The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-04
NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED
(osintinusd from Jage one.)

n may cAses almost ruined because they nad sfaised their voices against the ille- GA1 acto Or vioiencss Of this illegal or Gnnhatfon and its officers ana agents" anA he cited instances where he claimed phyuictAns and even ministers had been thfeatened and boycotted because they ministered to sick or dying member of . non-union workers family.
 Hr. Truesdale then stated that one sixth of the members of the mine work erss organization was composed of young msn and boys between r. and 20 years cf age and he declared, 'their minds were being poisoned with the most danger ous. anarchistic. distorted, wicked views and errors concerning the rights of citi- zsnship and property that any one can possibly. conceive of: all through the teachings and practice of the officers. or- Ganfxers and apostles of the United Mine WoxAer's Association"
 He maintained that the consequences of the existing conditions were fraught with .he gravest dangers to the stability and perpetuity of this country and its insti- tutipns. Finally he declared that while he was not an enemy of organized labor where it promoted the real interests of the lsborer by lawful means, he felt it his duty to resist and combat with all his mental and physical powers .''the avcwed and evident object and purpose Of this United Mine Workers Associa- tion as exemplified in the anthracite dis trfof of Pennsylvania today and as taught and defended by It's officers and other ex- ponents of it's well known and so-called purposes and principle.
 "Tl1e same condition" he concluded, .exists today in Tennessee or Alabama where the members of this organization have but recently gone on a strike. The same condition existed in Kentucky for about two years where this organization was in control and where its members prackiced the same unlawful methods that are being followed in Pennsylvania sodas. Mir. President, we firmly believe that any adjustment of this matter as has been suggested here today will only result in perpetuating conditions that are uttexfy sbhorrent to any good Aneri- can cAtaxen and most intolerable and dam aging to the interests which represent. We cannot therefore. concur therein" nfE. WILCOX HAS
 SOMETHING TO SAY.
 Mir. Wilcox, in opening his statement, explained the details of the organization Of the United Mine Workers, whose ob- jeces he said "are SO far as possible to f1szifate the supply of labor engaged in he Occupation of coal mining through siaf the country and the terms of en- piouensnt the ksof." Its ultimate object, hs fnaintained is to control the entire fuel supply of the country and he de- s1arod 1t was the most extensive com bfnakion and monopoly in the country.
 Afx habitually enforces it's orders and directions" he continued, ''by whatever nneaps may be most effectual including strikes. boycotts, picketing, besetting and the fs1e. not confined to its own members alone. but in which are compelled to join, as far as possible, all other citizens sirni- lariy employed. Its violent methods have already received the condemnation of the Cireunit Court of the United States"
 Mfr. Wilcox then declared that the nrss- erK anthracite strike had been ordered in accordance with these objects and claim ed mat non-union mine workers had been