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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-08-14

, A couple of very interesting game
of base ball are on the tapis for thi
fand tomorrow afternoons ON the ioca
diamond between the Corno and th
Leland teams. The locals hav
strengthened their lineup and are con
tident of victory. The LELAND team Ii
one Of the very best In the state, High
tower having proven himself one ol
the most successful of pitchers with &
record of winning 86 per cent of The
games pitched. A battle royal may
be looked for between two such well
matched teams and all should turn out
and see the games.
Otto Fritz is carrying the mail on
r. r. ID. No. 4, while w. A. Fritz IL
taking his annual fifteen days vaca.
tion.
Robert Rogers. of Coxburg, attended
to business at Lexington yesterday.
Edgar Brown, of near Ebenezer,
greeted friends In Lexington yester.
day.
]. B. Hambrick represented Liberty
Chapel on our busy thoroughfares
yesterday
r. s. Wilkes, of Yazoo City, is here
on visit.
The Cleveland baseball nine was
over at Tchula Tuesday and defeated
the club at that place In a very well
played game by score of to 5.
Frank Chisolm, a substantial and
progressive citizen of the Coxburg vi
cnage, was noted among those in the
city on business yesterday.
We regret to learn that I. B. Pick.
ems is confined to his room by fever
this week.
While at work on the Swinney
building yesterday afternoon Contrac.
tor |. r. Humphries suffered neural.
gic attack of the heart and was given
prompt medical attention.
Mrs. Louis Doty, of Kosciusko. is
the guest OF Miss Halle Barbour
Mr.. James Robert Lynchard and
Mrs. Matte Martin, both of Indianola.
we're married by Mayor W. L. Dyer in
the circuit clerks Office at about
o'clock yesterday evening. The couple
have been sojourning at Owens Wells
for snort time, the groom having
been nursed back to health by the bride.
L. w. Fonville, of Liberty Chapel,
yesterday left on our desk sack of
some very large and delicious apples
from his orchard.
Miss Allie Gene Lyon, of Howard,
is visiting in Lexington this week, the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. d. f. Boatwright
and family.
Mrs. Lucy Russell left yesterday to
yisit friends and relatives In Green
1ille, Leland and Hollandale.
Little Gladys Rhyme entertained her
title friends at birthday party, Au-
gust the seventh.
Mrs. Parham Williams and children
ire spending few days at Shackel-
ord's Switch enjoying the hospitality
# Miss Ella Lyon and incidentally
ishing some in the fine lakes on her
plantation. Mr.. Williams will join
hem as soon as the board of supervis-
,rs adjourn.
Get o1r prices on Banner
Feed, by the ton OF sack, be-
ore bUYing. Pickens Bros.
%.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-08-14
For. Sale.

One pure jersey COW; three half jer.
sey cows ALI splendid milchers
Bargain. Apply to
Mrs. A. H. ROBY,
|. Lexington. Miss.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-08-14

A second hand three stand Munger
gin. Quick bargain. Call on or ad.
dress
w. P. HAMMETT,
Owens, Miss.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
Operators Deeply Involved.

Indianapolis, Ind-March IT..
Especial 1.-The Illinois operators
who still object to coming into al
Interstate wage conference, hav,,
broken seriously with the Ohio and
western Pennsylvania people.
The western operators are now
lined up against the eastern opera.
tors, charging that they are con-
spring to tie up all of tho mines in
the fonr states, thus putting the
Illinois and Indiana operators out
Of the markets and permitting the
Ohio and western Pennsylvania
operators to sell their stored coal
in Western markets without COM
petition and at strike prices.
The Illinois operators are de-
cidedly warm, and are now out and
out for the policy of district in
stead of interstate joint confer
ences. They wish to meet their
own miners, and they wish the In.
diana operators to have the privi-
ledge of keeping their mines in
operation after April 1, SO the
Ohio operators will not have such
smooth sailing in what they charge
to be well laid strike plans.
AS a matter of fact the opera
tors seem to be becoming deeply
involved among themselves. This
is only one of the breaks. Another
is expected between the Ohio and
the western Pennsylvania opera
tors. The western Pennsylvania
operators have the fuel contracts
with the big steel companies.
Comparatively speaking, they have
little coal stored on the lakes and
and their interests will necessarily
differ from those of the Ohio opera
tors. They would not be able tc
sell stored coal at an advantage as
as it is asserted the Ohio operators
would be. 1t is also necessary
that they have free constant and
easy supply of coal for their olf
: steel customers.
All of these conditions and vary
! ing business and personal Interest,"
, give assurance to the public tina
, there will, under no circumstances
be a great industry paralyzln!
strike, but it is thought there VII
f be a general suspension at least 10
a few days April /. The miner
' may be divided by factional ana1t
5 at this time, bnt they are unl'e
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
Refuse to Meet Miners.

