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MONDAY
EDITION
VOL. XXVI,
NO. 32
RAIL LABOR BOARD BEGINS TAKING EVIDENCE ON WAGE CUT
W.C.T.U. TO WAGE
- TOBACCO CAMPAIGN
Will Start Tobacco' and Sabbath
Observance Drive )
BEGINS APRIL 3RD
Week of Prayer Will Precede
: Crusade Against Weed
(By International News Serv'i;)
EVANSTON, ILL., March 21—A
Nation-wide campaign for strict ob
servance of the Sabbath and a determ
ined drive against tobacco will be
launched April 3rd, by the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union accord
-ng to announcement at Natiomal head
‘quarters today. i '
Preliminary work is now under way.‘
People will be urged to attend church
April 3rd followed by a week of pray
er and Sunday April 10th will be na
:lx‘(l)nally observed as anti-tobacco Sun
.
A nation-wide anti-tobacco crusade
will follow.
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(By International News Service)
MEXICO CITY, March 21.—Eight
“ thousand striking railroaders returned
- to work and many others are ex
‘ gcc’ted during the day. A\few still
hold out refusing to accept the set
tlement by the .government with the
Federation of Railway Workers,
- The Mexican government expects
to spend $5,000,000 in the United
States for new locomotives and equip
ment.
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Local Business Men
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- Confers With Bugg
See No Eariy Prospects Of Concilia
tion In Railway Wage Fight
Mesrs: W. R. Bowen, J. C. Glover,
C. A. Newcomer, J.: J. Dorminey, J.
H. Mayes, and M. W. Garbutt return
«d to the city Sunday from Atlanta,
where they had an inferview with Col,
Bugg, Receiver of the A. B. & A. -
- The committee reyresented the bus-
Yiness interests of Fitzgerald and had
previously held a coaference with the
leaders of the employees' of. the rail
road, now on vacation. o]
. According to the statements made
sby one of the committee, conciliation
of the contesting parties at this time
is improbable, the Receiver not being
in position to pay the legal wage scale
through the lack of funds.
The members of the committee at
tended the sessions of the U. S. court,
at which the case of the receiver and
the employees was heard Saturday,
and gained a more complete insight
into the affairs of the company and
the matters involved in the case.
Chamberlain Leads
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British Unionists
(By International News Service)
LONDCN, March 21. Austen
Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Ex
chequer of the British cabinet today
was unanimously chosen as leader of
the Unionist party.
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WEATHER—LocaI Showers ‘l‘ate tO-~
night or Tuesday. Cooler. ;
Col. Bugg Again Attempts To Justify
Arbitrary Reduction In Men’s Wages
(By International News Service).
LONDON, March 21.—The Greeks
Jhave begun a partial mobilization of
their army, giving as an excuse the
reports that Must-Appa Kemal Pasha
is massing heavy reinforcements, ac
cording to a dispatch from Athens
today. . The' older classes ‘have been
called to the colors. g
| King Constantine' fssued - a state
‘ment declaring that sacrifices may be
‘necessary to obtain peace in the Near
East. It is reported that Constantine
may go the front to take personal
command. ¢
A massacre of Christians by Turk
ish Nationalist at Cosera is reported.
Local Auto Men Get
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Aid For Spring Show
Atlanta And Macon Distribu‘torsi
Promise_To Exhibit Cars Here ]
It was stated today by LL. Griner,
chairman of the “feeling committee”
of the local automonile dealers, that
Atlanta and Macon automobile job
bers, distributors and dealers had
promised a full measure of co-opera
tien to local dealers if a Spring Auto
mobile Show'is attempted here.
The distributors and dealers in the
cities will exhibit cars here and will
share a pro rata of the expense of the
local show, they promised the local
cominittee. 3
Mr. Griner stated that no definite
steps had been taken toward putting
on an automobile show but that a sec
ond meeting of dealers would probably
be called. before the :nd of the month
to discuss the project. An auto show
has been an annual affair here for four
years.
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- Confers With Strikers
¥
S. H. Huff, assistant Grand Chief
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers is in the city toddys invcons
ference with strike leaders. He spoke
to the men at the morning meeting.
Crowd Hears Ward On
€6 s °§ 99
Boy And His Perils”
Quite a large audience of boys from
16 to 60 turned out, to hear Dr, Frank
Ward at the Y. M. R. C, Sunday af
ternoon and were weil repaid for their
effort. Alvin Brown was in charge
of the meeting and introduced. Mr.
