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r Lrsday. January 16, 1941.
Imployment, Not Overtime Payment,
Is Purpose of 40-Hour Work Week
■ Taking issue with an editorial
ie Los Angeles Times, Colonel
in Fleming, Administrator
iPh ip B
\he Wage and Hour Division. Lt
Department of Labor, pointed
that spread of employment and
overtime for those now em
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Due to an urnusually heavy demand for funds for
financing; homes in Covington we are now able to use
several thousand dollars in new investments.
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Since organization in 1928 we have never failed to
earn and pay a fair dividend on all funds and have
vet to lose a dollar. On January 1, 1941 we paid our
24th consecutive semi-annual dividend.
Your percentage in this Association is the same on
[accounts of $10 as $10,000 and both are equally
welcome.
Newton County Building
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DOES FORD PAY GOOD WAGES? t
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i Here are some racts about Ford Labor. parison of compensation insurance costs:
During the year ended November 30th, The national average rate in automotive
1940, the Ford Payroll throughout the manufacturing plants as computed by the
United States aweraged 11^,628 hourly National Association of Underwriters is
wage earners, not including office em- in excess of $1.30 premium on each $100
ployes. students, or executives. They were payroll. The Ford cost of workmen’s
[ paid average 1185,105,639-12. annual wrage was On available $1,629.05. this basis, the compensation This indicates is that is less much the than chance less 50c. than of in injury the
According to the latest govern- in a Ford plant
ment figures, the annual average wage of average automobile plant.
all w'orkers in employment covered hv has
old insurance law $841.00. The Ford Motor Company no age
age was limit for labor, and in fact deliberately
a If the 15,000,000 workers of this country attempts to keep older workers working.
! received the same average wage as Ford The average age of Ford workers at the
employes, they would have had additional Rouge and nearby plants is 38.7.
; wages of more than $35,000,000,000, thus
■ increasing the national income about A recent check-up shows that nearly one
I 50 r Think w’hat such increase would half the workers at these Ford plants were
r. an 40 failing into these
mean to ihe workers of this country and or over, age groups:
to the American farmer, whose prices are 25,819 between 40 and 50
based on the national income. 14,731 between 50 and 60
Wage scales in the Ford Rouge plants are 3,377 between 60 and 70
divided into three classifications; 417 between 70 and 80
12 between 80 and 90
Unskilled . . .
Minimum hiring wage . 75c per hour In addition to the so-called regular em
ployes, the Ford Motor Company has
Semi-skilled , . . hired, and now has on the payroll, at the
Minimum hiring wage . 80c per hour regular hourly thousands of
same wage,
Skilled workers who ate blind, crippled or other
. , . incapacitated for normal
Minimum hiring wage . 90c per hour wise productive
Higher wages are in consideration of work. They are not selected for their
ability and years of service. ability to build cars or to maintain the
i plant. They are on the payroll because of
Minimum wage scales for un skilled labor Henry Ford's belief that the responsibility
at the Rouge piant are the highest in the of a large company to labor goes be
industry. Top W'ages for skilled labor yond the point at which the unfortunate
compare favorably with, or are higher worker can no longer produce profitably.
than, wages in other automobile plants. facts. They
The above are are open to
Now some facts on Ford labor conditions. anyone who really wants to deal in facts.
Not only sanitation and other health Anyone who wants to get a job . . . buy a
are place national defense con
conditions the best in the industry, hut car ... or a
Ford also leads in safety devices for the tract on the basis of fair labor treat
protection of employes. Proof of ment must place Ford at the top
this found the following of his eligible list.
is in com
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Rainey Motor Co
p 0RD DEALERS, COVINGTON,
(Our Advertisers Are Assured of Results)
ployed is the purpose of the 40
hour week. Colonel Fleming cited
Department of Commerce figures
in correcting a statement by the
news paper that business failures
had increased under the Act,
This letter, made public this
week:
“Editor
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
Dear Sir:
An editorial captioned 'The 30
Hour Week’ appearing in a recent
issue of your newspaper has just
been brought to my attention.
I anj particukriy concerned with
certain statements contained in
this editorial since to my mind
they constitute ; unfair’
a rather
reflection upon an act of Congress
| the administration of which is un
der supervision. I feel that
! your editorial writer, in seeking to
'each certain conclusions, was not
in possession of certain informa
! tion regarding the actual effects
of the Wage and Hour Law upon
the nation’s industrial employment
situation to date, and it is solely
for the purpose of conveying to
you this information that I Em
writing to you.
In discussing the advocacy "by
Mr. William Green, President of
the American Federation of Labor,
of a 30-hour week for labor in in
dustry, your editorial states that
• ■ • almost any standard source
of industrial statistics could in
form him of the number of busi
nesses which have already given
up the ghost under the Wage-Hour
Act . . . ’
The wage and hour provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards Act
became operative October 24, 1938.
