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VOL. XVIHI
OTRIKE NEGOTIATIONS FAIL
.COMMERCE CHAMBER URGES LABOR TO HELP END TIE-UP;
U. S. OPERATION OF SHIPS EARNED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
Payne Gives Figures on Receipts
From All Vessels Since the
Signing of the Armistice.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Net
earnings of the shippig board in a
period of slightly more than six
months following the armistice
amounted to $166,493,994.85, accord
ing to figures laid before the Senate
Commerce Committee Wednesday
afternoon by Chairman John Barton
Payne of the shipping board.
Wrman Payne presented figures
to show that net revenue from opera
tions to June 30, 1919, were $166,493,~
994.85 and that the balance of re
ceipts over dishursements for opera
tions to December 31, 1919, was $137,-
_fl’,lot.fl. . |
"~ A total annual saving of $8,659,-
072.18 has been effected by the pres
ent administration of tHe board,
Chairman Payne announced. Figures
(‘were presented showing that on Feb
ruary 10 the total cargo fleet was
1,673 vessels, with a dead weight ton- |
nage of 9,282,122, It was shown that
159 cargo vessels with a dead weight
tonnage of 959749 have been sold.
The passenger fleet now consists
of thirty-two vessels, the greater part
of which consist of the ex-German
passenger liners. Seven passenger
ships, built by the board, have been
sold.
The active program of the board
20w calls for a fleet of 2,311 vessels
at a tonnage of 13,692,710, Chairman
Payne said.
\ The large earnings shown by Chair
man Payne's report were made dur
ing a period when the merchant ma
rine was being adjusted to peace
time conditions, it was pointed out,
and indicates huge profits from the
operations of the vessels.
Anti-Saloon Chief Is
Bitterly Assailed
) (By International News Service.)
ALBANY, N. Y., March 11.—Wil
liam D. Anderson, State superin
" tendent of the Auti-Saloon League,
which may be subjected t, legislative
investigation of its prohibition lob
bying, was today charged with fo
)nenting a revolution within the
United States by Assemblyman Louis
A. Cuvellier.
“We have been asked to throw out
the Socialist,” declared Cuvei]lier,
who besides being a member of the
Judiciary Committee which conducted
the Socialist inquiry, is sponsor for
the investigation resolution aimed at
the .\nti-Saloon League. ‘“We are
askec to expel them [ giving aid
and comfort to an enemy outside the
country, but we n't done any
ng vet with Anderson, who is caus
m a rev.lution within the country by
bringing the religious question to the
fore.
“Mr. "Anderson is 6 feet tall, 4%
years old, and big and healthy, but I
did not see him in any war for his
country,” continued Cuvellier. “He is
a moral and physical eoward and the
thirty-five ex-service men in this As
sembly resent his threatening and
bulidozing. Remember there was one
man sent to the penitentiary for in
sulting the IL.egislature. If the Re
ypublican party had a leadc in this
State, Anderson would be in jail long
ago.”
Macon and Chattanooga
Census Figures Friday
(By International News Service.)
' WASHINGTON, March 11.—Pre
liminary population returns for 1920
will be announced by the census bu
reau Friday for Macon, Ga.; Chatta
nooga, Tenn.; Cambridge, Md.; Shel
burn, Ind.; Coatesville, Pa.; Forest
Cly. Pa.; Lewiston, P and
“Waynesboro, Pa.
OVER 50,000 ‘LAST LINES’ TO LIMERICKS —sso EACH FOR BEST
24-Hour{ TUi ot Taiversat News Service
Liquor Smuggling
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Planes Darken Air
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In Florida, She Says
(By Universal Service.)
CHICAGO, March 11.—Airplanes
and all types of seacraft are car
rving on an immense liguor smug
gling business along the Florida
coast, according to Mrs. Roland R.
Hurford, who spent six weeks near
Palm Beach.
‘“The ocean is crowded with all
kinds of vessels and the air is dark
with aircraft—mostly hydroplanes
—all engaged in smuggling whisky
to the Florida coast,” Mrs. Hurford
said.
“The source of supply is an island
called Bimini, under the British
protectorate, 65 miles off the coast.
Every vessel that can be stolen,
bought, begged or chartered, is sent
to Bimini and loaded with liquors.
“They bring it to the three-mile
limit and then the hydroplanes fly
out. The whisky is thrown over
board with buoys attached and
picked up by the planes and
brought to land.”
