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Public Statement By The Cotton Textile Code Authority ' y , Washington, D' C., S?pt. 12. 1. The United TegtiJ# Worker?, lh# same organization which on September 1, 1^4, called a general strike throughout the textile industry, previously called a similar strike last June in the Cotton Textile Industry because of alleged grievances. 2. Following this June strike order (conferences were held J^y the National' Recovery Administrator with Thomas 1'. McMahon and Francis Gorman (representing the United Textile j Workers), and also with the Chairman of the Cotton Textile Code Authority. 3. Out of these conferences there grew a written settlement between the Administrator and tho officiaLs of the United Textile Workers, some of the terms of which are as follows: (a) That the United Textile Woikers receive representation on the Labor Advisory Board of the N. K. A. . (b) That the Cotton Textile In/dustr^al Relations Board (the Bruere Board) be enlarged by the addition of one employee representative from the Cotton Textile Industry. (c) That one representative of employees of the Cotton Textile Industry be appointed Labor Advisor to the Government members on the Cotton Textile Code Authority, (d) That the Administrator further clearly define t?e powers of the Cot^ ton Textile National Industrial Relations Board, including the handling ? of pending or future claims and com?plaints, the alleged violations of Section 7 (a) and other working conditions. (e) That the Research and Planning Division of the N. R. A. be requested to investigate and report on the ability of the Cotton Textile Industry to assume any further burdens of cost arising out ofincreases in wage rate or a reduction in hours, or both. (4) The terms of this settlement were promptly applied by the Government agencies and the Industry. (a) Mr. C. M. Fox, a cmton mill employee, was appointed to the Cotton Textile National Industrial Relations Board. (b) Mr. Thomas F. McMahon, President of the United Textile Workers, was appointed to Labor Advisory Board of the N. K< A. (c) Mr. Abraham. Binns, an official of the United Textile Workers, was appointed Labor Advisor to the Gov-1 eminent members of the Cotton Textile' Code Authority. (?J) The Research and Planning Division of the N. R. A. reported that there was no fraetua! or statistical basis for any general incnase at that time in Cotton Textile Code wage rates. The report concluded that ;n-i creased production, more or iess sin;-! ultaneously, in all industries, was! "the necessary prior condition for aj permanent increase in real wages." f>. This settlement was signed by Mr. McMahon and Mr. Gorman in behalf of the United Textile Workers. On July lbth tho United Textile Workers called a strike in cotton textile mills throughout the State of Alabama on issues covered by the June strike settlement. Mr. C. M. Fox, although a member of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, assisted in the conduct of the Alabama strike, and later became a member of the general strike committee of the United Textile Workers, thu- ignoring hi.- duties as a member of 'lie official agency created to.^j i niuo'e indu-triai harmony. He wit- -uppoitcd in t hi- action by Mr. McMahon. Pro-ident of the Ur !-, .5 T. x t lb* Wotker-. and by Mr. Go-man, V;. (--President. both of' w 1. tn had (grid the strike agree-, u .w* of J lit a P. I.". J ?'>. The Cotton Textile Ir.du-try was the first industry which appeared be-, fore the agencies of the Federal Gov-! eminent and accepted a code. To! further the President's recovery pro-' gram '.his lr.du.-try gladly made improvements ;r. working conditions! wh.h have been -ubject of universal comment during the pa.-t ;,ear. The Ir.du-trv in its cooperation with the Government in the flmt day* of tha New lM*al voluntarily aboluhwl child labor, It raided it* average hourly wage rate* 70 per cent. It shortened it* weekly hour* of work by nearly one-third., Ij added 140,000 worker* to it* payroll*. At the suggestion of tho Agencies of the Government, the Cotton Tektije Industry was also the first to agree to the creation of an Industrial Relations Board composed of an equal number of representative* of labor and industry and of a Chairman representing the public interest. 