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/- V - ' 'i. k THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. -I 'Ly ■7?' ‘ —r t / '^URSDAY, SEPOTteER 27, % y Church Women PEACE IS CALLED BY , v ERS OF. NATIONAL UNION' Pi«iM«tmg Tl Great VicUfry Won I?or Mill La- kaiers. Declare Green and Un-^ km Directora. Rooseyelt )n Charge of First Steps \In Flaw ,_iii^Restere Life To Industry. great V ' ''% , W«s1)inj^on, Sept, 722.—The textile stnke ^nded Saturday. ^ . Hundred.*^ ©f thousands of workers who responded to the call of union leaders, tonight were ordered by those leaders to man the looma^pn Monday. Their decision to teifminate the 'most gigantic walkout ^of| , modern Friends -■7 Men Who Knew Him Before Kid napping Declare He Was Quiet and Likable person* Princeton, N. J., SepC*!^—One per son was found today in this section who knew Bruno Hauptmann inti- I. Si^ Mrg.'C.:M. Sipgley of Prosperity, To Direct Rendition of Pag eant She Wrote. . The Women’s Missiona^ society of th^ Lutheran Synod of South (^nrp- lina will meet (ktober 10, Jl, and 12 in Trinit;^church, Qreenville. , > Tfhe officers of the society and tlhei department secretaries are: Mrs. M. Kreps, Columbia, president em- ei^s; Mrs. H. A. McCullough, Co times followed «■ thorough fstudy ^nd . home of Neil E. Bowman at 6 New- discUssion of a settlementifplan. ad-[lin Road, Princeton. ^ *■ mutely, before the kidnapping of thej]umbia, pre^deht; Mrs. C. J. Shealy, Linabergh baby on the night of March j yj^g president; Mrs. N; E. 1, 1S32. He is .^dgust Becker, ^■^jperritk, Columbia, treasurer; Mrs. J. years old, employed as a butler in the ^ ' Barre, Lexington, secretary; Mrs. J. B. Cassell, New Brooklgnd, statisti- vanced'by the Winant mediation b^rd and endorsed by President Roosevelt. Jubilation reigned‘''at strike head- ^ Becker sa.^ today that he knew Hduptmann well back in 1927. At that time Becker was living with quarters, officials from all sections to'Henry Brill at 3,444 Grape Avenue, /■ tfce industry, some bearing the scars of strike cOmbat, slapped each other on the shoulders. Strikers Claim Five Victories With William Green, pre.Hident of the American Federation of Labor, at his side, ^Francis J. Gorman, energetic generalis.simo of the * strike forces; amiJingly told newspapermen: "Wy have gianed every substantial thing that we can gain from this strike. Our strike has torn apart the whole unjust structure of NRA, lift ing a load from all labor as well as from ourselves.” The strike committee, in a later gtatament, asserted: /‘^e have secured these d^fi^nite Aihgs: ^ ‘‘1. An end to the stretchout.^ \ “2. A . method of determining hours . on a basis of fact. ”3. A niethbdrof determining wages upon a basis of fact. “4. Practical recognition of our , union. **5. Refornwjn-'the whole adminis tration of the labor provisions of the code, op a apale so sweeping that we must coill'e!is ourselves surprised at the.Jiweeping character of the victory we nave won.” '* Only a militant minority stood out for a continuation of the stirke. It insisted the employers first guar antee unconditionally,' the reinstate ment, without discrimination of all who quit the mills. Others held that such a guarantee was implicit in the settlement plati, which Rpesid^t Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, was preparing, meanwhile, to put into execution. Green issued a statement express building a house helping him. Bronx. Brill was and, Hauptmann was Becker said. At no time while he knew him did Hauptmann use an assumed namei Becker declared. According to Beck er, Hauptmann ,was a likable, clean- cut chap, . ' *‘1 can’t understand how Haifflt- mann could do such a thing,” Beck er said. “Hje was quiet and shy, not cal secretary; and Mrs, E. F. Irick, Elloree, .Mrs. J. V. Long, Gilbert; Mrs. J. H. SummCT, Newberry; Mrs. C. Mower Singley, Prosperity; Mrs. M. B, Wingard, Greenwood; Mrs. W. C. Davis, Charleston; Mrs. S, E. .