Burr Stokoe,. as soni%* leader for the
afternoon. Messrs assewitz; Gar
wood, James, and Mashburn, favored
the audience with vome good songs,
after which Dr. Ward was introduced
and delivered a splendid address to
the younger men, along health and hy
gene lines. oSt
Messrs .A. G. Brown, Nipper and
Tolle are to be commented upon their
efforts to secure for the young men of
the city a place for wholesome recrea
tion and entertainment. Mr. Brown
announced the openiag of the out door
playground, dorner of Lee and Pine
for Tuesday night ana invited the pub
lic to attend. |
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Hospital Augiliary ‘i
0311 S \
Will Meet Wednesday
The Hospital Auxiliary will hold its
regular meeting' Wednesday after
noon at four o’clock. The February
meeting having been p9stponed, the
same program will be given Wednes
day. A Silver Tea will be the social
feature. The social committee will
have charge.
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Density Of People
. InU. S. Increases
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 21—The
density of the population in the Unit
ed States has increased nea}y five
to the square mile during the last ten
years it was announced by the census
‘bureau today. Denstty of population
309 to 35.5. The density of gopnla—
tion in Ben Hill County is 57 per
'squate mile, '
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA MONDAY, m &RCH 21, !fi 021,
Receiver of A. B. & A. Goes into
National Law Concerned in
',L Rail Wage Fight .
Again Cites Instances of Good
Wages Paid to Men Who
© Operate His Trains
.~ (By Col. B. L. Bugg) ]
ATLAIjTA, March, 21.—What is a
iiust and reasonable wage? That
‘in all lines of industry and one that
!has been brought prominently to pub
lic attention in all lines of industry and
‘one that has been brought prominent-
Iy to attention in a @tional way, as it
relates to our railro§‘ ;
When “the railroads were released
from. control of thee United States
Railroad Administration, on March 1,
1920, it was under a’law enacted by
the Congress and approved by the
President of the = Unitel States.
Among many other provisions this
law undertook to provide a tribunal
to which: should be referred disputes
between rialway comnpanies and their
‘employees regard ing question of
wages. and working conditions. The,
act provided, among other things, that
in deciding what is a just and reason
able wage, the board designated as the
‘Railroad Labor Board, whose head
quarters were fixed in the City of
Chicago, should, so far as applicable,
taKe into consideration, among other
revelant circgméfances:
1.. The scale of wages paid for simi
lar kinds of work in other industries;
2. The relations between wages and
the cost of living;
3. The hazards of the employment;
4, The training and skill required;
5. The degree-of responsibility; )
6. Mhe character and regularity of
the employment; !
7.. Inequalities in increases of wages
‘or treatment, the result of previous
wage orders or adjustments.
~—ln- the wage questions that have
arisen. and gone before the Labor
Board, the main issue has centered
around not the seven relevant circum
wces named that should be consid
ed, but the ‘other revelant circum
stances’ not specifically mentioned,
and the point arourd which most of
the controversy has revotved as ‘other
revelant circumstances’ is the ability
to pay..many cases having arisen in
which it was shown beyond the ques
tion of a doubt, and, in fact, not con
troverted, that there are many roads
which are unable to earn the money
with which to pay the wages that
were declared by the Railroad Labor
Board, in a decision handed down in
July, 1920, to be just and reasonable,
based upon the conditions existing at
that time and for some months prior
thereto. -
The A. B. and A. Railway, which
always earned operating costs before
the World War, is one of the roads
which could not pay the Government
fixed wartime waggh which may or
may not' be just to Re more prosper
ous systems which operate in the older
and more highly developed commun
ities, and has been forced into receiv
ership. |
The unionized employees of the A.
B. and A. struck at noon on/March 5,
because the United States Court had
ordered Receiver B. L. Bugg to re
duce wages by one half of the increas
es which had been authorized by Gov
ernment authorities since the begin
ning of Government control of rail
roads on January 1, 1918. . Let us con
sider whether or not the new wage
scale offered the employees is reas
onable and just.
By way of illustration: A locomotive
engineer on the 1} B. and A. Railway,
running between Atlanta and Fitz
geral,d‘ in the month of January was
on duty 161 hours and earned $300.19.
but at the rades which have been
made effective March 1 he would
have earned $247.33 for the same ser
vice. There is no overtime ihvolved
in this case.
