Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 13, 1911, Page 4

an evil, they are such as are in-leral laws, is highly commended and Lit s expected that some report will lbv made to the coming Congress. The work ¢ the United States Burear of Mines is establishing mine rescue stations through the coal re- gions and the campaign of education which the bureau has been carrying cider The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. .t to all governments based on popular suffrage. | deein it unwise, jor rather impolite to waste our en- { ergies now in efforts to abelisa polit- Application Pending for Admission Perbaps they are in- as mail matter of the second-class, |=U l in all free governments. | But if we can not now destroy them, | THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK E IN FERTILE FLORIDA What Is Going On In The Land of the Orange, Grapefruit and Pine | fancy i from | Largo.—Four carloads of grapetruit have beepn shipped M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SRR Sl B R BT SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year Six months .. Three months Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a Tre- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. —————————————————————————————————— Yes—we know some people who are not actually “opposed to good roads.” They merely object to them because they cost something. If some men whose taxes amount to $2.25 a year could divest themselves of the idea that the whole weight ot} a quarter million bond issue Is rest-| it The man whose ing on their devoted shoulders, would help some. family is isolated, and whose prop-; erty is comparatively valucless, on dificulty of tion, shows a pitiable lack of intelli- gence when be fails to rejoice in a proposition wuich will result in the account of transporta- | beavy taxpisers building a good road pa-t s door. Yet there are such me and they seem to take pride io tacir “shrewdness.” i Apostle | o ned from page one,) than wony ol the roilers The fact is thao luboo o opponents, like the Tories of the past, many of whom | are still with as, are afraid to trust| the people. “With power in the hands of labor | and of the people generally comes a | qitickening sense responsibility. And though errors liable to oc- cur they experience, and an avoidance of recurience, or encroachments of the few or of an autocrat teach them no lessons and are rectificd only by the people's re- volt. How perfectly safe freedom is, is a truth not yet fully understood,” said the report “Labor's coutentions of many years have become merged, or have rather co-ordinated with those of the progressive of all parties. The peo- ple as a whole, issespective of class, conditions, calling or partisan align- ment have declared for freedom in fact, and not merely in name. They are taking affairs political into their own hands They will no longer tolerate the sale of legislation to the highest bidder or the granting of franchises to the richest bribe giver. Under the coming regime, assured there are 10 be no more court de- crees entered as prepared in advance and ordered by the attorney for the stronger party--stronger and financially. ol bring | desired relief retarded, no | sage, | belief that by united 'yanks | The errors we may, by more assiduous and reg- ular excreise of our privileges and rights of citizenship do much in the way of controlling them. “Under existing conditions, &e must obtain various measures of leg- islation at the hands of dominant parties in legislative bodies, and if party affairs are to remain in the hands of corporate agents and cor- rupt bosses as heretofore, then our interests will be imperiled and the matter which party has the majority.” Mr. Gompers refers very briefly to the contempt of court proceedings against Vice-President John Mitchell, Secretary Morrison and himself, 'which are still pending before the courts in the District of Columbia. The McNamara case, however, is taken up at some length and fully re- viewed. President Gompers express- ed his faith in the innocence of the men now on trial at Los Angeles for alleged dynamiting outrages and de- nounces in unmeasured terms their removal from Indiana to California. The Wilson bill, now pendln.g in Congress, a so-called anti-injunction measure, which has the support of labor, is warmly endorsed and Pres- ident Gompers calls upon all organiz- ed labor to work for its early pas- My, Gompers expresses the action -the Wilson bill may be passed at the next session, and he expresses the opinion that even should it be vetoed by Pres- ident Taft a great victory would be partly won. He declared labor could expect little voluntary help from the President ou the anti-injunction leg- islation, To the subject of immigration, much of the report is addressed. Several plans are proposed for bring- ing the migratory laborer into the of nreanized labor. Farther restriction of immigra- tion is deemed necessary and schemes of distribution of immigrants are discussed. “Tury which way we may, the fact; imvariably confronts us, in our en- deavor to ameliorate the lot of the laborers now in America, that