\mick, Leesville; Mrs. E, Hugh Summer, Newberry; Mrs. D. L. Miller, Chapin; Miss Emma Lou Schirnfer, Columbia; Mrs. W. C. Bolick, Columbia; Mrs, J. i). Carroll, Lexington; Mrs. H. R. Brown, Spartanburg; Mrs. C. A. Freed, Columbia, and Mrs. C. D. Har- besqn, ElloCee. The entire program will be built around the theme, “Christ the Domi- given much to talking about himself. Force in Building the King- He was an extremely* likable fellow, andjj I can’t understand how he got mixed up in this affair. He was'a hai^ worker and an excellent carpen- ter.” ' Following di.sclosures of evidence that Hauptmann at one time went under the name of “Kai4 Pellmeir,” inquiries were made today - at the Matthews Construction Company in Priirt©tpn, builder.s of the Lindbergh home, to find out if Hauptmann had been employed as a carpenter while the Lindbergh house was under con struction. Jacobs Issues Textile , Mill Owners^ Views ^homes of Trinity church and lunch “The union has not gained its blan-'and dinner will be .served at, the church, , ket recognition, the strike has brought no change from code regulations as to rates of pay and hours of labor, and has brought no change in the stretch out,” W. P. Jacobs of this city, secre- tary-treasuiier of\4]^ Cotton Manufac turers As.sociatioB of South Carolina, stated Monday. » “The strike was ordered by Francis _ J. Gorman three weeks ago;” he said, ing cVnfiden7e“ thitVuVh'good Would I flow frorti thp settleutent plan, “ if ap>\ v-> plied and' cafV'ied (ryt in good faith,” He adde<l ^at in his “opifiion'the tex tile workers won a great mdralsVicr tory.” • 1 The first step, expected soon, was the appointment of a hoard of three—' one laborite, one employer, one neu tral—to settle the recurrent disputes of the industry. Boardi to Study-'Situation The labor department and the fed- recognition of the U. T. W. as the of ficial spokesman for the textile em ployes; .second, a thirty hours week with "'no decrease in pay from that paid for forty hours; and third, elim ination of the .s-tretch-out. Mr. Gorman also announced that he would consider no arbiti'ation to* end the strike until every cotton mill was closed. “The union has not gained its bla^^ ket recognition. In fact the president’s board decreed that each mill can best , ... ... deal with its own efiiployes. eral teihde commission will preceed . . u .....1,.'president him.s©lf issued his Even the president himself issued his appeal di- »„h thorouKh-Kom* , ,tudy;'^ the employe, and employers of he eeonomm copd^it.on of the p- ^ any referepee to the U. T. W. dustry wages, paid, hours worked hvj „„ ing costs in m, *'7*"*’ , .icniedfrom code regulations as to ces in the eompensatwn of the akilled, » and unskilled. A second board will be named by the first to regulate the “stretchout,” the Southern workers’ graphic name for tfie much complained of practice of increasing the number pf machines to whichy an operative .is assi^ed. The entire progra^ may be made effective by the president, under aU-, ,1 j j *-ii *u thorily already vested in him, withourlf "y the necessity of an agreement by eith er capital or labor. He is empowere|l to promulgate code changes and to appoint boards such as that proposed. Union leaders were frankly elated over most features of the plan and 6f pay “The strike has brought about no change ixy the stretch-outa.