Allied Officers Are
Stoned by Germans
(By International News Service.)
- LONDON, March Ill.—Another at
;unck by Germans upon allied army
lofi'icers was reportoq from Be;lluw
today. A group of British, . French
and ““Relgiun officers were stoned
while passing through Brandenburg,
said a dispatch from Berlin.
~ Reports are current in Berlin that
France still' demand indemnity for
the French soldier who was killed at
Weinitz by a German policeman.
; Herr Bauer, German chancellor, has
iissued an appeal to the German pub
lic to treat allied army officers po
!litely and threatens sever measures
ilo prevent further attacks.
Scotland Going Dry,
. Bishop Welldon Thinks
§ By BISHOP WELLDON,
I Dean of Durham.
(Special to Universa! Service.)
| LLONDON, March 11.—It is possible
within twelve months of a little more
that all Scotland will have followed
America’'s example and gone dry.
The experiment in Scotland by pro
hibition forces will be a local experi
ment, and it is expected that the re
\su'lting officiency and morality will
finduce other areas to follow suit. .
. I hope Scotland will be the
'pioneer in reform in which England
will perhaps, at no distant date, fol-
Ilow suit.
Foch Finds Politics
Lost in Clouds, He Says
(By Universal Service.)
' PARIS, March 11.—Paris newspa
pers publish the following statement
by Marshal Foch in comment on his
visit to the Germar occupied area:
By MARSHAL FOCH.
| Politics is now lost in the clouds.
1 decline to follow it. All I can say
lls that my visit to the occupied Rhine
Iprovinces has assured me that the
lAmerican and all other allied troops
retain the same excellent ¢pirit that
filled them at the time of the armis
tice.
Uses Local Anesthetic
For Major Operations
SWAINSBORO, Ga., March 11.—Dr.
Rufus Cecil Franklin performeéd an
lunusual operation at his sanitarium
:here a few days ago on Mrs. Robert
| Thompson. Because of the age of the
lpatient and the woa{mess of her
heart. Doctor Franklin used novo
caine, a local anesthetic, in remov
ing her appendix and revairing a
‘hemia of the umbilicus.
The patient is reported recovering
rapidly.
Progressives Start
Boom for Johnson
(By Universal Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 11.—A
movement of Progressive senators to
the support of Senator Hiram John
son’s campaign for the presidency was
initiated here by Senators Kenyon
of lowa and eorge W, Norris of
Nebraska.
‘ Bplh senators issued statemen's
urging Johnson's nomipation,
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Many Wilson Followers Said To
vpar y .
Be Shifting to Bryan's View of
Ratification in Some Form,
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Oppo
sition to the treaty being made a
campaign issue developed so
strongly today among Democratic
senators that it was claimed thirty
of them were prepared to desert
their leadership of Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska, the administra
tion’s treaty manager.
Senator Simmons of North Caro
lina, leader of the Democratic sena
itors seeking ratification, openly de
clared he was bending every effort
;to effect a compromise on Article X
that would, lead to ratification.
Se . tehcock .;(.hul . for a
MMH’ Article X today. This
was refused by Republican senators,
including the “mild reservationists”
who are working with Simmons to
leffect a change in the Lodge reser
vation to Article X that will prevent
the defeat of the treaty for the sec
ond time,
SIMMONS STILL FIGHTING.
The compromise suggested by
Senator Watson, Republican of In
diana, which the Republicans with
drew yesterday, was being used
again today as a basis for the re
newed negotiations, it was said.
. “I shall continue the fight for rat
ification until the last vote is taken,”
Simmons said.
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ar
izona, scored ‘‘politicians in and out
'of the Senate,” who, he declared,
l"are using the treaty as a screen to
keep themselves from having to face
the real issues.”
Bryan is expected to re-appear in
the Senate lobbies and gnte rooms
before the last ditch of the treaty
fight is reached. He hopes to fan
the hot resentment among many
Democratic senators at the Presi
dent’s insistence upon injecting the
‘ L.eague of Nations into the campaign.
BRYAN’S VIEW,
} Bryan wants the treaty ratified.
'He thinks the will of a Senate ma
jority should prevail.
Hitchecock apparently agrees with
the President that the treaty fight
'should be carried into the campaign.
. There are many Democratic sena
tors who do not share either the
President’s nor Hitchcock's views. A
number of them are in open rebel
'lion against the President and Hitch
cock.
