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Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-03-17

Dying, dry-cleaning and press
ing by the Mckenzie Steam Laun-
dry. All work guaranteed, Bill
House, Agent.
We announce the showing Of the
seasons smartest styles in millin-
cry on March q. Winston's Tog-
gerry, Martin.
We have the earliest, big, high-class
strawberry grown. Also the best one
or the everbearing kinds; bears the
best favored berries from spring until
snow falls. Free booklet. Wakefield
Plant Farm, Charlotte, North Carolina,
SCOT.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-03-17

at about p. M, at the south door OF
the courthouse in Dresden, Weakley
county, Tennessee, offer for sale and
sell at public outcry to the highest and
best bidder upon terms herein after
stated the following described tract of
land, the same being situated in the
First civil district OF Weakley county,
tennessee, and bounded as follows:
Beginning at an iron stake on M. r.
Ainsley's south boundary line; thence
south to Rhodes north boundary line;
thence west to Dave Fields fence;
thence to where the fence turns; thence
west to Ainsley's east boundary line;
thence north to stump on Ainsley's
line; thence to the beginning, con-
tanning by estimation forty-fve acres
more or less.
TERMS OF SALE; Said land will
be sold for one-third cash and the
balance on credit OF one and two
years equal payments, requiring the
purchaser to execute notes with good
and approved personal security, bear
ing interest from date Of sale and re-
tanning a lien on land sold for the
remainder OF purchase money, and tie
privilege Of paying all cash il
purchaser prefers.
This March IA, 1916.
m17-24.31 w. ]. JETER. Clerk.
Thomson & Thomson, Soils. for
Complaints.
r. T. Lewis, Guardian ad Item.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-03-17

Onion sets and garden seeds.
Irvine Grocery Go.
Mr.. and Mrs. w, G. higgins,
Palmersyille, are receiving con-
gratulations Of their friends upon
the. sarrival last week Of son,
Best grade molasses. IN Irvine
Grocery Co.
Wanted White peas and beans.
Irvine Grocery Co.
Mr.. T. H. Farmer and family
arrived in Martin last Saturday
night from a months soiourn in
Florida. Mr.. Farmer will con-
tiRue his very interesting articles
to the Martin Mail for about three
months, telling Of his trip.
Mrs. Pierce, al aged lady, died
last Sunday at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. W. B. Blakemore.
in Martin, where she had made
Eher home for a number of years.
Services were conducted by DR..
Anderson and the remains laid to
rest at the Martin cemetery.
We have the best oil stove ever
put on the market --burns less oil
and gives more heat. Mayo,
PeerY & Harris.
Mr.. Rufus ruff Lasater,
highly esteemed citizen of the
Twelfth district, died at his home
on Tuesday after a brief illness of
pneumonia. He was about sew
enty years Of age, and is sur
vived by his wife and three chill
dren, his last wife being a daugh-
tier Of Elder Bob Crews. The
body was inferred Wednesday at
!. Everett's Chapel, services by Rev.
Hollev.
Fresh bread and cakes. Irvine
Grocery CO.
Burt oats and seeds - Irvine
Grocery Co.
That splendid officer Mr.. Tom
Carney, has been laying many
months for a Fulton bootlegger
named Polk Harris, who FREE
quents Martin, PHYS his trade and
then quietly steals away to the
Kentucky side. On last Satur-
day night Carney got wind Of
!. Harris being in Martin and laid
,lplans for bis downfall. The re-
! suit was that Harris was soon in
(, 1.-THE tolls OF the law. Carney has
D a gilt.edge case against Harris,
who was brought here Monday
/, on a charge Of selling liquor
! Better keep away from Carney's
! bailiwick, Mr.. Bootlegger, if you
don't want to be locked up.
r Wanted-Nice hams and hos
s Jaws. Irvine Grocery Co.
g Fresh groceries at all times. =
9 Irvine Grocery Co.
1t will be remembered that SOM
weeks ago L. E. Holiday wa
stopped by the municipal authori
!, ! ties from making certain repair
: on his office building, Hollada,
later enioining the municipa
], authorities from interfering wit
j his work. The injunction wa
/ argued before Chancellor McKir
al ney at Ridgeley last week, and OF
Of Wednesday Of this week tn
4 chancellor passed upon the in
re- junction, which he refused t
le disolYe. This means that tn
1t authorities OF Dresden are still
Q enioined from interfering wit
d Holladay's repair work on hi
8. building and the case will be trie'
! on its merits at the July term o
chancery court. In the meantim
Mr.. Holiday completed his re
no;ro
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-03-17
County Court Land Sale.

