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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.
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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.
VIM AND VIGOR
Follow, If You Take This Advice
Chattanooga, Tenn. “After four
years of sullering and misery untold,
from a trouble that seemed to baffle the
doctors, I became despondent, when
somehow I came into possession of Dr.
Pierce’s book, “The Medical Adviser.”
After reading it I decided 1 could be
benefited by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med
ical Discovery and the Anurio tablets, so
I began their use and in three weeks I
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lbs. when 1 commenced the treatment
and today 1 weigh 140 lbs., and am prac
tically well. 1 <rr j‘t give too much praise
to Dr. Pierce’s God-given remedies,” —
John A. James, ISI2 Citico Ave.
You can qua kiv put yourself in A-l
condition by going to your druggist and
obtaining Dr. IT rce’s Family Remedies
-—tablets or liquid; or write Dr. Pierce,
president Invalids’ Hotel in Buffalo,
N. Y., for free medical advice. 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.
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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-
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lected by him. This Octooer Ist, 1921.
G. W CATHY,
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