there must be a restriction of immigration, Restriction, as recommended by the United Stutes Immigration Commis- sion s, it not the first step toward organizing migratory laborers, at least an essential step. There are sufficient workers on the Pacific coast at the preseut time, were their shifting about intelligently syste-", matized, to perform all the pressing work there throughout all the sea- sons of the year. The main trouble has been that the employers have not paid any adequate attention to the laborer as a social entity except at the moment when ome is to he hired. Society has not concerned it- self seriously about the casual work- er. “The early completion of the Panama Canal, however, will with- out doubt bring about a total change fn the labor situation of the Pacific coast, both internally and with rela- tion to other countries. It has al- ready been calculated that immi- politically | 2rants from Europe may be landed via the Panama canal at Pacific “In lien of the political boss and | vost seaports for a less sum than is his machine, we shall have ' leader-! ghip of intelligence, pleading for | public justice, with adherents pro- portioned in number to the strength! the enormous fleets of foreign vos- | The stuffed bal-| of the arguments, jured « disappen wtion returns will likewi r s OVe With these opportunities | required to pay the passage to in- land points in States of the Middle West. It is to be remembered that sels which are in the immigration In a single yes climate, the present , aided by the trans-Atlantic on among miners, is warmly com-|this place. One car brought $4 box | mended. The report endorses the bill intro- duced at the last congress by Repre- sentative Sulzer, of New York, cre- ating a Department of Labor in the Federal government. In an appeal for better laws to pro- tect life and health in factory build- ings, President Gompers refers to the fire in' the Triangle Shirt Waist Company's building in New York last April in which 143 girls lost their lives. In scoring the so-called Efficiency and Scientific Management systems, President Gompers declared as falsq statements that the systems have ine creased wages. laborer and result in gain. The fight for the eight-hour day, President Gompers said, is steadily going on, and he declared that labor the fact that the last Congress applied the eight-hour law to the comstruc- tion of battleships, and that those|aet spring it has had a sufficency. provisions of the law had been put into effect by the executive officers men could find satisfaction in of the government. Awong the otier subjects treated|fruit and tangerines—to a Plant! We Pay 4 Per Cent. on Savings Accounts. 1 tie teport are Child Labor, Loco-|City broker. i [} ] wotive voller uspection, the bane Bushuell,—C, and Sutton Bevill| 52 bury tiatters case—tile Senate Lhird! have experts here installing gasoline ¢ Legree investigation, wen's uarment Workers, the Baldwin Locomotive works strike and the work ot the iederation s organizers. kach is treated briefly, reporting pro- pressed, tion was never so great, According | inancial condition is excellent. Ireasury shows a balance ol neariy is’.‘un,wn on hand. Nearly $5,000,: louo was disbursed in suppori ol strikes by the various unions waici are afliliated with the During 1911 whe Federation issucd 326 charters to unious, briuging the total ot its organization membership w L1641 individual membership the Federation nearly 200,- 000 during the year, EXTHET “The American Federation of La- bor through its afliliated organiza- tions has today the largest member- ship in its history,” said President Gompers in conclusion, “Its stand- ing is sound and prospects are bright. In its long drawn-out le- gal contests there is more reason than ever to assume that labor's cause will win. In a number of im- portant strikes during the year, we have had gains, and there has been a tendency to continue thé shorten- ing of the work day, to do away with child labor, and to animate the un- organized masses with a desire to take part in the great labor move- ment, “Our movement has no schism within. All opposition to its poli- cies, its procedures, its form of or- ganization, and its tactics, come drom without. All who would di- vert it from its established princi- ples are enemies, working for the {its character. Those i\llungo it aim at its disintegration “This is true whetiier the antagon- who fist in view is the college pre .\idrma lot box, the false count, and the per-| trade are secking business the world | who believes in the right of the noi- | unionist to work below the ;m:flv alongside of the unionist; ol : : s | . with these stimulating inducements | fleet could carry 500,000 wage-work- the philanthropist who believes un- to tree thougiit and aciion, the cause! ers from the southeast of Europe 10| jons of public justice will be advanced in| | Labor, acting from | & directions, the Pacifi transporti ¢ coast ports, while the average yearly num- also | cjeties should be mere benevolent s0- { that the unionist should be always in tuc point of enlightened self-inter-|ber to the Atlantic coast ports. This| pis party and a supporter of his in- est, and ¥ot with a full sense of re- of ail others in society will man- fully and patriotically meet its en- larged responsibilities. “Under the prevailing system of cut and dried platforms and slated nrominations, preceded by fake pri- maries, the ballot in our hands has not been, in any either a protecting shield against Wwrong or a means of redress. We ion to be faced by our fellow gon, and California.” i { Massachusetts, New Jersey, is a more than probable forthcoming | terests, or the politician who sponsibility respecting the just rights| cound trade unionists of Washington, Ore-!