~ The Lodge reservation to Article
X will, however, muster more Demo
cratic votes this time than it did in
' November when the Democratic side
blocked ratification. KEven Hitchcock
concedes this. But not enough Dem
ocratic senaters will vote for it and
‘ratification.
Atlantan Grabs
SSO for an Idea
Remember, of course, the
incompleted limerick
about the young damsel
named Jane and the aero
plape? It upset a mile
up from town, you know !
““What made it upset?’’
That’s what an Atlantan
asked-—and then he got
a SOO idea!
The winning ‘‘last line’’
ought to be a lesson to
lovers of the near future,
too.
Have not you got an idea
for a ‘‘last line?’’ If it’s
the best submitted, The
Georgian will pay you
450%s gold
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920.
Reference to Militarism Is Passed
Up as Personal View and
b» ¢ .
Not Sufficient for ‘lncident.
(By Universal Sefvice.)
PARIS, March Il.—After long de
liberation, the French cabinet has
decided to instruct the war office to
take no official notice of the passage
in President Wilson's letter to Sena
tor Hitchcock which refers to the al
leged enthronement of militarism in
France.
The instructions are to the efrect
that Mr. Wilson's remarks are not
to be regarded in the light of an ac
cusation, since the President was
merely expressing his personal view
in_a private letter to a senator and
friend, and his observations do not
offer sufficient ground for an interna
tional quarrel, or even for an “inci
dent.”
~ The concensus here is that the real
test of American feeling towara
France will be given by the Senate's
final vote on the treaty of Versailles
and the Franco-British-American
“protective” agreement. Until them,
President Wilson's personal opinions
are not to be made the subject of
official or semi-official policies. ¥
PRESS IS INDIGNANT.
There is no concealing the fact,
however, that publication of his let
ter here has aroused the press and
public to redoubled indignation
against the President personally,
many bitter comme~*- being made by
the leading newspapers of Paris. Here
are some excerpts from editorials:
Le Petit Parisien—“lt is =~ certain
President Wilson would not have
written the letter if he possessed full
control of his faculties and good
health. The letter unquestionably is
the work of a sick man, discrediting
his party as well as himself.”
Le Gaulois—“President Wilson is
endeavoring to knock "he strength of
those governments which advocate
order and discipline. His anti-im
perialistic formula is bound to’en
courage the international reds be
hind whom Germany is preparing for
future revenge.’ FEurope is disap~
pointed in the Presiden‘ whose ad
vertised ‘fair play’ is apparently In
cohc-ent.” ;
NOT NATION'S VIEW.
IL’Echo de Paris—" Mr. Wilson’s in
feriority is now proved. He certainly
does not protect America’'s interests.
When he quits the White House
America’'s policy will change, for
America can not express its real
feelings towards Europe until it Las
a government in which it itself can
trust.”
{ L.e Figaro—" France regrets In
tensely having sacrificed the tangi
ble guarantees of her security for
imoral assurances which now are
being disavowed by the very man who
has given them. We hope that the
vote of the Senate will enlighten Mr.
‘Wilson on his deplorable error of
ljndgment regarding France.”
Auto Companies at
Americus Consolidated
. AMERICUS, Ga., March 11.—A
' deal concluded Wednesday has re
sulted in the consolidation of Emory
‘Ry)ander's automobile establishment
' with that of the Georgia Motor Com
\pany. Mr. Rylander sold his busi
inens to L. C. Griffin, who in turn
lpu*chasod an interest in the Georgia
Motor Company The bysiness will
anernte as the Geggia Motor Comn
pany.
Wilson’s Name
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Is Painted Off
French Street
(By Universal Service.)
PARXS, March 11.—An illus
tration of the feeling
aroused here by President Wil
son's letter to Senator Hitch
cock, which charges tLat mili
tarism and imperialism are in
the saddle in France, is the fact
that the press hailed as a na
tional patriot a joker who
painted out the President’s name
from the street boards on the
Avenue Wilson and v "ote in its
place, “Avenue of the American
People.”
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Announcement Taken to Mean
Renewal of Old Hardwick-
Watson Alliance,
Thomas E. Watson will support
James A. Reed of Missouri for Pres
-ident in the Georgia preferential pri
mary, in the event his name is en
tersd, which now seems fully assured.
