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Volume XXXIII, Number 2.
COIL MINERS
OPERATORS CLASH
TO PUSH STRIKES IN ALABAMA
AND WEST VIRGINIA, SAY
MINE LEADERS
PERSECUTION IS CHARGED
Condition In Alabama Mine Region
Reported To Rival Those Existing
In Armenia
Indianapolis.—The United Mine
Workers of America plan to carry
a struggle with the coal operators of
Alabama and Mingo county, West Vir¬
ginia ‘‘to a finish," says astateinent
issued by the union officials.
According to the statement the un¬
ion’s international board has unani¬
mously adopted a declaration,
ing the Alabama and West
“miners the full moral and financial
assistance of the international un
ion.”
The text of the declaration as
sion of the last several days, but it
ed by the board also is made public.
It criticises the West Virginia gov¬
ernor for calling federal troops and
asserts if he were true to his oath
of office he would disarm private de
tectivea who, it is said, are employed
by the operators.
Regarding the Alaba na situation,
the declaration says: “It is question
able whether the people of Armenia,
the sufferings of whom have shocked
the world, are in any worse circum
stances than the oppressed mine
workers of Alabama. • •
Numerous business matters have
been before the board during its ses
sion of the last several days, but it
is said , . by the . union . officials that
consideration of Alabama and West
Virginia conditions was first given
December 4. Announcement of the
tion is made in the statement.
The text of the declaration as an
nounced by the board follows:
“The international executive
is impressed with the spirit of
sacrifice displayed by the mine work
era of Alabama in their wonderful
fight for the right to establish the
principle of collective bargaining and
compel recognition by the coal op
erators of the award of the United
States bituminous coal commission.
“The forty-two 4 thousand . men, worn
en and children who are engaged in
the struggle are suffering from the
most intense persecution heaped upon
them by the coal operators of that
state.
“Every conceivable method has been
used against them—eviction from their
homes, foreclosure upon their house¬
hold and personal effects, false arrest
and imprisonment, prohibition of the
right of assemblage, denial of their
statutory and constitutional rights,
unwarranted use of state troops in
the coal fields, denunciation by an
unfavorable press and a most mali¬
cious public campaign of misrepresen¬
tation have all failed to break their
dauntless spirit.
“It is indeed questionable whether
the people of Armenia, whose suffer¬
ings have shocked the world, are in
any worse circumstances than the op¬
pressed mine workers of Alabama.
“in Mingo county, West Virginia,
a struggle of equal importance is be¬
ing waged. The miners of that terri¬
tory were locked out by their employ¬
ers because of their desire to organ¬
ize and their request for the recogni¬
tion of the principle'of collective bar¬
gaining. : I
it BRIDE’S STRIKE" IS
URGED BY WOMAN
TO PREVENT WAR
Also If Married Women Would Refuse
To Give Birth To Children, War
Would Cease, She Opines
Milwaukee.—Advocating a “bride’s
strike" and the refusal of married
women to give birth to children until
future wars are made impossible,
ihrough disarmament of nations, Mrs
Jesse H. Mackay, president of the Mi)
yvaujiee Peace society, and chairman
of a mass meeting held here recent¬
ly, declaring that in this way press¬
ure could be brought which would pro¬
duce immediate results. The Milwau¬
kee society is affiliated with the Na¬
tional Peace society,
Probe Proposed Of Southern Voting
New York.—Investigation of alleged
violent, illegal and unconstitutional
disfranchisement of colored people in
Southern states” looking toward re
duction of congressional representa¬
tion in such states as provided in the
fourteenth amendment to the Con¬
stitution, was urged upon the house
committee on the census by the na¬
tional association for the advancement
of colored people in a letter to Rep
resentative Siegal, chairman of the
committee, just made public.
THE HOME PAPER OF THE BEST PEOPLE OF THE PEACH PARADISE OF THE WORLD.
