The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-21
AGAINST 8-HOUR LAW
sOUTHERNERS WILL OPPOSE IT'S
ENDORSEMENT.
Conservatives From This Section are
Anxious that There Shall Be No
Legislation Which Will
Hamper Industry.
Advertiser Bureau,
Colorado Building.

Colorado Building.
Washington, June 10.
The effort which will be made at
the st. Louis Convention to secure the
Incorporation of a labor plank in the
National Democratic platform favoring
the national eight hour bill the anti
injunction bill. and other labor bills
pending before Congress, will be
strongly opposed by the Southern del
egates and warm fight may be ex-
pected. This is the opinion of Daniel
Davenport of Bridgeport, Conn, who
has just returned from a Southern trip
in the interest of the powerful Amer
lean Anti Boycott Association, of which
he is Executive Agent. On this trip
Mr.. Davenport visited a large number
of mills and factories in the South and
interviewed the manufacturers as to
their attitude toward labor legislation,
State and National, of a restrictive
character.
When the National Democratic Con-
vention assemblies in st. Louis next
month the advocates of radical labor
legislation will meet with determined
opposition" he said today. IAN effort
will doubtless be made by the follow
ers of certain candidate who claims
to lie the great friend of the laborine
people to secure the adoption of a
plank favoring the national eight hour
Dill and other proposed legislation de-
signed 20 commit the government to
the policy of regulating the. hours of
work throughout the country by law
This movement will be opposed by the
conservative delegates from the South
who are not only antagonistic to the
candidacy of Mr.. Hearst but who are
firmly set against interference by the
government in the business and with
the rights of private individuals
The Southern delegates at st. Louis
can scarcely do anything else but op-
pose any resolution favoring an eight
hour or anti-injunction BILL" he con-
tinued, "as otherwise they would be in
the position of deserving Representa-
tive Maddox of Georgia. whose vote
in the House Committee on Labor
practically killed the eight hour bill
by referring it to the Department of
Commerce and Labor. His vote was a
great surprise to his Democratic col
leagues as the Democrats, heretofore
had always supported the bill by their
votes, however strongly they might
privately condemn it. But the Georgia
manufacturers flooded him with pro-
tests, and sent delegations to Wash
tngton with the result they convince
ed him that the commercial interests
of his State and of the South sener-
ally were strongly against the bill
They will naturally see that he does
not suffer politically from this vote
found labor conditions in the
South very satisfactory The Alabama
Legislature has recently passed an an
ti-boycott law and l believe the Geor-
gia Legislature will do likewise at it's
coming session, as the Georgia Indus
trial Association endorsed the same ar
its meeting few days ago. This AS
ISOLATION is probably the most influ-
entail OF Its Kind in the State of Geor-
gia and is maintaining a vigorous az
position to the efforts of organized Ia
Dor to unionize the Georgia mills and
to secure legislation which would tend
10 stunt the growth of the Southern
industries.
"A great deal of Northern capital has