Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-29
fly GEORGE p. WEST

How about tire Ianbury HdtterS caeef
The query is shouted ut Candidate Hughes
~ every campaign meeting where working
~" and women gathered. II Is shouted
at the women of the millionaire Hughes
campaign special 1t IS heard wherever the
is 'ues discussed.
.as9Y What is the case What lies back
Of these shouted queries that Mr.. Hughes
toe, so long 10 answer?
IN in Danbury Connecticut, where 5000
sh'led workmen make hats for all the world,
,lcg need 10 answer from Mr.. Hughes. The
answer is there before them in living form
more than hundred families 500 men.
women and children. oppressed by the knowl-
ac, that avery night may be the last under
TIE roofs o. the little homes representing
tic fruits Of twenty, thirty, or forty years
Of toll. thrift and sacrifice.
This is to tel! others little of what DAN
t,p'v already knows. 1t is story Of the
and of austere judges, on the one hand
..ra ~ men and women and children on the
9TH, he story of a law that. until Presi.
v'~t Visor signed the CLAYTON act. had
a.! and Tobacco Stocks soaring.
Story of Tragedy
1t is a story fuli of traeedythe tragedy
hGmble simple folk Uhose declining
'sys ere ovacshadowed by fear and anxiety
', is the story. too. of men and SAneL who
20 not whine, who have been game 70 the
.ore. who believe firmly today, as they did
~ We oet.'.'i"s' .'". ','e': aus - W.
,nraIhhle
It is not story. but hundred. There
~ The of the widow with seven chill
"e, Gor. 1 t rn n dor bs- fam
;iv There is the story of Benedict, the
str:''qht laced old New Highlander Of Revolu-
."y aps'Sla ..;,, n,aYgh ~ n'n Sraes ~
j. ,an hat had tarned him. q God-fearipg,
No. tty. old man. into a law-breaker. pur-
Nv oehu'y shet'"s ana oeeb'eo Wy ~r''
80 i,'"n. ~, -,
!, .,, - ,'',h' I W. mas "e @,,. an
'tH-SS years IN .ne mousse on onelter
- avenue now ABOUT TO De taken from
Nan 'nere IL MRS. Hurd, swec1-iaced
a, bride. and whose children were born
~ vow up within its walls.
"''y-'wo OF the thlrty-1our nat manu-
'nr"rs OF Danbury employ only union men
re- h'F"nst and most successful OF them
- others If they had the choice. Wages
"'se men WORK was STEADY. ana the hum
~ w4rker was protected AGAINST the I'M
,mf hr hu'Fying FOREMAN by the agreements
!" ""'e" o"her an" WORKING" suoser'oeo'
Loewe Enemy 10 Union
Only D. F. Loewe and one or two others
ne the nat matters denied their men the
< talk It e ovor with the boss W Heer t thinrs
-" wrong Mr. L"ewe was one OF the "old
:, 9"' employers With others: he not only
: ''s"d 70 WORK with his mn through trade
e"ents' b"t he spread the gospel of OPP
- s,"n y, and Nd. d Wc1 ar. among others.
~ in New York, the national officers Of
;ra HattGrs Union. after trying in vain to
tNf"Ho the organizatlons benefits to the
.n""e employees. decided on the only course
men 70 the dnion' The immemooriai security
~ he matters organization In Danbury,
's'inr back without an INTERRUPTION to the
''orkmens guilds OF Revolutionary times.
'as threatened The national officers began
:" c,rcularize their fellow unionists through
cat the country. calling attention to the fail:
IRE OF the Loewe concern to make use Of
the union label. and asking union members
Tot to buy Lcewe hats or patronize stores
that acted az Loewe agents.