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NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JULY 31.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
IN ADVANCE.
BROWN ANSWERS LABOR LEADERS
"Little Joe Defends His Platform
for United States Senate, Re
plying to Heads of Georgia
Federation,
To the People of Georgia: The heads
of the Georgia Federation of Labor,
viz., Messrs. Jerome Jones, W. C.
Puckett, Louie I*. Marquardt, S. U.
Marks and Robert Feehner, have made
an extended "reply” to the platform
upon which I am asking your votes for
the otlice of United State Senator.
This "reply" consists to a great ex
tent of flippant personal ridicule and of
a practical declaration against, my plea
for compulsory arbitration in disputes
between employers anil employees. On
these I do not deem it necessary to
comment.
Rut I call your attention to the fol
lowing extract from their "reply"
which refers to another phase of labor
unionism as shaped by some of the
very parties who are attacking me in
this "reply,” viz:
“ 'Little Joe’ says organized labor irt
‘affiliated 1 with negroes and helping
them form unions, and that this will
lead to ‘social equality.’ ”
"A more false and cowardly as
sertion has never been made. ‘Little
Joe' knows that there is not a single
white labor unionist in Georgia, or the
South, who would stand for that sort
of thing.
"It is true that we see no harm in
negroes forming unions among them
selves in certain of the trades. They
are human beings. Whatever will
tend to make better citizens of them
selves benefits not only the black race,
but the whites. The best white peo
ple in the South hold forth a helping
hand to this unfortunate people in
things material and moral.
"This is as it should be. And if, as
in the cbbc of the whites, the blacks
can better their moral and material
condition by forming co-operative labor
organizations among themselves, we
say in God’s name let them do it.”
These are very positive declarations.
Hut what is the proof in the ease?
The Southern Labor Congress, with
Jerome Jones, president, and W. C.
Puckett, secretary, at its lust annual
meeting in Nashville, Tenn., Septem
ber 1!), 191!i, voted to affiliate with the
negroes.
Webster'B dictionary defines affiliate
as meaning: “To receive into a family
as a son."
I have shown in a letter published
April 26, KILL that an organization of
carmen voted to "affiliate” with the
Georgia Federation of Labor, and
quoted a labor union paper as saying:
"We gladly welcome the carmen into
the family.” Therefore, when Jerome
Jones and W. C. Puckett voted to
affiliate with the negroes, were they not
thereby "letting down the bars?"
1 now call your attention to the fol
lowing information: There is, or was
a few weeks ago, a bricklayers' union
in Columbus, Ga. My informant wrote
to me: "The membership is composed
of both white men and negroes. Their
president is Henry Marshall, a negro,
who lives on Rose Hill, Columbus;
Charlie .Jones, another negro, is their
secretary and treasurer. The above
information was secured from Presi
dent Marshall. ’’
But there is confirmatory evidence of
the real intent of the labor federation
leaderB as to the negro, viz: Mr.
Jerome Jones, in his Journal of Labor,
answered my comments on the vote of
the Southern Labor Congress toalliliate
with the negroes. From that answer 1
quote:
"For business reasons—for economic
reasons there is no doubt of the wis
dom of organizing the negro, bettering
his working conditions, regulating his
hours of labor, within reasonable and
just limits, und making a standard of
wage for him in the various occupations
which he pursues.
This concedes the whole economic
part of the cuse 1 have made. They
would regulute the hours for work and
the wages which not merely "capital,”
but all employers, must pay not only to
negro bricklayers, but also to negro
butlers, ;coachmen, cooks, washerwo
men, seamstresses, etc. They would
enable the negroes in all occupations in
cities and towns to "hold up" their em
ployers. T his would be to the white
race in general more disastrous than
their negro affiliation plan, for they
could not enforce that on their own
members who do not propose to stand
for it; but if they raise the wages and
shorten the hours of all the negro ser
vants and other negro workmen and
women, they radically increase the ex
pense and multiply the troubles of every
white employer in the South. livery
white lady in whose home negro ser
vants are hired then becomes subser
vient to those negroes.
