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Surprise Store’s Extra Specials
—_— FRIDAY, JUNE 2--ALL DAY
L.adies’ $1.50 to $3.00 Shapes, - - - . - -59 c
Saturday--All Day--Ladies’ Pumps, $2 & $4 val. 98¢
Friday and Saturday, June 2-3--Men’s Genuine Palm Beach Suits, - $3.95
Men’s Genuine $5 Panama Hats, $1.98--Men’s $3 Straw Hats, - - - $1.48
BETTER POSTAL
SAVINGS FACILITIES
Larger postal savings deposits
will now be acceped at the post
office. This is made possibble by
an important amendment to the
Postal Savings Act just approved
by President Wilson. A postal
savings depositor may now have
an account amounting to $l,OOO
upon which interest will be paid.
Formerly $5OO was the maximum
amount he could have to his cred
it. This enlargement of postal
savings facilities wil be very
gratifying to thousands of deposi
tors who have already reached
the old $5OO limit and are anxious
to entrust more of their savings
to Uncle Sam. Another feature
of the amendment that will avoid
further embarassment to the pub
lic and to postal officials is the
doing away with the limit on the
amount that could be accepted
from a depositor monthly. Under
the old law only $lOO could be
deposited in a calendar month.
The amendment abolishes this re
striction. While the Postal Sav
ings System has already proved
a signal success as is shown by
the fact that more than half-a
million depositors have over eigh
ty million dollars standing to
their credit, still it has fallem
short of meeting the full demands
of the public because of the re
strietions which have now been
eliminated. Postmaster General
Burleson and 3rd Assistant Post
master General Dockery has been
tireless in their efforts to secure
a modification of the limitations
and ‘the dieWw liberatizing legisla
tion ié“fi%ficularly gratifying to
them. "
GERMAN /LINE EVENED
- UP AT VERDUN
~Berlin, May 30—All the French
positions between L'Mort Hom
me-and the village of Cumieres
have been captured by the Ger
mans.
The capture of the French po
sitions ‘west.of Cumieres and east
of L'Mort Homme enables the
Germans to straighten out their
line and to prevent any flank ac
tion by the French against the
German positions in Cumieres
vallage.and .on Dead Man’s Hill,
You Can Drink This Famous|
_* Coffee at Midnight l
It’s the Wenderful Old Secret Blead
e .o ity s
BEven & hundred years ago French
Market ‘Coffee was a favorite drink
at all hours,
- For generations it was known as
the midnight drink of New Orleans
Society. Because of its delighttul
aroma and flavor, as well as the fact
that it can be partaken of freely with
out harm, French Market Coffee is to
be compared only with the best Turk
ish and European coffees.
This wonderful goodness is due to
the famous old secret blend, which
for a' century has made French Mar
ket Coffee the one choice of discrim
inating coffee drinkers. Many have
tried to imitate this famous blend—
but the secret is still a secret.
In former . days 'you ecould get
French Market Coffee at only one
place—the Old French Market at New
Orleans, from which it was named.
Now it is sold .at your own nearby
grocery.
Send 10c for 12-cup sample and
booklet of the story of Old French
Market. We will also send names of
grocers in your town who sell French
Market Coffee. 1 lb. cans, 25c; 4 Ib.
pails, $l.OO,
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By Your Grocer—By Us.
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RAILADAD EMPLOYES
4
WANT RELIEF FROM LONG
HOURS. DEMAND IS NOT
FOR MORE PAY BUT FOR
SHORTER HOURS.
Cleveland, May 29.—Railway
freight train - service * empolyes
have submitted to the railroads a
demand for a shorter work day.
They are entitled to relief from
the long and arduous labor that
most of them are now required to
perform.
Their condition has not improv
ed as compared with wage work
ers in other industries.
Railroad train crews are not
paid a fixed salary. They are
piece-workers and are paid only
when they move freight from one
end of a division to another.
The present schedules of pay
are based on the moving of a
train 100 miles or less in 10 hours
or less. The men now ask the
railroads for a revised schedule
providing for the moving of a
train 100 miles in 8 hours “or
less.”
The words “or less” always ap
pear in schedules of train crew
pay for practically the same rea
son that railroad freight rates are
based on 100 pounds “or less.” 1f
a train crew is ordered out and
makes a run of 100 miles in less
than the time specified in the pay
schedule, the crew is paid the
minimum rate for a day’s work
just the same as the railroad com
pany collects for 100 pound on a
package even though it would ac
tually weigh only 10 pounds.
They have performed their ser
vice, of taking the train 100 miles
which is the piece of work they
are paid to do. There must be a
minimum rate.