A conductor on a passenger train
running beiween Birmingham and
Manchester was on duty 259 hours
and earned $287.30 in January. At
At ‘the rates in effect in December,
1917, he would havgg earned $197.47;
under the rate proposed he would
‘earned $232.87. There was only 45
minutes overtime in this instance, '
It will be remembered that as a re
sult of the passage of the Adamson
Law, local freight trains, which had
until that time rin on' the basis of a
ten hour day were put on the basis of
an eight hour day. In January a con
‘ductor on a local freight train run
ning between Birmingham and Line
ville, Ala,, was on duty 309 hours and
earned $320.30.. In December, 1917
he would have earned $175.04, work
ing_the same number of hours, not
‘withstanding the Adamson Law was
then in effect; but under the proposed
rate effective March 1, he would have
B| e gl ASy i, »«m IR
A. C. L. PUTS EMBARGO ‘
'~ ON'A. B. &A. FREIGHT ‘
According to " good authority |
this afternoon, the. Atlantic Coast
Line railway had placed an em
bargo on freight handled by the
Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic™
railway.. Superintendent G. D,
Pugh of the Savannah Division
of the Atlantic Coast Line ha\
instructed his agents not to ac
cept- any freight from the A. B.i
&A. until further notice. -
Casper Hide & Skin Co. Goes
} into Shoe Leather Trade
' EXPAND BAG FACTORY
Plans to Open Wholesale Cloth
ing and Shoe Business
The big drop in the price of green
‘hides to two cents a pound has re
sulted in tke opening of a new indus
try in Fitzgerald. The Casper Hide
and Skin Company of which J. Cas
per is president, has branched out
into . the shoe and leather business
and has opened a new warchouse to
handle clothing and *shoes for the
wholesale trade. ¢
The Casper Hide and Skin Com
pany and the ‘Casper Burlap Bag
Manufacturing Company are two of
Fitzgerald’s fast growing eénterprises
-and together form one of Fitzgerald’s
infant industries that is rapidly grow
ing out of the infant class. The new
shog and leather department will be
the fourth largest in Georgia. |
In branching out into the shoe and
leather business, J. Casper, president,
states that he has found it necessary
to discontinue the junk department
-of his businesss and will quit handling
scrap iron, rags waste and the other
;vitem§ of “junk.”’
.~ The automobile and machinery re
pair supply department will be con
‘tinued. The raw furs, and potato
plant department wiil also’ be con
tinued. The bag fictory has been
expanded to produce fifteen thou
sand bags daily and will extend its
territory through the Carolinas, Geor
gia and Florida. N
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Supreme Court Will
~ Hear Cable Contest
(By International Newg Service)
WASHINGTON, March 21.—The
Supreme Court today set for argu
ment in April the appeal of the gov
ernment in the contest of the West
ern Unign tg lay the Barbados cable
at Miami, Fla.
Slayer Of Lover To
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Enter ‘Movies’ Soon
(By International News Service)
- ARDMORE, Okla. March 21.
Clara Smith Hamon today signed
two year contract to enter the movies.‘
She will appear on “Silver Screen”
under banner of an Oklahoma mov
ing picture company. She received
twenty-five thousand cash advance
and fifty per cent of the profits.
mingham was on duty 262 hours andl
earned $265.70. Under the rates in
effect in 1917 he would have earned
$170.90; but at the rates effec;ive
effective since March Ist his earnings
for the same number of hours would
have been $218.30. ‘
A locomotive engineer running be
tween Atlanta and Fitzgerald made 23
one way trips in the month of Jan
uary and was on duty a total of 203
hourB and 10 minutes. His earnings
was $315.67, which included seven
hours overtime. At the rates in effect
in December, 1917, he would have ear
ned $207.53, but at the rates effective
March Ist his earnings for the same
service ' would have been - $261.50.
