of that one acre of ground
of which that lot forms a portion is
equal to that of 10,000 quarter sections
of the richest unimproved land to be
found in the West, and yet there are
farmers who imagine that a tax on
land values would compel them to bear
the burden of taxation.
It is about time to reaffirm the Dec¬
laration of Independence.
We call this our country, but more
than half of us have no right to a
square inch of its soil.
Even In Kansas, where there are no
large cities, the assessed values of
town lots are considerably more than
one-third of the taxable value of all
real estate. —
Tho rights of the living yield to the
claims of the dead. The descendants
of a tory who lied from New York dur¬
ing the early part of the Revolution
are now claiming title to land on Man¬
hattan Island valued at $400,000,000.
There is only one way for the people
to obtain their rights while the pres¬
ent system of representative govern¬
ment continues. They will have to
organize a lobby and go into competi¬
tion with the corporation in the busi¬
ness of buying the legislators.
The land values of the city of New
York amount to three thousand million
dollars, almost thirty times as much
as the farm values of the state of
Kansas, and yet there are farmers
who imagine that a tax on land values
would compel them to hear the bur¬
dens of taxation.
General Otis assures us in every dis¬
patch that he feels highly gratified at
the progress we are making and then
follows this with an announcement of
the killed and wounded.
The beasts of the fields have their
lairs and the birds of tho air have
their nests, but millions of the sons of
men have no place to lay their heads
which they can call their own.
Three weeks ago we were assured in
startling headlines that the war in the
Philippines was over. We find it dif¬
ficult to understand why the fighting
is still going on if the war is over.
There are some people- who will
probably stand aghast at the idea of a
bargain and sale involving the presi¬
dency of the nation. In these piping
times of trusts there is really nothing
surprising about it. We should not bo
surprised if, in a few years, th# office
is capitalized and put on the market
jerry Simpson’s Bayonet.
The sentiment in favor of govern¬
ment ownership is growing rapidly.
Let it grow. The sooner the principle
is adopted the better. Then there will
be cheaper utilities, better paid and
more contented workmen, and no labor
troubles. A few old money grabbers
and slave drivers would suffer by the
change, but they have had the run of
things long enough. It is merely a
question whether the public utilities
shall continue to be run in the inter¬
ests of a few capitalists or in the in¬
terests of the whole people.—Youngs¬
town News.
The Philippines constitute the gate¬
way to China. The opening of that
gate will mean the degradation of the
workingmen of America at no distant
day.—National Watchman.
The loyalist patriot's creed: My
country, right or wrong. My party,
right or wrong. My state, right or
wrong. My city, right or wrong. My
neighborhood, right or wrong. My
family, right or wrong. Myself, right
or wrong. Me!—Justice.
FOLLOlVIN'i PRECEDENTS.
Haw the Indians of Equador Carry on
Business.
There are probably 000,000 Indian
peons in Ecuador. Not one of them
owns an inch of real estate and most
of them are more or less in a state of
slavery under the planters or liaeieu
ilailos upon whose estates their fami¬
lies have lived for centuries. They arc
short, broad and muscular, with skins
of copper color resembling that of the
North American Indies, long, straight,
shiny hair, and scanty beard or none
at all. They resemble the Pueblo In¬
dians of New Mexico, and the Aztecs
of old Mexico. Their predominant
characteristic is melancholy, They
are reticent and extremely distrustful
and look upon all strangers with sus¬
picion.
Tlie Indian of the interior is so sus¬
picious that lie will sell nothing at
wholesale, nor will lie trade anywhere
hut: in the market place on ttie spol
where his forefathers have sold gar¬
den truck for three centuries. Al¬
though travelers upon the highways
meet numerous Indians on their way
to market bearing heavy burdens of
vegetables, forage and other supplies,
and driving a drove of donkeys simi¬
larly laden, nothing can induce au In¬
dian to sell anything from his stock
until he lias reached the place where
lie is accustomed to offer it for sale.
He will carry his load ten miles aud
dispose of it for less than he was of¬
fered at a point half the distance,
simply because he is a slave to custom
and is suspicious of everything iu the
way of an innovation.
A gentleman who lives iu one of
the towns of tin* interior told me once
that he had been trying for years to
persuade the Indians who passed his
house every morning with packs of
vital fa to sell him a supply reg¬
ularly at his gate, but they refused to
do so. Consequently lie was compell¬
ed to go four miles into town to buy
alfalfa that was carried past his own
door, but the seller willingly carried
it back and delivered it, thus packing
his load eight useless miles because
it had been the habit of his family to
do so.
