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on AT 10c. EAGH this ber Palmer Restaurant. of these Santa Ana Plaza PAGE FOUR THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, JULY 19 1919 Editorialettes.
Wrongs that must be THE WORKMAN Soldiers Coming in Announcement coming from Righted mediately Military Head Quarters durPublished on Saturdah HN Rates for Advertisement on applies.
ing the week are to the effect By EDUARDO MORALIS VALROND, at the office Central ATtion Correspondence on all matters that General Kennedy has Due and corner of Street, Panama. of public interest invited. de abrogated Order No. 26. and NESRO FELLOW MEN AND WOMEN: All copy for publication must be convenient eight sided cake. under certain restrictions the am herein calling your attenwritten on one side of paper only, and RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION must be accompanied by the name of soldiers will be allowed to tion to the following facts that Washes well in hard and soft water the writer, not necessarily for publicacome to town in Panama and have been, and are still working tion but as a mark of good faith.
Colon. These restrictions ap. Social uplift of our race.
directly against the Financial and undertake to return good SOAP for all uses.
pear in another column of am dealing with these facts rejecud correspondecce.
this issue of the Workman.
Gives better results than any other Now, more than ever, the en. decending to personaliting without prejudice, and without The Liberty of the Press is the palladium of our rights JUNITS tire Panama Public is placed but with facts that our people Weight Full ten ounces. The Government have been overlooking for a very SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1919 has had to offer the guaran long, long time: facts that the tee of faith which, of course, and act npun immediately THE PRODUCT OF CENTURY EXPERIENCE Negro must consider serious Gnte Mortem Examinalion of Negro Gliens must have been computed There is a pernicious habit ammore the FOR SALE EVERYWHERE confidence ong churches conducted by white of the public co operation preachers. of selecting the best What is the latest news everywhere? Give us a line then on the Government looking among our xirls and up on what doing here and there, and tell what the outreal ability to suppress disor: women to go around the streets with envelopes and little cans, Jook. Questions and solicitations such as these come from ders and irregularities so far after the shape of a Prince Alevery corner where labor is found, unveiling the anxiety as these exist in the mind of bert tobacco tin begging money of the workingman of the colored race to know what will Save the WRAPPERS and COMPETE for OUR the Commanding Officer of for the Lord (the white man be done with him now that he is organizing; and before the Canal Zone sake.
any answer can be given to the queries one must take a 50 (pesos) Cash Prizes This habit, fellow men and Houses of prostitution women of my race, exposes our deep long breath and sit back in an attitude that will conshould never exist, but since girls and women to open insults, tribute the greatest ease during the attempt to satisfy the LEE CHONG COMPANY they do, it should be the duty while being used as tools in the. eagerness of those who have awakened from industrial degradation of every citizen to shut them hands of crafty workmen to rob stupor and are alert as to the magnitudinous potentialities 62 Central Avenue Panama of the Negro race.
up by refusing to visit them. members of their own race in WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS This would make the situa. order to enrich these cunning All the stir in labor circles among colored people on tion safe for the soldier boys religious white preachers. Think the Isthmus is not confined to the men, and where organi 13131303211223333333333333333333 who are forbidden to follow of it; What a shame. zation has already reached over ninety per cent; it has the Red Light. The canI bave often heard thrilling spread to the ranks of female domestics from laundress to house maid and from shop girl to seamstress. These poor teens and bars should keep in suggestions made to these religmind their community obliga the Devil himself to shiver ious beggars, that would cause girls who have toiled and spun in the past without satistions and do all they can to What a disgrace, my God. Many factory pay have heard the slogan from the camps of the commend the city to the of our girls and women have gone United Brotherhood, and have sought the aid of that gi pratique of the military wrong on account of this gantic union in having themselves organized for their own.
men who for so many months have been anxiously looking, ging for the Lord stunt.