7, In the face of all this and under conditions of declining volume of business in the Industry, tho United Textile Workers, who represent only a minority of the employees, ignored all agencies of the N. It. A. and called a general strike in this Industry notwithstanding the June settlement. A. No one deplores more than this Industry the lawless violence that has grown out of this conflict..,\Ve regard these consequences as the inevitable result of organized assaults upon men and women exercising their right to work. 9. Under the Joint Resolution the Board of Inquiry is inquiring into the facts. We believe such/Unquiry Will be useful, and we will gladly cooperate in this investigation. 10. We have been unable to find any basis for a request to the Board of Inquiry to act as an arbitration board. Weuhave already commented on the impossible conditions attached by the strike chairman to his suggestion for such a request. 11. Apart from that the issues themselves are not, in our opinion, appropriate subjects for arbitration. We believe that: The right of workers to remain at work free from mass intimidation and violence is created by law; ' The right to collective bargaining in each plant, defined by the National Recovery Act and embodied in the Textile Code, and the demand of the strike Chairman that his group be recognized as having the right tOi speak for those textile workers who have rejected his leadership, is an is-J sue already settled by the law; Changes in the Code provisions as to minimum wages and maximum hours involve Code Amendments amendments to the law. The Recovery Art and the Code provide the only lawful methods for amendments; Matters relating to the - socalled "stretch-out" and to alleged violations of Section 7 (a) are matters of Governmental a d m i n i s t r a t i o n. Changes in conduct of Governmental administration are matters for action Iby the Constituted authorities. I !_'. The Board of Inquiry will find jftial the Code Authority has berpCnI ."ore urged the strengthening and improvement of the functioning of Gov-j ! (. ! nii.ent machinery in these matters. We continue to urge the strengthening of this machinery. Id. The Cotton Textile National Industrial Relations Board (the Brueie Board), established under the Code, has been expected to function for 450,000 workers employed by 1/200 cotton mills in 25 States, with insufficient Government appropriation to obtain an juUupJate staff. \\ e therefore specifically urge that the ( otton Textile National Industrial Relations Board be properly financed to further equip itself with an adequate .-tafT of its selection and operating under its direction to perform the important tasks assigned to it. 14. After long conference with many manufacturers we have reached decisions that seem to u* inescapable and which represent the considered opinion of this Industry. 15. We hid i the solemn conviction that the issues at stake go far beyond any temporary industrial dispute. We believe that the future of our country demands our support of principle that law shall not be amended hv force; that the provisions of a Government Code shall not be changed by intimidation and violence; that the will of Congress and of the President. as expressed in the procedure of the N. R. A., shall not be set aside by dying squadrons.?Adv. - Kffor's of "flying squadrons" to I clr>M- miii* ;r. the eastern central part of Alabama, where 19,000 workers disregarded the rail of state and naional union officials to strike, failed to accomplish their purpose, last week. Mrs. Cornelia Price Pinchot, wife of Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, has filed petitions with the state elections bureau to place her name on the ballots as an independent candidate for governor of that state to succeed her husband. The trial of Rev. R. H. Askew is get for November 5 in the federal court at Raleigh, N. C., on charge* of violating the "Lindbergh law'" for his alleged kidnaping from Goldsboro on August 14. He disappeared and it is alleged sent letters thru the mails to his wife demanding ransom of *25,000. A flat refusal, of President Roosevelt to sanction a long term loan of $200,i?00,(>00 and commercial credits to Russia, has brought negotiations between Russian representatives anJ AmeMcan officials over Russia's debt? to the United States to an end in Washington. Pari E. Yates, wanted in Kansas City, Mo., on charges of first degree i murder, was arrested in Charleston, S. C.. Saturday. He said he struck a woman in Kansas City with his motorcycle while going at 40 miles per hour, and did not stop. Two convicts, making their escape from the Oklahoma state prison at MoAlester, wounded a guard and kidnaped him, taking him