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The Fitzgerald Leader Issued Daily By LEADER PUBLISHING CO. Isidor Gelders ..___.__.______Editor S, F. Gelders ____________Man’g Ed. SUBSCRIPTION RATE By Carrier ..............20c per wk. By Mail ..........,.....23c per wk. m ADVERTISING RATE Display Ad in Daily 30 cts per inch - Same Ad in Daily and Tri-Weekly. Both for 45 cts. inch 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 e T Y-S R OR D} - @ 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. WWW\\WW\“&\\\\: °I: : 2 rmon to L.ive 7 By Rev: Elam Franklin bempsey, D. D. g m ' 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 (Continued from Page 1) B 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. | s \ 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. s o 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 ' e s et \ 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 R ?;':_ _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. 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