I have before me statistics com
piled by the United States Depart
ment of Commerce on commercial
( failures the
! in United States for
j i current figures show and past periods, These
that for the year
1939, which was the first full cal
endar year of operation of the Fair
Labor Standards Act, there was a
total of 11,408 commercial failures
in this country, compared with
12,836 failures in 1938 and a sev
en year average (1933-39) of ap
proximately 12,688. I also wish to
em P haSiZe th at a very great pre
P onderance of these failures were
not covered th e Fair Labor
Stand£rds Act - Tor example, of the
1L408 comm6rcia5 failure in 1939,
9,050 were retai) establishments,
In your editorial, I also find
! the statement: ‘As a matter of fact,
reduction of the actual hours of
labor is not at all what Mr. Green
or any other proponent of the
shorter work week is driving at. It
is not even the purpose of the
Wage-Hour Act . . . The real in
tent of Mr. Green’s 30-hour week,
as of the reduced-hour week of
the Wage-Hour Act, is that men
shall work the same hours as be
fore but get time and a half or
double time for hours worked in
excess of the statutory period . .
I do not wish to debate the con
tentions of Mr. Green regarding
the 30-hour week in this letter, but
I do wish to challenge this state
ment so far as it refers to the
Wage-Hour Act. The purpose of
the 40-hour week is not to give a
fortunate few time and one-half
for overtime. The purpose is to in
crease employment.
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is enforcing the employment , of
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plant after plant to go on
ha"'nSfthe™p““™S three-shift oneration- that it ;
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j dreds in good-rized plants down to
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M:. and Mrs. Eugene Herring
and f arn ji v of Carrollton visited
daY afternoon -
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Morgan were
to «* b,dskl '
da ugdter - Ehzabet K who « otf at
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Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Barnes, of
Macon, spent Sunday with Mj. and
Mrs. Harold Adams.
Mrs. T. F. McClendon was taken
to Huson Hospital Saturday after
noon. Mr. McClendon is ft home
sick. His daughter, Mrs. ’Phillip
Aaron, of Griffin, is with him.
Mrs. Mamie Hays from South
Georgia, Mrs. Anna Ozburn, of De
catur, are spending a while with
their sisters, Mrs. C. D. Duke and
Mrs. Fannie May Lazenby.
Mr. Starr Jones is in Huson hos
pital. Several here ire sick with
“flu.” Among those are Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton Hays, Mr. and Mrs.
A. E. Hays, Mrs. Vallie Lee Evans.
Mrs. L. Prosser, Mr. Harper, Mrs.
Richardson, Miss Garland, Miss
Collier.
Mrs. Emmett Banks spent Tues
day and Wednesday of last week
with her daughter Mre V. W.
Ford, in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs, Evans Jackson
j were guests Sunday of Mr. and
Mrs. P. H. Henderson, of Pros
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pect.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Evans vis
I ited Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Brooks for
. the day Sunday.
Kenneth Milton was the week
end guest of his parents, Mr. md
Mrs, J. L. Milton.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Epps spent
i the Christmas holidays with their
I daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Lockhart, of Raleigh, N. C.
Misses Em Bush Milton and
Amye Harwell visited their girl
friends at Milledgeville School on
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Adams and
children and Mrs. Fred Adams and
son, of Atlania spent Monday with
Mrs. E. H. Adams.
Mrs. J. P. Williams is spending
this week with her daughter, Mrs.
Willie Newt Ellington,
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With ragout of veal, serve need
potatoes or macaroni and toma
dressing-, toes, chicory salad with French
and fruit junket
Household Hint
To freshen shredded coeoenut,
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the employment of one or two in
the very smallest establishments.
This increased employment is
being forced not only in factories
and mines, but in wholesaling,
transportation and commercial es
tablishments. Anaconda Copper
Company has added 5,000 men to
its payroll in the last year.- They
1 inform us that 1,300 of them have
been put on because of the pro
visions of the Wage-Hour Law In
New York the personnel manager
of the Manufacturers Trust Com
pany told us that they had put on
300 more employees because of this
law—and because of this law alone.
Your very truly,
PHILIP B. FLEMING,
Administrator”
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF
THE CONFEDERACY
H1GGERS
Note_The " ame B,ggers „ Possib- 1
Iv at r™ 68 " as been spelled
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Census mfL"1h“u' of South n | .
Carolina nameS- Tun
of families by the
d t0ilOWS ~ JOhn and Samuel
B g ger s
In 1790, in North Crrolina, two
heads of families as follows: Jos
t*ph and Robert -Biggers,
in 1702, in Virginia, one head
listed as follows—James Biggers
In 1790, in Maryland no one by
the name.