j. H, Scarborough ct al VS.. Everett
Barber, ct al,
In the County Court of Weakley
county, Tennessee.
In obedience to an order of sale made
in the above styled cause at the March
(1916) term of the county court of
Weakley county, Tennessee, |, w. ].
Jeter, clerk OF said court and special
commissioner in said cause, will on
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
VIOLATE LAW BY STRIKING

LEADVILLE, Col-Practically all
Of The 500 striking smcltermen EN-,
ployed by the American Smelling and
Refining company have returned to
work or left the district. These work
ers are unorganized and unable to
speak the English laneIoge and taey
suspended work without complying
With law passed by the last leg sla-
ture which makes it a misdemeanor
to strike before giving the state in
commission so days notice.
The strike was caused by increased
voIk being demanded compelled to
secure employment through an agent
who charges excessive fees, forced
to patronize one store and because
pay checks are shaved" by a com.
pany favorite
When the strike started the entire
machinery of the state was put in
motion to enforce a law that denies
men the right to quit their employ,
ment when conditions are onerous.
Attorney General Farrar announced
that while all the strikers would not
be arrested, because of insufficient
Jail accommodations, the leaders
would be charged with law violation.
Governor Carlson publicly declared
that every force would be brought to
bear against the strikers, and Chair
man Mclaughlin of the state indus
trial commission announced: The
whole power and authority of the
state of Colorado will stand back of
and support the authorities of Lake
county and punish any and all crimes
against the state"
The strike has awakened Colorado
trade unionists to the power of this
law and also to the fact that they
cannot quit their employment "for
any or no reason" as they have al
ways believed
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
SEVEN-HOUR DAY STANDS

NGTON-Congressm Bor.
lands attempt to lengthen the work
day of Washington government clerks
from seven to eight hours was de-
feated by large majorities on three
separate votes, after the chair had
ruled that the motion to make it a
rider" to an appropriation bill was
out of order. Congressman Borland
then introduced a resolution which
provided for 10 per cent. reduction
of the number of clerks and that hours
be increased to equalize the loss of
service to the government. This
resolution was defeated. A motion
to recommit the resolution was also
defeated. AS the house was sitting
as in committee of the whole, no rec
ord vote was taken.
The attempt to lengthen the clerks
work day was opposed by the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor. President
Gompers agreed that hours should be
equalized, but insisted that the work
day of mechanics and other workers
who now labor eight hours and long
er should be shortened instead of the
clerks hours heightened
The agitation has resulted in the
formation of Federal Civil Service
Employees union, chartered by the
American Federation of Labor. Hun
dreds of clerks are joining this or
ganization.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
INDICTMENT OF MINERS
rs A "FESTERING SORE

Washington, d. C-Pres. Wilson's
special Colorado coal strike commits
sion has presented q report on Colo
RADIO conditions to the chief execu-
tive. They also tender their resigna
tions for the reason that the recently
created state commission, they say, is
amply equipped by law to deal with
all phases of the problem"
The commission says that of 400 in
dictments returned in Colorado in
connection with strike troubles, all
were against strikers, and that this
has left a fostering sore" on public
opinion.
Some of the citizens of Colorado,
the report continues, believe that
many illegal acts were committed on
the part of the operators and the JUS
tice which finds all the indictments
on one side does not seem to them
even handed.
"Your commission naturally eX-
presses no opinion as to the correct
ness of this belief, 1t simply calls at
tention to the existence of this feel
ing. Again it is believed by some,
even among the operators, that in
many of these cases the state has
not sufficient evidence to convict
"As long as this condition of affairs
exists. the industrial health of Colo
rado will be weakened by this tester
ing sore. 1t is not the business of
your commission to weigh the rights
and wrongs of the case, but we should
fall short of our duty if we did not
call attention to this feature of the
situation and emphasize the import
ance to the state of providing a
prompt remedy"
Seth Low of New Yor& City. Chas.
W. Mills of Philadelphia, and Pat
rick Gilday of Clearfield, Pa, com
posed the commission. The latter is
member of the United Mine Work
ers' Union.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
COURT SUSTAINS TEACHERS

