Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The formal break in the strike came at 3:10 p. m., when the scale agreement was adopted by the un animous vote of miners and opera tors at their joint conference. - The general agreement then was signed by T. K. Maher, of Cleveland, an op erator, as chairman of the conference and William Green a miner, as its sec ietary. Supplemental agreement be tween operators and State union offi cials were then executed, with the union chiefs wiring local unions that work might be renewed. Mines to Open Today President John L. Lewis, of the miners, said that operators con trolling . an annual output of ap proximately 60,000,000 tons had signed the agreement, their mines, he said, were in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michi gan,. Oklahoma and Washington. 'James Palsey, one of the big oper ators signing the agreement, an nounced that his mines in Charles town, Fairmount, Elm Grove, and Morgantown, West Virginia, Valley Camp and .Monongahela City, Pa., and Lafferty and Stuartsville, Ohio, would be opened tomorrow. Plans for extending the break of the strike also were laid by the union men. Frank Farrington, the Illinois miners' president, an nounged that he would ask the Illi nois operators to meet the union's district scale committee at Chi cago on Friday. John Hessler, head of the Indiana miners also asked the Indiana oper ators to join ip a scale conference at Terre Haute on the same day. Van A. Bittner, statistician for the international union, announced that operators from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas would - be asked to meet with the union at Kansas City next Tuesday. Meeting Planned Under the policy laid down by the union, operators will be re quired to accept the interstate agree, dent, made at the general conference here as the base for their contracts with the union. This agreement pro vides for the reestablishment of the wage contracts which includes the "check oy" of union~ dues, that were in force last March 31, dith the newv contract to run until March 31, 1923. Ftfrther the agreement providles for creation of an advisory fact-finding commission, a meeting being called of all soft coal operators for next October to effect the selection of the commission. Both the miners and the oper ators held separate meetings to ratify the agreement before join ing in, the afternoon conference wheer unanimous approval was voted, to be followed by the, sign ing of the dlocumnent. Expects NeW Agreements "The interstate agreement exe cuted with operatd'rs having a pro duction of 60,000,000 tons," said Mr. Lewis, "Will become the basic agl'eement for the bituminous in dustry throughout the country, and I anticipate that in a comparative ly few (lays that supplemental co'n tracts wyith groups of operators and indlividlual operating interests Wi1ll be executed wvith the majority of the operators whose nminos are now on .strike. "T1he plan of sejtlement is based on a broad constructive premise, which carries wilth its subtantial hope for a material improvement in the method of , collective bar gaining in the industry and, gives assurance that constructive reforms will be inaugurated, Aliminating some of the organic ailments of the bituminous coal' indumsy uch DO41' WORIaY R OUT BACK 'T0 SCHOOL r i q u r r e A , W AIL E - AM EY'e ?H. -EAC STRIKE! _f a EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RESCINDS fORMER ACTION At the regular meeting of the exe cutive committee held on July 28th., it was resolved to place in the comipg primary the offices of rural police, farm demonstration agent, home dem onstration agent and community nurse. This action was taken solely to get an expression of the people. On yesterday the committee met again and at this meeting there were several present to defend these dif ferent offices and keep them out of the primary. Among the speakers was Dr. W. W. Long, who is at the head of the Extension work, Mr. P. B. Young of Florence, district agent, Mrs. Oliver Plowden district 'gent for home demonstration work, and Hon. Charlton DuRant. Each speaker presented their side of the work to the committee and Mr. DuRant put in a plea for all of the offices. At the conclusion of the talks several of the committee, including the one commit teewoman, Miss Barfield made short talks in behalf of the offices affected. Mr. E. D. Hodge then moved to re seind the former action of the com mittee, and Mr. Appelt moved to table Mr. Hodge's motion. The motion to table did not receive a second, but to rescind did. Mr. I-lodge's motion was then put before the committee and was carried overwhelmingly. So these offices will not be put before the people in the primary. reforms will not only