Indianapolis, Ind. March 1S--
lSpecial)-The western Pennsyl-
Yania and Ohio coal operators,
Still sore over the defeat of their
planned market stimulating and
labor regulating strike, two years
ago, aud determined to ''get even"
with John Mitchell who, with F..
/. Robins, broke it's backbone.
nave officially turned down the
miners invitation for joint inter
state wage conference March "a.
he answers received last night
&hl this morning from the meeting
- the Eastern Ohio Operators AS
N>eciation at Cleveland, the Hook
ing valley operators at Columbus
anu +he western Pennsylvania op-
orators at Pittsburg read very
much as though they had been
formulated together, and had been
%el1 thought out ahead Of time
ne seems to supplement the Other
WIN the foundation for all laid or
IRE illinois operators independent
ueclslon not to enter a conferancs
nhGl local differen ces in that stat
Had been adjusted.
1he Hooking Valley operators
dominated by H. L. Chapman, o
tae sunday Creek and the Chap
man interests, replied that the.
VII not confer until the Illinoi
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
Arkansas Miners Win.

Inc controversy between the mi
ners ana operators at Jenny Lind,
Ark, has been settled, the men
gaming their point and everything
Is working in harmony at the
mines. The trouble between the
lalneIs and operators originated
ABOUT e~o months ago. when tho
men declared that mine No. II
was dangerous. They appealed
1or better conditions and among
the demands made was that shot
nrers be employed in the mines at
the company's expense.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19

as an army compared with the
operators, whose weakness always
lies in the fact that personal inter
ests are paramount to united in
terests.
In Illinois. where the Operators
Association insists that it must
have local adjustments, the opera
tors ranks are very vulnerable,
inasmuch as only part Of the Illi-
nois operators are in the Illinois
Operators Association. Even in
the one state there are many very
ing interests, and these differing
interests would, under the pressure
of a strike, soon cause break.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
Game Exposed.

Despite the fact Of the reports
being sent out by tho Manufac-
tuHrs' Association Of the rosy la
Dor conditions, there are over
10000 idle men in Spokane, Wash
lngton, today. Thousands of them
are working on public improve
ments for TWENTY FIVE CENTS
A DAY AND BOARD. This is
simply another trick of the union
busting green goods association.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19

thugs, and politicians and patent
1000 CD manufacturers. They are
here to provide bread for the hun
cry and homes for the homeless.
They are here to educate men and
women in the omnipotent band of
universal brotherhood. They are
here to extinguish classes and unity
ALI OF Gods creatures into one har-
monlous whole, notwithstanding
the Van n-Cleave-Parry-P Post con-
spiracy. MARK EARNEST.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19