COLUMBUS, O.-Cleveland school
teachers, who are fighting in the
courts for the right to belong to a
union have won an important tech
nical point in the state supreme court
which has overruled motion 10 dis
miss the teachers petition that the
decision of a court of appeals be re-
viewed.
Two years ago the teachers organ
lied a union and affiliated with the
Cleveland Federation of Labor The
board of education adopted resolu-
ton against teachers joining the
union. The common pleas court is,
sued an injunction restraining the
board from executing the resolution
and later found the superintendent of
public schools guilty OF contempt.
This decision was reversed by the
court of appeals, sitting in Toledo A
petition in error was then filed by the
teachers in the supreme court, and
this tribunal has just overruled a mo-
tion of their opponents to dismiss the
petition.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
NEWS FROM NEWARK

NEWARK, N. 1.-The new unions
of jewelry workers and button work
ers have started off with large mem
bership rolls. Last week Organizer
Hilfers secured 500 signatures to the
jewelry workers list
Mattress and box spring makers
are organizing under jurisdiction OF
the Upholsterers' International union
Over 1000 silver workers in this
city are discussing organization, as
are the leather workers and tanners
The strike of cigar girls at the Sci
denberg factory is still on, the girls
standing firm for their increased
wage demand They have joined the
Cigarmakers' union under the Glass
A plan.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
PROFIT SHARING PLAN
WILL NOT SATISFY MEN

WASHINGTON-Du the forty
eight hours strike of street car men
in this city officials of the two com.
panies expressed great surprise that
their employees did not appreciate the
so-called profit-sharing schemes and
benefit associations that were con-
Quoted for their benefit.
The employees position is well stat
ed in the following editorial in the
Washington Times, under the caption,
Rights Wanted, Not Bribes":
"The employees of the street railway
companies will not be satisfied for
long if they are bribed with benefits,
allowances, profit-sharing plans, and
relief organizations, into surrendering
fundamental human rights.
1T is reported that the officers of
the street car corporations are tell
ing their men that relief and profit
sharing projects will be impossible if
the men insist on organizing and
going ahead with the Independent
conduct of their relations with their
employers. That sort of argument
will in the end fail The human right
of organizing, of negotiating cooper
atively, of dealing as a unity of hui
manity with a unit of money and
management, will have to be conced-
ed
"Men organize into cities, towns,
townships, provinces, states, nations,
in order more effectively to serve
their individual ends through united
action. They organize into corpora.
tions in order to pool their capital for
civilizations processes for assump-
ton that labor may not organize
where politics, society, capital, every
thing else, may do so.
Grant first of all the right of men
to organize. Let them have their
union. 1t will be good for them and
for the corporations and for the pub
lie.
"Then treat with them, through the
union.
There would be as much sense in
the street railroad stockholders, as
individuals, trying to treat with the
employees, as for the employees, as in
dividuals, trying to treat with the
corporate entities. 1t is neither fair
nor possible. Moreover, the effort to
maintain such a doctrine smacks quite
too much of the seventeenth century
This is the twentieth"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
TO AID SMELTER MEN

DENVER.-The Labor Bulletin of
this city says;
'The long fight, begun in 1898, by
organized labor in Colorado to secure
an eight-hour day for employees in
mines, smelters and cement mills.
will again be taken up in the near fu-
ture by the organized forces and at
the request of employees in these in
dustries an attempt will be made to
have those parts of the laws that were
not adopted in the meantime placed
upon the statute books of the state.
The recent flag of truce offered
by John d. Rockefeller, Jr, and pieced
together from the blood stained gar
ments of the victims of Ludlow. has
been accepted by the company's hire
lings and thugs, but in spirit it has
never received the approval of the
company's employees.
The spying system of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company makes it an I'M
possibility for any one to demand de
cent working conditions from these
interests and remain in their employ.
Therefore it becomes necessary
for outsiders to take up the fight for
human rights in the interest of the
workers in the rod mills, roller mills,
smelters, blast furnaces and cement
works that are controlled by these in
terests"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
EXPLOITERS OF BABES
ALWAYS FIND EXCUSES

