Fitzgerald leader., March 19, 1921, Saturday Edition, Image 1

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SATURDAY
EDITION
WEATHER—PartIy cloudy tonight
and Sunday.
GLENN E. PLUMB WILL SPEAK HERE MARCH 25TH
COURT HEARING AGAINST WAGE CUT PROCEEDS
FRAMED, SAYS BUGGI
(By International News Service)
Hearing Expected to Continue,
to Late This Evening
ASK WAGE CUT RECALL
Say Court Disregarded Law of
Land in Authorizing Cut
ATLANTA, March 19—Hear
yng before Judge Samuel H. Sib
ley in Federal District Court, o
the protest of representatives of
the employees of the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic is pro
ceeding today.
The brotherhoods asked Judge
Sibley to rescind his order reduc
ing wages under the receiver
ship, citing the Newland’s Act,
which requires twenty days no
tice in such cases.
The hearing will continue until
late this afternoon.
That an agreement was made
between himself as president of
jthe Atlanta Birmingham and At
lantic and Birmingham Trust &
Savings Company to throw the
road into receivership and have
himself ‘appointed a receiver was
admitted by B. L. Bugg under
Ckoss examination in the hearing
on petition of union strikers to
heye the wage reduction order
‘gcinded. Before Judge Sibley
- sugg also admitted that he re
signed as president of the Atlanta
#Birmingham and Atlantic Feb
ruary 24th to qualify as receiver
a few days later. He also admit
ted the indebtedness of the road
to the trust company was not
due at the time the receivership
was sought?
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"NO STRIKERS RETURN
ON B’'WICK DIVISION
It was officially stated by 'local
union men today that not a single
man who walked out on the Bruns
wick Division of the Atlanta, Bir:
mingham and Atlantic railroad has
returned to work durir;g the first two
weeks of the strike. "About a dozen
employees remained-in service out of
about nine hundred normally em
ployed according to union officials.
SENATE TO RUSH
" (By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 19.—Clo
tute will be invoked by the senate to
insure passage of tariff legislation
and clear ‘the way for tax revision in
“the next Congress. The plan virtual
ly agreed upon by the leaders was
laid before Secretary of the treasury
Mellen today and Mellen began shap
ing the tax program to submit to
leaders at the capitol.
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French Send Premier
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To Placate Harding
Y (By International News Service)
HAVRE, March 19.—1 hope my
visit to the United States ‘will remove
any misunderstandings :, between
America and France that may have
been - created® by propagandists who
have been charging France with mil
itarism”; decldred former Premier
Viviani who sails for New York
tonight.
" Preniier Viviani gave no indication
as to whether his mission is to dis
cuss the League of Nations or the
French war debt. ™ .
Alleged Murderess
°
Acquitted By Jury
COVINGTON, Tenn. March 19—
The jury today acquitted Mrs. Irenel
Shaw, charged as accessory to the
wer of George ‘Reevqs,‘y M'emphiq‘
THE FITZ¢ERALD LEADER
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WHISKEY AND BLOOD
FLOW IN TENNESSEE
(By International News Service)
| NASHVILLE, March, 19—
Three negroes are held complicty
in the murder of Thomas Mit
chell, farmer, and Frank Wilkes,
Nashville taxi+driver at Cotton
wood yesterday. They were
brought to Nashville for safe
keeping this morning following
an attempt to storm the jail at
‘ Gallatin last night by a mob of
five hundred negroes. It is said
the killing grew out of the sale of
forty-eight gallons of whiskey to
the negroes by the white men.
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WOULD-BE ‘BREAKER
Horace , Buckalew under Bond
for Thrashing W. F. Godwin
UNIONS NOT BLAMEABLE
Buckalew Not a Striker; Godwin
Not Employe of Road
Horace Buckalew, youngest son
of the late T. T. Buckalew who lost
his life in the service of the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad
several years ago when he wrecked
his. locomotive to save a passenger
train from going though a bad bridge,
was this morning ~ommitted to Ben
Hill Superior court on charges of
assault’ and battery and rioting in
connection with the thrashing of Wal
ter F. Godwin of Albany, who had
come to Fitzgerald to obtain employ
ment on the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Alantic railway since the strike
began. |
Young Buckalew, who has not been
in the employ of the railroad for more
than a year and is not connected with
any union craft now on strike, is al
leged to have taken Godwin, in com
pany with four other men whose
identity has not been learned, out in
the country near Fitzgerald and given
him a sound thrashing because of his
anti-union views.