The Leader-Tribune
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FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1920. EIGHT PAGES
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CONING HERE SOOK
! COMMUNITY SERVICE TO OR
GANIZE PLAYGROUND WORK,
COMMUNITY SINGING, ATH
LETICS, AND TRAIN LEADERS.
At a nonsectarian meeting held at
the Methodist church Sunday after¬
noon Mr. F. W. Dixon, a representa¬
tive of Community Service, Inc., of
New York, with Southern headquar¬
ters in Atlanta, presented plans of
that organization for assisting cities
and towns in developing community
I playground work for children, re¬
creation and athletics for young and
old, community singing, and other
forms of recreation looking to the
promotion of health and good morals
among the young people of the com¬
munit.v. By furnishing experts for a
limited time to direct this work and
train local volunteer leaders to carry
i it on Community Service is seeking
j to return to contributors the remain
der 0 f f un ds left over from their war
j j service. deal during This the organization war in providing did a great tor
I ! social service and recreation for the
j soldiers in the great ca nips of the
country. The end of the war left this
organization with money and train* J
workers on its hands. To return this
’ moneys to the individual subscribeis
’ would be impossible, as their na lies
are not known. Community Service,
j nC-> seeks to return it to those '•om
munities that will meet the condi¬
tions by giving such communities
free of charge the services of these
trained worke rs for a limited time,
A playground and athletic director
i and , community s.ngmg leadeiw-11 ■ be ,
' begin this
sent to Fort Valley to woik
an early date. I he application loi
; their services was signed by twenty
five or thirty citizens at the meeting
j Sunday afternoon and a comnrrttee
was appointed by the chairman of H.e
meeting, Dr. C. R. Jenkins, to so
licit popular subscriptions to provide
( the necessary playground apparatus
and f or its installation and other ar
rangements necessary to carry o”t
the plan. This will require about
$2,500.00. Col. R. E. Brown, Prof.
Ralph £ Newton, Mr. C. E. Martin. Mrs.
’ CoI . c . L . Shepard and
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j others . spoke at this meeting' in ear
advocacy of the plan. Prof. New
ton drew an impressive contrast bq
tween the attention grven to the
peach interests of this section arc!
that given to the physical and moral
welfare of the young people of the
section. He pointed out that the
young people had been forbidden
this, that and the other form of re¬
creation—had been told what they
must NOT do—but had been pro¬
vided nothing to do in place of the
pleasures forbidden them, He and
others present heartily endorsed the
Community Service plan.
The following constitute the com¬
mittee appointed to look after the
city’s part of the program: R. E.
Brown, C. E. Martin, F. W. Withoft,
A. J. Evans, H. C. Neil, W. L. Nance,
J. W. Woolfolk, C. T Eberharlt, C.
L. Shepard, Mrs. C. E. Martin, Mrs
W. J. Braswell, Miss Etta Carkhers,
Mrs. L. L. Brown, and six ladies from
the women’s clubs of the city jtj he
selected later.
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HISTORY CLUB WILL MEET
WITH MRS. FRANK FINCHER
Mrs Frank Fincher will be. the j
hostess *t the meeting of the HistTo
ry Club on December 14. Fiction will
■be the subject for study and the pro
gram will be in charge of Mrs. Bettie
Williams. In response to roll call the
members will mention a new book
and its interest, It has been said 1
that “Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out. ' ' Those ap
pearing on the program Tuesday
will be Mesdames J. W. Rundell, C.
E. jVIartin, John Vance and John
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Houser.
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NEW DEACONS ELECTED |
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
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The new deacons elected at the :
Baptist church at the annual busi-!
ness meeting last Thursday night
were Messrs. E. L. Duke, W. D. Du
Pree, and W. R. Fuller. The ordina¬ S
;
tion service will be held early in Jan¬
uary. Two deacons were elected to
fill the places made vacant on the
i
board by the death 0 / Mr. W. H.