^oj' Van it. It is a matter to be deterfnjned by each individual mill. “Furthermore, contrary to'^ Mr. Gor man’s intentions above set forth, at tho time the strike was called off,iiu- marous mills had never been closed; were firepanng for reopening in rCr sponse to the desire of their employe.s, “According to the Associated Press, the general strike has resulted in a loss to labpr in payrolls of from $15,- three weeks dom of Righteousn^s.”' A pageant will be presented by the Young Women’s society. This pa geant was written and will be^ direct ed by Mrs. C. Mower Singley, Pros-' perity. , - Among the .speakers, who are ex-j pected are Jthe Rev, Victor McCaul-| ey, D. D., of Lenali, India, and Mrs. C. E. Gardner, Indianapolis, Ind., Vice president of the Women’s Missionary- society of the United Lutheran church in America. The convention will open at 3 o’clock W'^nesday afternoon, October 10, and will close with th^ Friday morning session.. Two delegates are expected from each Women’s society and two frorp each Miriam society. Delegates will be housed and given breakfast in the Laurens Coimty ! — Council Meets u/ Formulated' For Enter- Plans taining Piedmont District Del- e^rates On November Laurens, 5>ept. 21.—At the recent meeting at Mt. Pleasant of the Lau rens,^rounty council of Farm Women; plans were formulated for entertain ing the Piejdmont District council to be held at I.4iurens November 10. The new .JiHrh school auditorium will be ^ed for the convention, which his ex pected to be attended by 600 dele gates from the sixteen counties em braced in the dist»4ct. Mrs; L* C. Taylor of Laurens c'ouhty is pre.sjdent of tbe district council. Reports as given by dub presidents at tfte county council session indicat ed that satisfactory progress had been made in all lines of club work. An outline of the coming year’s program was given by Miss Jennie Coleman, county home demonstration. agent. Following the 'business-r'session,' a reading was given by Miss Irene Wal lace, the school lunch program by Mrs. Annie H. Dunlap, and a report^ of the state council meetiiig by Mrs. B. F. Yeargin. At the afternoon ses sion prizes were awarded for music scrapbooks, the chorus scrapbook prize going to Mrs.__Lessie . Avery, mi.scellaneous .scrapbook, Mrs. Earle Blakely; project .song .scrapbook, Mrs. G. S. Bobbitt. Mrs. Dennis Pearson won first place in^ canning contest. The Bethany club received the prize the board import., difficuH to see what the'.striketfor the largest attendance. The spring ' ImeetmK will b* held with the Mh- XTD * their sworn enemy nugni . ,, - • lu * W-esp«talty-irte««ni7-r“^-'“‘ _ * ,the executives of closed muls are more . ^ r ■f. of NRA and their sworn enemy Hugh] k^JoRTTs^V to them. Few of Demands Granted .Although the Board’s settlement plan will not put into effect oh Mon day all of the immediate demands upon which the .strike was predltilt^,' they regarded it as holding ttenWn-' dous advances for labor, and a prom ise that ultimately those demands would be met. ■interested in lemming the attitudes of * ^ *1 their employes before neopening?” _ 4iisRillCllS VsOUIlClI Sdhddl Head Talks To Young Fanners .1 Hears Reports r “Growing instead of going into the '{farming business will prove most The union had asked: Indu.stry-Wide profitable to the youngster who has recognition; a thirty-hour week* at thCjj^jj^ heart set upon farming as a vo Twdve of Fourteen Clubs ^nd Deleffates To MeetingP^Lt 'Mt. Pleasant Church. .^ray Court, Sept. 23!