Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 9, 1919 Page: 5 of 8
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V PALESTINE DAILY HERALD,
9,1919.
and Jenkins for six or seven months’
service that was never performed and
also must decline to pay the present
line men baok pay from August 1st,
is the farmei
gone, and fa
world better
men.
....V. ...v... *••''*** * nv,
1918, at the rate of $5.50 per day. The
present employees of the company are
not now and never have demanded
back pay in any sum.
Very respectful
P. H. HUGHES,
President Palestine Telephone -Com-
pany.- > f‘ . —Adv. 8-3t
Vr—r—t---
NOW COMES
HIGHBALL"
Palestine, Texas, July 3rd-, 1919.
Messrs. W. M. Easteriin, Carl Gauntt,
and C. P. Wade, Palestine, Texas.
Gentlemen.'- I beg to acknowledge
receipt of your communication dated
July 2nd, 1919, in regard to certain
within a few days the work which
was in course of completion by the
linemen and cablemen would be com-
pleted, and that it would be necessary,
in obedience to the direction by the
War Department and the Postmaster
General's Department, who then had
charge of the Telephone system, com'
manding and requiring the reduction
of force in orddr that men who were
not actually needed in particular em-
& Company Continues
Boston, Mass:—With a i
will make a “tired businert
like an aviator on k hot dAj
Roger F. Seannell. a well-ki
tonian, has concocted the
tive minerals of the mallow
County Cork, Ireland..
The beauty of the new H
cording to the. colonel, is
concoction is a reall ball
several minerals in it,” a
“and just a bit of the best
Hy.r • '$ '
■'l The formula, be said, wi
dawn tb bUn by old Dr. !
Woods, who kept an apoth*
on Tremont street, opposi
Chapel, during the civil wa
Farmers Interested
In Good Roads
grievances which you claim exist be-
tween the Palestine Telephone Com-
pany and its employees. . -
The, contents of - your communica-
tion were a surprise to me, as I wise
not aware that any differences ex-
isted between the company and those
in its employ, as I have been and am
now assured by all employees that
they are satisfied and contented.
(Notwithstanding the fact that
, . „ o '
nly “control” over the packing
is the “control” that gathers
ability to do a necessary job in
Dallas, Texas, July 9.—The farmer,
above all men, is most concerned in
getting good roads, because he uses
them rpost, and hauling to and from
town is a part of farming.
it has been estimated that the cost
of hauling a ton of freight a mile av-
erages, on the railroads seven-eighths
of a cent, on ordinary roads in the
ployment might be released to dis-
charge service in other places where
the demands of the nation were more
critical and more argent, and that in
making the compromise .settlement by
which the then threatened strike
would be called oft, the company
wantqfc it expressly understood that
the reaction in the force above men-
tioned would be made, and if another
strike was going to result from this
necessary action, then it would be use-
less to compromise the then pending
never have been in the employ of the
Palestine Telephone Company, in my
opinion, I could well question your
right to undertake to present the ad-
evda
ay-
.
['Company has reached a lead-
in the industry because the
aracter of the job of providing
leged grievances of any one,
though they might now be in the em-
ploy of the company; yet, in view
osfjthe fact that you undertake to dis-
cuss and refer to previous controver-
sies had .several months since be-
tween this company and its employees,
stading. In this connection and at
this same time the employees
referred to were advised that
In the release from duty of
any employee of the company,
the -company would not discriminate
but wduld Irave. an eye single to ef-
ficiency of the performance of the
particular work required, but the com-
pany declined to recognize the Se-
niority rule in the retention or em-
Duets Are Co
,Pair* of
and presume to represent two former
employees of the company, and in or-
der that you, as* well as the public,
may be fully advised as to the exact
facts in reference to the matters to
which-you refer, I take pleasure in
replying thereto, as follows:
t require the wide and
nization, the experience
duty, found in an institu-
i Company.
On or about the 30th day of July,
1918, a committee of the employees
of the Telephone Company, to-wit:
Mr, Andrews and Mr. Smyth, the gen-
tlemen referred to in your coixununi-
j&L :
jany ceases
of usefulness with
and satisfaction to
a in the industry
tlemen referred to in your communi- in said rule, and stated to the elo-
cation, and Mr. Clarence Jenkins, also ployees that if they had in any way
referred to in your communication, secured an impression to the con-
another Mr. Smith, and Mr. Whitson, trary that that impression was er-
ealled at my office and presented me roneous and if the compromise of the
with a contract and requested that I threatened strike was accepted it must
Fign it I told them to leave the con- be with a full understanding that the
cUkct Ufith me and I would give them company in the future, as in the past,
an ansVer in a day or so. They called in the employment of its workers, ami
vice, would consider only efficiency
and the public good.