He was charged with assault and
battery, rioting and conspiracy. The
conspiracy charge was dismissed by
Judge D. P. Adams, before whom the
comiftment trial was held, after God
win had made this statement. Bond
of $5OO was fixed on each other charge
The accused had not made bond to
day.
~ Rumors on the streets yesterday had
it that Godwin had been beaten and
manhandled by strikers and that one
of the strikers had been caught. Ru
mor had it also that Godwin had been
warned to leave Fitzgerald at peril of
his life and was being protected by
a guard of sheriff's deputies. It was
learned today that Godwin was not
being guarded against possible further
attacks. ;
- From the Sheriff’s office the Léader
learned that Judge ©. T. Gower had
instructed that Buckalew be turned
over to the Federal officers. The
Leader was unable to learn what fed
eral charge could be preferred against
the young man. Godwin was not in‘
the employ of the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic Railway and not un
der lprotection of the Federal courts.
He said that he apptied for employ
ment on the railroand but had failed
to pass the required eye test. |
Attorney Bussell represents Buck
alew. ‘ |
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Seven Die When Sinn
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Feiners Give Battle
(By International News Service)
LONDON, March 19.—Seven were
killed and another is missing as a
result of a violent six hour battle be
tween Sein Feinners and British
crown forces near Dugasvin, Ireland,
‘according to a news dispatch today.
'One British soldier was killed and
one is missing. Six attackers were
killed. "
VOL. 1, NO. 12.
Col. Bugg Explains Talk To Lion’s
Club In Atlanta Last Tuesday
Central South Georgia Official
Highway Is Urged
VALDOSTA TO MACON
President Georgia Press Associ
ation Starts Movement
J. Kelly Simmons, president of the
Georgia Press Assofiation and who
recently became a Central South
Georgia booster through the pur
chase _of the Nashville " Herald, of
which is he is now editor, urges ed
itorially in his last issue that an of-.
ficial highway be designated to con
nect all the towns and small cities of
Central South Georgia in a direct‘
route from the Florida line to Macon.(
The Dixie Highway to the east and
the National highway to the west
leaves out several little cities whose
interests are closely bound up with
those of Fitzgerald. An official high
way connecting them and kept al-{
ways in tip top conditon, paved as
soon as financial affairs of the coun
ties through which it passes willi
allow. |
Editors and boosters along the
route suggested by Mr. Simons will
be asked to take up the proposition
and it is probable that a meeting will
be called in the near future, probably
in Fitzgerald during the automobile
show, to put the Central South Geor
gia Highway project across. ‘
Editor Simmons has the follow-‘
ing to say editorially:
WE SHOULD HAVE AN :
OFFICIAL HIGHWAY
It is a lamentable fact_ that the
section of country from Valdosta by
way of Ray City, Nashville, Alapaha,
Ocilla, Fitzgerald, Abbeville, and on
direct to Macon is not represented
on any of the official highways. i\nd
this very section is one of the finest
sections of Georgia.
The editor of The Herald has re
cently discussed this with parties who
taking an interest in a “Direct Route”
from Valdosta to Macon. By creat
ing a route as indicated, it would save
many miles and pass through a most
desirable section of Georgia. It is
not the fault of the hundreds and
thousands of tourists from the north
who come this way to Florida every
year that they do not get to see any
of the country just named above.
They would be only too glad to come
one way and go back another if they
suad the road to travel
. People in all the towns named
above should get busy and let’s have
a road as above outlined chartered.
By consulting a map it will be seen
that such a road would be an air
line. It is the one thing that the
section of country named needs.
