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. Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
' Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
LAW OR ANARCHY?—We¢ have been in the
habit of looking for anarchists and law breakers
among the poor and working classes, but the U.
S. Labor Board intended to be the highest authori
ty in labor disputes, has found them exclusively
among the railway corporations and their highly
paid executives. Anarchy is the total disregard
of established laws to govern the individual, or
society, and those who defy the authority of the
law made for the protection of society and the or
der by proceedure established for its enforcement
are as much anarchists, as though they were guil
ty of open revolt against the government in any
or all of its functions.
Do We Believe In Law?
Because if American laws are generally to be
scorned and flaunted as the decisions of the Rail
way Labor Board have been and are flaunted, the
Nation is being brought to the brink of dissolution
and anarchy, due primarily to open revolt led by
the receiver of the A. B. & A. Railway and that of
the Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railway Co.
followed by the Frie and Pennsylvania lines.
This law was passed by the same authority that
makes all of our laws, the Congress of the United
States and approved by the President and the ruth
less disregard of this law by these corporations is
not any less anarchy because done by men of
wealth 2nd powerful corporation thar if they had
been violated by the hluccst cmployee of these
offenders. g
You men and women constituting the g(-m-ml‘
public, who may be the greatest sufferers flmmqh‘
the flagrant violations of these laws made by your
Government for your protection, it is your duty to
fully inform yourselves of the causes leading up
to this pending strike brought on by these promi
nent railway officials and makeup your judgement
trom the facts and not through prejudice.
The only protection laboring men have is thru
' erganization and collective efforts. If you want
this country Mexicanized and populated with a
peonized labor element, force the dissolution of
the labor organizations and you will soon arrive
at your ambition.
IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME—It is not the
first time we have been threatened with a country
wide railroad strike. And the big strike has never
come to pass this year though we don’t question
come to pass this year, hough we do not question
the deep-seated determination on both sides to
_carry on the fight to this ultimaté end. The rail
road officials are desperate in their present finan
cial embarrasment, and they will insist on the
wage reduction even if a general strike is the out
come, and the labor unions feel like they went the
limit when hey permitted the reduction in wages
to go into effect July Ist. They will walk out un
less. -
There is always the chance of official interfer
ence from Washington. No political party and
no administration, wants a nation-wide srike while
it is in its power Besides there are business in
erests in the country other than the railroads that
have rights. These interests will demand that
their rights be considered, and they will urge very
strongly—with force if necessarv--that the well
being of the country as a whole be not sacrificed
while railroad men and railroad officals carry on
war.
There are some, possibly, who would like to see
the big strike tried out. They have heard threats
until they want to see what will be the outcome
of the strike when it does take place. Some doubt
very seriously the ability of the labor unions to
tie up all traffic and keep it tied up. Others be
lieve that the country could get along with not a
single train running. While the railroads and the
~employes are chewing on each other and destroy
ing each other, we will receive coastwise trade
river trade, home production of the necessaries of
hfe and truck lines. After a general tie-up of a
few weeks the railroads will find that they have
lost business that will never return to them. Rev
“enue will be diverted that will never come back.
The employes will be suffering along with the
railroad owners. They cannot permanently draw
mare wages than traffic will warrant. Regular
employment and good wages depend, in the final
analysis on the roads doing good business No
one will question the fact that labor can deal the
-roads a blow from which they will never fully re
- cover, but the blow will be a boomerang. It will
fly back and hit the employes as hard as it hits
the owners of railroads.
A strike is as foolish as war. It is like war in all
- who are engaged in it or touched by it, lose. Ev
goo the apparent victors are losers. It is again
ssible for the railroads to gain as much even
d they carry their point and get the wage re
pEtion as they would lose in fighting a general
" strike. The employes, though they might win
their point and defeat the ten per cent reduction
in wages, would lose more by the strike than thc
ten per cent reduction in wages, will amount to.
A strike is a foolish proceedure; just as foolish as
war ,and almost as destructive. As in war, the
mnocent bystanders suffer. The bystanders are
rumerous and powerful enough, if they acted to
gether to prevent strkes, and means of prevention
should be found. There is a sense in which the
railroads belong to the public, and the employes
of the railroads are really servants of the public
that they serve and derive their living from. That
public that puts up the money for dividends on
railroad stock, handsome salaries for railroad of
ficials, and big wages for railroad employes should
raise a big club and instruct the road officials and
the workmen to get together, with an umpire, and
settle their troubles while the trains are running—
Moultrie Observer.