Upon the settlement of this threat-
ened strike, the linemen and other
employees'of the company continued
to work, until the work then in hand
and contemplated to be done l»y the
linemen whs finished, whereupon the .
company, in line with the notice to
its employees and carrying out the in-
structions of the Postmaster General,
when this work was completed, reliev-
ed the Mr. Smyth and Mr. Jenkins,
referred to, as well as another Mr.
Smith.^ r V .
As a result of the action, of. the
company in relieving these three men,
another strike was called, including
all linemen and operators. After this
strike had been in force for several
days, the Postmaster General’s Depart-
ment sent a representative to Pales-
tine, to investigate, the cause of the
strike and to fix the responsibility
would have to be signed by Mr. Burle-
son at Washington, that, contract is
still in my "possession and unsigned.
A short time after thh$, owing to the
tremendous amount of bad service
calls and bad service over
the phone, 1 decided that I
wspuld have to get a thorough-going
Witch board man, and one well quali-
fied to take care Of the trouble. As a
matter of fact I had four thousand
cases of trouble in about five* weeks.
I had toll stations atfthe Palestine
maintenance, nothing bit justice has 1
been done. t *
The bonds bear an interest charge, j
and the principal and interest are re- (
ferred to the taxpayers in a small j
addition to the yearly tax. It i* Ipjjj 3
enough to figure how much this adu- <
ed yearly tax would amount to for t
each farmer. After the annual amount 1
paid by the cities, the railv&ys and
iftoagi
other interests is deducted and the
pro rata made pea- farm, based on
superintendent that 1 could find In and after talking with representatives
good road is a trifle compared wftii :
the t added labor of hauling to and ,
from towp a hundred times a year
over a road that is not good. *
The farmer after being in tor mod
how much the good roads>wi^l cost j
him per year, should then inform him- 1
seif as to what the bad roads cost j
him a year. Then he is in apolitical j
to vote with intelligence; until then j
his ideas may be based on prejudice, j
A Texas county voted last year on ;
a bond issue that would have improv- 1
*sd. every one of its main traveled |
tinuouslv and satisfactorily employed That county markets sfnnualiy
Northeast Texas, a man who had had
ten years’ continuous servicq on one
switch board and the superintendent
of the plant. I brought him here and
told Mr. Andrews, the then superin-
Sx>ut 88,000 bales of cotton and 44,000
t^ns of seed. This would have ef-
fected an annual saving on the cost
of hauling* the cotton from farm to
gin'and to market of $260,000 or $59
per vfarm. if only thq wagonloads
could- have been .doubled. Uotton was
only ^ email percentage of the total
farm production and the haulage cost
in proportion to the value, of the load 5
is very much smaller than with other
produce the farmer bandies. So the
annual saving in total haulage cost
between the average farm in full pro-
duction and town, after the roads are
improved, may be considered as being
in excess of $200, or $2 on every trip
the farmer will make to town. This
bond issue would have saved in haul-
age costa to the farmer* in two years-
❖ IN THC DAY'S NEWS
^William H. King, who demands that
Washington make an investigation of
outrages alleged to have been suffer-
ed by Americans m Mexico, is a rep-
r«lentatfve of Utah in the United
States senate. Senator King was one
of the organizers of the democratic
patty in Utah. He was educated at
Brigham Young’s academy and at the
University of Utah. Bora in 1863, he
was admitted to the bar in 1888, and
!»s been active in pdlittfcs and iaw
since. For iriany years he was a mem-
ber of the Utah legislature. Two terms
in the national house of representa-
tives were followed, in 1916,- by Sis
election to the United fltates senatb
in succession to George H. Suther-
land. Although a Mormon himself,
the chief characteristic of .Senator
Kfng-ykrog political career has been
his s^adfast denunciation of the Mor-
mon church domination in Utah poli-
tics.
at work for other enterprises. Surely,
therefore, you cannot be, serious in
your demand Upon-this company, nor
can anyone see the Justice .in this
company paying to these men six or
aeVen months’ salary during a time
in which they were not doing any ser-
vice for the company, but all the time
working and being paid by other con-
cerns. ..... . .‘s “ ", . ; .
