The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
AMBASSADOR WILL
 MAKE TRIP SOUTH
BARON DIES PLANcHES WILL SEEK SUITABLE HOMES FOR NEW YORK ITALIANS, WHO WANT TO LEAVE.

NEW YORK ITALIANS, WHO
 WANT TO LEAVE.
 Washing on, November 29.-Pressure of official work has forced Baron Mayor des Planches, the Italian ambassador to postpone his trip through the south until next year
 Shortly after the adjournment of con gress he will visit Florida, Louisiana and Texas Tn the interest of worthy, re- spectable Italians in New York. and in other laige cities, who desire to es- cape from their crowded surroundings, and make homes for themselves in a warmer climate where they may operate truck farms and become self-supporting citizens.
 It is un 1erstood that the south is an- xious to obtain immigrants who are law abiding and can become self-supporting. The proposition has been made by cer- tain railroad interests whose lines oper- ate in veral southern states to furnish tracts of land to Italian farmers at a reasonable rate, and enable them to build cottages to be paid for on easy terms. To inquire into the practlcability of this proposition will be the object of the am bassador's trip.
 timidate or physically assault those who take their places. I do not believe that 1t is possible for the unions to form and maintain a monopoly on labor in any in- dustry for a long period of time. pro- vided the law against intimidation and slugging are enforced. It is difficult and dangerous to attempt to corner commo- dities like wheat, and how much more must 1t be to attempt to corner labor, which is composed On intelligent beings Co for all practical Purposes she labor question does not resolve itself down to the proposition that union men have the right to refuse to work with non-union men, but rather to the proposition that when union men refuse to work with non union men they have no right to in- terfere with or to prevent by threats or violence non-union men from working"
 How Courts Have Held.
 MT. Parry declared that the courts have with practical unanlmity held that the closed shop cannot be maintained by means of contracts between employers and unions for the reason that such contracts are illegal and void In that they tend to produce a monopoly and are un- constitutional and against public policy. The question he c-id, then arises whether
 
 the absence of contracts by the method of the unions refusings to work with non union men. 'As I have just stated l do not believe that the unions can force the closed shop upon industry by mere ly following this policy of refusing to work. But granting for arguments sake that they may be able to do this. then want to say here now that where an organization quits work to compel the discharge of men simply on the grounds that these men are not members of the organization then those composing the or ganization are guilty of an act of perse- cution which cannot be justified on moral grounds no matter how much they may be acting within their legal rights. The men of an organization that commit such an act should fully understand that they are striking a blow at individual freedom, the most precious heritage of the common people and are thereby in- viting there own undoing. If such acts of tyranny are to become more frequent then the issue must come out clean and clear before the people, whether or not Amer ican liberty shall be maintained. At all hazards the right of men to work where and when and for what they please must be protected. I believe, that when any organization takes concerted action to quit work merely to prevent men not in their organization from exercising their right to labor, an injury is inflicted upon the men forced out Of employment which should entite them to some redress. The unions must also remember that while they have the right to quit work the employer has the right to employ whom he pleases, and this right of the employer is not to be taken from him no more than is the right to quit work to be taken from the empoye Another thing, the more the unions go on strike merely to force the discharge of non-union men the more the employers must cooperate in the defense of the rights of independent labor and their own righ- to employ whom they lease"
 Refers to Socialists.
 Continuing, MT. Parry speaking of the socialist vote, said:
 Tt may be considered unfortunate by some that the result of compelling the unions to abide by the laws Is to drive a portion of their membership into the socialist party but certainly 1t is no ar- gument to say that the unions should be permitted to follow their own sweet will in order that their members may not become socialists. The growth of the socialist party simply adds additional force to the necessity that confronts the employers to take an active hand In shap- ing public sentiment to the end that our great individualistic form of government may be maintained. The greatest indus trial structure the world has ever seen has grown up in free America. Shall it be destroyed or even checked in It's de- velopment? It surely will be |. the so- cialists and labor agtators obtain any power in the management of industry or the shaping of the policies of the govern ment."
 Tn closing Mir Parry laid special stress on the educational feature of the work T IL -.-Al said the association had made marvel ous progress in the first year of it's or ganization and that it was certain to become one of the most powerful and in- fluential forces for good to be found in the world The work, he said. that it has undertaken must and shall go for ward