This announcement is made Dby
former Representative Grover C. Ed
mondson of Bacon County, and is re
garded as authoritative. Mr. Ed
mondson, who is very close to Mr.
Watson and was in recent confernce
with him, makes the statement in a
signed card to the Macon Telegrapn,
which reads as follows:
“You are¢ authorized to say that
the candidacy of Senator Reed will
receive enthusiastic support from
Thomas E. Watson. (Signed) GROV
ER C. EDMONDSON.”
OLD ALLIANCE RENEWED.
This is taken generally to mean a
line-up in Georgia between Thomas
E. Watson and Thomas W. Hard
wick, former bitter political foes. Tt
really is a readjustment of an old
alliance, however, as Mr. Watson and
Mr. Hardwick years ago were close
allies, and Mr. Watson is generally
credited with having been responsible
for Mr. Hardwick’s first election to
Congress
Senator Reed will begin a speak
ing tour of Georgia at Moultrie
March 20, to be followed by an ad
dress in Atlanta at the Auditorium
March 22 and in Macon the 23rd. It
is expected thesé three addresses will
be followed by additional addresses
in Rome, Columbus and Statesboro,
but that has not yet been fully de
termined.
It also may be stated that Senator
Reed already has tentatively agreed
to the use of his name in the Geor
gia primary and Mr. Watson's an
ncement leaves little doubt that
will be so entered.
‘GHT ON ADMINISTRATION.,
Ar. Edmondson’s announcement is
taken to mean the withdrawal of a
petition now well under way to enter
Mr. Watson's name in the primary,
his promised support of Reed render
ing further progress with that un
necessary. .
The Reed-Watson-Hardwick al
liance is atcepted as meaning a
straight-away anti-administration
fight in Georgia, with the battle rag
ing around the “lLeague of Nations
proposal.
Early Report on Coal
Output Quiz Expected
(By International News Service.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 11,
The federal grand jury which has
just completed a three months inves
tigation of the coal industry, may
report to Judge A. B. Anderson in
Federal Court’ before night, it was
said at the Federal Building today.
To investigate alleged conspiracy
to restrict the production of coal and
probe charges of collusion between
miners and operatom‘lo curtail mine
output were objects of the jury’s in
vestigation. g
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J. H, Mills, President of Union,’
Pleads To Be Allowed by Court}
to Become Party Plaintiff.
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J. H. Mills, as president of lhe‘
Georgia Farmers' Union has filed in-‘
tervention through his attorneys in
the United States District Court here
in the complaint brought by J . J.
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Brown, commissioner of a.griculturei
against five local wotton firms,
charging violation of the Shermam
anti-trust law, adopting the allega
tions of Mr. Brown on behalf of
25,000 or more. farmers he repre
sentg and begging to be allowed to
intervene as party plaintiff,
Mr. Mills said the effect of a meet
'ing in Atlanta February 28, held by
companieg named in the complaint,
were that the price of cotton below
middling was reduced from 1 to 4
cents a pound, which has proven
disastrous to Georgia farmers, who
had a portion of their crop remain
ing on hand. He declared they will
be forced to hold now indefinitely
and have been forced to borrow
money from banks to prepare the
1920 crop.
Mr, Mills said the arbitrary price
reduction was made at the time the
farmers were preparing to sell to get
money to purchase fertilizers. He
said farmers all over Georgia are in
terested and are watching the out
come,
“The farmers of Georgia are just
beginning to be able to_do business
on a cash basis,' said Mr. Mills; “and
the remaining crop on hand has
been held by them for spring uses
and this action, taken by the de
fendants has compelled the fa(mers
to hold their cotton until prices can
be restored, and either buy their
fertilizer on credit or to again go in
debt for their fertilizers and spring
supplies.”
Tigner Backs
Cotton Buyers
J. Hope Tigner, secretary of the
Atianta Commercial Exchange, has
come to the suvport of . B. Howard,
president of the North Georgia (Tot
tyn Buyers’ and Manufacturers’ As
soc,ation, in depial of irregularities
complained of by J. J. Brown, com
missioner of agriculture, and L. B,
Jackson, State market director, In a
meeting of local cotton firms here
Fobruary 28
The State orficials in a petitin lor
injunction filed in Federal Courr,
charged five cotton firms violated the
Sherman anti-trust act by fixing
prices, and brought about a drop in
cetton prices, |
Mr. Howard issued a statement up
hciaing the jego'ity of the meeting's
action and his stand was substanti
ated Wednesday morning in the fol.
lowing statement from Mr. Tigner
to The Georgian:
In the Bunday editien of your paper
appeared an article concerning a meet
ing held at the Atlanta Commercial Ex
change on February 28, and the determina
tion of differences of the various grades
of cottrn. The meeting was in no sense
secret, but was held on the floor of the
exchange, and every one interested was
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THE WEATHER.
