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Clinton* S. C.
To the Editor * of The New York
, Times:
‘in the strike now inaugurated in
the railroad shops, whereby the whole
country will suffer grievously, would
it not he well to let the people know
exactly what .these shop workmen are
striking for? ’
“Their statement is we demand a
wage increase from 68 cents an hour
crease be
effective from January 1, 1919.
“Now, wil you print this in plain
terms so as to meet the mind of every
citizen of the country who seesjt, as
follows: ‘We demand a wage increase
from $140.56 per month to $175.20
per month and a cash present to each
CLINTON, S. C, AUG. 14, 1919
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THE WAGE QUESTION.
\\ e can't say that we have any
sympathv for the railroad strikers
in their present demands and we
don't believe public sentiment will
support their contention. While it
is true, as they contend, that the cost
of living has increased, they lose
sight of the fact that they are the
highest paid laboring people in the
country today, and that they are not
the only people who are feeling the
pinch of the high cost of living.
This strike business has gone be
yond the bounds of reason and the
time has come to call a halt some
where. The public is tired of these
irrational methods that are being em
ployed and by which the whole coun
try is made to suffer in order tor cer
tain classes to exact what .they want
or demoralize and wreck other indus
tries.
Somebody in Lynchburg, Va., has
written a letter to the New Tort
Times containing something to be
noticed and considered while these
employes are calling for far-reach
ing changes. Read the letter which
runs as follows:
man of $245.’ This is exactly what
they demand. Shop workmen, some
unmarried, state they cannot live on
$140 per month. Think how many
millions of clergymen, doctors, law
yers, teachers, college professors,
traveling salesmen, clerks, bookkeep
ers, surveyors, store clerks, office men
of all sorts, farmers and farmers, help
all manage to live and support fami
lies on/jless than this. \The writer
does it and it is a hard job; but why,
il. I. can do it*, or my^. minister- and.
from here are* living on much less
than $175 per month, although yield
ing just as much sendee to their
country as any railway employe is
giving.
Of course, they would all like to
have $175 a month to spend, assum
ing that the supply of actual goods to
meet such r-a demantLjyas being pro
duced, for it is goods and not coin or
r money we all want. If by
merely declaring that they cannot en-
dure to live on less than $175, they
could extract that amount from oth
ers, probably a good many would be
none too good to do it. But they can
not, and so that point is of no force.
Meanwhile, should they be the victims
of a class who can exact what they
want or wreck all other industries?
doctor do it, cannot a railroad shop
worker do it? Must we take still
more from our meagerness to add to
his increase?
“How long is the country going to
stand this thing?
REAL AMERICAN,
“Lynchburg, Ya., August 2, 1919.”
The Spartanburg Herald makes
the following comment on this let
ter:’
The men who work on railroads
declare that they must have $175 a
month, or $2,100 a year, because they
cannot live on less at present prices
Do they mean that they feel that they
must have things, simply must have
things that* millions of others right
now get along without and never
dream of throwing monkey wrenches
into the business that employs them.
An income of $2,100 a year exceeds
by considerable what a vast majority
of the rank and file ever knew or ever
will know. Yet out of their lesser in
come they must somehow live and pay
tribute to a special class of 2,000,000
men who merely choose to announce
that they cannot live on $140 a
month, but must have $175, plus back
pay* in a lump sum of $245.
What proportion of the families in
Spartanburg city and county at this
moment have an income of $175 per
month to live on? What can an av
erage family of five members live on
and maintain the decencies and enjoy
the fairly necessary things of present-
day life? No accurate answer is pos
sible, but one thing is certain—plenty
of such families not a thousand miles
ANITA STEWART AN.
UNWILLING OUTLAW
Anita Stewart, who scored such suc-
cessea recently at the Opera House In
VirtuousTWives” and "A Midnight Ro
mance," returns again on Friday of this
week for one day in her latest First
National production entitled “Mary
Regan.” This is an adaptation of Le-
■R-ey—ScoU's-J>aak df. the game title
WOULD KNOW COST
OF MAKING CLOTH
Byrnes Introduces Resolution lor In
vestigation of Cotton Mills Profits.
Asks Immediate Report on Avail
able Data.
Washington, 'Aug. *8.—Representar
tive Byrnes of South Carolina today
introduced a resolution directing the
federal trade commission to ascer-
T'PBH Hit} oust
and was producced under the direction
of Lois Weber, It affords her the role
of a young woman whose father was
a notorious crook. She is ever fear
ful lest this trait of her parent’s shall
show in herself and so she refuses the
ove of Robert Clifford, a man high in
the city’s municipal circles.
As a result of this refusal she be
comes entrapped in a clever black
mailing scheme, hatched by. her la-.
ther’s former associates, in which she
finds herself as an unwilling cat's
paw. When she comes fully to a real
ization of the plot she communicates
-!1 the information she possesses to
Clifford and through his efforts the
schemers are-foiled. And after this
Mary accepts Clifford, who is finally
able to convince her that marriage to
him will do him no harm.
“Mary Regan’’ has been produced as
lavishly as were the other two pic
tures in which Miss Ctewart appeared
- ccently. The star appears to her us
ual splendid advantage in the title
-ole while surrounding her is"a cast
of particular skill including such wel-
known players as Frank Mayo, Carl
Miller, J. Barney Sherry, _Jrinsley
Shaw, George Hernandez, L. W. Steers
and Hedda Nova.
As far as stories dealing with .out
laws of societj go "Mary Regan” may
'aslly be classed among the best of
this type.
Mr. Roy Suber, of Whitmire, spent
Sunday in town.
ain and repor
of manufacturing the various grades
of cotton into yarns and cotton cloths
for the year lfl9, the manufacturers
selling price and the retailers’ cost
price and selling price. He also asks
that they immediately report what in
formation they now have as to the
manufacturer’s cost price during 1918.
Mr. Byrnes states that the commls-
sion, at the request of the various de
partments, conducted inquiries last
year as to the cost of manufacturing
cotton cloths and he is cohfldent that
these figures will show that, at the
price cotton cloths are selling today,
the manufacturers could pay fifty
cents a pound for the raw material
and still make a large profit. He be
lieves^ that their^ figures are available
and will convince the public that Tf
undue profits are being made out of
cotton ’ cloths at this time that the
profits are going to the manufacturer
and not to the farmers.
He will press for immediate action
upon his resolution.
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
Notice is hereby given that we, the
undersigned, have applied to the Sec
retary of the State for a charter for
the Commercial Club of Clinton,
S. C.
B. H. BOYD,
JAS. R. COPELAND,
W. W. HARRIS,
Corporators.
J. B. FRONTIS
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