operate as a preventative of future conflicts of the magnitude of this one, but will serve also~ to protect the public in terests and restore mutual confi dence and respect betwveen the coal operators and the mine workers." Wearing Her Cha Mrs. Grace McClel Ian, of Austin, Tex., is the new champion worfian pistol shot. She won her title in reccnt competition at S a n Antonio, where s h c scored 272 hits out of a pos5 sile 300. She is wearing the chain., pionship belt and -~~ shooting a go~d-'~ pl1a te d automatic awarded with the title. ther Strike Possil COIN' APPEN o -=c STAR ROUTE TO MANNING A star route to Manning from Sum ter will be inaugurated on August 21st, rnaking the trip seven drys per week, carrying only first class iail and newspapers. The auto will leave Sumter during week days at 8 a. in., arriving at Mail ning at 9 a. in. Returning will leave Manning at 4:15 p. in., arriving Sum ter at 5:15 p. m. On Sundays will leave Sumter at 8 a. m.,and return at 9:30 a. m., spending only 30 minutes in Manning. Mr. Chas. H. Curtis will be the carrier on this route. CAMIAIGN MEETINGS The County Campaign opens to morrow at Paxville and the can didates will speak at Suinmerton on Friday. The following is the schedule: Paxville, Thursday, Aug. 17th. Summerton, Friday, Aug. 18th. Turbeville, Tuesday, Aug. 22nd. New Zion, Wednesday, Aug. 23rd. Sardinia, Thursday, Aug. 24th. * Alcolu, Thursday, Aug. 24th at nigth. Manning, Friday, Aug. 25th. The candidates for Solicitor and Congress will speak at the Summer ton, Turbeville and Manning meet ings. Inasmuch as there is unusual interest in these rollis large crowds are expected. The meetings will be gin promptly at ten o'clock. S. Oliver O'Bryan, County Chairman. DR. J. D. HOLSTEIN Edgofield, Aug. 15.--Dr. J. D. Holstein died at his home here yes terday morning in the fiftyseventh year of his age. Within the two days Edgefield has lost~ two of its most pro hinent and useful citizens, A. L. Tomp kin and Dr. Holstein, brother-in-lawv. Dr. Holstein's funeral was held today at the Baptist church. mpionship Belt */ -$ e lilit N I --"" - , 11 ..-Au-rocA 1R. WHY NOT TRY THIS EW LAN? Editor Mahning Times, Dear Sir: A f sw years ago out on one of the California deserts a prospecting party came upon the body of a man who had evidently wandered from the I trail and died of thirst. Among these who found the dead man was one who had studied the desert a good deal in that locality and. he made en investi. gation. By digging down into the sand about two feet he found wet sand and by digging a few inches more he found water running into the hole that he had made. The man who had died of thirst had done so with in two -feet of all the water he need ed. The trouble was--he didn't know. Every once in a while we hear it said that what we don't know does nit hurt us. The instance just cited was one in which the rule did not work. I I have thought of this a good deal in connection with the plight we find ourselves in here in Clarendon County. We find land depreciating in value, taxes going unpaid, children staying home from school and college, people going without many things that they really need and some actually going hungry. All this is due to the failure of what has been the main money crop-cotton. Here and there, how ever, in the southern states are locali ties which hgve been face to face with this same condition years ago. It is interesting to note that some of these communities have -survived the arri val of the boll weevil a whole lot bet ter than others have (lone. Sonic of them have changed their farming plans all together and some have not and are even to this (lay blundering along aimlessly, desperately, and one might say hopelessly like the man on the desert looking for water and .lika so mianyaof our farmers are doing in.Clarendon County. There are commiunities in tho South where the boll weevil has made the country practically deserted. The farm houses are de(solate and even the little cross roadl country stre are boarded ujn, The folks around there didn't know what to do and wouldn't take the pains S~o find out. .'The e are on the other hand places mDxewhere the farmers are mak gmoemoney than they 'ever made on cotton; places that look upon the arrival of the 1bo11 weevil as a bless ing instead of the curse it has been to so many places. One wondlers what makes the dif ference in the communities just plc tured. What causes one community to look upon the arrival of the bol weevil as the tinie wvhen 'all their hopes were blighted and --anothdr community to see in the same event the dlawning of the real (lay in oppor tunities on the farm. One wouldn't have to be called very wvise, Mr. Editor to dlecidO that the folks who have ,found prdspecrity