Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-20
TWO SALISBURY MEN HON0RED;
LABOR OUTLINES 1882 PROGRAM:
URGE BUYING OF UNION GOODS

R. R. Lawrence, of Winston-Salem,
was reelected to serve a second term
as president of the North Carolina
State Federation of Labor at the an
nual convention in Greensboro last
week. Winston-Salem was chosen as
the next convention city.
The federation's new secretary
treasurer, G. V. Kite, is also a Win
ston-Salem man. D. ]. Butler, of Sal
isbury, was reelected first vice presi-
dent.
Six additional vice presidents, who,
with the president and secretary, COM
pose the executive council of the state
federation, and each of whom repre-
sents a different craft and city, were
chosen as follows: Claude L. Albea,
printer, of Charlotte, and member of
the Charlotte city council; A. F.
Smothers, plumber, of Greensboro; w.
B. Plemmons, street railway ernploye,
of Asheville; c. A. Matthews, barber,
of Raleigh; Jesse Cole, brickmason, of
Durham; L. P. Greenway, upholsterer,
of High Point.
The office of honorary president
was created yesterday morning, and
George Cameron, editor of the Will
mington Labor Record, named to fill
the position for life B. F. Best, of Dur
ham, and H. S. Pinkston, of Salisbury,
were reelected sergeant-at-arms and
chaplain, respectively.
Five suggestions were made by a
special committee which are designed
to increase the use of union-made
goods. The committee expressed con-
viction that no union member COM
pletely discharges his duty as such so
long as he continues to purchase ar
ticles which do not bear the union
label, Oh who employs non-union work.
ers in any capacity when it is possible
to use union labor. 1t urged observ-
ance of suggestions as follows: Demand
the union label when making purchas-
es, and accept no substitute; try to
create in the general membership of
all unions a greater sense of duty and
responsibility in the purchase of I'M
ion-made products; assist in the for
nation Of union label leagues; enlight-
en- merchants and other business men
concerning benefits of dealing in I'M
ion-made merchandise, and the public
of advantages of buying it; use infor-
native literature supplied by the I'm
ion Label Trades department of the
American Federation of Labor.
The resolution in which the recon-
mendations were contained continued
in part as follows:
Realizing that the maladjustment
existing between productivity and con-
sumption in which the wages, or u
chasing power of the workers, is hope
lessly inadequate to consume the ire
mendous increase of their ability to
produce is a definite guarantee of per-
manen depression and business stag
nation, and
Whereas, industry continues the is
suance of steady dividends of enor-
o and excessive profits and auto
cratically utilities ways and means to
accomplish this purpose regardless of
hardships and suferings inflicted;
'Whereas, the application of a
Midas greed with mass production
without mass consumption and the
interruptions method of Capitalization
OF wealth are jeopardizing the safety
OF our American workers and prevent
ing the return of adjusted normalcy;
SWhereas, being duly apprehensive
of the approaching dangers of the re-
actions to the long hours, low wages,
and enforced continual idleness Of a
hungry, resentful, and destitute peo-
pie existing in a land of greatest abun-
dance without means to provide the