protection and advancement, were restrained from coming and patient waiting and for The whole race, then, is alive to the necessity of cominto town ever to see the rites ing together in promotion of interests that the gods deBusiness will naturally inManghters and sisters clare to be worthy and experience decides to be undeniably crease with the re appearance with their aprelons and tobacco white preachers on the streets just in the sight of all men. At the meetings of the of the army men into the city ins; but alas, all my watching.
various locals the applications for membership keep the and we are sure that every and waiting, and hoping were in secretaries busy for hours at a time and the rush to assobody will profit by the new vain, with the exception of Th.
ciate with the movement has incaeased to such intensity order, and it should be every Starvation Army.
that the thermometer of enthusiasm has risen to boiling body interest to see that Next comes the Holy or Relig point.
nothing transpire to give occa ious or Church Picnic instituted Among all classes of the colored population on the sion for dissatisfaction in this by these white preachers, where Zone nothing, at the present time, occupies more of the connection.
our girls and women are entreat ed to attend. They are then giv attention of the people than the W.
AL Place Adjoining en the Holy picnic tickets to be which general testimony and authentic prestige say has sold to whosoever will. On the come to stay. The flowing crowds which wend their way Increased Wages: great day of the Lord (the white to the various meeting halls, the admirable interest in During the week the new een to twenty cars crammed with man s) festival, a train of eight the union as has been evinced by the members, the wage schedule for Silver em Negroes and Negroes only, wit anxious and eager enquiries of those who are preparing to ployees was sent out to the the exception of the White Lora pitch in and the unstinted support given by the black various departments of the himself who poses as the Treas pulpit and the Negro element on the Isthmus prove that Panama Canal and Panama urer General with Ratoa Band the colored element is astir and alive in matters racial Railroad, and by this time on to the Most Holy Place the in Attendance, is seen traveling and that the determination to stand pat is the general has reached the eyes and ears picnic grounds.
decision of everybody.
of every colored employee on Before the face of thousands of colored people here, the Isthmus. This has been White Lord, we find our wives.
On this most glorious day of the the Silver Wage board stands on trial. It has been given SPECIAL SERVICE looked for with unabated daughters and sisters in the task of adjudicating the case of the colored men emanxiety for the past few state of bilarity similar to that has not been improved, and that the under curand. The man utmost best satisfy rent of unrest among the colored people is fast rising to are discussing the table of Oh how cruel; how wicked; how the surface. What has the Silver wage Board attempted wages as it has been given out immoral; how degrading it is to do in this connection? Has there been any effort to to look carefully into the true conditions of the Silver em by the Canal Authorities, the ambitious and well thinking satisfy the claims of the West Indian? The general impres ployees they would find that a super human faithfulness The various locals of the Negro.
ing the post mortem examination of the colored em want and mean wages perplexed them all along. It would tenance of Ways and Railway Iam calling upon you to consider be discovered that the low wages paid to these men do not Shop Laborers have called ing upon you to help me to stop these evils seriously: am callployees.
If the case of these units of the canal force were hu even satisfy the most meagre necessities of life, and they special meetings to consider the sepaisgracefuhe strains from manely touched by the sharp edged instruments of econo would learn that a miraculous patience has been exhibited the raise of salary apportioned spreading on the characteristine mic surgery the adventitious accretions which unnaturally by them Such an investigation into the conditions of colored and the results of these meetto the several employments, robe of the Negro Race: am calling fabric of negro machinery upon you to allow Ethiopia to stretch forth with opportunity to administer to with head guaranteed.
remedies before the men die, and so create the certainty We are not now in a position ing your notice to the fact that callOn a smart principle it might be better to perform a of a guaranteed labor force which will demand the admi to state what is the feeling such moves as the above stated. post mortem examination on the silver employees and ration of the whole world. If the pruning knife is to be among the colored servants on our race, and to enrich the proncunce a verdict of dead from natural causes of used it ought to be wielded on these professional pen push of the Canal and the Railroad. cunning white preachers.
were instituted to bring disgrace starvation after they are out of the way, and the safety ers and chair warmers with their hands a pocket for eight For the time being there am calling your attention to of the hand in the pocket gang, and the certainty of the hours every day while their eyes wander about their offi is absolute silence over the the fact. that coloured preachers cigar puffers and pencil scrapers with the almost innumer ces listlessly, in the hope that they might accidentally matter.
able throng of the take it easy while on the job club be strike on something with which they might make shift prices appear to be the Pons the picnic evil.