In 1790 ln n Iennsylvania, two
■ heads , of ia/nilips—rnmac
eph Biggers . J0S t '
In 1798 ’ a according c d ng m fo the the r Greene !
county, n Georgia, court records, the
court appointed i 3 ,
several other men to wnrk- the 'i” 3
from Hezekiah Cartwrieht'
to
chee river.
In 1798, according to these rec- i
ords Lewis Biggers and several |
other men were appointed by the
court to work the roEd from j
Greensboro, Ga., to Jacobus Watts’
place.
In 1841, according to the New
ton County, Ga., marriage records
Wm. M. Biggers married Miss Sa
rah John Webb, daughter of John
Webb of said county.
In 1852, according to the Clarke
r- LoLin , Iy’ Ga. „ mcrnage records,
Bucy I Biggers married Wm. A
Harp.
In 1843, in Newton county, Wm.
M. Biggers was a minister ana
married couple. A Methodist, of
Irish descent.
In 1869, in Newton County, An
n * e E - Biggers married R. N.
Smith.
In 18 th L S rrTeVESet J
w p Biggers h
Malone.
j ^ «•. ^^erfmarned^James^Per- Biggers marriea James r r
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roy T , Biggers married. Susan
Palina Lunsford.
In 1878, m the „„ F. D
' Bl «g ers married Dolly
1849, according to an old iaw
there was a lawsuit per.d
ing in the Muscogee co., Ga.
Iarior ct., in which James
Y7m. Paee Jr., and P. L.
were interested
In I 8 ^ 9 ’ in Muscogee co.,
there was a lawsuIt in whlch
M. Biggers was interested, Pos
sibly his name was Lewis
In 1859 ’ there was a
P en dmg in the Harris , eo„
Superior ct., in which Lorenzo M
Biggers was interested.
This suit related back to the
STUCKEY HONORED ;
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H. P, Stuckey, director of the
Georgia Experiment Station at
Griffin, has been selected as the
“Georgia Man of the Year” in 1940
by a southern’ agricultural maga
Three ‘ T other ^ Progresslve agricultural Farn leaders \ er) ’
ispMMntiiif Aabtm*, norid* tnd
Tennessee were chosen by the pub
llcation. Doctor Stuckey was cited
his rese.rch sccompli s h m ,„,s
as director of the Experiment Sta
tion. “As Administration, Doctor
Stuckey’s friendly cooperative at
titude has WPn the suppor t of ot Y,
er institutions and agencies and
made him instrumental in speed
ing Georgia's progress.” The Pro
gressive Farmer said the Georgia
leader.
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ba y or siia « e that cows wlU eat
haily-about two pounds of
roughage or six pounds of silage
for each 100 pounds of live weight.
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and est. of Mrs. Elizabeth Hol
combe. with G. W. Epps as exec.
the est.
In 1860, in Harris co., Ga.. there
was a lawsuit pending in which
James Riggers and L. W. Biggers
were witnesses.
In 1854, according to the New
fon county, Ga,, records, Wm.
Young J. Harris was guardian for
Ycung J. J. Harris, the minor or
phfcn child of James J - Harris, dec.
Bond $600.00, Wm. M. Biggers,
bondsman.
° rd 5 S - ReV Wm M <o Biggers th«. : r,c- was
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deCe3Sed ’ Th<> C ° Urt appointed
John Webb (Biggers’ father-in
law) as admin, on the est.
Webb informed the court the
value of said estate weus about
$10,000.00, consisting of factory
stock, land rnd slaves.
(Possibly some of this stock was
in Webb's cotton factory located
on Alcovy river not far from Stu
art r A in Newtnn ennntv i
Bond , for f administrator , . ■ , on the .,
estate fixed by the court at $25,
000.00. John Webb and his son-in
, r ames H *7 Kobins Robinson ° n v were ' eie a an P
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pointed ■ \ administrators.
as
(Note—John Webb says as to
the name John in the daughter’s
name Wh0 married " We
P u t John in her name for my
wife’s father, John Thomason,
Jasper county, Ga.”)
John Webb in his booklet on his
own life said “I was opposed to
the marrirge, not because he was
a poor man, but because he was
too great an enthusiast. His farm
and his home had little place and
w,elgllt .... bls ,. mind .
in -
While John Webb was a relig-
%
ious man, a member of the church,
and donated liberally, his mind
centered on material things and
business. He did not understand
Biggers’ viewpoint.
Wm. M. Biggers died September
13th, 1860, leaving a wife and eight
children.
In 1860 according to the Newton
county, Ga., records, the court ap
pointed Wm. Y. Harris, Ethan
Hcrris, Fitz Herbert Heard, Wm. F.
Davis, and John R. Sams, as ap
praisers of the estate of Wm. M.
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Harris was a school teacher In
his day. The Harris, Wm, S. „ , Lee,
Brewer, Heard and Davis families
lived not far apart in the southern
P art of Newton county, Ga.
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