—Mesdames - Jee Wham, Sam Woods, Frank Gray,! same’total wap now paid for forty; potion,” said J. H. With,ersp'oon, super-! Adjer Armstrong, Gray Hipp, E. H. a, new deterihination of differentials ^j^g Clinton schools, in an Re^es, J. C. Mahaffey, Jeren Mahaf- between the waps o^ skilled workers i members of the locaL^^y* Gray, Conw’ay Gray, Misses And the code minipium, and olimina- g^j^p^gj. gj ^jjg Future Palmetto Farjn- and Sally D. Brownlee, ahd tion of the stretchout. ^ ifiCS society as it held its regular bi- Mrs. Haskell Gray, representatives The gains for labor,, its spokesmen^g^gg^hly mee^tiiig on Tuesday at the frbm the Eden Home Demonstration contended, lay in giving thes© tfues-jhigh school building. attended the Laurens county tions over to the determinatiomof im-^ ^jj-g gjj maxim, “The eye of the of Farm Women which met at partial bodies, and the end of whatl^ggjg^ fgg^jj, his cattle” was also Mount Pleasant church Saturday! they called “employer-dominated *®l*|Btressed in the course of the talk to- G. Taylor, of Princeton, tlements of coipptiint?k,of 7-\ young farmers. Farming, like any council president,, presided. A well tions. - ! other business, if it is to'expand and ^oonded prpgram was given. There Jn addition to recogpiuon, ,the fprosper, demands the work of the clubs in th® county and all tile workers concentrated on wages, farmer twelve months in the year. La-- ^Be clubs had a deJegation with the hours ■and'stretcho’Jt, with the result livestock and crops demand, a exception of the \\adsworth and Hur- ihat the mediation bopd ■« plan j goodly portion of time-and energy ofi^*^*^*'® clu^. ^^" jacted the govamment into a new field jjj^g manager. . • ' fB®. devotional wa.s in charge of of industrial activity. ^ i ^jjg conclusion of the address by the R^. J. C. Pinson, of New Orlenas, While there is precedent nT N'R/V iy|j. Witherspoon the remainder of the for governmental wages^ and hours, determination of ^ there is none for time was given over to a business se.^- .slon, which waa-led by Kahn Barnes, Reports from the club showed that all the clubs presidents, are active. ^ many of .the clubs afe doing outstand- .— — (Work along special fines. governmcntAl - r®atriction of the num- pj.ggjgjg^^ g£ ^j^g chapter^ her of machines' which an «mpl<iye|_-—^ *may be required to operate.' . owners. A total of more than'4’20,Q'30. Features of the day’s program were The stnke, three weeks in'^ratipn,!were idle. |the special musi? by the Mount Pleas- ' ebet labor, by iU, own eetiiwhi ;g^tlmrsts of violence were hou-ly,ant and Trinity Ridge• club and thb '* OOOjwO to 120,000,000 in wages. Four-1 occiirrehces, ranging from fistfights j Princeton club. - ’ .» were killed; hundreds injured; hoadrfida JaileiL Troops marched’in egeep etatea; thoiMU^ of arm^ p^^ tSe by the miU^lead to a call for federal troops: to club-swinging melees, gim«^ battles t At upon a picnic junch was served, and eu'all-night riot - at WoonsoSket, j The afternoon session, was devoted RIicm}€ Islindy Whicii threfttened r discussion of tJUMIItss ftficr which i-ri -, • ■ U .'i 'i AfiE HERE AGAIN! ' I ) . ' 1/ TO SERVE THE AND/TEACHERS’ WE ARE READY SCHOOL CHILDREN’S WANTS WITH EVERYTHING FOR THE CLASS ROOM EXCEPT TEXTBOOKS. WE 4IAVE AMPLE ASSORTMENTS OF ALL SCHOOL SUPPLIES NEEDED, FROM THE SMALL TOT TO THE COLLEGE STUDENTS. 1 COMPOSITION BOOKS PENCIL SHARPENED LOOSEL RULERS NOTE BOOKS lATION TABLETS DRAWING TABLETS \- PENCIL TABLETS ' * ' y/' ^ FOUNTAIN PENS PENCILS, all kinds ERASES^ PEN PdlNTS PASTE LOOSELEAF fHXERS INK TABLETS REINFORCEMENTS PENCIL BOXES INK,aUldnd8 CRAYONS GLUE CO^ASSES CHALK Here for Their School Supplies . -r ■ - . t r- PUBLISHERS - PRINTERS ^ STATIONERS TELEPHC^ 74 4 CI4Nlt)N, S. C r^e meeting was a<ijourned. ^4 r r I--. ♦ t t n't il^,' T-lHatllAii^f tCi'iVBl ■ -- . - fi A