There was no overtime involved.in
this case. '
A colored fireman on the same run
made 17 one- way trips and was on
duty a totai of 149 hours and 45 min
utes, and was paid $178.38, His ear
nings at the rate effective in yn
ber, 1917, would have been $67.62, but
under the wages now being offered for
‘the same service he would receive
$121.50. There was no overtime in
‘volved in this case. ;
e A con%uctor running between At
lanta and Fitzgerald worked every
day in the month of January and was
on duty a total of 226 hours and 50
minutes, for which he was paid $301.-
12. He made no overtime. In De
cember, 1917, he would have received
$lB7, but at the wages now being paid
for the same service he would rec:.-ive'
.vw.‘?z,ai«'t; it aipo Rer oo ARG
|Same Interests That*Eere Farmer :
| Try To Break Down Labor---Martin
Tells Farmers Union Men at]
Wray that Interests Are
Same as Laborers’ :
Union Leader Traces History of
Price Slump and Wage
Reduction Fight
“The same big imterests that have
forced the price ofy. farm * prodects’
down to their present scale are now
trying fo beat down the wages of the
laboring' man all over “the United
States,” declared W, M, Martin, chair
man of the joint federation committee
representing the thirteen crafts on
strike against the Atlanta, Birming
ham.and Atlantic wage reductions. I'%e‘
was addressing ‘an audience of nearly
one hundred farmers at the Wray
school house Sunday afternoon,
Three automobile loads: of Fitzgér
ald people went over to Wray where
Mr. Martin had been invited.to address
the Farmers Union. Alonzo Harper,
president of the Union, presided at
the meeting and introduced Mr. Mar
tin. “I had some hesitancy about tak
ing a stand publicly as I feei in my
heart,” said Mr. Harper in introduc
ing Mr. Martin, “because I am a man
who ‘likes to please everyone, as far as
‘right will please them.’ |
Mr. Martin spoke sor more than an
hour, his voice uever rising above.a
conversational pitch, and presenting
calmly and without passion the facts
in the wage fight. He held the in
tense interest of his hearers frpm first
to last and closed in a roun?of vig- |
orous applause. > ‘
“Interests” Broke the Farmer
Mr. Martin opered his talk by brief
ly describing the history of the col
lapse of the price of farm products.i
He read a statement of John Wana-|
maker, president of the American}
Cotton Association, in August 1920 in
which Mr. Wanamaker charged that:
the spot gamblers and vested inter
ests were united in an effort to beati
down the price of cotton as low as
fifteen cents a pound. |
Mr. Martin also read comment of
his own written after Mr. Wana
maker had made his statement. Gov
g¢rnment i$ passing into the control of
a capitalistic aristocracy,” Mr. Martin
had observed. “The control of credit
has passed into the hands of people.
interested in high finance and specu
lation rather than in the production
of wealth, its proper function.” .
Mr. Martin reviewed briefly the
efforts of Southern interests to pre
vent the collapse in the price of cot
ton. Wanamaker had asked Hardin‘%r,‘
governor of the federal reserve bank
ing board, to assist in financing the
marketing of the 1920 cotton crop
with. the $60,000,000: earned by the
federal reserve banks, Harding had,
in effect, said to the Southern {irmer,
“Go home and help yourselves, we
will not help you.”
Wall street had borrowed heavily
in the South and the money was not
her with which to finance the cotton
.crop. . The federal banks would not
assist., Pricés collapsed.
“What was the object?” asked Mr.
Martin. “With fair prices the farm
ers were becoming independent of the
credit system, and without having to
‘depend on the money lenders could
go into the markets and demand a
fair net return for their products. This
would destroy the occupation of the
speculators and those »\go make their
millions out of high finance.’
No Quarrel with Public
“We have no quarrel with the nub
lic,” said Mr. Martin in turning to ti.e
subject of the present strike on th
Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic,
“This_controversy originated ig the
violation of the contracts of the rail
road with the men and our opposition
is solely against the illegal acts and
attitude ‘of the railroaa.” ;
Mr. Martin reviewed the railroad
wage question from the introduction
of t#e Cummins-Esch act in #bngress
to the latest turn in the strike. The
Cummins-Esch act had been passed he
Childrens Middy
Dresses at $2.75
Here they are and the prettiest patterns we have
seen in years, you’ll say so too when you see them.
Plaited in the newest styles, and priced at |
- $9.95 to $16.50
Misses and Child
rens School Hats
t
at 8¢
The Bazaar Store
New Satin
Pumps $5.00.
Black, Brown & Grey
COTTON--Good Middling _.._1034\
"'No Sales, No Receipts
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COL. BUGG REFUSES
Sl L S R
T 0 ATTEND HEARING
Col. B. L. Bugg, ex-president and
receiver of the Atlante, Bigmingham
ahd Atlantic railway, .S ’-",‘"fi an
nounced that he would s6t appear
before the hearing on the¢ A, B. &A.
waége controversy which began today
before the Railway Labor Board at
Chicago. s -
Col. Bugg’s reasous for non-appear
ance are summed up in the first para
graph of his “brief in response to res
olution to the Railroad Labor Board,
‘giving notice that a hearing would
be held in Chicago on Monday March
2lst to determine whether in the
;opinion of the board, the A. .B. & A,
has violated decision No. 2, by re
ducihg wages on_March Ist.
E The paragraph follows: ‘
_ “No order has been passed by the
Labor Board deternNning what
should constitute just and reasonable
~wages for this Receiver’s employes.
'Respondent did not become a carrier
‘until his appointment as Receiver ‘on
February 25th, 1921. He was not a
party to decision No. 2, July 20th.