“,“. his ticket | . In the Federation's fight for Em- ployers’ Liability and \\"orkingmcn's“ gral change in structure, Compensation laws, progressive legis- | ple for those are all adaptable to cir- lation is reported from the states of | cumstances as they arise—to condi- New adequate sense.‘llampshlre. New York, Ohio, Cali- fornia, Florida, lllinois, Kansas, Ver-| mont. Washington and Wisconsin.{ Terra Ceia.—J. H. Kennedy has d { mands that the unionist must always | “But, it can safely be said. or princ tions as they develop.” may not for some time be entirely! The work of the commission, which'several carloads of grapefruit, some rid of the rule of parties. If they bhas been hearing suggestions for fed- of which are bringing fancy prices. He charged that thé systems work undue hardship on the no material Seamen s ngats, Railroad ‘Irack inspection, ln- sutauce laws, the strike of the wo- gress, but witnout any iccommenda- tions other than those hitherto ex- The membership ol the organiza- 'Io Secretary Morrison's repoit, “.‘lhv summer was long and dry, the The Federation. | promotion of institutions foreizn to' 1 would | unjon | or the editor who belicves our | trade unionism is to witness no inte-| If all the business men aud farmers in this community, wou BANK their n.oney right here at home instead of herding i+, o seuding it away it would help every other manm in this ¢ ty and therefore help himself. It is merely SELF-PROT and SELF DEVELOPMENT for us to keep out money and help OURSELVES. 4 We will gladly give our counsel to anyore who wauts ! especially if we can steer you away from \ivh might cause you a loss, BE CAREFUL. Let OUR Bank be YOUR Bank. f.o.b. ! St. Petersburg.—Pinellas county, reports 100 per cent. heavier citrus| crops this season than last. ’I'hey! figure 120,000 boxes. ! Daytona.—J. B. Hinsky made his first shipment of grapefruit two: weeks ago, and has received a hand-! some check for same. l Pomona.—The W. 8. Middlewnt packing house has been thoroughly renovated and the packing of citrus fruit was begun this week. Eden.—The packing houses be- gun working full time this week. Train loads of oranges and grape- fruit will leave this city every week. Eden.—E. L. Lesley purchased the 10 acre Breaker truck garden one mile from the city and will continue to push the trucking business. Bushnell.—Eggplants are bring- ing good prices, and a great many are being shipped daily. w. F. Noble has a fine field of eggplants. Port Orange.—This community has had abundant rains during the past week, it being the first time since ness advice- vesiments w l 1 Deland.—Hon. J. E. Alexander| has sold his fine crop of fruit, 6,000 | and 8,000 boxes-—of oranges, grapn-l engines on their truck farms, Large' bodies of truck lands are being clear- of Lakeland Undercontrol of U. S, Governyon ed off and plowed for the spring crops. Titusville.—J. J. Parrish has! bought the crop ¢. oranges in the Friess grove, which {8 in Charge Of | e mmsmsrmmme s conmianer 50000 - mevemm meraanrves s e e wtvemre 49 .. Geo, K. Thomas. Mr. Parrish states’ they are the finest oranges he has| bought this season. | tolly Hill.—E. N. Walden is pick- ‘im'. his cron of pecs Though | } cigp 13 heavier than last year. Mr.| I\\'uldn-u will increase his planting) { the coming season. ! | Ocala.-~T. W. Troxler and 8, I | Sistrunk, of the Lemon Bay Fruit | (0., have 90 acres of citrus grove ou l.emon Bay; 60 acres of which hav. begun bearing. Some fruit will b gathered this year, As cold weaither approaches a wan- dering army of vagrants will begi: |its march to Florida. In dealing with them it would be just as woll\ to remember that there is plenty of work for able-bodied men to do, an®| the blind and crippled can find in- stitutions for their care, making lmg.' ing unnecessary. 0 FOR EVERY I IR TN T S Y R T - LITTLE GIRL IN_ LAKELAND Under 14 Years of Age WEVE A MOST INTERESTING PUZZLE TO SOLVE. AND TO THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLVES IT (SOLVES I NEATLY) AND BRINGS US WITH IT THE LARGEST LIST OF PEOPLE WHO WILL NEED A NEW STOVE OR RANGE GIVE FREE THE HANDSOME LITTLE -BUCKS® JUNIO® RAKGE NOW ON EXHIBITION IN QUR FRONT WINDOW TRIS INTERESTING CONTEST CLOSES DECEMBER 5t: COME NOW GIRLS, GET BUSY. R | ho’s Going to Get That Range? J.W. 0’Doniel & Sons Ce. LEADING FURNITURE DEALERS. RUBE ALLYN HUZORIST INPERSONATCR Will Entertain in the High Scheol Auditorium, Thursday, Nov. 16 Benefit Confederate Monument Fund. Admission 25¢, : Students, 15 cents. l | | 11-16 b