The statements they have made that
the Federation of Labor has a working
agreement with the Farmers' Union do
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N. B. More than 10,000 Georgia voters, including leading men
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not help their case at all, for anyone
may know that when the negroes in the
cities are "organized” to work only
eight hours per day and get higher pay,
the negroes in the country will lose no
time in enforcing eight hours per day
and higher pay. Every farmer, there
fore, who hireB negro labor can see
what is before him if the labor federa
tion continues its negro affiliation plan,
which its leaders clearly indicate their
determination to do. Even with pres
ent conditions, every white farmer in
Georgia is, by his work or by the work
he controls, carrying fifteen people on
his back. Shall the labor unions be al
lowed to make that burden heavier?
Now, how will the labor federation
teach the negroes to enforce their de
mands as above indicated? Why, of
course, by the strike. I have shown
that some of the foreign labor union
strikers in California, Washington,
Colorado, Michigan, Indiana, West Vir
ginia, I’ennsylvania, and I can now add
Montana and Arkansas, have dynamited
the homos of non-union workmen, and
murdered non-union workmen and offi
cers of the law. I repeat that foreign
labor union strikers have done these
felonies and murders in the States 1
have named. How, then, can we argue
that negro labor union strikers will not
burn and murder in order to enforce
the demands for which they go on strike
in Georgia? And with these facts ex
posed, do you wonder that the labor
union leaders seek to break their force
by alleging that I am fighting "labor,"
that I am "the foe of organized labor?"
Now, I ask the white members of the
labor unions in Georgia: Who is more
jealously guarding your honor and en
deavoring to steer you away from the
pitfalls of anarchy and contumely, Joe
Brown or your paid and trusted leaders
who are pocketing the high salaries
they are drawing from you and leading
you into the mire of lawlessness and
self-debasement? Will you follow Joe
Brown back to the law, or will you go
with your present leaders into negro
affiliation and the racial degradation
and probable war upon white employers
which are its logical results?
Let me here add that 1 have a letter
from a gentleman in a Middle Georgia
county from which I quote:
"Through this section of the State
there is a large number of negro secret
societies. In this county there is one in
every militia district, except one. There
is abundant circumstantial evidence to
support the opinion among white peo
ple that in these secret societies the
negroes discuss and try to regulate the
price of, cooking, nursing, chopping
cotton, etc. Also, it has been sug
gested several times that they made up
what is commonly known as a ‘black
list’ of white people, who have a very
hard time getting washerwomen, cooks,
nurses, etc. I have often thought and
wondered whether there was any con
nection between these negro secret so
cieties and the white union leaders of
the cities."
Finally, I call your attention again to
the fact that Samuel Gompers, presi
dent of the American Federation of La
bor, said that in Senator Hoke Smith
organized labor would always find "a
dependable friend.”
Senator Smith cannot be blind to the
fact that the labor unions have para
lyzed the public utilities, holding up the
commerce of the country and violating
the laws which command the carriage
of the mail. He cannot be blind to the
fact that these unions have voted to af
filiate with the negroes, and that the
unionizing of the negroes portends the
embarrassment of every white city
housekeeper and every white farmer in
the South who hires negro labor.
And yet he spends his time interfer
ing with the right of Congressmen to
name the postmasters in towns in their
districts, speaking and voting on both
sides of the canal tolls question, endeav
oring to curtail the parcel post regula
tions, appropriating as his own bills in
troduced by others, which bills he
thinks will be popular with the masses,
und in the meantime ignoring not only
the claims of white men to responsible
offices which are being given to negroes,
but also lifting not so much as his voice
to stay his friends, the labor unions,
from steps which, if taken with the ne
groes, will bring disaster to the white
people in every county in his State.
His affinity with the labor unions is in
disputable. In that affinity we find no
hope of protection from the menace the
negro affiliation policy of the leaders of
the unions holds over the white race in
the South. Joseph M. Brown.