THE RAILROAD SITUATION—The Railroad
brotherhoods appear to favor government owner
ship of the railroads. Both President G. W. Lee
of the Trainmen’s Union and Warren S. Stone,
president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
nicers, have expressed themselves of that proposi
tion.
[Furthermore Mr. Stone declares that the threat
cned strike can be averted by the limitation of the
proposed ten per cent wage reduction and the es
tablishment of favorable working agreements on
seventy-five railroads. As we see it, there is no
chance for the elimination of the proposed wage
reduction. In regard to favorable working agree
ments that of course would be a matter of further
consideration.
Mr. Stone says: “The government can prevent
the strike by taking over the railroadas, and that
is what will eventually happen.” We don’t believe
it. We are opposed to government ownership of
lailroads, or other public utilities such as telephone
lines and telegraphs. This was triet as a war
measure and was necessary at that time. But
government operation of railroads and telegraph
and telephone lines during that period, demonstra
ted to a nicety that the people don’t want THA'T |
except as an emergency measure, |
If the railroads would reduce freight and pass
enger rates at the same time they put into effect
the wage reduction, their position would be great
or strengthened and the probabilities of recall of
the general strike considerably increased.—Rome
Tribune Herald.
RAILROAD STRIKE SITUATION—The pend
g strike situation of railroad employees has now
grown acute unless some conciliatory action is tak
en, there 1s no question but that the entire country
will be tied up, and suffering and possible starva
tion, will come to many sections of the country.
Irrespective of the merits of the case on either
¢ide, there can be no justification of a strike of this
character. The welfare of the people 1s at stake
and not set of men, be they employees or officials
have the moral right to pitch this country into a
state of excitement over a serious condition where
life and property will be at stake. There is no
sane reason for strikes. If the employer and em
ployee cannot agree and adjust their differences,
then a settlement should be reached by arbitration
Arbitration is the only reasonable and fair way by
which differences should be settled. Whatever
may be the verdict of the arbitrators, both factions
should accept it in good grace and abide the deci
sion without murmur.
The reasons for the strike are summed up as
tollows: A cut of ten per cent in wages which
would bring wages back to the level which prevail
ed prior to 1920, This reduction is resisted by the
cmployees and a strike vote has been polled which
resulted in an overwhelming vote favoring the
strike. The strike has been called for October 30
The number of workers involved is over two mil
lion. The strike would tie up every railroad of
importance in the United States, from Maine to
California and from the extreme north to the south.
However, it is hoped that President Harding
may be able to devise some means by which an
amicable adjustment of the differences and a set
flement may be reached hefore the day set for the
strike to oceur,
Strikes are un-American and there should be leg
islation enacted which would provide for scttle
ment of differences of this character by a legally
constituted board from which there should be no
appeal. Arbitration is the only just and rightful
way through which to reach irregularities and the
settlement of differences cannot be agreed upon
hy contracting parties. —Athens Herald.
A CORRECTION-——'l'hmugh an error the credit
Ime in column two of the editorial page headed—
"On with The Strike!!" ‘in Wednesday’s edition
was left out. This article should have been cred
ited to the Cordele Dispatch.
—_—
Caterer—Have you any board money, Frosh?
Frosh—Naw, 1 ROt paper money, —Penn. State
Froth, .
it it '
May-—Do you notice any change in me?
Ray—No, why? o
May—T've just swallowed a nickel.—Tepics of
the Day Films, -
What makes you think Ricks has lots of money ?
He always reads the left hand side of the mend
first.—American Legion Weekly.
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Active Spirits
Pastor-—You scem a bright and dutiful child. 1
presume your dear mother attends to your spirit
val training.
Little Oliver—You said it! She spanks me with
hfr ouija board.—Houston Pdst.
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If Back Hurts
Take a Glass of Salts to Flush
Kidneys if Bladder Bothers
You |
kating meat regularly cventually‘
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BANKRUPT SALE
3 By Order of the court of Bankrupt
‘cy' there will be sold between the le
gal hours of sale on October 27' 1921,
for cash to the highest bidder, in front
of the store room at 1 ember 117 ca~t
e street, Fitzgerals, “eorgia, all of
the assets of L. Femnlerg, bank. I.’
consisting principally o stock o' fur
ature and notes ani 17 ounts This
October 15, 1021,
| Claywen Jay, Truswe,
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Mrs, J. W. Greenawalt and two
children returned Thursday from At
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