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The Fitzgerald Leader
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S, F. Gelders ____________Man’g Ed.
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THE FITZGERALD
DAILY LEADER » .
The Fitzgerald Daily Leader makes
its bow today to the Fitzgerald and
Ben Hill County public. How long
it will continue to appear is a matter
of conjecture, It will be published all
this week. That is assured. How
miich longer depends entirely on the
wishes of our advertisers, We would
like to make the Daily Leader a per
manent instifution but a newspaper
cannot be published entirely on hot
air,
Although the Daily Leader is pub
lished in diminutive size and sells for
the regular price of five cents per copy,
the expense of the telegraphic news
service is so great and the additionai
work required to publish it is such
that it will not be profitable to the
publisher evén though tne full limit,
240 inches, of advertising is carried in
each issue. The “little Leader” is of
fered simply as a service feature of
the Leader Publishing €ompany and
will be discontinued after this week,
or as soon as normal mail service
makes the service not absolutely: nec
essary, £
The Daily Leader and the Leader-
Enterprise and Press will carry tele
graphic news that happens up to five
hours after the local edition of the
Macon News is pringsed, fifteen hours
after the Macon Telegraph is printed,
sixteen hours afttr the Atlanta Con
stitution is printed, and twenty-three
hours after the Journal and Georgian
are printed. ;
FAIR AND IMPARTIAL 1
NEWS SERVICE
The Leader wishes to call attention
to the two “partisan” news stories on
the front page... one written and!
signed by Mr. W. W. Croxton giving |
the side of Col. B. L. Bugg as receiver
for the road; one furnished by Messrs.
W. M, Martin, C. L. Fox and P. C.
Collins, the press committee of the
Joint Federation Committee striking
employes of the A B, and A.
In this controversy the Leader has
found it impossible from the start to
include in a single news story a fair
and balanced ~ presentation of! both
sides of the controversy. It has pur
sued policy of giving each side, un
censo\rc'd by the editorial blue pencil,
a hearing and letting the reader draw
his own conclusions and form his own
judgement. -We believe the reader -to
be just as capable of drawing a fair
conclusion as is the editor. That
holds true for the new columns,
THE LEADER'S OPINION
ON THE STRIKE
The Leader in this controversy
takes the positten that the present
difficulties of the A. B. and A, rail
road and other roads of the country
are the strongest possible evidence in
support of its contention that the gov
ernment should own and operate the
railroads. While the government was
operating the railroads under an ab
surd arrangement that required it to
'pay six per cent on all outstanding
securities of the roads... water aud
all___criticism . upon criticism was
hurled at the government executives
and at the principle of government
ownership.
Now 'the railroads are back under
as great a degree of private control as
the sad experience of years have
shown to be safe. Immediately, all‘
over the nation begins the creaking
and rumbling that threatens.a tre
mendous crash. Remember .. the
present almost prohibitive freight
‘and passenger rates were put into ef
fect AFTER the government had re
linquished control of the roads and
..the present scale of flay was fixed
BEFORE the government relinquish
.ed control. Jt !
Consider critically ithe two sides
of the wage controversy as theyhave
been presented since December zsth‘
No concrete evidence has beert pre
sented by the A. B. and A. railroad to
show that the 1920 wage scale is un
just and unreasonable in itself, Re
cently President, now Receiver, Bugg
. SAID it was too high -and deduced
reasons why it was too high, or would
be too high now. : |
Col. Bugg says simply and force
fully that the A. B. and A. has not the
‘money wherewith to pay the present
-~ wage scale. ' Col. Bugg further
states that the road has %o means of
_ ip€reasing its earning caphcity. In
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A Thought for the Evening |
A VERSE AND A VIGNETTE
By Dan G. Bickers - : %’
. HARBINGERS OF SPRING i
Say, they tell me spring is coming, 'round’ the corner,
on her way, : : ' '
; Likely now to pay a visi! to this country any day___
But I'll believe she’s comin’ only when the dogwood is
in sight, - .
When that lazy feelin’ gets me an’ the fish begin to
bite. SR
How’ll I tell when spring has got here, what the sym
toms-and the signs,
Makes no dif'rence. T’ll be huntin’ up the poles and
hooks and lines, :
. hFor it’s comin’, sure and certain, an’ its almost now in
sight___ ; i £
! THE INVULNERABLE
When the lazy feelin’ gets me an’ the fish begin to bite,
‘ The Gods fought.___ :
; And were victorious over all foes, save one___ i
Stupidity they could not overcome.
