Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-03-28
Employees And Operators Glue Nieys
On Union Attempt To Settle Strike
Union Writer Reviews Develop
ment in Case Before u. S.
District Court
Says Men Stand on Legal and
Moral Rights and Will Ex-
ercise Legal Means

An impartial consideration OF the
proposal submitted to the Court to
determine the issue between the A.
B. & A. Railway and the employees
who withdrew from the service March
.5th, should be convincing that the
employees were endeavoring to bring
the controversy to an end Since
the proposal was not accepted, there
is no other alternative at the present
time but for the employees to con
tinue out of the service in the hope
that the exigency of operating the
railroad will oblige those in charge
TO. seek the services of reliable and
competent men and women This
they may expect te-.de beeause of a
profound conviction that they are
right.
Congress Promised Justice
Congress passed the Transportation
Act of 1920 and provided therein a
way to settle all disputes between
carriers and their employees-the said
Act limits the activities of the Or
CARNATIONS as free Agencies in deal
ing with the question affecting rail-
road employees, which was objected
to seriously as an invasion of the
inherent right of men to control their
labor. But the enaction of that piece
of legislation said, in effect, if your
cause is just-have no apprehension
about injustice because fair and i'm
partial public will see that you get
justice and, therefore, as obedient cit
liens they bowed to the majesty of
the law and accepted the Transporta-
ton Act, and likewise they accepted
the Newlands Act of 1913.
Now the very important question
that confronts the railroad employees
is-must they submit to the laws
when they are against them, and then
when the laws are for them-relegate
such laws to the scrap heap? We do
not believe that the American peo-
pie shall submit to thai lind of JUS
tice and therefore, the employees Of
the A. B. & A. are willing to place
their case before the bar of pubic
opinion, in the. profound convection
that the rights and wrongs will Re de-
cided by that August tribunal.
Concerned About Public
The employees are deeply con-
cerned about the rights of the peo-
pie along the A. B. & A.; they are
deeply and sincerely concerned about
the railway too, as we'll as them
selves. Because of this feeling they
realized, regardless of the righteous
ness of their cause, some sacrifice
had to be made in the hope that peace
and tranquility be restored, conse-
quently the proposition was made.
I) Restore all of the employees
to the service.
(2) Pay the rates provided by the
U. S. Railroad Labor Board up to
the date the employees are restored
to service.
(3) After the employees are re-
stored, go into a thorough economic
investigation of all factors involved
in the question. inclu ng the ability
of what the railway should pay in
wages, and whatever conclusions were
reached, the effective date of wages
would be the date the employees
returned to service. The refusal Of
the proposal would indicate that the
railway was not sure of its position.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Dorminy Jr.
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