INDIANAPOLIS United Mine
Workers Journal pays it's respects to
James A. Emery, attorney for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
who APPEARED before the senate COM
mittee in opposition to the Keating-
Owen federal child labor bill.
Mr.. Emery assured the committee
he was opposed to child labor, but
in this instance the proposed act was
CLEARLY unconstitutional" The Mine
Workers Journal makes this COM
ment:
ooh, no! Mr. Emery and those
whom he represents do not favor the
exploitation of the babies in indus
try! But when laws for the preven-
tion thereof are introduced in the leg
islatures of the various states, Mr..
Emery, or some other representative
of the same association, will be found
pleading against such laws; urging
the competitive conditions that have
to be met from the states where the
same industries are conducted.
''If Mr.. Emery would say what is
in his heart it would be: Save to my
masters the profits that they can reap
from the exploitation of these babes;
education would only mean further
injury to the interests that pay me
my salary, for education is the end of
ignorance, and the educated men or
women cannot be exploited as freely
as the ignorant
whenever measures are under con-
sideration that contemplate safeguard
ing the workers in the industries, re-
strictions on the exploitation of the
women or children, laws that would
make toward the uplft of humanity,
there will be found representatives of
the organized workers, pleading for
the enactment of such laws, and ever
will be found the highly-paid repre-
sentatiyes of the Manufacturers AS
sociation, crying to high heaven their
PuiiIJ VI pun POSO' 'hoii ihtoi V0' III 'iS
uplift of those who toll, but finding
specious objections to any measures
that might make for higher, better
civilization, and cajoling, bribing, or
threatening the legislators, the execu
tives and the judges to the end that
laws that may in any measure threat
en- to reduce the power of the owners
of the resources of the country may
not be enacted, or become effective"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
GOOD RECOMMENDATION
DON'T LIKE BRANDEIS

WASHINGTON. - EX-President w
to Louis d. Brandeis as associate jus
tice of the United States supreme
court. So has ex-United States Sen
ator Root, Joseph H. Choate and three
other eX-presidents of the American
Bar Association, who have signed a
joint letter of protest to the senate
judiciary committee, now considering
the nomination..
The signers of the letter declare
that Gin their opinion, taking into
view the reputation, character and
professional career of Mr.. Louis D.
Brandeis, he is not a fit person to be
a member of the supreme court of
the United States"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
WHERE THEY HEAD IN
GoMPERS TALKS TO TEACHERS

NEW YORK.-"You think that you
are professional people, but l tell you
the hod carrier you see in the streets
is getting more money than YOU"
said President Gompers in an address
to teachers in this city who are dis,
cussing affiliating with the American
Federation of Labor
"Musicians did not want to mingle
with machinists some years ago." he
continued "Now every impresario of
note belongs to the union and they
are getting so per cent more money
to live on than ever before.
There is not the slightest danger
of your union being called out in
sympathetic strike, | pledge you my
word there is no power in the A, F.
of l.. that can direct you to strike or
not to strike That is left in your
hands"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
LABOR'S STRUGGLES
AND ACHIEVEMENTS
OHIO STRIKE CAUSES
TO BE MADE PUBLIC

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio-Prosecuting
Attorney Henderson of Mahoning
county is preparing for an early trial
of Judge Gary of the United States
steel corporation and the officers of
five other steel concerns who were
indicted last week by the grand jury.
While steel and iron company exc
cutives make light of these indict-
ments, the following portion of the
grand jury's report indicates that the
trial will at least develop few edu-
cational features on working condi
tions in the steel industry in this
vicinity:
1--WE find, however, that there is an
underlying cause back of not only the
strike and the dissatisfaction prevail
but of the riot ITSELF cause which
will be shown upon the trial of some
of the corporations and individuals
against whom charges have been
made by this jury as shown by the
indictments returned herewith This
evidence is not of such nature as
should be exposed by this report but
is such as will undoubtedly be un-
covered to the satisfaction of the
court and of the public in further le-
gal proceedings in connection with
this investigation. We are firmly of
the opinion that not only will this evi-
dence show a lawless condition of af,
fairs surrounding the labor conditions
existing in and about the steel indus
tries of this valley but will also in
dicate an absolute disregard on the
part of certain corporations and indi-
viduals indicted by us, either of the
rights of, or justice to, the laboring
classes or of the public generaSy"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
LABOR'S ACTIVITIES
MARYLAND, MY
MARYLAND
LOW WAGE GIRLS STRIKE