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rmon to L.ive
7 By Rev: Elam Franklin bempsey, D. D. g
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' SOME WISE SAYINGS ;
Religion is the best armour in the world; but the worst cloak—
Bunyan., . ‘ \
Where love for God and man stops growing backsliding begins
—Exchange,. b ;
All T have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have
not seen.— Emerson. - ‘
It is a good deal easier to regulate the world than it is to get
your own house straight—Exchange. . |
~ Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
[ am thankful that thorns have roses.—Alphonse Karr. |
That which is past and gone is irrevocable and wise men have
enough to do with things 1 v« ¢t and to come.—Bacon.
Blessed are the hapjiiiss .makers . Blessed are they who
know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.—Beecher. |
Science keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but
by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.— Tyndal.
It harms us to think evil ; it harms us even more to say what we
think. It is for this reason that silence is so often golden.” But it is
also on the same general principal that it is worth while to speak a
pleasant word—if we can do no more.—Christian Work. |
EMPLOYES AND OPERATORS
PRESENT CONTENTIONS
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Labor Board in spite of the fact that
it was at their request that the Labor
Board ruled that it did not have juris
‘'diction. oA |
Twelfth, that the labor unions have
been on notice of the proposed re
duction in wages and the necessity
therefore since December 29, 1920,
Thirteenth, that the receivership
was forced by the union. i
Fourteenth, that they were fully in
formed that a receivership wiuld be
inevitable if they insisted on their im
possible demands. ‘
Fifteenth, that the success of the‘
strike can only mean the scrapping of
the road. :
Sixteenth, that in the face of this
inevitable fact the labor unions have
called the strike.
Seventeenth, that an already dis
tressed section of Georgia and Ala
bama is paying the fearful price of
the labor union avarice. |
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SAVANNAH LINER STUCK |
ON BOSTON MUD FLAT
(By International News Service)
BOSTON, March B—The Savan
nah liner, City of Columbus, carry
ing thirty passengers find valuable
cargo out of Savannah for Boston
ran on to mud flats in the harbor to
'day. Five tugs are assisting her. She
is not considered to be in danger. !
During a heavy fog this afternoon
thirty passengers were taken off the
stranded Savannah Liner off Lovell’s
Island: A
to the operator’s own statement, it i
impossible for the A. B. and A, anf
supposedly for other roads similarl
situated, to carn enough money to paj
a FAIR AND JUST scale of wages
to the men who do the work.
The A, B. and A. railroad is abso
lutely necessary to- this section. It
can not be operated and it can not be
dispensed with, if the statement of
Col. Bugg are true—and the Leader
has the utmost confidence in Col.Bugg
as ‘a business man, a gentleman and
a man. There is but one way to avoid
the dilemma__ OWNERSHIP OF
ALL THE RAILROADS. >
It is to the interests of the United
States .and every tax payer and every
shipper in the United . Statesthat
South Georgia and the other territory|
served by the A. B. and A, be devel
oped to the highest degree. Its -de
velopment s absolutely impossiblg
without the service normally given by
the A. B. and A railroad, But can we
‘ask that fifteen hundred of.our fellow
men, with the families dependent on
them, shall be offered up as an h
roic sacrifice on the alter of South
Georgia Progress. by forcing them
work for this railroad, to assist o
sectional development, at a wage that;
will not permit them the full. measure
of the necessities, comiorts, and I £
THE FITZGERALD LEADER TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1921.
BRITISH SHIP SINKS;
NINE HUNDRED DROWN
(By, International News Service) -
SINGAPORE, March 8-—Eigh:
hundred and sixty Chinese were los:
when the British steamship Hoanghc
(River.of Sorrows) was wrecked nea:
Swatow. The ship was bound fron ‘
Singapore to Amoy. Two hundréc
and fifty were rescued in life boat
which, when loaded to capacity, wer
forced to fight there way for a lon;
distance through swarms of drownins
men, beating them back from boat
with oars. The cause of the catas
trophe has not been determined.
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UNITED STATES STILL
FIGHTS WESTEKRN UNIO!
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March B—Ther
has been no change ia the orders o
the Navy Department vessel sent t«
the Florida coast to prevent the land-~
ing of the Western Union Cabl
from the Barbadoes, states the Navy
Department today. The State De
partment called on the Navy for :
report as to the submarine chaser
firing on a Western Union boat Sat
urday. President Carlton of the Wes
tern Union is here. §
Mr, and Mrs. Charles Bernard
Watts have as their guest at their
cozy home on West Central avenue
the latter’s father Mr. J. F. Nelson of
Kansas City," Mo. i
Mr. Charlie F. Taliaferro of Man
chester was a visitor in Fitzgerald
Sundai- 7 _-.;"
EMPLOYEES TO HAVE VOICE
Large Chicago Corporation introduces
“Constitutional Convention” Into
Its System of Management.
A ‘“caonstitutional convention” for
the purpose of providing the machip
ery by which employees of the Peo
ples’ Gas company of Chicago car
control their own working conditions.
has been arranged for by officials of
the corporation.
