The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Question of RIackIistina.

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 Question of Establishing.
 MT. Starr called attention to the provi- sion to prevent blacklisting by corpora tions. He said the labor unions would have to work in the open while corpor- ation could keep his black list in a pri- yate vault and there was no way to get at him. The blacklist provision, he said, was placed in the bill for a delusion MT. aStarr made an impassioned plea for the defeat of the blll consuming an hour or tina
 Mr Serners of Jefferson said that he did n., want to be unreasonable in the matte of debate, but there was some thing in being reasonable. He, there fore 10 permit full debate, moved the indefinite postponement of the bill and pending amendments, reserving the right to withdraw It.
 MT. Scale of Sumten secured the floor and he immediately went after MT Starr in fire eating style, He accused the gem tleman from Dallas of making a long le- gal discussion with as many arguments on one side as the other. He had wound up with the assertion that there was TO law against picketng, etc. MT. Scale said that it was the intent to make it H. legal. There was nothing in the bill. he said, to hurt good man or geatis,r n. It was not law against labor unions, and labor unions were not even mentioned in the bill.
 MT. Hammer of Etowah opposed the bill, characterizing it as most unfair and damnable.
 MT. Kelly of Choctaw, one of the dis tinct house characters. thought the bill bad and drastic. He wanted to find out who were the "gitters-up" of the origi- nal bill He declared them to be the bankers and lawyers of Birmingham. He told of receipt of letters asking support of the bill from the Citizens Unon," which he said had an oath of allegiance more binding than the ku-klux.
 Mir DuBose-Wll the gentleman from Choctaw please tell us what was the oath of the ku-klux?
 MT kelly-No sir; I'll tell you nothing about it. But I will tell you that you could not reveal the membership, and if 1t fell my lot to shoot a man, I had to shoot him.
 MT. Kelly thought the bill uhconstitu- tional. and in violation of section | talk ing away the liberty of the people.
 Mir Hoffman said the labor unions and the capitalists of Mobile were getting along very nicely and they did not need the bill He understood the bill to have had It's origin in Birmingham. where 1t is said the conditions are bad. He thought the bill had especial reference to labor unions and it's general provisions were bad.
 MT Mcdonald of Barbour argued in support of the bill.
 Mir Blackburn of Jefferson made an honest plea for the bill. He had on yes terday voted against making the bill a special. as he thought it bad precedent to give one important bill place ahead of others equally important. But the bill is now the order of the hour and 1t Is up to the members to meet the proposition or run. It was not the time and place to run. He regretted that the labor unions had conceived 1t to be their duty to fight the bill. and he thought it the most grievous mistake in the history of uniou- | ism He quoted from section of the con stitution which guarantees that all men are equally free and independent. and