The Commissary do not permit them to partake of assured. Dead men give no trouble and if they can kill out and camouflage the time inspector or an investigating Asinorum and the beater Did you ever stop to think, Negro labor their aims will be achieved.
official who might happen to be on the Isthmus at the time. in the whole situation. Milk that on said, picnic grounds you But for the practical operation of the Panama Canal It is more sensible to encourage and remunerate the and other necessities are still with the vilest of the most vile?
to mix an institution and possession of the United States Govern colored labor than to breed a nest of parasites, just as it out of range and the people Did you ever stop to consider, ment and not the holdings of a Kuklux Klan the sus is more economic to maintain a force of well paid hard are up against a proposition that when the picnic is over, you tenance of a strong colored labor force is both a necessity working indispensables than to fatten gangs of useless which they can overeome. are five or six dollars poorer, and and an expediency. The colored people wish to be exam quantities who contribute nothing to the upkeep of the We trust, however, that the the white man is that amount ined now, and they desire an impartial and thorough ex Canal and draw all from its giving. The colored laborer mists will clear away and that richere Did you ever stop to amination. They wish to be told their destiny in language here with his family of four or five finds life a burden, a reasonable and just arrange valuable dress and character in consider, that cannot be twisted or muffed by a school of political with present earnings. In the West Indies whence they ment will be effected through trying to please these White sharpers and executive turn tails who have as much scru have come the wages paid have been gradually ascending. which the authorities and the Lords? remember, how one ples about a lie as a hungry tiger pouncing on a lame The increased cost of necessities have made this obligatory people in turn will be able to of our decent girls was attacked rooster.
on the part of the employers and they are not shrinking find general satisfaction.
by a vagabond in the streets of The colored people wish the United States Govern from doing it, They know, there, that it is wholesale rot to Colon, whose words were What ment and the universal public to know that the Panama let a man die and then place wreaths on his grave; that Court Mizpah No. 9138, gotten that danced with you are you playing. have you forCanal is not operated by powder puffs and toilet waters, satisfied labor brings better results than industrial slavery; Meets To night at the picnic on Febanary 22nd. but by elbow grease and natural sweat; not by the clouds that it pays more to remunerate a faithful employee than Negro fellow men fand women, from the Londres and Golofinas but from the machine to stretch the purse strings of an eye servant; that it looks The regular Lecture meeting pride and reason to hold high am appealing to your personal a 9198 of Our Racial Inte chair engineers and village kings, but by the rank and file suckers; that if a man is under paid, he will under dig; Ancient Order of Foresters, wil erity. In the face of these porte: of the hustling gang; not by the favored sons of the that if he can sweat he will swipe; that it is wiser be called in order at 30 ed enemies ot the Negro Race. Golden roll, but by the ten cents men in all the depart. to see a beaf steak on a working man table than a precisely at their Court Room.
ments; not by the big bugs and aristocrats, but by the un Buick incubated from the safe; that good pay means Members are requested to be on low yourselves to be trodde noun: going to alderlings and plebian masses.
good service and that a square deal makes it possible for of vital importance to be dealt der the fest of these white If the officials of the Canal were to become inclined a man to eat a square meal.
Continued on Pay Army Navy Headquarters a ploved by the Panama Canalyelty has been claimed dieat the DAY AND NIGHT mast been a brokenwalth interested artmasi bilan to staring atheir oru to be removed and the prolonged life of Elie masses would be labora wainulo por family treomortem ex prescriera, and it wouldings are awaited with consid. cleanliness, and to raise her henne am call that with