The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-10
Boycott Law in Courts

And I tell you." he said heatedly, that the workingmen have got the money, the ability and the attorneys to carry that law through the courts to show the Ala | bama lawmakers that they cannot tie the hands of the workingmen and deprive him of his constitutional privileges"
 Reaching the head of good trusts, he put the labor trust at the top of the list. He said the labor trust was a good trust | because it fought down the bad trust, He declared that it was a law-abiding trust in Alabama and that the working men would even abide by the anti-boycott | law until the Supreme Court had passed upon the law He asserted that the ob- l ject of the labor trust was to make bet George B. Squiers. the Second Vice President of the Clerks International Protective Association, was introduced as resident of Washington City, who would speak on union labor. He said that he was in charge of Alabama and several other Southern States for his organiza- ton. He spoke of his first coming to Ala threatened strike of the clerks of Bir- mingham. He found, he said, a startling piece of legislation in the anti-boycott law. The law looked fair. he said, if 1t was read over quickly. But, he said, it was easy to prove violation of the law in boycotting by the laboring men, but it was almost an impossibility to prove blacklisting on the part of merchants.
 Hn advised the laboring men to go into politics. Conditions in Alabama of all States demanded that the workingman should qualify and vote in elections. | Alabama, he said, had been neglected by national and international organiza- tions. They had now realized their mis- take. They proposed to remedy that mis- take and organize unions in the neglected district.
 He said he had been informed by his organization that the clerks union of Montgomery was in a rather bad state. | The members had apparently lost interest ! iT, ha present to take up the matter of a revival of interest.
 "organized Capital and Organized La hor." was announced as the subject of | Joseph T. Fausts talk. He defined capi- tai as stored up energy of labor. The work of combinations. he said, was the raising of prices and lowering of wages. | Children in Mills.
 He declared that in' the past few days he had seen little children troop out of the | cotton mills in Montgomery at West End where they worked fourteen and fifteen hours a. day, Organized labor had he said, made 1t a rule or law in the mines t or factories which they controlled, to al- low no children under IA years old to be
 Every organized labor man. he said had been taught in his lodge room to respect selves
 The. manufacturers associated. he said, was due to the fact that the National Sem ate hal come within two votes of passing an eght-hour labor law. The manufac- turers got frightened, he said, and orga- nizcd to fight union labor.
 l He declared that the Idea of personal and Industrial liberty had not advanced but had rctrograded since the adoption of the national constitution. He declared that the time was coming when the Amer lean people would demand that the consti- tuition should be so amended that there should be equal rights to all and special faVOrs to none.
 lola sl different trusts had been fought. He de- clared that there was only one way to fight the railroad trust, at the ballot box. He advised his hearers to fight the rail road trus. al the ballot box at every op- IpOrtunity. The ballots should be cast, ne said, for the government ownership oi railroads .
 Messrs. Faust, Squiers and Randall Will leave this morning for Mobile.
 Mir. Faust was asked if 1t was the puL' pose of him and his associates tO worh