Forecast < Cloudy Thufsday
night and Friday; probably rain.
Temperatures—6 a. m, 49; 8
a. m, 53; 10 a. m., 59; 12 noon,
64; 1 p.m, 65;: 2 p. m,, 67,
Sunrise, 5:54. Sunset, 5:42,
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the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3. 1879
Atkinson Gives
Company’s Last
Word on Strike
By H. M. ATKINSON, .
In response to a request from the
officials of the local union, I had a
conference with them today in my
office at 12:50 o'clock. The unien
was renresented at the conference by
its exeeutive committee and also Mr.
Hardy Teat, business ageni: Mr,
Madison Bell, attorney and Mr. J.
H. Reardon, member of the national
executiye committee of the union.
I invited the representatives of the
union to make such statements as
they desired. Mr. Reardon made the
first statement and spoke partly as
follows:
“I notified headquarters yesterday
morning that the men had voted not
to accept the award of the arbitra
tion and had suspended work. I got
a telegram last night notifying me to
notify the membership that' they
should return to work and comply
with the award: that the Internation
al Association did not endorse the ac
tion of the men. I received a further
telegram stating that I should try to
get in communication with you; that
you had communicated with the of.
fice and requested that the Interna
tlonal Association do what it could to
see that the award and contract were
carried out. I read those telegrams
to the men this morning and advised
the international headquarters that
the men had refused to comply with
the order of the International Asso
ciation and that [ was seeking a con
ference with you today. The situa
tion hriefly is this: The men will not
resume work under the award of the
arbitration board. I have done as in
‘ternational representative everything
‘that I can do to prevent a strike and
‘have done everything that I Know of
to try to get the men to go back to
‘'work. But that they refused to do
ib-" their unanimous vote this morn-\
ing. So that is the situation. We
}have asked for this conference in the
‘hope that you will do something that
[wm induce the men to return to
work.” {
| After Mr. Reardon all of those
present representing the union were
invited to make further statements.
“When they had finishel I read to
}them the following telegram which 1
[sem to Mr. W. D. Mahon, interna
‘tional president of the union, onl
‘March 10: I
t “Local seventy thirty-two and this
’comnany signed a written agreement
‘to submit wages to board of arbitra
ftion, having previously agreed on ev
‘ery other detail of new contract cov
‘erlng operations for nineteen twenty.
‘Umpire suggested by tunion. belngi
one of the judges of the Superior
'Court here, was accepted by us. After
full hearing arbitration board by ma
jority decision rendered written
award Tuesday evening, March ninth.
Union at meeting Tueésday night,
March ninth, repudiated award with
out cause or notice to company o'l'l
public and ordeerd strike effective at
three o'clock this morning. Action
'M local union violates written con
tract with us and violates agreément
'fnr arbitration. Aection also, as we
understand it, contrary to your gen-!
keral laws and constitution. Strike is
on and no effort being made to oper
ate cars. H. M. ATKINSON.” 1
And copy of a reply dated Maren,
!10. which I receivea from Mr. W, B.|
‘Fitzgerald, first vice president of thel
International Association, as follows:
~ “Telegram received. We are also ln‘
receipt of telegram from general ex
ecutive board member, Reardon. I’
immdiately wired Reardon to instructl
men to return to work and carry out
agreement. Would advise that _vou:
request conference with Mr. Reardon
and committee. I am so instructing’
Reardon.” |
I merely reported to the Interna-!
tional Association the facts, in com
pliance with a request that 1 had pre
viously received from Mr. W. D. Ma
hon, internationdl president, and I
made no request that the Internation
al Assoclation take any action, leav
ing it s?rigtl,v up to them.