The plan is a. new one and it will
provide the employees Wwith equal au
thority in settling the questions of
‘wages, Y hours, working conditions,
rules and other matters that arise be
tween employer and employee.
According to the proposed plan the
departments and the groups of em
ployees will be divided off into pre
cinets of 50 each and each precinct
will have one representative;fto a
higher council whieh in turn will elect
the supreme council.
No officer, superintendent, foreman
or any one in authority will be per~
mitted to vote or to serve as a repre
sentative.* The balioting will be se
cret. : o
Workers Will Operate Plant.
Effective for an indefnite period,
employees of the Newbern Iron Works
and Supply company, one of the larg
est plants of its kind in eastern North
Carolipa, are to receive all profits
above cost of ‘operation.
This agreement was reached at a
meeting called to discuss a disagree
ment over a 20 per cent reduction in
wages. A suggestion by one of the
employees that the workers be per
mitted to operate the plant and dis
tribute the profits among themselves
was adopted by the company.
The new management at once cut
salaries of the office force, 10 per
cent. ’
Recently a 10 per eent wage reduc
tion was followed by a walkout. The
men -returned, however, but when a
second reduction of 10 per cent was
announced they conferred with the
management and suggested the
change in management.
SWEDEN PROVIDES FOR
LABOR ARBITRATION.
A central arbitration board
has been created by the Swedish
parliament. The board consists
of seven persons—three ap
pointed by the government, two
by the council of the employ
ers’ association and two by the
workmen’s national counecil.
The object of the board is to
render it easier for workmen
and employers to have collec
tive agreements correctly inter
preted, thus obviating recourse
to lockouts and strikes. Ap
peals to the board are to be vol
untary, and the decision of the
board will be final. )
Miners Re-Elect Lewis. '»
John L. Lewis of Springfield, 1., !
international president of the United
Mine Workers of America, was re
elected over Robert H. Harlan of
Washington, . and Phillip Murray of
Pittsburgh, international vice presi
dent, was re-elected over Alexander
Howatt of Pittsburg, Kan.
The election of Lewis is consid
ered by his friends as a triumph for
the conservative element among the.
coal miners, the issue, it is asserted,
having been his administration, but
more specifically his ‘abiding by the
order of Judge A. B. Anderson in the
soft coal strike and issuing a notice
calling the strike off,
To Open Miners' School.
To .educate miners and apprentices
is the object of a school opened in
Peoria, 111.,
Not only will the simple studies of
reading, writing and arithmetic be-'
taught, but the pupils will also be in
structed in mine timbering, ventila
tion and the modern methods of ex
tracting the supplies in the storehouse
of nature.
1t is feared that unless these schools
are maintained that there will be a
falling off in the supply of miners and
& shortage of -coal developed. .Sim
r schools are to be established else
ere in the state.
Urge More Homes for Sweden.
Danish trade unions, comprising all
e workers in the house-building in
stry, have adopted a resolution de
ding that the government, with
t delay, commence the building of
ellings to mitigate the “alarming”
wth of unemployment and the lack
housing accommodation,
Private contractors have practical
stopped building, as they say the
iness is unprofitable on account of
high wages and the dearth of ma
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lothing Workers Will Make Fight.
Charging that the Clothing Manu
urers’ association of New York
severing relations with the Amal.
mated Clothing Workers of Amer
has aimed:a blow at the founda
s of unionism, needle trades
ons pledged their “unqualified sup
_of the clothing workers in ‘the
ht that has been forced upon them.”
delegates formed an offensive and
ve needle trades alliance that
sented about 400,000 needle
kers. v
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_Newark’s Many Homeless,
Municipal officials report that New-
N. J, lacks 6,000 dwellings and
W..‘ ] ~“\'. i --\ il AE?;‘
. Deadly War Weapon.
Among the latest war terrors is a
foboarine tank, perfected by the
French. It is able to crawl along river
snq lake beds and suddenly appear in
the midst of an ‘enemy to open fire
with powerful guns, S
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Best Green Coffee 18C
White House Coffee .~......0 iidiidiibii.. i, 45c
Maxwell Hoisse Coffee ...............ce.eiv.... 450
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Goldberg Grocery Co.
220 East Pine St.® [[Phone 92
, We Sell For Cash Only. | -~
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Fumed Oak
ROCKERS
- $7900
Crex Art Squér’es
- The Vggnlg)e:: grade
~ Cost Price.
FEINBER(G
Furniture Store
117 East Pine Street.
Taking Nothing Along,
The womanly woman’s idea of
eling light, as we have learned
pctual observation, is to crowd every.
thing else into a steamer trunk ang
then carry all her hats in separate
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