None of the tourists coming this way
annually see this section. That is
what we want. That is what we
must have. The very section along
this route should be given more pub
licity. A road as outlined would give
it that very thing. All it needs is
to be seen by the outside world. The
best way in the world to let the
outsiders see it is to provide a way
for them to pass through it comfort
ably.
There is no - use acknowledging
this is a fine idea and then sit down
and let the matter drop. If you think
it is worth while and would like to
“get on the map”, then let’s be up
and doing. We will never get it until
we go after it. So, let’s be up and
doing. :
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Stillmaa Alimony
Move Is Not Stayed
(By International -News Service)
POUGHKEEPSIE, March 19.
The report that court order has been
issued staying the proceedings in
connection with Mis. James Still
man’s motionefor $120,000 alimony
annually was formalty denied here
today.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MARCH 19, 1921
Confirms Leader’s Three Points
of Difference with His /
Alleged Contentions
lDid Not Say Labor Is Commod
| ity, Nor Attempt to Com
’ pare Russia and America
\
~ The Leader publishes herewith an
explanation fram Col. B. L. Bugg, ex
president and receiver of the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atiantic Railway
Company, in regard to his talk to the
Lion’s Club in Atlanta last Tuesday.
Col. Bugg states that the Leader’s ed
itorial comment was based on erron-i
eous premise as to what he really
said. The Leader considered the pos-‘
sibility that Col. Bugg’s remarks had‘
been misconstrued in the news story
on which its editorial was based and{
in the editorial said: “We hope Col.
Bugg did not need to say what the
news story seemed to say he meant.”
The Leader is glad to have .its pre
vious good opinion of Col. Bugg con
firmed. The letter follows: |
Mr. 1. Gelders: / }
Dear Mr. Gelders:
.Editorial comment in the
Fitzgerald Leader-Enterprise, on my
talk to the Lion’s Club in Atlanta a
few days ago, appears to have been
based lon an erroneous premise as to
what T really said.
1. What I said was that while the
Clayton Act sets up the statement that
labor is not a commodity, I had never
heard it claimed by any one that labor
is a commodity, but- that labor is a
service and as such is subject to the
law of supply and demand. I further
amplified my thought to say that the
ability to pay is the extreme limit of
an employer to pay high wages, and
a living wage is the extreme limit of
an employee to accept low wages, and
that all disputes over wage matters in
industry have been between these twoi
extremes. ’_l‘he present controversy
is not whether the employees shall ac
cept the lowest living wage, but
whether the railroad shall continue
to pay the highest wage known in the
history of that idustry when it is abso
lutely imposible for it to continue to
pay that wage and exist as a going
concern, s
2. I did not state that the employees
sought, under the Esch-Cummins’ law,
to have the scale of wages fixed the
same for all sections and climates
without regard to local conditions.
It is not the Esch-Cummins’ law that
is doing this but the attitude of the
Union leaders in undertaking to hold
to a uniform wage on all the railroads
under varying conditions of service,
living costs, climate, difference in
skill required, to say nothing of the
inability to pay.
3. My reference to the Russian sit
‘uation was: simply to point out the
parallel existed only in the demand
for wages above the ability to pay. It
would be absurd for anyone.to contend
that there is any similarity of indus
trial conditions between Russia and
this country.
Very truly yours,
B. L. Bugg,
_~" Receiver.
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Boy And His Perils
AR —— \
Dr. Frank Ward will lecture to
boys and young men over 14 years
of age on "The Boy and His Perils”
at the Young Men’s Recreation Cen
ter Sunday afternoon beginning at 3
o’clock. The meeting is open to all
boys and young men of the city,
‘whether members or not, and every
parent is urged to see that his bo'v is
present to get some straight advice
on the subject most important to
adolescent youth. Strikers are es
pecially invited.
It had been planned to have the
Fitzgerald Male quarret, composed
of Messrs. Sam Kassewitz, Frank
James, Will.Mashburn and Charlie
Garwood sing as a special attraction
‘but on account of Mr. Garwood’s ab
sence from the city the music is not
assured.