in the very same event that had brought others all sorts of dlisaster must have known what. to (10 andl howv to (do it. Don't you think that the real trouble in Clarendon County is that people dlon't know what to (do. Helre's a case of what we dlon't know hurting us badly. Must we see Clarendon County be cogne a place in which the average far mer can not make a livsing? You know what will happen when that comes to be the rule. Look at the situation today. Nearly every man you' meet cani tell you of sonic one who Is tryinug to leave Clarendon1 County. M any have gone andl more are planning to go. This need not be so. There are literally hundreds of PUT UP OR SHUT UP To The Citizens of Clarendon County: It has been brought to my atten tion that numerous reports of inefi ciency and official misconduct on the part of the' members of the Rural Police force are being circulated in the County. If these reports are true, the guilty officers should be indicted; if they are not true they should be ex honorated. e If these charges are true, there muit be a,.number of citizens in this County you can give sufficient evi dence to warrant an inditment or an investigation. Now, as foreman of the Grand Jury, I ask every one of you, if you have sufficient evidence to warra.it an in vestigation of the conduct of any one of these officers, bring it to me and I promise you a thorough investiga tion and an indictment if the evidelce will warrant it. If you have no evi dence yourself, but you hear some one state as a fact that any of these of ficers are guilty of official miscon durt, send me his name and I.will see that he has an opportunity to present his facts to -the Grand Jury., What I have said in regard to the Rural Police, applies also to all law brealrs in the County. Yours very truly, C. R. Sprott, Foreman o, fthe Grand Jury. Rev. Guerry Stukes of Atlanta, is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Stukes. A committee of ladies, representing the different Democratic Clubs,, have asked Mr. S. Oliver O'Bryaij to meet with them at the Court Hodse Thurs (lay afternoon, August 24th at four o'clock for the purpose of explaining how to mark votes. All ladies of th3 County are invited to be present. Last Saturday Rural Policemen Peuvy, Ihardy and Kc nnedly r.ried the premises of Pelton Welsh, white near Sardinia in search of liquor. When the officers arrived Welsh ran carry ing his still with him, but he dropped the still, the officers picked it up and in a few minutes had Welsh. They got about 75 gallons of mash and lodged Welsh in jail. Mr. Clarence Baggett now of Ay d'nn, N. C., wan a visitor here last Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. The progresive spirit of the community in which he is living is shown in the newn he brings of a trip which was undertaken by twenty four of the leading business men and farmers of the community. Not long ago the party started out to make a tour of the boll weevil infested area in the south determined to learn by some one else's experience and not their own regarding the best method of farming under.the new conditions. The crowd of twenty-four men had in their itinerary the states of North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Geor gia, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. If such a trip had been made by our own farmers and business men two years ago much of the present finan cial distress of Clarendon County would not have been in evidence. farm products that can be raised here and marketed with better and surer profit than our farmers have ever known with cotton. The problem, as I see it, Mr. Editor, is not with the county, nor the soil, nor the kind of weather we have been having. The real difficulty is in the uncertainty with whieh the farmers look toward the future without a rea sonable hope for better times and sur er crops. They say'that a wvise man learns by some one else's experience-a fool by his own. Must our farmers labor'ious ly andl almost hopelesly stumble along for years until by chance they find just the thing they are looking for while within a few score or few hund red of miles of where we live are far mers finding the best living they ever had on the farm; farmers who have no worry whatever about the boll weevil; who are no more concernedl about him than you are about the im port dluty on putty in China? It does5 not seem sensible to lie dlown here and suffer wvhon there is a sbte way out. If 'you were talking to me you'd ask what I was dlriying at. Well just this. I-believe that there is a wvay to let all the farmers in Clar'endon Coun ty know what they should do to get readly to make money next year. If they could go. all go dlow~n to say for example, Blackshear, Ga., and ask