CUMBERLAND, Md.-A score of
girls employed by the Footer's dye
works at a wage of $3.50 per week,
are on strike to enforce higher rates.
A request that working conditions be
improved was also rejected by the
management. Because of benzine used
in the cleaning of gloves, the girls
were continually drenched in the oil.
were often unfit to eat. With the as
sistance of the Trades Council the
strikers have been organized.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
COLORADO MINERS ACQUITTED

DENVER, Colour members of
the United Mine Workers Union have
been declared not guilty of murder
by a jury in Judge Denison's court at
Castle Rock, Douglas county. The
miners were charged with killing
Major Lester, and their prosecution
was directed by State Attorney Gen
eral Farrar.
The verdict is a blow to Colorado
mining interests that have secured
the indictment of hundreds of former
strikers These interests originally
intended to have the miners tried be
fore Judge Hillyer eX-coal company
attorney, whose appointment as a
judge was made after the last legis
lature created a special district court
The miners, however, blocked this
scheme by an order from the state
supreme court which debars Hillyei
from further consideration of these
cases, and the verdict at Castle Rocl
is the result
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
DENVER PAPER CRIES "QUlTS"

DENVER, Col-The discharge OF
four miners in Judge DenisOns court
at Castle Rock, together with the de-
barment by the supreme court of
Judge Hillyer, eX-coal operators at
torney, from further consideration of
miners cases, has a SOLDERING effect
on those influences that are deter
mined to railroad" trade unionists to
the state penitentiary because of their
activity in the recent coal strike
The Rocky Mountain News, in a
leading editorial makes this sugges-
ton:
1--WE believe no good can come from
continuing these blanket prosecutions.
If this continues the matter will again
be dragged into partisan politics and
into the coming state campaign. The
state executive ought to take the mat
ter in his own hand and declare an
amnesty"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-24
Colorado Workers
Make Big Gains
GOVERNOR CARLSON'S
MIDDLE AGES EDICT

DENVER, Col Because several
hundred smeltermen at Leadville sus
pended work in defiance of a state
law, which makes it illegal for work
ers to strike until they have given
state authorities so days notice. Gov
ernor Carlson threatened these work
ers with all the power of the state if
they did not return to their employ.
ment
The effort to drive these employees
back to work sounds like a pronuncia.
mento of the Middle Ages, while II q
states executive plea for law observ
ance in this case loses weight when
one recalls the debauchery Of Colo
RADIO last year by mine operators.
This is Governor Carlson's thunder.
GUS declaration:
"The striking smeltermen at Lead.
vile are guilty Of a brazen and insol-
ent defiance of that provision of the
industrial law which compels so DAYS
notice to the Industrial commission
before men can go out upon strike
The strikers are foreigners and it
was thought for a time that their ig-
norance of our language caused an
inadvertent violation of this laws
most important provision.
"The industrial commission. there
fore requested the Austrian consul
to translate the laws provisions to
the strikers. This was done and, to
the amazement Of all, knowledge of
the law met with insulting and def
ant refusal to obey it. Tbs course
of action was surprising, indeel, for
heretofore both employers and en-.
ployes have willingly abided by the
laws provisions. The course of ac-
tion by men who claim this country's
protection and enjoy its advantages
present most sinister aspect and
calls for the firmest enforcement of
the laws penalties.
81 am informed that these men, be.
cause of their numbers, feel safe in
their present criminal conduct. They
are following foolish counsel for, if
the local police are unable to enforce
the courts mandates. the entire ma.
chinery of the state government, ifI
necessary, will be brought into action
promptly and effectively"