several miles in a stolen ear. They then captured another car containing two men, set the guard free and carried off the two new paaaengers. WHAT ABOUT THE TEXTILE STHIKE? (By Hugh S. JohusMi. Adalaiatra tor For National Kecovery, in an Addraaa to NKA Code Authorities Carnegie llnll. New York City, September 14, IMi) The textile code was the first one to be presented under NRA. I had been wording on it as early m March, 1932?long before Mr. Rooaevelt became President. After exhaustive studies, it was determined that * 40hour week would re-employ all the people normally attached to the textile industry. These studies were conducted in connection with the labor in that industry. Tom McMahon sat in 'Wi their arbitrations . and agreed with their result. Of all the codes, the ,Teytjrle Code was subject of the most exhaustive analysis. It t^fcame a precedent for all others. Hut the moment the hearing opened and without uny notice to me of a change of heart, he (McMahon) appoared op the platform in our first great golufishbowl proceeding and repudiated the agreement that he had made with me in the preliminary discussions. It was my first experience with organized labor in the textile industry, and it was not encouraging. Last June a strike was threatened in the textile industry. It was, as I remember, the fifth great strike of national importance with which I have had to dealK- We reached an agreement and on that agreement the strike was called off. The present strike is an absolute violation of that understanding, and I must say here, with all the solemnity which should characterize such an announcement that if such agreements of organized labor are worth no more than this one, then that institution is not such a responsible instrumentality as can make contracts on which this country can rely. The trouble is that when you unleash the forces of riot and rebellion yytK never know when you can control \them. 1 know now how this strike^ was pulled in contravention of the solemn engagements of the federation. Men circulated around the delegates and told them that the government would feed the strikers. Norman Thomas appeared and urged the strike. He is a politico. Whatever there is of economic doctrines in the Socialist party, it is political first and economic afterward, and Norman Thomas? as much as I respect and admire him?had no business there. When a strike becomes political. it has no place in the lexicon of the NRA. *' The Cotton Textile Industry is the very last place in this country where a strike should be ordered. It was the first indu.-try to come forward with a code. The code increased cmploy mint by 110,000, or nearly 33 1-3 per cent. According to our studio, it increased hourly wage rates by TO per cent. What is it that labor now demands? A'thirtv-hour-we^lk a 25 per cent increase in the wages of labor. But adding the processing tax to the increase in the price of cotton and increase of labor wages under NRA, the cost of cotton goods has been doubled. The increase in the price of raw cotton, alone has been 100 per J cent?and the farmer and the work| man are yet to be heard from. The price of overalls and cotton work gloves have increased 100 per cent. Mrs. Roosevelt To Dedicate Demonstration House Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt will dedicate the hearthstone of "America's Little House." the demionstration home which the New 5"ik Committee of Better Homes in America i* building on Park Avenue in New York City, announced Miss Bessie Harper, chairman of the South Carolina Committee of Better Home.-, today. In an impressive ceremony which will l>e broadcast to the nation on September 25th, from 3:30 to 1:00 KDST. over the Columbia coast-tocoast network. Mrs. Roosevelt will speak to the thousands of Better Homes members and others who are watching with interest the progress of this little house, nearing completion in )ts setting of surrounding skyscrapers. For the broadcast the wife of the President, with other distinguished guests, will be gathered rbund the fireplace of the house itself. After the formal opening in October regular broadcasts will come from the Little House, the atBhehed garage of which is now being fitted up as a station. Cooperating with the efforts of the Administration towards better housing. the National Organization of Better Homes 1n America has announced that it wil| bo in position, by the end of October, to assist individuals or groups who wish to duplicate this Nen York demonstration home. Detailed