those prosperous farmers how they (lid it every one of our farmers would come back with newv hope and new dletermination for next year's wvork. You say it is impossible for every farmer in Clarendlon County ,. to go down to Blackshear, Ga., or Prosper ity, Ala. They are all about broke now. Well I knowv that but wvhat (do you think of this idlea. What fould you think of having the farmeris of Clarendlon County elect a dlozen of our best farmers and busi ness men to go dlownf there or any 'ther place where they can get the real dope, andl bring it back and tell us all wvhat to do0. Why not sendl rep resentatives from every part of the :-ounty andl let every one who can :hip in and pay their expenseC . It gould be a mighty good invest tent. surely there are hundlreds who would >e glad to contribute a small amount lfnd just a small amount from many v'ould (do the trick. Suppose you ask hem about it. I believe that wve all iave enough at stake to make' some ort of effort wvorth while. Sincerely yours, A. L. Luce. PRSP[CS BLIIR IN RAILROAD STRIKE Agreement Reached on S me Lines Progress Is Reported PASSENGERS ARE MOVING Perishable Freight and Livestock Ac cepted for Shipment San lerancisco, Aug. 15.-The Southern Pacific Company lifted its embargo late today on the shipment of perishable freight and livestock, which was declarbd on account of a strike of train crews at Roseville, Cal. An agreement was reached, by which the crews of the big four rail bro therhoods returned to work. Railroads in the Southwest report ed progress in the movement of trains and in conferences with members of the big four brotherhoods of train men in inducing then to resume work. Trains were stopped on some roles last 'Thursday whon brotherhood men claimed they were endangered by guards placed to. protect property, be cause of the shopmen's strike and de fective equipment. The Southern Pacific Companf suc reeded in getting its trainmen at Roseville and Traly, Cal., two impor tant points in the movement of freight and passengers, to return to work. Resrme Picking of Fruit Shippers and g_ owers of fruit in Central California immediately re sumed pidking of fruit and the iced cars at Rosevilip began to move. Oregon shippers also were advised to resume picking fruit. The Santa Fe sent two trains from Los Angeles one to Barstow, Cal., and the other towards Chicago. Both trains were I crowded with parsengers. The cain that left Los An-eles :"sterd:a for Chicago, reached (-0u13, New I I. xico today with a regular crew of en:. ine men. Santa Fe patseng:r ti' tins were moved to New Mexico and Ari zona, but no attempt was made to move freight trains. The Western Pacific announced progress in its conference with train men and expected to start an overland train eastward tomorrow. No trains have moved. on the Western Pacific for three days. Continue to Be Tied Up The Union Pacific's line from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles continued to be tied up as to movement of trains. Locomotives were started for Los Vegas, Nevada, to move freight, and if this is successful passenger trains will be started. The conference of State police of Nevada which left Reno overland for Las Vegas yesterday has not arrived, the auto truck train being delayed with its machine guns by bad roads. Until the State police arrive special police from among the trikers will preserve order at Las Vegas. No action has been takeni in West. ern State kate today on the tele gram that Warren S. Stone, presi dent of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers, sent notifying mem bers of the union who walked~ out without authorization to return to work. None of the oflicials of the local unions would adlmit having re ceivedl such instructions. HOME DEMONSTRATION NEWR The Women 's Home Demonstration Club of Turbeville, will serye dinner at the campaign meeting Tuesday, August 22nd. Go out and hear the candiidates and see what this club can (10. The County Short Course will be held in Turbeville, August 24, 25, 26. Everybody is invitedl andl all club members are urged to be present. New numbers are being added to the program every (lay, andl many local speakers will talk during the short course. Miss Lola M. Snider, Mrs. H-arriet F. Johnson andl Mrs. Theo. -D. Plowden, assistedi by the county agents, will have charge of the decm onstrations. A meeting of the Farm Council wvill be held on Saturday, 26th imme diately after the close of the short. course. The Marketing Coinmnittee will'meet with the Coincil to dis cuss matters of interest to every woman in the county. All who are interestedl in making money in the .farm home are invited to be present at 4:00 o'clock. Don't forget the basket picnic on that (lay for every body.