; the court have been adverse TO the
department. This particularly
was the fact in the attempt of the
department to remove from mines
the steam locomotives that are used
in some portions of the state.''
From these facts it appears that
there is something radically wrong
in our state. The laws are being
openly violated by the corpor.
ations in some parts of the state
and it is known and acknowledged
by state officials. Why ia it thus7
Is it not the sworn duties of every
state. county and district official to
enforce the law7 Or, is it that the
corporators are bigger than the
lawi What do the people pro-
pose to dot Are we going to sub
nit to this class rule forever or
will the good citizens concentrate
their efforts and demand that the
laws be enforced regardless of
political and financial influence
It has been stated by high state
officials that our mining laws are
sufficient IF ENFORCED, but
they acknowledge that they are
not enforced and thus far have not
made any strenuous attempt to en-
force them. The truth of the
whole matter is that in some sec
tiOns the mining laws are made by
the operators and enforced by
their lawless hirelings known as
guards backed up by local
affcials, who are controlled by the
corporations and the operators are
responsible to neither the state
laws nor liable for damages to the
widows and orphans of the men
manned and murdered in their un-
derground death traps in court Of
law. II the laws Of the state were
enforced as strictly where. cor
porations are interested as they
are where the wage earners and
masses arc concerned these condi.
tions would not prevail, but it
seems as though the enforcement
the law applies only to the poor
and does not include the high and
mighty corporations.
What we need is men in our
legislative body who will legislate
in the interest Of the whole people
and not the chosen few, and men
in public Office who have the
moral courage to see to it that the
laws are enforced.
These violations of law have re.
suited in the death of hundreds of
men in West Virginia, and with
all the "grand stand'' PLAYS of
the $4,000 so called legislative
mine investigating committee these
violations continue according to
the statements of the Governor
himself.
The only salvation for the toll
ing Masses of West Virginia is to
organize in one grand brotherhood
and strike at the root of the evil
Rid the public offices of the cor
poration tools and hirelings and
the political grafters and place in
their stead honest, capable and
liberty loving West virginians.
Remember your friends who
nave been tried and true and heed
not the glittering promises of those
who In the past have betrayed the
trust reposed in them.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
Be Consistent.

II you believe in the label, ask
aoi ~ "hen you purchase goods,
ana patronlze the stores that have
laeel merchandise. The label will
grow In use just in proportion as it
IS demanded by union men. Ask
tor II as you would for particular
brand of any article.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
MINERS SAFETY
AND LIBERTY
Lies in Their Concert of Action at
the Ballot Box---Must Defeat
Politicians Who Oppose and
Cypress Them.

Editor Labor Argus:-I notice
IN your paper that the Legislature
OF West Va. has adjourned, with
out passing any of the bills to
amend the mining laws Of the state,
and that the miners are greatly
discouraged in consequence. You
have now upon the statute books
the best mining law in the United
States, and have more inspectors
man for man employed and ton for
ton mined than any coal producing
state in the Union. Yet you are
ACTUALLY KILLING MORE
MEN IN THE COAL MINES
THAN ANY STATE IN THE
UNION OR IN THE WORLD.
1t is therefore plain that it is not
for lack of necessary legislation
that such conditions exist; but be-
cause the laws are neither enforced
or obeyed. If the inspecting force
were doubled and the penalties cor.
respondingly severe, would that
avail anything.
The inspecting force last year was
increased nearly double in number
yet the accidents by explosion in
creased nearly fourfold. Laws ex-
lst to no purpose for those who do
not pocess the ability or the will to
enforce them. The miners of the
state possesses the ballot; their en-
ployers cannot take it from them.
There are enough of miners in the
state to change the complexion of
the law makers and the judges who
are charged with the duty of ex-
ecuting the laws. Your safety,
your remedy and your protection
lies III concert of action at the bal
lot box. Will you do it; You
will not do it. You will fear
continue to hold conventions to de-
wise plans to DEFEAT the POLL
TICIANS WHO OPPOSE YOUR
INTEREST or the JUDGES WHO
MANUFACTURES LAWS TO OP-
PRESS YOU, then return home to
vote for these men; and turn your
backs on the men who stood W for
your rights and Liberties. You
must stop doing this, or you will
never receive nor deserve fair treat
ment either from your employers
or from the Legislature which
make the laws, or the judges who
enforce them.
In the organization of your un-
ions another thing you should rem
ember; namely if you want to get
our rights you must respect the
rights Of others. No better
| definition of the rights Of organic
ed labor was ever uttered than by
President Roosevelt in his annual
message to Congress in 1904
"Wage workers have an entier right
to organize, and by all peaceble
and honorable means to endeaver
to persuade their fellows to join
them i'll organizations. They have
legal right, which cccording to
circumstances, may or may not be
a moral right, to refuse to work in
company with men who decline to
join their organizations. They
have under no circumstances the
right to commit violence upon
those, whether capitalists or wage
workers who refuse to support
their organizations, or to side with
those with whom they are at odds;
for mob rules is intolerable in any
form.'
i These words of the presiden,
should be printed in large capita
letters and hung in every meeting
: hall of organized labor in the Unit
ed States.
ANDREW Boy.
Glen Row Ohio
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
LAW OPENLY
VIOLATED
BY Contractors of Convict Labor at
Moundsville Penitentiary-Me-
mace to Free Labor of County.