My friend also told me that no wo¬
man in the inurk.it would sell more
than a dozen eggs to one customer,
not even if she were offered double tbs
price. She would give him one dozen
eggs for ten cents, but would not sell
five dozen for $1; she would give a
gourd full of potatoes for a penny,
but would not give five gourdfuls for
ten cents or twenty cents or any other
price, simply because she was not ac¬
customed to sell potatoes in such
quantities and any attempt to induce
her to depart from custom excited the
suspicions which are the predominat¬
ing trait of her race.
Four centuries of Spanish tyranny,
duplicity and deception, have de¬
stroyed the faith of the entire race in
white people, but when their confi¬
dence Is once gained, nothing can
shake it. The devotion between the
peons and their masters is often sim¬
ilar to that which existed between
the negro slaves in the south and the
members of the kindly families In
which they had been reared.—William
Elroy Curtis in Chicago Record.
Here is the Providence Journal,
which knows a lot, predicting the de¬
cline and fulling off of golf in the
near future. For what reason V Be¬
cause when golf is played by every¬
body, the people who are not every¬
body will want to play something else.
“There was a period when lawn ten¬
nis was the most fashionable of our
out-of-iloor sports, but its vapid
spread in popularity and its vogue
among all classes led nt length to its
abandonment iu large measure by tho
class of players who had first tie
voted themselves to it—the class that
now pluys golf. When gaudy rrd
golf coats can be bought for next to
notiiing prices at the ready-made
clothiug stores, and every village lias
its links, what will tho original en¬
thusiasts for the game in this country
introduce in its stead ?” Something
else, assuredly. There was a time
■when the British nobility played
croquet; you can find them playing
in Disraeli's novels. Croquet went
by the board when everybody took
it up. So did lawn tennis; and now
golf’s warrant is signed. Archery
has failed to catch the fancy of society.
What will come next. Perhaps cro¬
quet will come iu again.
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tween Atlanta and Cincinnati, via Cbattat
nooga; also between Chattanooga and Mean
phis. Nos. 7 4—Pullman Sleeping tft
and Cars
tween Atlanta and Chattanooga and Chatta
nooga Nos and 7 and Memphis. 16—Pullman Room B«9
fet Sleeping Cars between Drawing Maaon and Asha
villa.
Nos. 9 and 10—Observation Chair Cara b»
tween Macon and Atlanta.
Connection at Union Depot, Atlanta, (or all
points frank north, 8. Cannon, oast and west. .t. m.culp.
Third V-P. A Gen. Mgr., Traffic Manager.
W. A. Washington, TURK, D. (A S. H. 'Washlagtoft,D. HARDWICK, O
Qen’l Pass. Agt. Asst. Ces’l Pass. Agk
Washington, D. O. Atlanta. Go.
^GEORGIA,
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Excursion tickets at reduced rate*
between local points are on sale after
12 noon Saturdays, and until 6 p. m.
Sundays, good returning until Monday
noon following date ot sale.
Persons contemplating cither a busi¬
ness or pleasure trip to the East should
Investigate and consider the advantages
offered via Savannah and Steamer line#.
The rates generally are considerably
cheaper by this route, and, in addition
to this, passengers save sleeping cpr
fare,and the expense of meals en route.
We take pleasure in commending to
the traveling public the route referrod
to, namely, via Central of Georgia
Railway to Savannah, thence via the
elegant Steamers of the Ocean Steam¬
ship Company to New York and Boston,
aud the Merchants and Miners lino
to Baltimore.
The comfort of the traveling public
is looked aftor In a manner that defies
criticism.
Electric lights and electric bells;
handsomely furnished staterooms,
modern sanitary arrangements. The
tables are supplied with all the delica¬
cies of the Eastern and Southern mar¬
kets. All the luxury aud comforts of
a modern hotel while on board ship,
affording every opportunity for rest,
recreation or pleasure.
Each steamer has a stewardess to
look especially after ladies and chil¬
dren traveling alone.
Steamers sail from Savannah for
hew York daily except Thursdays and
Sundays, and for Boston twice a week.
For information as to rates and sail¬
ing dates of steamers and for berth
reservations, apply to nearest ticket
agent of tills company, or to
J. C. HAILE, Gon. Passenger Agt.,
E. H. UIJiTON, Traffic Manager,
Savannah. Ga.
Advertise with ns If yon wlsa to
keep the people posted as to the
amount, the character, the quality
and prices of goods you hate for sale.
An ad will bring ’em every time.