If locomotives are loaded down
with a great number of cars so
that they will barely move on the
road, meeting with all sorts of de
lays by reason of the long and
heavy trains and do not make an
average of 12 1-2 miles per hour,
then the employes expect to se
cure overtime or time and a half
(after the expiration of the 8
hours’ work, just the same as any
other wage ecarner gets.) If the
railroads add tonnage sufficient
to delay the movement of a train
and makes less than an average
speed of 12 1-2 miles per hour,
they of course, receive more rev
enue, and in consequence should
pay the train crews for overtime.
The railroads should not ask the
employes to work overtime in or
der to increase the revenues of
roads unless they are willing to
pay the empolyes in addition to
the regular rate for this overtinie
which was used to produce addi
tional revenue.
In figuring wages for all rail
road train crews, 100 miles is the
arbitrary basis for the normal
day’s work division.
Under the schedules of pay for
which the men are now asking,
it will be necessary for the rail
roads to move their freight trains
an average of 12 1-2 miles per
hour instead of 10 miles per hour;
as at present, in order to a\'oid‘
the payment of overtime to the
train crews.
I{ a di“fi(m is 100 miles long,
overtime ' @Would begin at 8 hours:
if 125 miles long, after 10 hours,
‘nd g 0 on. The number of hours
When overtime would begin is ar
rived at by simply dividing the
number of miles by 12 1-2,
Any tzlK of the roads having to
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNES DAY, MAY 31, 1916
change their division points under
an 8-hour day schedule is absurd,
for the reason that the average
running time on a short division
must be 12 1-2 miles an hour just‘
the same as it would be on a long
division of over 100 miles. If a
train could not average 121-2
miles an hour on a 150 mile di
vision, it would not average 12-
1-2 miles an hour on less than
a 100 mile division.
Railway freight train crews do
their work by the piece, and what
they are paid to do is to move a
train at least 100 miles in a given
number of hours. If they should
perform this duty in less than
eight hours and did not succeed in
moving a train 100 miles in eight
hours, then they would go into
overtime and would be paid ac
cordingly.
If the train crews demanded an
8-hour day on the basis of a wage
worker in a factory meaning to
quit work at the end of eight
hours regardless of where they
may be at the time, the railroads
could very properly maintain that
it could not be granted without
changing every terminal so that
all divisions would be exactly 100
miles.
' Railroad men regard the short
‘er work day in exactly the same
iway other men have considered
it. They have had opportunity to
know for themselves the advan
'tages that follow a reduction in
!the number of hours of work;
they remember when there was
lno limit to the hours and they
know how they paid the penalty;
they realize that with the endless
day they were not as well off as
they are now with the 10-hour
day, and with the lessons of years
to prove it, they stand for the
shorter work days as a humane,
just proposition which they con
sistently demand on the ground
that 8 hours’ service at a time is
all the man can give with fairness
to himself if he is to retain his
mental and physical health, en
joy a part of his time to his own
advantage and that of his family,
to remain alert and active, the
better to perform service and to
have some hope of remaining a
wage worker several years more
than he knows he now has.
Freight cars have grown in
length from 28 to 50 feet in the
last twenty years and where for
merly it took 24 loads to make a
train, it now requires 50 to 100
cars. One crew is now doing the
work that formcrly was done by
three or four crews and this one
crew does not receive pay com
mensurate with the increased
work.
Statistics show that it costs the
railroads for wages to locomotive
:cngineers and firemen, 65¢ for
each one thousand tons carried
'one mile in 1890, while in 1913
'one thousand tons were trans
ported one mile for only 33c,'a
decrease of cost to the railroads
for these employes alone of more
than 50 per cent. While there
has been some slight increase in
wages during that period, it has
not been in accordance with the
decrease in operation cost to the
railroads or to the increased work
made necessary by extremely
long and heavier trains.
A statement issued by the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Asso
ciation of Western Railways,
April 23rd, 1916, declares that the
railroads received in the year
1890, $1.65 per freight train pec
mile, and in 1914 the earnings per‘
freight train per mile were 3.31;
or an increase of 100 per cent.
Freight frain crews are produc
ing double the revenue for the
railroads according to this state- !
ment by the roads themselves.
Certain railway officials in op-|
posing the granting of the 8-hour
day to freight crews are present
ing figures which would indicate
that train operatives are receiving‘,
fancy pay. The examples shown:
by the comipanies are exceptional
cases and are men engaged in the
fast passenger runs, and it should
be understood that passenger ser
vice men are not included in the
present movement,—only the
freight men, who are required to
work long hours in order to earn
enough to live on.
Railway freight train crews are
required to work day and night,
exposed to all sorts of hardships
and in all kinds of weather. Half
of their lay-off time is spent at the
other end of their run where they
must maintain a place to ‘sleep
and eat with expenses at home go
ing on just the same. The men
who the companies are using for
exmples and who now receive
good pay are not the men who
will be benefitted by an eight
hour day—they already have it,
but it is the poorly paid man on
the long, slow-moving trains
whose condition we are asking
the roads to better.