Marietta, Ga., July 25, 191-4.
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Friends of Anderson Declare He
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Atlanta, Ga., July 27.—Most encour
aging reports from all sections of the
State are coming to the headquarters
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son, candidate for Governor.
Since the withdrawal from the race
of Hon. W. J. Harris, Director of the
Census, Mr. Anderson has had many
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Seventh Congressional district, in which
Mr. Harris lives. Friends of both Mr.
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of those who were supporting Mr. Har
ris prior to his retirement from the
race.
The situation, as it has developed,
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Another gratifying feature is the
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Why Anderson Will Make
Georgia a Good Governor
•— J. Randolph Anderson of Savannah,
President of the State Senate, will make
Georgia a good governor BECAUSE—
1. —He is in intimate touch with both
country and city life and knows the needs
of both.
2. —As representative, senator and in
other capacities, he has gained u wide
knowledge of Georgia’s affairs.
3. —He has a thorough knowledge of
Georgia’s financial condition and believes
in the state’s economical administration.
4. —He is a man of wide business experi
ence and would give Georgia a thoroughly
business administration.
j. Randolph And.rion. —He is the only candidate who has
offered Georgia voters a progressive and constructive plat
form of principles.
6. —He proposes to cut the politics of the state in half,
thus removing agitation and conducing to bettter business.
7. —He is a man of strong convictions and principles and
believes in the enforcement of all the laws.
8. —He is indorsed by farmer, merchant, laborer and capi
talist and takes pride in the indorsement of all because it is
an evidence of his sense of fairness and justice.
9. —He has always given everybody and every interest
a square deal.
10. —He is a thoroughly democratic gentleman and in
Georgia’s highest office would be a credit to the State.
A hundred other reasons might as easily be given.
No man has proposed a more substantial policy for the
benefit of the farmers of Georgia than has Mr. Anderson.
His plan to put substantial guarantee of title back of rural
•redits, means that rural credits will be welcomed alike
by lender and borrower. Drainage, good highways, pub
lic health, education, are some of the subjects he presents
with first thought for Georgia’s agricultural districts.
Randolph Anderson is a native of Georgia, born in Sa
vannah, September 4, 1S61. He is a member of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church, and a vestryman in Christ Church,
Savannah. He is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk.
He is a lawyer by profession, and has served Chatham
county three terms in the House and one in the Senate.
The united business men of Savannah have indorsed him
as a man, “broad, big and capable.” The Chatham county
executive committee has indorsed him as “a man who, as
governor, would reflect the best traditions of the State.”
Out of more than a hundred Georgia newspapers which
have made complimentary reference to him, the following
are selected at random:
—“A Htronsr m m and a loyal Democrat.**—Monroe Tribune.
—“Looks lik • our next Governor.** Pembroke Enterpriae.
—“Offers mt* hhii re ■< ami not personalities.**— Tift on Gazette.
—“Beat equipped in experience and ability.’*—Lyon* Progress.
—“Won'cl make a capable and faithful Governor.**—Jonesboro Nevra.
—“Will be our next Governor.”—Hazlehurst News,
—“It in the duty of South Georgia to support him.**—Darien Gazette.
—“Hi* platform hun a business ring.** —Mutter Advertiser.
—“Foremost man of the present legislature.**—Mncon Telegraph.
-“Bright, Capable und a Splendid Gentleman.”—Lincolnton Journal.
— *A man all Georgia should be proud to nominate”—Jasper Progress.
—‘HU speeches are thine of a constructive statesman.”—Milieu News.
—“Will make a splendid Governor, if elected.’*—Rockmurt News.
“Will make a most acceptable Governor”—Athens Banner.
—“Fine business man; will make a good Governor,**—Marietta Journal.
—“A man of high character and abilitj’.**—Mt. Vernon Monitor.
—“Hi* quiet, dignified ruce indicative of hi* policy a* Governor.”—Dub
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