WOMEN AT PREMIUM IN
ORANGE BLOSSOM STATE
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 19th—
The population of Florida is 495,
320 males and 473,150 females, an
increase in ten years of 25.7 per
cent for males and 32 per cent for
females. There are 638,153 whites
and 329,487 negroes, All other ra
ces number 840,
Fire origihating from an unknown
source in Ambrose, Ga., yesterday
swept the entire business district of
the little town and caused damage
estimated in five figures. The Post
Office, Feller's Drug Store and Mar
kell’s Department Store are all under
stood to have been destroyed. ‘
SRI
Telegraphers Get
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Strike Relief Pay
According to reliable information
reaching Fitzgerald today, the gener
al chairmen of all the organizations
of railroad telegraphers in the South
east are meeting in Atlanta today to
;provide means of giving strike relief
to the seventy-five telegraphers who
ileft the service of the Atlanta Bir
‘mingham and “Atlaatic railroad two
‘weeks ago today.
The order of Railway Telegraph
ers does not provi(* regular strike
relief asgdo the Big Four Brother
hoods but because of the importance
of this strike to employes of all roads,
the strikers will be financially sup
ported by their brothers on other
roads, according to this information.
Strikers belonging to. several other
crafts are understood to be drawing
regular strike pay from union head
quarters now,
Abbeville, Rochelle,
‘Douglas and Ocilla
'Readers Attention: -
If a general strike is called on all railroads in the
Southeast, the Leader Publishing Company will
start two automobile routes with its daily paper
out of Fitzgerald the day it is called. One route
will carry six hundred papers to Ocilla and Douglas
and one will carry four hundred papers o Abbe
ville and Rochelle. We want to get in touch AT
ONCE with a live wire man in each place who will
be competofft to handle the local distribution of the
Daily Leader.
Should a general strike be called, mail service
will be cut off entirely, no big city dailies will reach
this section, and the Leader, by automobile, carry
ing the telegraphic news of the world by Interna
tional News Service, will be your only reliable com
munication with the outside world. 'The demand
will be large enough to enable a hustler to make
considerable money as agent for them.
The following schedule will be put in effect in
case a geéneral strike is called and the out of town
circulation of the paper will be limited as specified
in order to conserve our supply of newsprint paper:
Arrive Ocilla, 300 copies, 4:15.
Arrive Douglas, 300 copies, 4 :45.
Arrive Abbeville, 200 copies, 4:30.
Arrive Rochelle, 200 copies, 4 :45.
Responsible parties should wire or write AT
ONCE giving at least two references in order that
contracts and instructions may be forwarded and
the organization for a satisfactory distribution sys
tem perfected, immediately. No applications after
Friday.
ADDRESS——
CIRCULATION MANAGER,
LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY,
FITZGERALD, GA. !
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LEADERS IN CITY
World Famous as Labor Advo
cate and for “Plumb Plan
‘ADDRESS OPEN MEETING
!Probably Speak at Grand Opera
| House Friday Morning
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! Glenn E. Plumb, world fam
ous lawyer and advocate of un
ionism, author of the Plumb plan
of railroad ownership and opera
tion, will speak twice in Fitzger
ald March 25th it was announced
today by local union officials.
He will come from Washington
at their invitation.
Mr. Plumb will speak once to
the public in an upen meeting at *
11 o’clock Friday morning, prob
ably at the Grand Opera House,
and once to the striking em
ployes of the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic Railway at the
Odd Fellows Hall. Mr. W. M.
Martin, chairman of the joint
federation committee represent
ing the thirteen striking crafts
will preside at both meetings
and introduce the famous
speaker.
(By International News)
RIGA, March 19.—The peace treaty
‘between Soviet Russia and Poland
'was signed heére late last night with
iUkrapian representatives signing as
parties to the treaty. It ended the
state of war that has been existing
for a year and was the third triumph
of the Russian Soviets within the
week.
A few days earlier the government
put down an anti-Bolshevik uprising
at Kronstadt and signed a commer
cial agreement with Great Britain.
According to the treaty the Russians
will pay Poland $15,000,000 within a
year.