- It has been repeatedly stated
that it would cost one hundred
milljon , dollars to give the men
an 8-hour day. During the recent
arbitration case between tlfi-ail
roads and their engineers and fire
men, the railroad managers sub
mitted sworn statements showing
that 78 per cent of through and
irregular trains in freight service
were making 100 miles in 7 hours
and 30 minutes. If this statement
is a fact, how can the railway offi
cials claim it will cost any consid
erable sum to grant a shorter
work day to the crews of 22 per
cent of trains remaining? As a
matter of fact, 24 railroads # the
United States are now operating
on a basis of 121-2 miles per
hour and it is worthy of note that
none of these roads are in the
hands of the receiver.
Offacials know that they will
use every endeavor to cut over
time and make the division of 100
miles in 8 hours or less and which
is exactly what the men want—
not overtime, but a shorter work
day. ‘.
Railway officials contend that
the men do not really want a
shorter day and are only making
these demands in order to get
more wages. If the roads believe
this to be true, iet thém make a
proposition of a flat 8-hour day
with no overtime and it would be
welcomed enthusiastically as a
solution of the problem of better
ing the condition of the freight
train service employes.
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Local Sporting News
Stewart F. Gelders, Editor
CORDELE TEAM WILL BE
REAY BY JUNE FIRST
Cordele’s baseball team will be
organized and ready for practice
by June 1, and the grounds by
that time will be in tip top shape.
While the team will have only
five days of actual practice before
the opening of the schedule of the
“Big 47 league on June 5, the]
club will be made up principally‘
of college players, and, of course,
there are none of them who are
not in good training, since college
ball has been opened up for more
than a month. s
~ In the conference with the di
rectors of the local club last Wed
nesday Manager Henderson stat
ed that he would have at least six
fast players on the grounds by
the firét of the coming month.
In the meantime there will be
good players coming from other
sources. While it will be about
June 15 before Henderson can dis
band his team and leave Georgia,
he will keep in close touch with
the directors of the club and will
put forth every effort in muster
ing a team that wil compete well
with any team of the other three
in the “Big 4.”—Cordele Dis
patch.
The inimitable, undefatigable,
unbeatable and marvelous pitcher
from Mercer college, Fuss, has
been signed by the local manage
ment. We now have five pre
eminent and invincible mounds
men, each of whom would do
credit to a Class A club, an ag
gregation of slab stars such as
has never before been the for
tune of a fan to behold in the an
nals of Independent baseball.
‘With these five fearless flingers
Fitz's fame from Foundland to
Florida should be flung. Fitz
gerald fans, let’s show the world
the we have confidence in this
bunch by turning out on Monday
the thONE THOUSAND
STRON G.
U. D. C. MEETING
The U. D. C.’s will meet at the
home of Mrs. Charles S. Isler
Friday afternoon at four o'clock
to celebrate Jefferson Davis’
birthday.
The program will be as fol
lows:
Piano Solo—Miss Allie Mayes.
The locals go to Rochelle Fri
day to give that team its -fifth
chance to gain a victory. The Ro
chelle baseball enthusiasts have
spared no pains or money to make
their club a good one and it is
now a very strong aggregation of
baseball players. A good, close
game may be expected—unless
Fitzgerald has also improved
greatly.
DAWSON’S TEAM
The directors of the Dawson
team have not made public the
personnel of the club, except the
manager. They state, however,
that in the opening game they
;will be able to put out a team so
evenly balanced that it will be
sure to give an account of itself
and maintain the reputation Daw
son has won among the lovers of
the national game all through this
section.
~ Rucker Ginn, of Royston, the
home of Ty Cobb, and other base
ball celebrities, will be the man
ager. He has had several years
experience in college, semi-pro
fessional and big league ball, and
the local directors believe they
have a good man for the place.
'Ginn has the reputation of being
a heady, all-round player with
!good baseball sense, and is a gen
itlemanly young ferlow both on
and off the diamond. He arrived
in Dawson yesterday, and the oth
er members of the club are ex
pected today. Practice will be be
gun at once, and by Monday Mr.
Ginn should have a well-oiled
baseball machine on the diamond.
Altogether the outlook for a
successful basebail season, not
only in Dawson but in all the cit
ies comprising the “Big Four Cir
cuit,” are exceptionally bright.
Dawson is known far and wide as
a big drawing ball town, and it is
believed that the attendance on
next Monday’s game will break
all former records. The series
with Montezuma will be adver
tised extensively throughout this
section and hundreds from a dis
tance are expected to be here.—
Dawson News. ;
Vocal Solo—Mrs.- Walter
Drane. : ;
The Career of Jefferson Davis
Through the War—Mrs Womble.
Vocal Solo—Miss Edith
Greene.
Life of Winnie Davis—Mrs.
Carol Wimberly.
Reading—Mrs. Thurmond.
Piano Solo—Miss Edna Wil
liams.