1 replied to the statements that/
had been made by the representa
tives of the union as follows, stat
ing that what I said was final:
“While 1 still have the Kkindest
feeling for the rank and file of the
men and believe that they have bd:n
'misled, it is out of my powr. repre
‘senting the company, to undertake |
to make any more contracts with '
‘the union until it calls the men back
to work and carries out the jresent
agreement,
“It is impossible to make another
contract with the union that will be
more binding than this one is. It
was thoroughly discussed, agreed
upon and signed. It was submitted
to and approved by the public. If
this contract does not bind the un
jon, then no contract can be made
that will bind it, and it is utterly
useless to be going through the cere
mony of making agreements and
signing up contracts when the union
will not live up to this contract.” |
‘There was more or less genera]‘
conversation, the substance of all of
which was appeals by the repre
}m*nlutivrfl of the union for more
money, which concluded the confer
‘enue.
NO. 201.
Key Wants to Name Board of Cit
izens to Solve Problem, Includ
ing Proposed Increase in Fares.
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Negotiations started early Thurs
day afternoon to end the street car
strike failed when the union exec
utive committee calld on .officials of
th Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany and both sides resolved to
stand pal.
The conference, held in the office
of H. M. Atkinson, chairman of the
company’'s board of directors, com
menced at 12:45 o'clock’ and lasted
an hour. Following the meeting
Mr. Atkinson issued a statement
setting forth what transpired and
‘declarin gthe intention of the coms=
pany to refuse any further contract
with the men until they return to
work and abide with the decision of
the board of arbitration.
J. H. Reardon, Madison Bell and
Hardy O, Teat, members of the un
ion executive committee refused to
comment on Mr, Atkinson's state
ment, although Reardon said that
no further progress#had been made
in the negotiations,
~ The union committee will hold a
conferenc at 5 o'clock Thursday aft
rnoon in the office of Mr. Bell to
consider recommendations to make
to the union men Friday morning
when they meet at 10 o'clock.
- Other developments of the day
were:
1. The decision of the union offi
cials to “stand pat” in their position
in the face of orders from their in
ternational headquarters instructing
the union men to return to work and
ahide by the decision of the arbitra
tion board. g .
KEY’S SUGGESTION.,
2. Adoption of resolutions by the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce con
demning the strike as beipg “unwar
ranted and unfair” and cagung on all.
Tabor "unions to join in asking the
Strikers “as Atlantans” to return to
their posts of duty, .
3. Suggestion by Mavor Key that
the entire problem, including the
question of granting the street rail
way company increases in fare, be
turned overto a commission for set
tiement, the commission to be com
posed ~of - Atlanta citizens appointed
by the mayor, This suggestion was
made to the directors of the Cham
ber of Commerce at a special session.
The order from the international
board came as a reply from a re
quest sent to Vice President Fitz
gerald at Detroit Wednesday. Recog
rution was refusea the Atlanta walk
vut on the basis that the workers
struck aftgr refusing to accept the
aecision of the bhqard of arbitration,
which awarded them a 15 per cent
increase i pay effective from Jan
uvary 1, 1920, Rules of the interma~
tional recognize arbitration as a
means. of settli.g wage disputes.
VOTE TO “STAND PAT.”
Decision of the intern?tloml as
read at the morning meeting of the
strikers by J. H. Reardon, member
of the board, who is here to assist
in the strike and who sent the tele
gram (o Vice President Fitzgerald
Wednesday.
Immediately a motion was made
that the nnion vote to “stand pat”
until granted a “living wage.” Shouts
seconded it from all parts of the room
and after the meeting it was declared
that a unanimous vote had been cast
for .ts adoption. ¢ :
The meting was addressed by Har
dy O. Teat, business agent for the
local union; Madison Beil, attorney
for the men, and Mr. Reardon,
Attorney Bell declared after the
meeting that it had also been voted
to seek a conference with Mr. Atkin
son Thursday afternoan to make a
further effort to get the tompany to
‘acce t the scale offered by the union
in its demands.
LOWEST WAGE PAID. !
“The street car worker in Atlanta
‘has been receiving a lower wage than
the commonest laborer and far' less
than he received in other cities,” said
‘Mr. Bell. “In Augusta and Columbia
the men are paid 52 cents an hour
with two weeks' vacation in the sum
‘mer. Seattle pays her men 60 cents
‘an hour and in Clicago they get 65
cents an hour. In a hundred other
cities the 52 cents an hour scale pre-.
vails. The increases asked for »y
the Atlanta men is just the aver‘@.
paid- in manv cities and is not An
keeping with the advanced cost wof
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