The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-15
Dr.. Lyons
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When Mr.. I've stated these things there
was applause.
He declared, amidst applause that mills
sbould he so conducted that the parents
could earn enough to educate their chill
dren and make them safe guards of the
State. To do this, he declared that
what was wanted in North Carolina was
men. eve have males a plenty, nut not
enough men," he declared.
He paid a tribute to the organization
of printers, carpenters and machinists.
The latter, he declared, "had come out Of
three disastrous strikes stronger than
ever before" and then there was ap-
plause.
He cried out against knuckling to men
with money obtained by robbing the
masses. These monied men he declared,
were aristocrats, plutocrats, autocrats.
And it was a class that North Carolina
was suffering from, and suffering from
more since the last special session of
the Legislature. "It is a class that is
running the State" he said, land run
ming the United States
If getting in politics would help the la
boring man he told them to go into poll
tics. but not party politics." he said,
that's too dirty for any decent union
man to get in. the kind of politics he
prescribed being a contest for ten hours
day labor, child labor abolished, COM
pulsory school law and factory nspec-
tor to see that the law is enforced.
Then Mr.. Tye plead for an organization
of labor, and the patronizing of union
made goods of all kinds. He declared
that "scab'' cigars were simply horrible,
and decent men, union or non union,
should not use them, but take those with
the blue label. He urged men to organize
their own trades and then aid others
trades to organize and for all to pat
ronize business men who favored them.
"The medicine that is good for the
white man is good for the negro. 1t is to
the negro's best interest to organize, and
it is best for the white man too. AS
long as he was on the outside carpenters
and painters would remain semi pauper-
lied. Let every negro get in a union and
cooperate with the white man. l would
rather work alongside a negro at $500
q day than compete with him at $1.OO a
day. Throw away your old race prejudice
as far as trades unions are concerned"
Here he declared that he was bitterly
opposed to social equality, and only
liked the negro in his place, but con-
demned as foolish the idea that work
with the negro meant equality any more
to the laborer than to the doctor, preach
er or merchant who took the negro 5
bmoney. Meet the negro at the counter
and do business with him." he said.
Either lift up the negro, or he will
be a stone about your neck to pull you
down. That's the reason work to or
ganize the negroes was an expression
that was applauded, and he proceeded to
tell how organized negro labor had help
ed white labor in the Birmingham dis
trict.
Describing further conditions he cried
out, Labor is getting awfully tired of
living on crusts and dressing in rags,
Labor is less concerned with whether it
will rest in the embrace of the rich man
in paradise or get a square meal, as it
is only at times seven days ahead of
Starva ton"
Again urging all trades to organize,
and all union men to aid in the work by
both words and acts the speaker closed,
and after a few words from Col Nichols
about further gatherings, the meeting
adjourned.