Jones and the removal to Florida of
„ ^ r _ T . Tillman. One ,, deaco , w s
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elected as the B. Y. P. U. deacon,
FORT VALLEY BOVS WHO
DID STELLAR WORK ON
GA. ELEVEN THIS YEAR
(^Acknowledgment is made to Jimmie Fagan, Jr., and to the Editor of
“The Red and Black,” for the use of these cuts.
DICK HARTLEY
Who has established a new South¬
ern gridiron record.
By Jimmie Fagan, Jr.
The above picture of Dick Hartley
was taken just before he entered
the game against South Carolina, in
which he established a Southern
gridiron record which will remain u n .
changed for quite a long while. Dur¬
ing this game he ran 175 yards for
two touchdowns in less than one inn
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first touchdown was a beautiful i 00
yard run from the kick-off when he
gracefully glided thru and eluded tin
entire Gamecock eleven. The second
touchdown was made immediately
after that when he ran for 75 yards
for a touchdown from Georgia’s 25
yard line on the first play, after the
second kick-off.
It was dick who caught the forward
pass from Cheeves and scored a
touchdown on Auburn, thus winning
the game, which was the first that
Georgia had won since 1912. This
was the only score of the game. He
also starred in the Clemson game on
thanksgiving Day, mien he made
three touchdowns. Two or these were
over fifty yards runs thru a broken
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During the ..... entire season Dick n . . has ,
™>red s,xty-s,x points, which » the
mark for the team. There were
£'ht runs of over fifty yards during
the season, and Dick made six oil
these. When it. copies to getting down
the field under forward passes Dick
has no peer. He simply cannot miss
them if they come in his direction.
On account of an injury last year
be was kept ont of the game for more
than half the season but he has made
a wonderful half-back for the Georgia
e ] even this fall. He weighs 108 pounds
is the fastest man in the S, I,
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Cartersvi'iii Boosting Tech
Cartersville. Secretary George
Woodrow, Jr. of the Cartersville
chamber of commerce, has perfected
plans for holding a booster meeting
of this organization. Officers for the
ensuing year will be elected, and oth
er matters of special interest will he
discussed. A speaker coming Tiere
the auspices of the Georgia
Teach will also be heard, as he pre¬
sent8 p ] ans f or developing this Geor
gia institution.
LOWER INTEREST
FOR RESERVE BANK
SENATOR HARRIS WANTS LAW
PASSED AUTHORIZING LOANS
AT FIVE PER CENT TO AID
SOUTHERN FARMERS.
Atlanta.—Dot, . us si ! ;u'-rea ch
big measure of aid to the Soulhern
farmers in their desire to finance
themselves without being forced to
sacrifice their products at a low
price, United States Senator Wil¬
liam J. Harris lias prepared an amend¬
ment to the federal reserve banking
dot which he will introduce in the
senate to require the federal reserve
banks to loan money at live per cent
instead of the present high rates of
interest. The amendment will also
provide for long time loans.
Senator Harris was in Atlanta re¬
cently en route to Washington and,
in an interview, announced his pur¬
pose to work for speedy passage of
the amendment. The final text had
been completed, hut he said he ex¬
pected to have it finished shortly,
so as to be able to introduce it early
in the new session.
On agricultural and live stock pa¬
per maturing within a period of six
months the federal banks of the sixth
district charges an interest rate of
seven per cent. Senator Harris said
that the margin between this rate,
which member hanks are permitted
to charge, is not sufficient to per¬
mit the member institutions to bor -
row and offer loans to farmers that
will enable them to carry their prod
ucts.
Reduction to five per cent on loans
to member banks would greatly en¬
courage non-member hanks to join the
federal reserve system, he stated, and
would give more money to carry the
cotton farmers ,w!io particularly
the facilities that will afford them
the opportunity to market their crops
gradually and at a price which the
crop fairly demands. This opportun
ity will he provided, he says, through
I tho proposed decrease in the federal
| reserve ing long-time interest rate and the grant¬
of loans.
