Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-11
Tuesday, November III 1919.

man in charge of the work told one Of
these negroes to take a wheelbarrow
for a while, instead Of a pick and
shovel. Il don't want to roll no wheels
barrow" he said, and then after a con-
ference with the others all five of them
quit. ..
A stroll up the streets and a peeps
into the lobbies of the banks on
Saturday night gives good impression
Of the rushing business that has been
done during Saturday. A representa-
tive of The Enquirer made an invests
cation of this kind last Saturday night
and found that all the banks were
crowded almost all the time from the
evening opening to the closing hour, AS
a matter OF fact the banks were doing
a rushing business all day and the de-
posit accounts in the evening showed
many thousand dollars Of gains over
the situation in the morning. ~ ..f"p
- There Is growing conviction that
the trees along Congress street, es-
pecially those between Madison and
Liberty streets must go;- Already
these trees have been cut and slashed
TO make way for the telephone, land
electric light wires until their useful
ness as well as their beauty are almost
gone. Within few more years the
Icorcreted, surface of the street will
have completely cut off the water sup
ply from the roots of the trees, and all
the trees will be dead. Even now the
automobiles are congesting Congress
street to the point Of obstruction and
the situation is to be relieved only by
utilizing the space occupied by the
trees. AS between the trees and the
people who come in the automobiles
there will not be a great deal Of hesi-
tation. If the streets are not widen
ed now they will hove to be widened
within a few years, and it is better to
do 1t now.
- The first actual advance of Union
ism among textile workers here was
made Friday evening when Edward
O'Connor, Of Rock Hill, representative
of the Textile Union, addressed, some
fifty or more textile workers on the
steps of the courthouse, pointed out to
them what he said were the advantages
| Of organization among textile workers
and made initial plans for the orgahi-
Zation Of textile workers at the four
local cotton mills. O'Connor was ac-
companied here by Messrs. Boyd and
Dorset, also representatives OF the tex
tile union. Arrangements We're made
house next Friday evening at 7.30, at
which time addresses on the subject
of unionism will be delivered by Marvin
Ritch, Esq, a lawyer Of Charlotte and
a candidate for congress from the Ninth
North Carolina district to succeed Con-
gresham e, Yates Webb, recently APP
pointed to the Federal bench by the
president. In the course Of his talk. on
the courthouse steps last Friday even
| ing O'Connor said that II was the right
of mill workers to organize and that
such organiZa ton was necessary for the
advancement Of their social, financial
and Industrial interests. The mill
owners he said, were organized, the
bankers were organized, the farmers
were organizing and 1t was necessary
| that the workers in the mill should or
ganize for the advancement of their
best interests. Organization would not
be effected here for the purpose Of in
stituting strike he said. and that man
or woman worker who proposed to join
the union in the belief that he or she
would be in better position than ever
to demand higher wages without Civ
ing a fair and honest measure or labor
| In return had best not join. The textile
unions, he said, demand Of their MEM
bers, fair and honest labor and insist
that the mill owner gets that for which
| he pays. Included among those who
attended the meeting Friday evening
were some of the best known operatives
in the town and they expressed the opr
I.inion to a representative of TheS ,terk-
vile Enquirer@that organization would,
without doubt, be perfected here within,
short time. saying that the matter.
had been under consideration here for
some time past and application for a
charter had been agreed upon. There
Is however, they said, considerable ep-
position among some of the mill er1l-
ployes to local organization and sofne
textile workers have declared that they
will quit the mills and go to the farms
or into other lines Of work before they
will consent to become affiliated with
unionism. Both men and women work.
ers are entitled to union membership
and a number Of women workers have
announced their intention of joining,
the movement. Between 400 and 300
textile workers, 1t is understood, are
employed in the four mills here.
- Featured by an address by Miss
Doty Of Winnsboro in charge OF the.
state home service section, the reports
Of the chairman and treasurer, rerr
spcctively, and preliminary report on
the results Of the Third Roll Call can
vass, the annual meeting Of the local
chapter of the American Red Cross
was held last evening. Mrs. r. M.
3ratton, chairman presided and read
m exhaustive report dealing: with the
work done by the chapter during the
past year. The report of the treasurer.
Mr.. j. r. Lindsay showed that total
receipts of the chapter for the year
November l, 1918 to November !, 1919
had been $5,329.4S and that disburse-
nents had been S4,SO0.39 leaving a
balance of $4,000. In the course OF
her address, Miss Doty Of Winnshoro,
spoke of the work that the Red Cross
expected TO do in the future, among
other things it having taken on the
burden Of distributing $35,000,O0O 5et
supplies given by the United States
government to stricken peoples in Eu-
rope. while it also proposed to handle
many domestic problems especially in
regard to the conservation OF health.
Miss Leslie Witherspoon, Red Cross
Seal chairman for York county, APP
oealed to her audience to purchase Red
Cross seals in larger number than ever
this year. 1t was proposed to sell seals
yalued at 900 in South Carolina
this year, the proceeds to be used in
he fight against tuberculosis. or this
amount York county's apportionment
vas 1895 and that of the town was
b215. The nominating committee OF
he local chapter of which Mr.. j. a.
Marion was chairman, submitted the
names Of the following as officers to