information can be obtained by writing Mrs. Katherine F. Li.fiton. Better Homes in America, Inc., 101 Park Avenue, New York City. Two men were killed at Albemarle, N. C., when their car crashed into the tender of a locomotive on a grade erosaing. Crime And It* Degradation Or Education And It* Lplift Those who head our prison# agree a# to the relations which ignorance bears to crime. They tell us that crime in Us essence* and for the most part, is due' to ignorance. A life crime not only destroys the well-being of the criminal but, in propecrion as it increase*, tend* to bretikapwn t?e whole social order. Crime in *11 it* varied ramification is now costing the people of the United States close to $1$,000,000,000 annually. This is in cash. What is it costing in its varied distrubances of the people?their health, progress and general welfare? Certainly this cost is the greater, though it cannot be measured in d^ars. Since our penolbfM# agree that crime, in its" essence, is due to ig: notance, namely, education^.' If by proper eduction society can cut the money cost of crime 50 per cent, it will not only save itself $6,000,000,000 annually, but will release that amount into channels of infinite value to alL - ," * But what has society done for education ..throughout the country recently? Comparatively little to what ] it should and must do. Here are a few things it has done to education, that which it had built up through ( the years: It has put nearly 80,000 experienced public school teachers perilously , near the dole, if not on the dole. It has reduced the salaries of over 200,000 public school teachers to less than $750 per annum, the tfainimum ( amount allowed factory laborers un- ( der the NRA codes. About 85,000 of these teachers received less than $450 a year for their services. It has cut public school expendi- i tures nearly $200,000,000 under those of the school year 1932-33, and more , than $500,000,000 under those of five years ago. The expenditures then , wefe but one-fifth the cost of crime ] in this country now. , While it has been reducing expend- ( itures for public schoojs it enrolled in these schools during the school ( year 1938-34, 675,000 more pupils j than it did five years ago. 1 In 1933-34, it deprived 2,000,000 , children of school age of any school- ( ing or reduced school terms to a few ^ weeks or a few months for these j children. It has in many places converted j free high schools into tuition schools. , It has almost completely abandon- , ed school building programs, while ^ it housed improperly more than 400,- ( 000 pupils in city schools and a much < larger number in rural schools. The above ate a few of the things 1 society has done to education. ( If society does not right about face ( and double its present outlay by } building up high standards for the j proper education of its children, it is appalling to contemplate, much less 1 experience, what ignorance in its tie- , structive criminal resolvents will do to society during the rising generation. Society must soon decide what it < will do?materially increase its high- * est annual school bill or go on drift- < ing and thus double and triple its < annual crime bill, with all the attend- l ant evils and breakdowns which ac- i company crime and ignorance, -~i j? There is no other way out but the ] 1 educational route. Society must pay. I Which is the saner bill, education with 1 social uplift to higher levels of real- 1 ity, or crime with social degeneration < into squalor and utte decay? 1 Serious reflection on the ashes of > the earth's empires and an admixture } of them with the fatty degenerative 1 matter growing up about the heart i of the nation, would create a cleansing solvent which would destroy ignorance, crime and greed?the causes of the destruction of all civilizations. The Federal Government is ex- 1 pending a few hundred millions of dollars in preserving the nation's forests and streams?a splendid idea ^ long cherished by the President. How heartening it would be if public education could hear from him in equally resonant voice and aid.?.Exchange. Near a towm where a circus was ? showing for the day, lived a farmer ^ whose great strength had gained him ^ a reputation. The circus strong man p rode out on horseback to challenge i the farmer. He entered the farm- 1 yard, tied his horse and approached ^ the farmer, who was working in his r garden. u "I've heard about," he said, "and c have come out to see which is the better man." c Without answering the farmer seiz- f ed the intruder, hurled him bodily g over the fence into the road and re- F turned to his work. When the loser had recovered his <breath the farmer growled, "Have c you anything more to say to me?" "No," was the reply, "but perhaps T you'll be good enough to throw me my horse."