The last paragraph of your commu-
nication reads as follows: i ^ -
“The Palestine Telephone Co.
has shown discrimination in not •
allowing Mr. Smyth and Mr. Jen-
kins to return to work and in
employing men to take their
. places and we are asking for their
re-instatement and full pay for all
time R>st find the difference be-
tween the salary paid .to them,
which was-$4;00 per day, and the i
salary promised them,- which was
$5.60 per day, be paid to them,
and this raise in salary shall date
back po Aiigust 1st, ¥918, and that .
all linemen and troubiemen of the
Palestine Telephone. Co. who
were employed .by the Ce. on Au-
gust-1st and are still in the em-
ploy of the Co. be paid the dif-
ference between the salary paid
them and the salary promised
which was $#.50 per 8 hour day.’’ 1
I desire to take this occasion to em-
phatically stats that I never at any
time promised to pay the linemen
$5.60 per day as above mentioned,
blit l did state that this company was
willing to-'pa/ ak mutrh or more to
its total amount, and besides, would
have increased land values from 50
to 500 per cent, remaking the country
schools and enriching farm living con
ditiens immeasurably. . >•.
Alter all, why aftogkl the farmer
vote to saddle his county with a bond-
ed indebtedness that- will require
mAny years to pay off, just to-cut ou+
the mud and holes and make the haiil
easier on his teams and wagons?
. Because he can haul heavier loads
when he heeds ter get to town; be-
cause rural truck service can be op-
erated by the rural mail delivery, cut-
ting out many useless trips to town
with loss of time ant waiting or
clogged railway freight service for im-
beeause the
“Blind Charlie” Garner, « ne
of San Diego, Cal., who offer
life’s blood in a transfusion t<
the life of wealthy John H. K<
of Gunnison, £al. Kennedy dk
not before he had made Guru
beneficiary to the extent of $
Garner lost his sight in a mine
uion some years ago.
Be Ready for Now Tasfco.
Some men run Into bobbies. At-tb
they excel. Given a now task they i
Yoyr old uncle would not have you
velop .tour hobby ion, but ho wi
have you develop the other side
yoor nature more. Instead of becom
a one-talent man he Wtoaid have
add to the talent nature’s just Inert
that comes from tire proper balarn
of the powers within you. No
can do this for you. They may
vise and urge. You and you alone n
apply the effort that will bttpg
fruits. Yon can If you wtll. When i
learn to harness their forces they <
rob toil of moot ef its drudgery.—G
kLE Company
Advertise 1t in the Herald today.
Mosquito Bites >
Just as soon as you feel the effect of the
Malarial Germs after being bitten by
Malaria Mosquitoes, it is advMoble to
take GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC
to destroy the Germs and remove the
impurities. Pleasant to take. 60c per
bottle.
the chief operator and one of the
young lady operators, and the young
lady operator was relieved from- set-
vice. This provoked another threaten-
ed strike by the operators, joined in
by the linemen and the cablemen, and
after several days’ discussion among
the company officials and the em-
ployees and their representatives, in
order to relieve the distressed condi-
tion and the inconvenience, loss and
trouble that would have been precipi
tated upon the families, homes, busi-
ness and manufacturing enterprises
plemonts and supplies,
values of the farms in the, region
of good roads “will ineceksfe from 65
to 500 per cent; because the good
road means the consolidated rural
school, attended when the weather is
good, to the graded school whqre the
fanners’ children have the same bp
pprtunity as children in the city; be-
cause the farmor’s wife will find hei
life more pleasant through having]
Wore social pleasures; because It J
means immeasurably more incopie in<
the way of money earned and ewyed;
more pleasure in living and humanl
M.Peaftman Supply Company
| raouarck s suite have indicated in
conversations with the correspondent
that it was their opinion that any
still continuing to do, and this fact
was admitted to be true by the line-
Offics Phoas 310—Residence 961
Corner Tennessee avenue and Main
gtreet
Second-hand supplies n good condi-
tion also water tanks, pulleys, pipes,
automobile parte, gears, etc., Auto
tires and inner tubes.
We buy all kinds of scrap junk,
rags, iron, metals, sacks, auto tires,
^c„ and second-hand machinery.
L proceedings from allied quarters will
be protraeted for many months with-
Iceiand During the War.
Iceland had to close agr»
with the ailies giving them fire
to purchase all products at *
price, and In retufrn was able to
most of its necessities direct
America. During the war lei
out any certainty that the Netherlands
government would consent* to hand
the former kaiser ovef for trial. r <
They are slifuwt unanimously con-
vinced that they are bere^for a long
sojourn, and' are making preparations
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Hamilton, W. M. & Hamilton, H. V. Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 9, 1919, newspaper, July 9, 1919; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015088/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palestine Public Library.