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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1921)
Statistics in Connection With Threatened Strike Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 28.—Here are some statistics which are today being pointed to by Atlanta busi ness men in connection with the threatened railway strike: In 1914 the railroad employees were drawing an average of $315 a year. In 1921 before the proposed and now disputed 12 per cent cut, the average wage was $1,898 a year. After the proposed 12 per cent cut the average wage is $1,695 a year. Since 1914 the government and labor board made two increases. Other increases were made bv carriers. The pay of engineers over 1914 is a rate of 38 per cent increase. The pay of firemen is 100 percent. But in 1914 negro firemen were receiving much less than w hite firemen. They were brought ud to the level of white firemen and this, in part, accounts for the high er per cenl of 100. The labor board ordered a cut of 12 per cent, beginning July 1. This was regarded as acceptable for a lime but a strike vote rejects this cut. The men threatening to strike are in a position of demanding the peak wages—refusing to ac cept any cut. They claim that this cut is threat ened to be followed by another. They say they might stand the 12 per cent cut, but no other reduc tion or change in working rules will be tolerated. Hence the strike. • There has been a decline in other wages, in all things men eat and wear —it all things except those held either in the grip of an owner trust or a labor trust. railroad employees, and the [tub lie pays the interest on the rail road bonds and on the stocks. Railfoads wlnie an important part of the business of the coun try, create nothing, make nothing. They haul what other people make and what other people consume. They haul people from one place to another. “During the war and following it the people were patient with the roads: They exempted many railroad men from the draft; they loaned money to the roads; they were nursed both owners and unployees,” declared a prominent manufacturer here tedav. “They stood for high freight rates until the rates in some cases destroyed business, because the business could not pay the tariff. The roads claim that the rates are made necessary by the cost of operation. They say the big gest cost in operation is wages. Well, the present cost of operation, as reflected in rates, is stopping saw mills in the s uth and steel mills in ihe north. It keeps corn «n the farm and cattied in tha fields. Faim labor and much skilled is out of work because what they work in cannot stand the rate. 1 Know of no other labor, skilled or unskilled, receiving war time pay. No profession is getting it, Sources of income are making snialvr yield. “Now labor should not be call ed upon to make all the cut, but at the «- j n> Mine the railroad em ploye'SCHt justify themselves in hdoing : ill classes of labor, Iht mu I the manulacturer, in c» er it in Din wages at a poi T*' e ‘ ith other wages am s o? production. “' r-i, d bor court, cre af< ‘h ite .1 States govern m i,t ‘A‘‘ r ! -v* a final court, decided* dio Id be a cut ot 12 j. ■ *- his figure was CLOGGED BLOOD | WITHERS THE BODY Workers Sick and Weak from Work Take Glides % Pepto-Mangan. Men and w-onien who toil, either physically or mentally, use up en ergy. When they overwork they use up more energy, and some times the blood gets in a run-down condition. Without rest the blood cannot get back to normal, so that it becomes clogged with waste matter from over-exertion. The clogged blood virtually withers the body. The strained looks on pale faces, the thin blood less arms, the sunken cheeks and necks, the dead-tired feeling’ are the results of stale blood depriv ing the system of liie-giying oxy gen. Workers go to the drug store and get Gude’s Pepto-Mangan when they feel weak and run down They take it in liquid or the tablet form. That makes the blood rich and red and drives out the poisons. Life-giving oxygen carried by the little red cells, re news the strength and builds up the entire system. Look for the name “Gude’s Pepio Mangan” on the package. —Advertisement. CARD OF THANKS. Y/e wish to express our thanks and true appreciation for the many offices of sympathy and help ten dered us by our friends since the recent fire, which destroyed much of our worldly goods together with treasures which money can never replace, as all know who have passed through similar experi ences. May God bless you all. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Horton and ftnniiv. 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Get the Medical Advise from your neighborhood druggist or send !?1.00 to Dr. Pierco. reached after both sides had their day in court. The court was an arbitrator. Its findings were law ful. If both sides entered the court both sides are bound. Some are saying the employees must win or their unions will be smashed. O 'uas insist the roads must win or ga body and soul back to the -government* The lives of the unions and the lives of the roads are in no danger be cause of an adjustment of the present row. The third party (and the big gest party)—the public—lias rights. It pays the bills. It insists that things go on in order. Creech Creek coal, $9.50 per ton. Place order now. Planters Warehouse & Lumber Co. “GIFTS THAT LAST” FROM LoRAH.fi Allen ■VITfI STEELE-SANFORD JEWELRY COMPANY, >4 PEACHTREE STREET. Engraved CArds, . Yifdfni? Invitations.etc • HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA CHURCH SERVICES BAPTIST Sunday School each Sunday at $1:45 A. M Preaching: 11:00 A. M. and 7.00 P. M. Second, Third and Fourth Sundays. Junior B. Y. P. U. Sunday, 5:30 P. M. Senior B. Y. P. U Monday, 7:00 P. M. Prayer Services Wednesday, 7:00 P. M. Woman’s Missionary Society on Monday after Second, Sunday at 3:30 P. M. \V. W. Arnold, Pastor. METHODIST Sunday School each Sunday at 9:45 A. M Preaching: 11:00,A. M. and 7:00 P. M. Mid-Week Prayer Services: Wednesday, 8:00 P M. Preaching at, Turner’s Second Sundays and Saturdays before. Men’s Bible Class: 9:45, except Second Sundays, 9:00. J. A. Partridue, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN Sunday School each Sunday at 9:45 A. M. Preaching: 11:00 A. M. and 7:00 P. M. Mid-Week Prayer Services: Tuesday, 8:00 P. M. Preaching at Tlmberridge First Sunday, 4:00 P. M., and Third Sunday, 11:00 A. M. and7:oo P. M. A. R. Cates, Pastor. For Twelve Months’Support. GEORGIA— Henry Countv Mrs. J T. Rowden having made appli cation for twelve months* support out of the estate of J. T. Rowden, deceased. All persons concerned are hereby required to show cause before the court of Ordinary of said county on the first Monday iu No vember, 1921, why said application should not be granted This 3 day of October 1921. A. G. HARRIS. Ordinary. Dissolved Partnership. GEORGIA—Henry County. To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that the firm of Lathv- Copeland Co., composed of G W . Cathy and F. M. Copeland, have this day b.v mutual consent dissolved partnership. F. M. Copeland selling his interest in said business to G, W. Cathy, who assumes all obligations of said Company and will con tinue to conduct sa id business in the name ofG.W. Cathy. All notes and accounts owing to said Company became the prop erty of F. M. Copeland and are to be col lected by him. This Octooer Ist, 1921. G. W CATHY, F M. COP EL AN D. SUBSCRIBE for THE WEEKLY Cut Price Sale arrived, an entire line of MEN’S TROUSERS. 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