?The American Boy. Pan-American planes leaving Ha- ? vana, Cuba, for American ports k"kre q being rigidly inspected?the inspec- h tion Including the planes, mail, pas- v sengers and baggage?to guard ? against the possibility of infernal machines or explosives being on board that might destroy the plants while ^ in flight. C ? v r \ MC7 Vti*il ifctt/Ad I Odd Accident* No doubt New Yotk bugs *r? extra lwscious so 60 of Fred Kretser s chickens blindly chased one across tie chicken yard and rammed their heads through the wire mesh. They a allocated in trying to extricate themselves* fit repairing an electric switch in her home an Alabama woman touched live wire and could not let go. She bcreamed for help and Jesse Shasteen seized her by the shoulder. He was thrown violently to the floor, causing his false teeth to slip down his throat and strangle him. When Mrs. Ellen Tomalin, a London widow, died the autopsy revealed a pair of surgical forceps left in her body after an operation some 13 years previous. A jury decided the surgeon was not liable for such accidents. While examining her own throat a young Canadian miss, Lorraine Hewes, let a seven-inch table fork slip and swallowed it. She suffered no particular inconvenience except a surgical operation three hours later to recover the fork from her stomach. Usually its the toreador (bullfighter) or the toro (bull) which gets hurt in bullfights but recently a spectator was the victim. Candido Roura was instantly killed when the maddened bull sent a sword flying through the air to strike him and pierce his leart. It isn't an old Spanish custom to eave visitors in the refrigerator but when a Gracia butcher opened his shop business one morning he found a friend of his wife's, frozen to death, whom he had accidently locked inside. Out of the frying pan ihto the nre was the experience of Oapt. Len Pov?y, an American aviator with the J Dublin army, when a bird flew into; ind split the propeller of his plane, fie leaped out, opened his parachute -and landed in shark-infested wa-| ers. He was rescued unharmed.? The Pathfinder. Reptile Business Booms Fashion which decrees that women ;hall use reptile skins for handbags, >hoes, and even hats, has played havjC with the snakes, crocodiles and Dther kinds of lizards. If the demand keeps up there is likely to be i shortage, especially Jn_ reptile-infested Tndl^T- which is a leading exporter of hides. In 1932 about 2,j00,000 hides were shipped out and ;he amount had nearly doubled in L933 with a total of 4,500,000 skins ;xported. Most of them were lizard fides and 4,200,000 of these alone vere exported from Calcutta last fear. Reptile skin exports from 3ritish Malaya rose from nine tons n 1931 to 1,750 in 1933. An enraged cotton mill worker at \ugusta, shot Gladys Smith, 19, to leath, seriously wounded her sister ind then committed suicide with an lutomatic shot gun. Police theory is hat the killer was enraged because he married sister forbade her sister o receive the attentions of Raeford V eaver. NOTICENotice is hereby given that puruant to Order of the South Carolina >tate Board of Bank Control dated August '24. 1934, I will on the 22nd lay of September, 1934, commence laying a thirteen (13r/c) per cent divdend to all unsecured depositors of "he Bank of. Camden, Camden^yjg*v U1 persons having a deposit oUSttflB ,nd 67-100 ($7.67) dollars and lWaHCTfi equired to call at the office- oil thc^ indersigned to receive their dividend heck. , | All persons who can conveniently > io so are requested to call for their | hecks within the next five (5) days i rom the date above mentioned re-1 :ardless of the amount of their de-1 iesit, in order to minimize the exlease of mailing. I). A. BOYKJN, Conservator of The Bank of Camden, ioptember 20, 1934. 26 sb. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate f Rosa Lillian Yates, deceased, are ereby notified to make payment to ( undersigned, and all parties, if any raving claims against tne said estate rill present them likewise, duly atested, within the time prescribed by ; John M. Villepigue j Executor of the Estate of Rosa 4Uian Yates. lamden, S. C., September 12, 1234. