PAGE FOUR THE WORKMAN. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1921 Iublished on Naturs by IX Rates for Advertisement on applica.
WALIOONT, at the office Centrala tion nue and coroer of Set Panama correspondener nail matters Rde of public interest invited Al copy for publication must be PO Box 74 Rondina one side of paper on, and RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Seowanied by the name of One Year 82. 40 Dot Deessarily for publica Six Months 30 as a mark of good faith we do not undertake to return On rejected correspondence WE ACCOMPLISHED IT CAN DO MORE Three WEST INDIAN TRADING Co. Ltd, The nane WORLD GREATEST THE WORKMAN COLO IED SINGER ON ISTHMUS Madame Patti Brown and Co.
al Cristo ter lub house Tight TH ATTRACTIVE PROGFAX Own and Manage Two Up to Date Groceries in The Liberty of the Press is the pendium of our rights. JUNIL Panama, and to Establish a Chain of Stores on the We take pleasure in announce ing the arrival at ristobal vez SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1920 Isthmus to Sell the Right Goods at the Right Prices.
terday morning by the s steam Tivives, om Patri Brown, the greatest culord Our Economic Gvoirdupois.
singer of the world nany has just complet cessful season in Jamaica.
In our last issue we refrained from commenting on the Maila Pitu Brown will.
increase of two cents in the Silver wage scale on the ground her appearance at the Cristobar that it should be left to see how the situation would be taken Capitalized at 10, 000 Silver Clubhouse tonight (Saturby those directly concerned so that any statement, pro or day 14th) at o ch ck. The precon, might not, on our part, be considered ill advised or Registered under the Commercial Laws of Panama No. 13, on January 13, 1920 are 50c. and 25c. Cy.
of the coupany is premature.
The Madam Brown Sing Play MAIN STORE: 114 Central Ave.
The importance of the situation is in itself sufficient BRANCH STORE: 22 Central Ave. Co. comprising Madain Patti Brown, as prima donna; Miss to engage the notice of the entire public, employees and Naphali Dosey, pianist; and Mr.
non employees, and for the last few days discussion on the This Corporation is backed by the full support of the people, and Loi Dette, baritone.
subject has been the foremost occupation in all quarters, The feeling among all the colored people and their white those who have not joined this rank are wasting valuable time tion and rendition of the litersympathisers is that the tucking of two bare cents onto ary numbers etc. etc. We ad.
the hourly rating of the Silver employees is not only unmire the high tastes of these CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IT satisfactory, but unnatural, when the prices of several of deserving people and will exthe most necessary articles of sustenance have simultanhort them to pursue their eously advanced three, four, seven and in some instances, WEST INDIAN TRADING Co. Ltd.
literary course with such pertwelve cents: Bor Apcon, sistence that will eventually take them to the acme of This has created a tenser situation than hitnerto exGentlemen: perfection, isted in the history of the Panama Canal. It has given birth to a feeling that had never before been known or hereby subscribe for. shares of the stock at Mathematics: heard of in this country. The unreasonableness of the 00 per share, and forward here with as payment entire situation has nearly killed the last spark of endurThe plus sign is the symbol ance and the camel back is all but broken; and what might of increase, and when the results be considered most serious of all, it has served to rivet and of a mathematical calculations tin NAME confirm the general belief that there is no disposition nor ish with it, it shows that some.
intention to dispense justice or fair play in the matter of ADDRESS thing is doing, so far as the salaries and wages of the Silver employees.
Silver employees are concerned.
The existence of, and difference between, Silver Roll The notice of an increase in wages and Gold Roll time books and pay sheets are, primarily, No one can buy less than shares or more than 1, 000 for Silver employees, is given out poor industrialism and, secondarily, decisive discrimination; from Balboa Heights two weeks and when to all this is added the determination to with ago, in its most elementary form hold even the slightest evidence of fairness, the whole busiof computation finishes with the ness resolves itself into nothing less than industrial stag. the scale of justice. The people have been asking for an minus sign when the Commis nation, economic torture and domestic honiicide.
Editorialettes sary moon hop prices are tak increase, and they have received a decrease and diminution.
en into calculation. Therefore, It is argued by the Canal officialdom that the increase If there were competitive stores on the Zone where the the whole affair is the addition of is reasonable and that it is based on a hundred per cent people could choose to plank their patronage, and where Private Schools.
basis while the cost of living has increased only at a seventy, arbitrariness would be conspicuously absent the condition, two cents and the decrease by per cent rate. This argument is sieve like. The rating of although unjustifiable, would not appear so outrageous; Resultant from our editor over ten cents in the original pay.
Silver employees should not be calculated in terms of bread. but with the compulsion to trade at the commissary chain isl of last week much discus This means a minus condition, and butter, but rather on an equitable remuneration for stores at a non competitive rate, and very often to ac sion among the teachers of and the conclusion must be that the value of service rendered. It is inconceivable that any cept undesirable substitutes is a condition which restrains the leading schools in Panama the present state of the people rational and politic individual would venture the state the liberty, privileges and comfort of the people.
and Colon has taken place. is worse than the past. Justico, ment that the Silver employeas are not worth more than We cannot be forced to believe that the richest and ers are agreed that our com Jamaica Grenada: For the most part, the teach Honesty, Conscience, help!
nineteen cents an hour as a minimun rating.