This week the Bulletin presents
a phase of contract labor at the
Moundsville, w. Va, penitentiary
that most directly concerns free
labor. 1t is shown that the goods
produced behind those gray stone
walls are so completely disguised
that no on6 would be able to know
their origin. The "union made''
legend on some of the labels is
sufficient to induce their purchase
by well meaning people who desire
to help their fellowmen, but are
only made to injure them by this
brazen commercial lie.
No class Of labor has been ham,
pered more by the unfair COM
petition of contract prison labor
than the garment workers. In al
most every State the penitentiaries
are producing garments that come
in competition with free labor.
The main objection, although there
are many, is that the public are
deceived by the false tickets placed
thereon TO make it appear they
were made by free and well paid
labor.
West Virginia has no law on it's
statue books prohibiting either
contract labor in the penitentiary
or the sale Of convict-made goods,
with the exception perhaps Of the
sale of any goods whatsoever under
folse pretenses. That this law is
openly violated by the contra ctors,
and overlooked by the tacit con-
sent of the Board of Directors is
unquestioned, not only in West
Virginia, but in the many states to
which these goods are consigned .
Some Of the states have formulatet
laws covering this point by an in !.
terdiction of the sale of any con :
vict made goods unless specified by
a proper label or so stamped OH
the articles thus manufactured.
Not one article turned out, SO far
as we are aware, from the West
Virginia Penitentiary by convict
labor is so designated, nor are tbe
consumers made aware of that fact
by the retailers,
Until recently the practice of
affxing "UDion Made" tickets OIL
convict made goods was in general
use, but has fer obvious reasons
with one exception, we believe,
been discontinued by the substi-
tuition of such misleading and lying
statements as the following ex-
amples, which are attached tc
pants manufactured within the
penitentitary walls by klees' Sons,
contractors.
Miller Brothers Manufacturing
Company, Union Made Calves
ton, Tex.
These pants manufactured by j.
A. Robinson & Son, Baltimore, n
Y.
| Manufactured by Dion Il Deer
Manufacturing Company, La Fay
cite, Ind.
I. Golden, R. & c. Brand, manu-
facturers of pants, overalls and
shirts, St Paul, MINI.
Our Own Make, M. Richer &
Son, Kansas City, Mo.
\ Strong-S. 4 G. Goods-Pants.
overalls and shirts. Manufactur
: ed by Sternberg & Gottshal, st
Paul, MINI.
PEERLESS Manufacturing Compan.
8 Watts, Ritter & Co., owners
t | Huntington. w. Va.
J. V. Farwell Company's De
. partment Five, Ladies' under
i skirts. ..
ri Richmond Skirt & Shirt Com
s pany, Richmond, Va-From Week
sliy Bulletin of the Clothing Trade
q New York.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19

Cigars that carry the blue label
ON the box are not the product of
sweat shops and Chinese. Do not
employ "scabs'' by using tobacco,
cigars and stogies that do not carry
the label.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19
SCALE COMMITTEE
FAVORS DISTRICT
Settlements in its Report to National Convention
IF Report is Adopted There is Small Like
lihood of Strike in this State.

