The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-23
UNION LABOR PRESENTS IT'S CASE
MI TO THE VOTERS OF BEN HILL

Union Laborer with his spurs stuck
in the side of his victim and in his
hand penant with the words there
on, IL have conquered him."
| If he is elected, Gentlemen, will he
be able to direct his mind from fight
ing Union Labor to the enactment
of some Legislation that will protect
the farmer in obtaining profit on
his product. He does not say so in
any of his newspaper propaganda.
Mr.. Wilcox has attacked the Edi-
tor of the Leader Enterprise, be-
cause the Editor could not join him
in his rebuke on Union Labor, a man
that has used very valuable space in
his paper, free of charge, for the ben
eft of Fitzgerald and the surround
ing country. Mr.. Wilcox has hit him
below the belt in saying that he was
| German born, fact over which he
had control. He has accused him OF
being pro-German, although he has
been an American Citizen for years
and has given the best years of his
life in his effort to support the United
States in the upbuilding of its system
of Government and Industrial well
fare.
What will be the attitude of Mr..
Wilcox in case Mr.. w. R. Walker
| president of the Farmers Union)
attempts to use his influence with
the Farmers Union to protect them
in obtaining prices for farm products
that the Spectator has enjoyed dur
| ing a period when the farmers had
very little to sell. Mr.. Walker says
something will be done if it takes
striking" on the part of the farmer
to do it. We say, "Hurrah, for Mr.
Walker. His comment in the Her
aid is opportune and worthy of care
full consideration, especially SO at the
beginning of the harvest season; the
prices on farm products begin tumb-
| ling down before anything is placed
on the market.
Union Labor pays the price the
farmer asks for his products when
hey deal with each other, but the
Spectator wants them for fifty per
cent less and then sell them for one
| hundred per cent more and then
! boast of being the key to industry
that opens the door of commerce
| through which the 1aboring mans
product must pass and where prices
will be regulated according to supply
| and demand.
I The walking delegate may be pic
tured as nuisance in a community
in his effort to obtain better wages
and working conditions for the men
he represents. But whatever success
he had by collective bargaining the
business man enjoys the profit out
of the earnings. Men of high fnan-
cial ability and authority, holding
the monetary securities of the coun-
try in their grasp, closeted in secret
session, can do more in one night
to plumber the pockets of the poor
man than any strike by Union Labor
has ever caused capital to lose from
its beginning to its end. AS an ex-
ample, they set the prices ON the
necessities of life when you are deaf
ing with them, they also regulate the
price of your product when you Of
| fer them for sale and the machinery
of the Government has not been able
, to control that combination.
| Brother Laborer, whether you be-
long to Union or not, who will
come to your rescue the quickest
should you hoist the distress signal,
| the Walking Delegate or the Chair
man of the Board of Finance in Wall
Street? The wires from Wall Street
may not be directly connected with
the gentleman who refers to you as
the rabbid element seeking to
devour and loath to produce, but
you may rest assured he is connected