I “The federal reserve banks were
! created to make money,” stated
' tor Harris, “but to meet the
tions confronting the country, and
only way to meet the conditions exr
isting today is by a lower rate of
terest.”
In addition to the amendment Sen¬
ator Harris declared that he expects
to lend his aid in every manner pos¬
sible to plans for the exportation of
cotton to Germany and other Euro¬
pean countries, “If the European
countries can he financed,” he contin¬
ued, “they will consume enormous
quantities of cotton, which they are
eager to get. They have tho mills
and the employees, both largely idle,
until export companies can arrange
to get the cotton ’’
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NEW AUTOMOBILE LICENSE
TAGS TO BE READY DEC. 15
Secretary of State S. G. McLen¬
don has issued notices that the 1921
license numbers for automobiles will
be on sale beginning December 15,
and that application blanks may be
obtained from sheriffs and any li¬
censed automobile dealer. Separate
lidenses are required for owners and
chauffeurs. It is urged that orders
for the new numbers be placed at
once to avoid delay, as no extra time
or days of grace will be allowed in
1921.
The Leader-Tribune has a limited
number of these application blanks
which wilt he given to the first who
call,
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JESSE HARTLEY ASSIGNED
TO LANIER HIGH SCHOOL
Fort Valley Boy, Now Home on Fur
lough, Appointed Assistant
To Major Clifford J.
Mathews.
Friends of Sergeant Jesse B. Hart¬
of Fort Valley, now at home on
from service with the Amer¬
ican forces in Siberia, will be inter¬
to know that he has been ap¬
pointed assistant military instructor
Lanier High School in Macon to
Major Clifford J. Mathews.
Sergeant Hartley entered' the ser¬
in 1910, just before the Jrouble
Mexico, and has seen service
many /parts of the world, includ¬
six months in the Philippines and
year and a half in Siberia.
His appointment to Lanier gives
Mathews two assistants and
military training at Lanier is to
speeded up considerably.
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Narrowness of mind is often the
of , obstinacy: , ,. we do , not . easily i
beyond what we see.
—La Rochefoucauld,
MERCER MURRAY
One of the boys in Georgia’s
great defensive line.
By Jimmie Fagan, Jr.
Mercer Murray has made a great
i start at the University of Georgia in
the athletic field. The foot-ball sea¬
son which closed last Thanksgiving
found Mercer among those present on
the squad. Mercer plays guard and
certainly showed great ability for
playing this position by his excellent
work. lie was one out of the four
freshmen who played on Georgia’s
varsity this year and this is saying
a good deal, for there were a number
of Georgia’s last year men sitting on
the bench. Altho a freshman this year
he certainly gave some of the last
year’s men a severe scare for their
positions by his supreme efforts. Mer¬
cer played on the varsity this year
against Citadel, South Carolina, Fur¬
man, Oglethorpe and Florida, and
substituted in a number of other
games.
If Mercer doesf not happen to an in¬
jury he will undoubtedly make Geor¬
gia’s regular squad next year. With
three move years to play foot-ball at
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he showed as freshman this year
the gridiron, it will be absolute¬
ly sure that Georgia’s great stone
line will have a very strong cog
in Mercer next season.
Basket-ball practice starts next
and Mercer will bo on the
floor to compete for a position. He
made a remarkable record at G. M. A.
last year and he expects to play on
the Red and Black’s quintet this win¬
ter, and from all that is reported he
will sure cinch a place, •
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HEARINGS FOR BAIL IN
SHEPARD CASE POSTPONED
The preliminary hearings of appli¬
for bail for Mrs. F. E. Elmer, ’
lone Henry and Ernest Hopson
were to have been held before
H. A. Mathews in Bibb Supei
Court last Tuesday, have been
it is 'lnnounced, until Tues¬
Dec. 14. So far bail has not been
for in the case of Mrs. Annie,
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An obstinate man does not hold
but they hold him.—Pope,
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LIBERAL CREDITS
MAY BE PROVIDED
PROPOSALS CONTAINED IN JOINT
RESOLUTION DRAFTED BY
SENATE COMMITTEE
PASSAGE ALMOST CERTAIN
Supporters Of Resolution Are Confi¬
dent That It Will Be
Passed
Washington.—Revival of the war fi¬
nance corporation and action by the
federal reserve board permitting ex
tension by banks of ‘‘liberal” credits
to farmers would be directed in a joint
resolution drafted "by the senate agri¬
cultural committee. The resolution
will be reported to the senate by Sen¬
ator Gronna of North Dakota, the
agriculture committee chairman, who
will ask for immediate consideration.