differences have been adjusted as
well as their own.
The eastern Ohio operators fol-
lowed this up with a reply that
they "would like to confer" but
at present ''deem it unwise'' to do
anything until differences are set
tied with other states.
The western Pennsylvania op-
orators say they will not be ready
TO enter a conference, interstate in
character, until local difference in
that district have been adjusted.
Motive Behind Replies.
The real motive behind all of
these replies from the Pennsylva-
MIA and Ohio operators, it is said !,
is the determination to give John
Mitchell a black eye, if possible,
before his people and the public.
With this object in sight they
have, since last October, maneu-
Vered for a suspension Of mining
April l and have, it is charged, by
delays and postponements and by
hiding behind the Illinois oper-
ators, who have a real grievance,
put off month by month all peace
movements. If a strike comes on
April it is proposed, it is assert
ed, to make the public and the
mining population believe that
Mitchell is responsible for it.
In addition to this, the Ohio
operators have 5000, 900 tons of
stored coal, which may, or may
not. have bearing on their atti-
tude favorable to big strike.
The attitude of the Ohio and
western Pennsylvania operators
blocks the way to a rehabilitation
of the old interstate relations by
Mitchell. The independent stand
of the Illinois operators that they
will not enter Il joint interstate
conference until local difference in
that state are set right, blocks the
way for rehabilitation of the old
joint relations by the Lewis ad-
ministration.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-19

inQlanapOllS, lnO. March IS
Especial )-The scale committee ,of
the United Mine Workers of
America struck snag at midnight
Tuesday and also yesterday morning
in drafting its report. AS expect
ed the committee could not unite
unanimously on the Mitchell policy
of proceeding to make settlements
by districts. The policy also in
cludes making settlements with
individual operators, if that is
found necessary co put the mines
in operation, and as last resort
to that end. The committee stood
Is to 6 in favor of the policy of
making district settlements, and
after IN all days session got to-
gether and late yesterday evening
made unanimous report rec
omending yearly settlements with
the operators by districts, the
minimum demand being the pre-
sent wage scale, and conditions, in
each district. Local differences
are to be adjusted by the district
conferences.
1t is expected the report of the
committee will be argued at length
on the floor of the convention
today. Delegates hope to leave
for home tomorrow afternoon or
evening.
The convention yesterday re-
considered its action at former
meeting selecting St Louis as the
next place of meeting and selected
Tndioppnolia ipStao1
Details of Operators Meeting.
Details of the Indiana operators
meetings are beginning to leak out.
About fifty operators were present,
and all except President J. @.
Robins, Secretary Phil Penn2 and
Hugh Shirkie were favorable to
accepting without any equivoca-
ton the Invitation of the miners to
meet here in joint interstate con-
ference March "a, They were also
in favor of entering into district
settlement with the Indiana miners
if that was authorized.
Penna told them that they would
be sorry if they took the action,
because he felt that the Lewis
people, when they came in, would
cancel any contract made on a
district basis.
The operators, however, showed
that they were of one mind-in
favor Of settlement and Penna. and
kolsom withdrew their objection.
Mitchell Vacating.
John Mitchell began vacating
his office in the State Life build
ing yesterday. He is shipping his
Office furniture and papers to hi
home at Spring Valley, III. Their
Is considerable speculation as t.
who, under the Lewis administrat
ion, will become editor of the
United Mine Workers, Journal, s
NJ. Sexton is the present editor.
The appointing power lies with the
president.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-06
HARVARD STUDENTS
MAKE BIG PROTEST,

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, May 6.-The
Harvard undergraduates petition,
signed by 1906 students, protesting
against any radical interference with
the present conditions of intercollegiate
sport in the university, was late yester-
day presented to the Harvard faculty.
The definite aim of the petition was
to persuade the faculty to withdraw
from the position it has taken in re-
ducing Intercollegiate contests in all
sports to a minimum, which in general
called for the adjustment of all inter-
collegiate contests between the close
of the football season and the spring
recess in April. This would have done
away with hockey and basketball and
interfered with the spring baseball
practise.
The faculty accepted the petition and
referred it to the Harvard athletic COM
mittee. The faculty issued a statement
in which it commended the students
for their cooperation in the discussion
of the matter and their desire to abolish
existing evils and said, in referring the
petition to the athletic committee, that
the committee would confer with the
student body or it's representatives in
taking final action.