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HI THIS YEA] Suits Shirts Our Eni THE Home of ] TO fIGHT SOVIETISM IN CLOTHING TRADE President of Manufacturers' Associa tion Outlines Plan UNION OPPOSES PROGRAM Employers to Furnish Work for Thou sands of Unemployed, Says Lead er. ?iew York, Dec. 13.-Manufacturers in the clothing trale do not intend to "lend themselves to the establishment of Sovietism in their industry," de clareg William Bandler, president of the Clothing Manufacturers' Associa tion, in a stAtement issued here to night. He characterized as "hum bug, sham and false pretense" the union's charge that the manufacturers have inaugurated a "lockout" and plan to return to "sweat shop condi tions." "This will be evidenced," the state ment added, "by the fact that the employers are about to put into opera tion a plan of work, whereby employ ment will be given to the thousands of workers who for a long time have been idle, because of the inability of the manufacturers to compete andl secure business. And the workers wvill be in vited to work, but it is feared that they will be prevented from so doing Sby the union's dlirection that they )estrike. Sweat shop conditions today aea matter of the remote past and are inconceivable and impossible through the safeguard and protection afforded workers by our present labor Cmlte Change Necessary -Mr. Bandler asserted a complete change in f~he fundamentals control ling the local labor market is im perative to restore the industry to a standard basis of business and eradi cate the evil practices in which "the~ idustry is steeped and the perils Deal BRICK LWl LUMBER D If you want to buik with everything ne<( Get our prices first. MA NN IN LIDA Give Z WE ARE S tMMM 1111111 : s tsuu tu mHt Overcoats E Underwear S Smoki :ire Stock to Sel< BRYA Eart Schaffner & which threaten it." This is neces sary, he declared, in order to meet the public demand for a reduction of clothing prices to save to New York city the clothing market with its annual output of $200,000,000 and give employment to about 60,000 workers. Mr. Bandler cited numerous in stanceh which the union, he said, led to nothing and the union's position that "irrespective of merit and of ex isting economic conditions" it would nto recede from what it had secured during war times. After the union rejected the proposal that workers be held individually responsible for a daily standard of production to be agreed upon and manufacturers, be permitted to discharge incompetent help, Mr. Bandler said: "There remained no other course open to the manufacturers than to publicly announce the severance of re lations between the association and the union and to proceed to put into effect a plan of work whereby each worker would be paid for what he pro duces and on a basis which would permit the New York manufacturers to secure business in competition with the other clothing markets where the wvages are very substantially lower." UNCLE SAM BIG EMPLOYER Washington, Dec. 13.-One person out of every 159 in the entire country was on the government civil service payroll last July 31, the Civil Service Commission declared tonight in its annual report. The commission adds that of those estimated by the census as employed in gainful occupations in the country, one in every 68 wvas a government worker. The total number of civil service enm ployes Iast July, the commission says, was 691,116 and the government was using themi in approximately 1,700 dif ferent kinds and gradIes of work. There were almost a million govern e [E CEMENT' QORS SASH I we can supply you ded. G, S.C. Hima ELLING THE AT C 0oy's Suits IV hoes B ng Jackets act from AT CO N CLC Marx Clothes. ment employes at the height of the World War, the commission asserts, and adds that pre-war figures of some 480,000 in 1916 probably never again will be reached. The commission de clared that an "altogether rosy pic ture cannot be painted" of the gov ernment's personnel situation. A partial tabulation of the great army of government employes fixes the average age at 28.4 years and the average salary at $1,176 a year, ex clusive of the $240 yearly bonus which many of the employes receive. The commission's recommendation for placing all postmasters under civil service is renewed. 0 HELD FOR DEATH OF WIFE Greenville, Dec. 13.-The cor oner's jury which held an inquest to day over the body of Mrs. Tom lar rison, returned a verdict charging her husband with having fired the shots, which proved fatal, early Friday morning in the Harrison home on a prominent residential street. Mrs. Harrison died as a result of the wounds yesterday. Monk Young, who was shot and seri Professional Cards JNO. G. DINKINS Attorney-at-Law MANNING, S. C. DuRANT & FALERBE Attorneys at Law MANNING,~ S. C. R. 0. Purdy. S. Oliver O'Bryan PURDY & O'BRYAN Attorneys and Counselors at Law. MANNING, S. C. FRED LESESNE Attorney at Law MANNING. S. C. Loans Negotiated on Real Estate MONEY TO LOAN On Real Estate-Small and Large Loans. Long Terms. J. W. WIDEMAN MANNING. S. C. HI. C. CURTIS, Attorney-at-Law MANNING, S. C. WEINBERG & STUKES J. A. Weinberg Taylor H. Stukes Attorneys-at-Law MANNING, S. C. ECU NA' if UNS Savoo fals in tb, er eatet of ICH CzKA other itehnw boin disensea. niy.75eKtowa nnu wr nn BAR Useful BEST QUAL OST! lackinaws S ath Robes G Handkerc] ST. THIN( ously wounded at the same time, was reported as still being in a critical condition at the city hospital. Mrs. Morik Young and two police men, who responded to a call from the home with 6he physicians who at tended Mrs. Harrison, were the only witnesses at the inquest. Mrs. Young said that she was on the first floor of the home when the shooting oc curred on the second. Harrison, who is in the county jail, was not put on the witness stand and has as yet made no public statement in regard to the Jo O -G)-ff aUf Uffl1fi UffU-UFI D- T tL it "Md um Amamm m mswsalmm seam GAl ! Gift ITY OF MER veaters Hats oves Sock liefs COM SUMTER, Souti affair. He is well known in Green ville and throughout this section. SEVERAL KILLED IN CAR Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 13.-An un determined number of persons, esti mated by the police at between four and eight, were killed and more than fifteen injured, several possibly fatally here tonight, when the motorman of a crowded street car lost control of his brakes, and the car raced down a steep grade, overturning when it Vomen are always impressed 1i die quiet good taste of its uph< :ery and interior fittings. 'hey appreciate, too, the ea rith which it can be driven, ar s unvarying economy. TPhi .,- ~ ga isol iincsm tlion is un iusually~ low T he~ tire mnileag.e is unuiisually h ligh J. H. McCOLLUM. Sumter, S. C.. NS! CHANDISE Caps s Ties P'NY | i Carolina struck a switch at the foot of the hill. Several hours after the accident they were unable to say accurately how many had lost their lives. The car, a small one with one man acting as motorman and conductor, was demolished, the car breaking ia two and its wreckage being strewn for a distance of several hundred feet. Four of the dead have been identi fled and a woman and child in tho hospital are not expected to live. All the dead and injured known are from Kansas City and vicinity. )V SC dN