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF State of South Carolina County of Kershaw ,.j In the Court of Common Pleat The First Carolinae Joint Stack I-*M ^ Bank of Columbia, Plaintiff, -T8.A. Dalton Kennedy, S. D. Forbes, Inf. leside Plantation, Inc., Henry B. Ken* nedy, Alfred D. Kennedy, individually and as trustees, Marie K. Shannon, and Sadie K. VonTresckow, Belton 0. Kennedy, Robert M. Kennedy, Jr., and H. B. Kennedy, Jr., r Defendants. To the defendants above named, Sadie K. VonTresckow, Henry B. Kennedy, Alfred^). Kennedy and S. P. Forbes: w You are hereby summoned and re. quired to Answer the?confipl?Vnt in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and ?o $erve a copy . of your answer to the said complaint, Upon the subscribers at their offices No. 30&-309 National Loan and Exchange Bank (Building, Columbia, S. C., within twenty days after the aer-' vice hereof, exclusive, of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will \ apply to tne Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. MELTON & BELSER, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Columbia, S. C. ' September 12, 1934. _ To the defendants aforesaid: Take notice that the ^complaint in this action, together with the summons, of which the foregoing is a 1 copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, for the County of Kershaw, at Camden, S. C., this 13th day of September, 1934. MELTON & BELSER, ' Attorneys for Plaintiff, j Columbia, S. C. w September 12, 1934. q FORECLOSURE SALE fl Notice is hereby given that in ar- I cordance with the terms and provis- I ions of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas, for Kershaw County, I South Carolina, dated, the 11th of I August, 1934, in the case of The First 1 Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank oi 1 Columbia, plaintiff, vs. L. J. Whits* fl ker, Loan 6i Savings Bank and R. E. 9 i Stevenson, as Receiver of Loan & I Savings Bank, Postal Telegraph ?Ca- 1 ble Company, Carolina Light & F?w* 1 er Company, The Federal I*and Bank I of Columbia and Laura V. Thurmond, defendants, I will sell to the highest I bidder for cash, requiring of the sue* I cessful bidder a deposit of $150.w fl immediately upon the conclusion of 9 the -bidding, as a guaranty of good faith, an<L uptmTsiuch bidder's failure 3 to make said deposit the Master shall fl immediately resell said property on I the terms above provided. In case or a any subsequent raised bid, as a ed by law, each such bidder shtU I make a like deposit. The amount of such final deposit shall be and applied to the judgment and costs in the event of non-compliance by such last bidder within forty d*7* | from the date of public sale as here- 9 in provided, before the Court House I door at Camden, South Carolina, dur- 4 ing the legal hours of sale on tne first Monday in October, 1934. bfWff fl the 1st daV thereof, the following I described property: . "All of that piece, parcel or lot oi land situate, lying and being in tne State of South Carolina, County oi | Kershaw and in DeKalb TownsniPi about eight (8) miles south of to City of Camden, containing two nun dred forty-three (243) acres, more o 'less, and being bounded on the nor I by lands formerly of Boykin, later o Sorrell, now of L. J. Whitaker, e4 by Camden and Sumter public row fl known as the Charleston road, seps* 4 rating same from lands of Cantey? south by Pine Grove Plantation oi W. Boykin, west by *iffbt-of-^ay I Southern Railway Company. The ? tract of land has* such shapes, met*? <i and distances as will more ful,y *f I perfr by reference to a plat made y S. W. Laughlin, Surveyor, dated i*- I S' mber 24, 1918, and is the same trscj i land conveyed to L. J. ^nits deed of Camden Realty and Sec ity Company dated the 16th day fl April, 1926. , , , . fl Said premises shall bo sold s^DJj to the easement granted by vi fl WhiUker to Carolina Power & wflj, | Company by tBstruflkent dated July, 1929, recorded in the office a the Clerk of Court for Kertb.?? County in book of deeds "A . page 210, which is hereby conftflW^j and preserved.^ T? fl W. L. DePas?, Jr., fl Master for KershawCouWfl NOTlCE * Jjk John S. Myers, carpenter and bel^ fl er, who haa just completed fl months' building project in the . 1 is back to serve his custom*** _ friends as before, in flH W?4* M pantry work. WIsbiA to aoltf* ! * M ota ?W?| street, Caasden, 8. OUR GIN 1 Is in first class shape, open and ready for I business. We appreciate, your business in the past, and ask that you continue to let ua serve you. ' j'j Rhame Brothers Telephone 92 ...