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Supplement to St. Croix Avis, sth May 1921, e . l Voters for Christiansted | and Suburbs. . The time is near at hand: remember | t-at you or what is expected of any <elf- | respecting citize:, there is absolute no | use for Joe nor Chabert, vote for W. A. | and A. T. don’t let Joe buy you by | promises, we have no use for ‘‘steel | shoe’’ agents as legislators, they a-e | . true in all respects except ‘‘S. S.”’ what | do Joe know about St. Croix polities? Where was he some years ago in our | political campaigns? nowhere, don’t you | smell steel shoe, can you trust yourself | to a man that raise you with one hand ! to knock you down the much the harder with the other, the ‘*Active Citizen Com- | mittee’’ is a bad sign, there are a few “‘catpawing’’ folks talking to suit their | circumstances, you may owe Joe a few paltry dollars and he rush you for your | vote, if you give it to him ‘‘from fright’’ | of the rush, you will afterwards remem- | ber he’d forget your vote, not the cash— | bezome independent Jack shake off that | stnff, promise you a back chair in the C. | C. H. tbat what he is really asking for and vote straight ticket for A.and 7. Let Joe keep his chair by his desk, that’s | the best place for him, and let Chabert attend his Labor stuff, that’s his living, don’t mind Chabert and Joe counting votes, they watch them ahead of time, make St. Croix a decent place to live in, if any voter put a X to these two breth- ren C. and J., St. Croix is doomed Joe is dreaming he thinks he has got ‘‘in’’,Poor boy he is restless, imaginations are work- ing wonders, you can meet him mid- night, delivering himself, Ah! Joe, how do you get that way. ; To my particular friends the Danes and all who are yet proud of once hav- l ing lived a life in peace with them, all who can remember what the Danes did for them, remember how you all have heen shamefully abused by the J. and C. ] (A. C, C.) by predecessors of the present | L. U. remember the Manning’s Bay hap- | pening, what about the factory incident betweed Danes and ‘officers’’, didn’t C. : use a very eloquent language —did C. | ever say anything about the labourer ‘ that struck Hansen, St. John with a girb, | that was a Dane being half murdered by one of his own peole—that was right—- you voters that have good feeling for your old fiag, remember the abuses land- | ed on you by the J. and C. from time { to time, lend no ear to themin the C. C. | except they are looking for visitors chairs f Mr. Voter, get the move in you, throw | overboard any wayward feeling, make ‘ up your mind you are doing just the | right thing when you vote for Abramson | and Teytaud. Straight ticket. ; You cannot serve two different causes and vote single ticket except both served same cause.—But they Don’t. ? Abramson and Teytaud straight—no other—if you do otherwise ysu are push- ing the welfare of St. Croix down in the in the hands of Bolshevism. Someo.ie said ‘‘he’” or ‘‘they’’ were not Bolsheviks, it makes very little dif- f)er%nce whether he meant one alone or cth. LISTEN. Anyone that is ,bresident, chairman, boss or otherwise #r any cor- poration, union, crab shooting gallery or any goods or grocery store is so long he (or her) does not try to convert his (or her’s) members, employees etc. from practising Bolshevism without his (or her’s) consent ‘‘A Bolshevik’’ from na- tural consequences,—consenting to such practices. \ Therefore Voters get together,we were nearly rid of troubles, if you vote other- vise than -Abramson and Teytaud straight right back you plunge in misery, there is a chance for a good old St. Croix here; if you go >therwise ‘‘steel shoe’’ will be your fate. Abramson and Teytaud. SAM. To the Editor of the Awis. Dear Sir; Permit me to say through your columus that there are certain men here who are trying to palm themselves off as the friends of the people and the friends of Mr. Jacksun, the founder of the St. Croix Labor Union, knowing well- that they are not. They do have a temporary and transi- tory connection with that institution of which connection they are now trying to take the latest and most mean advan tage. They are using the name and reputa- tion of the Founder of the Labor Union as well as their dubious attachment to the same for political effect. But they have c¢learly demonstrated themselves as traitors to him and to the institution which he has founded. The two men refered to in print as the Urion’s legal officers, who kave put themselves forward as candidates for this election are not in harmony with that institution nor are they in harmony at this time with its founder. They are taking advantage of his absence to cut him out of everything they can, inside and outside of the Labor Union Politics | included. They know that after his re- turn bere they won’t have a ghost of a showing before the public far less before | the members of the labor union as an | instittition. Once they get into the (loun- cil they are in so it is their game to get ' in by any means fair or foul. ; Why does not Chabert tell the Labor | Union members and the public Natives | and aliens that he and the founder have | split because of his unconstitutional and | unprincipled actions as President of the | Labor Union. | Why does not Chabert tell his friend | “‘Native’’ about that stern and ‘‘harmo- | nious’’ letter written frem New York City dated April 12th. 19217 Why does not Chabert tell his friend ‘A Native’’ that_he wrote the founder in the morth of Maich telling him that he (*'Chabert’’) was resigining from the Ist of April and that the others were doing the same’’. But he has not resigned nor have the others resignei because it suits them to make capital of their positions in the Union to deceive and to impose upon the people, They are playing polities and bluffing the Labor Union Members un- til the day when they will be in a position to give them more direct insults than they leave given them in the past at their public and private meetings. Asa man and also as acting Editor ofa loeal paperI am perfectly within my rights to express my opinion on any matter concerning the public wel- fare. Neither the President of the Labor Union Mr, R. de Chabert nor the Attor- ney O. C. Granady are fit and preper persons to be put forward as represen- tatives of the people. Men, who have on several occasions, in meetings held pub- licly,been so indiscreet as te commit them- selves to express their hate of the very people whom they are now putting them- selves forward to represent are obvi- ously trying to use the voters as vaulting horses. It is a matter for the voters if they permit themselves to be used in in this way. Why does not Granady seek admission to the Colonial Council of St. Thomas, V.LUB A. He it a native of that worthy isle. He has lived there for years and is better qualified for Counecil membership there than he is here in St. Croix. Why does not R. de Chabert look after the business of the Labor Union before he goes to make a muddle of the people’s business in the Colorial Council? Will they all resign after the Gth of May? I know sufficient to make both of them feel pretty uncomfortable but I shall await their elevation to the Council Chamber to state the rest. Yours with thanks, A R. G. BARROW. The Gompany- Strest Emporium is offering a treat to the Smokers. SERENE the great mild Cigarette in cartons of 10 pack5.........51.10 * packa ' 20 Cipgarettes.. 1% i 0 © 4 v . 6c. e B e i B 8 New York Cigarettes sc. per paek. Christiansted, 18th April 1921. M. A. PRETTO.