11920, and is consequently not bound
thereby."” g
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i (By International News)
.. BERLIN, March 21.—The Ger
mans won an overwhelming victory
over the Poles in the plebiscite in
Upper Silesia Sunday, voting 700,000
to remain German against 469,000 for
~annodation to Poland, according to
the returns.
'~ Some disorder is reported among
the Allied forces wlho guarded voting
and were disappointed at tHe results.
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Sheriff Makes Big
Y Haul On Sunday
} Sheriff Dorminey and deputies Put
nam‘and Roberts made the biggest
’liquor haul of the season when they
secured a two hundred gallon copper
still and about three thousand gal
lons of beer about ten miles west of
the. city.
The" posse destroyed the fifty bar
‘rels of beer on the place and brought
the still outfit into town, attracting
considerable attention as they drove
down Central avenue Sunday after
noon. No arrests have as yet been
ihade in connection with the raid as
no one was found at the still.
‘said over the protest of the employesl
by the railroad interests; “bought and
paid for” by them because of,its pro
vision guaranteeing a profit from the
public funds: Immediately that the
subsidy provision of the act expired,
the railroads began an effort to de
stroy the law, St
Tge Esch-Cummins act sets up a!
legal tribunal to.settle all labor dis
putes, the Railway Labor Board.
This board has beeq ignored by the
operators of the Atlanta Birming
ham and Atlantic, as has the board
of mediation, created by the New
lands Act of 1913, and as have been
the wage contracts between the rail
road and its employes.
“In formet labor disputes it has
‘usually been the operators who told
us to observe the law,” said Mr, Maz
tin, “but in this controversy we are
going into court according to the
laws of the land and asking the
courts to assist us in upholding the
law, and in upholding a law whose
passage we fought.”
Plaid Skirts
“Where Values Speak
Louder than Wordsf’.
107-9 East Central
SHORT AND SNAPPY
NEWS OF THE WORLD
» BY TELEGRAPH
Center of Interest Will Switch
: to Atlanta Tuesday
. HEARING ' CONTINUES
Representatives of Men Are in
.~ Chicago before R. L. B.
Leader News Bureau,
4th National Bank Bldg,
« ATLANTA, March 21.—With
G, J. Goff, vice president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, and G. W.
Marshall, international represen
tative of the Machinists in Chi
cago to appear before the Rail
way Labor Beard in its hearing
to determine whether the Atlanta
Birmingham and -Atlantic Rail.
way violated the ruling inorder
No. 2, of board in reducing the
‘wages of employes.. ; i
Interest in the wunion strike
shifted from Atlanta today. Col.
B. L. Bugg, Receiver for the A.
B. & A, who was also cited to
appear before the board, declined’
to attend the conference for var
ious reasons, although he sent a
brief in which he assaileiz;the,
constitutionality of the TranSpor
tation Act under certain condi
tions, and declared his-‘s'tandft‘?“
be that the board is without jurs
isdiction in the case. B
The central action in the case
will return to Atlanta Tuesday
when Judge Samuel H. Sibley
will resume hearing on the peti
tion of union men to rescind the
order reducing wages isstted by
the receiver almost simultaneous
ly with his appointment by the
court. The:hearing is scheduled
to commence at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon and arguments will be
made by attorneys for both sides.
Col. Bugg’s office announced
that local freight service of the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlan
tic- will extend to all parts of the
road except the Waycross divi
sion, which is reached by other
linse. This, it was stated, will
enable the movement of fertiliz~
er s to go~on uninterrupted to
farmers who are ready for their
spring planting. This commod
ity -is the principal shipment of
the road at this time of year.
The employment department
of road is continuing to employ
men as fast as it can find suit
able applicants for the various
places made vacant by strikers.
(By International News Service)
" ATLANTA, March 21.—Freight
service has now been resumed over
practically all parts 6f the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic except the
Waycross branch. General Manager
W. W, Croxton stated today normal
schedules will be operating within the
next few days. Officials state that
they are filling strikers places. Both
sides are closely Wwatching %{:‘ceed‘
ings in Chicago before the ilway
Labor Board. ,
South Carolina Town
Suffers Bad Blaze
CHESTER, S. C, March 21—
Drennons General Store and two
‘warehouses, McWalters livery stables,
‘Richburg Drug Store at Richburg
were destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss $60,000,” partly insured.
Ladies Voile and
PongeeWaists.at ~
Official Organ
~ City of Fitzgerald
Childrens Middy
Blouses at $1.50
eor g et e
Waists $5.008
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