Members of the committee drafting
tlie resolution expressed confidence
that enough votes were assured to
bring about its prompt passage, but
members of the finance committee in¬
dicated that they would ask that it
first be referred to them for consid¬
eration inasmuch as the war finance
corporation was created under a bill
drawn by their committee.
Restoration of the war finance cor¬
poration to furnish financial aid to
farmers also would be directed in a
concurrent resolution presented in
1 the house by Representative Byrnes
of South Carolina.
| cided The senate to agriculture its resolution committee de
j report as a
I committee measure, hoping thereby to
save time. With unanimous consent
t under the senate rules the resolution
would be read twice in one day and
p i ace d on the calendar for passage,
Senator Norris of Nebraska, a mem¬
ber of the agricultulture committee,
first proposed a concurrent resolution,
which does not require approval by
the president, but other members ob¬
jected on the ground that such a res¬
olution would not he strong enough.
While not anticipating the action of
the president, Democratic senators
made clear their intention of voting
to^uverride a veto if necessary.
The senate committee’s resolution
declares that “unprecedented and un¬
paralleled distress” exists among the
farmers because of their inability to
market their products at prices equal¬
ing the cost of production and that,
the people of Europe are in “dire
need” of these products, but unable to
purchase because of existing financial
conditions. The resolution further re¬
cites that banks have been unable to
extend credit to farmers so they may
hold their' products until “they can
be sold in a fair and reasonable mar¬
ket.”
D’Annunzio And Italy Make Settlement
Rome.—A dispatch to the Epoca
from Flume says an agreement with
Gabriele d’Annunzio has virtually been
concluded as a result of the visit of
the special commission sent to wait
upon him by the chamber of deputies
The disaptch adds that the Islands of
Veglia and Arbe will be evacuated and
that Italy will recognize the regency
of Quartero. The Italian chamber of
deputies recently appointed a special
committee comprising representatives
of ali the constitutional parties to go
to Fiume in an effort to convince
d’Annunzio that the highest interests
of the mother country required his
submission to the terms of the Ra
palio treaty, entered into between It¬
aly and the Jugo-Slavs.
D. Of C. Court Sets Aside Injunction
Washington, The injunction
against the shipping board forbidding
the sale of former german passenger
liners, issued by the district supreme
court on application of William Ran¬
dolph Hearst, was set aside by the dis¬
trict court of appeals. Subsequently
uciion by congress authorizing sale
of the ships, the court said, made
the question involved as to the board's
powers a “mooted” one.
Western Union Loses L. & N. Suit
Washington.—The Western Union
Telegraph company lost its fight for
an injunction restraining the Louis¬
ville and Nashville railroad from re¬
moving its telegraph lines from the
railroad’s right of way when the su¬
preme court refused to review the de¬
cision of the lower courts.
Drunkenness Cause Of Courtmartial
Washington.—Drunkenness contin¬
ued to be the principal cause for
trial of enlisted men of the navy
for desertion or over-staying leave
during the past fiscal year, according
to the annual report of Rear Admiral
George B. Clark, judge advocate gen¬
eral, to Secretary Daniels. Of 1,725
such cases during the year pleas of
drunkenness were entered in 384 cases,
the re l >ort ' Th e excuse “having
a good E time” was given . in 362 cases,
Ho me8lckness call8ed ninety sailors G,
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