The argument of organized labor is not for a mere most democratic government in the world would intend to ment wag timely and correct The inter colonial tournament living, but for a wage with a margin for saving for the evil have its principles of justice and equity misinterpreted and and we apprecate the spirit between the Jamaica and the States of America would be satisfied to labor under the that that government which stands for liberty and fair ed the criticism. They have on Washington Brithday and days of general experience. No working man in the United misrepresented either, at home or abroad, nor do we feel with which they have accept Grenada elevens will take place the West Indies be used as a criterion of computation, for system of low wages intended to keep a certain class of thel tude in concluding that our inst. Fans from all over the conditions obtaining here, nor can the past conditions in play would wink at the distressing conditions caused by a demonstrated a sensible atti the day following (22nd and 23rd the people there are resisting, revolutionising and throwing people in abject poverty, and ultimately create and manu remarks bore reference to the Isthmus will be attracted to wit the shaping of the the improvements in living to which they are entitled and disgrace to another country whose escape from their de mistits who impose upon proud victors of the predations and operations is an impossibility.
themselves the duty of in match which came off last which they mean to have at any cost.
to If the authorities of the Panama Canal and the Pana structing. the young. If their intrepid oppo pay them what they are worth, and it is not for this Gov. ma Railroad think that a two cents increase is justice called teachers, properly so nents the C, who have beaten their consciences permit them to rest at ease called, were to draw up a set them on several pervious occas.
ernment to say that a Silver employee is only worth a few and equity, of rules and regulations for paltry cents per hour. If one Gold employee is three times under these circumstances, if their sense of what is right their business like organiza match differs greatly from that as efficient as a Silver employee, why not, instead of constrains them to stop there, then we must conclude that tion and government the ad of the cup matches in which The character of this seventeen thousand Silver employees use five thousand justice, conscience and right bear, different intarpretations and significations in this lone part of the world to those vantages of such a plan these two teams have hitherto)
Gold employees to do their, work?
known and understood in the other civilized countries and would be incalculable. We For mamy months we have been reminding the Pana among other civilized people of the world.
suggest a joint meeting of met, and judging from the determa Canal Government that their policy towards the silver employees has been unsatisfactory; we have shown The merchants and the landlords in Panama and Co and Atlantic pedagogues for off the palm, the will have representatives of the Pacific mination of the CC. to carry to open their eyes very wide.
that the salaries and wages received by the colored people lon are feeling the pressure of the situation because the the execution of such an ar Confidence, however reigns 84.
are inadequate, and far below what they might reasonably employees who reside in these cities are unable to pay their rangement, and we offer our West Indian quota of the Canal labor force; we have ap show that when a proper Wage is withheld from the Silver discussion on all matters per of their team is something to be; we have fully described the poverty and misery of the grocery bills, and their house rent: This fact serves to columns for frank and free preme among the boys from the Windward island and the line up pealed to the consciences and moral sentiments of the employees the circumstance effects the business of Panama taining thereto.
to make the stop and think Canal administration; we have discussed the nerve rack and Colon, and must prove a set back to the progress and a little. We will all be there, and ing question, at length, and the reply to all that have development of the cometry and some condition that not give and Take: then we ll see who who.
been said and done, by the voice of the public opinion and only hurts the colored people and foreigners, but it hits a the labor organization, is a two cents increase on the hour terrible blow at the whole population of the Republic and It has developed that some El Carnaval: little dissatisfaction was exly rating and a simultaneous sky rocketing in prices of its peace and safety.
To day commences the carnival a monopolistic commissariat.
The declaration of the two cents increase on the rating pressed in connection with festivities. Mirth, fun and plea.
should exist in a place where the workers are willing and tent and disatisfaction among the people. Can they be terary manifestations of conventional fetters and run rd.
it is distressingly regrettable that such a condition of the Silver men has served to stir the greatest discon Lour editorial shot at the sure will break away from their faithful and among that body of workers who are respon. expected to live honestly and honorably? Can they refrain some four people, and sev. checked until Tuesday at midsible for the most vital elements in the maintenance and from stealing when they can get enough from their labour eralof our best thinkers have night. Preparations of unusuar operation of the Canal. It should be expected that to meet the ordinary domestic demands? Can recourse to expressed the feeling that it elaborateness have been made lations between the colored employees of the Panama to contribute the most modest and necessary articles of mit that in the surface, our Colon are wearing the most glee.
a considerate and humane attitude should mark the re immorality be obviated when moral conditions are unable was unnecessary.
We ad and the cities of Panama and statements might have ap ful appearance.
Canal and those who hold the immediate responsibility for clothing and food?
peared to be somewhat gen and other foreigners will particiWest Indians their wages and remunerations for labor; and when, con What solution the voice of labor will be able to give, eral, but what we really pete in the jocundity and it will trarily, it is observed that no attention is paid to the or what remedy public opinion might suggest are questions meant was that, eliminating be fun, fun, fun, all the time for elaims, rights, and interests of this section of labor the of the most momentous character, at present. If the from our minds the fact that four full days. The floats wil be question becomes serious and disquieting.
Authorities could be induced to see the situation in its real certain of the participants in the most beautiful ever seen here As a reality, the economic situation is now worse light we believe that a rectification of the whole con. the recent elocutionary con and the program of the season than it was before the two cents increase was given. The dition might be effected, but if the present policy of ignor. test were o. there was no will furnish the greatest variety frightful advance in the prices of rice, sugar and milk, ing the humane and legitimate claims of the people be per. little amount of space, on of amusemente and enjoyments when placed alongside of the meagre two cents per hour sisted in we see no hope for the settlement of a question the part of others, for im. over experienced in this part of in which to lead to most disastrous resulta provement in the prepara the world. Viva, el Carnaval!
ness sions,