The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-10
CAMPAIGN FOR LABOR
THREE SPEAKERS ADDRESSED
 SMALL GATHERING.
Messrs. Faust, Randall and squiers Declare Apathy of Southern Workingmen is Injuring
 the Unions.

l A campaign in Alabama for union labor.
 a campaign backed by the National ana
 international organizations or iaooF or
 unionism in this State was foresnadoweo
 by labor meeting held last night at the court house.
 Three representatives of national
 organizations of union labor addressed a
 small gathering at the court house. It | was evident from these addresses that | national labor leaders are alarmed at the | public sentiment as to unionism in Ala | bama. Admitting the weakness Of union l labor the officials are not so much alarm
 ed at the condition of the union lapor | organization in the State as they fear its effects on the national organizations. | They see in the indifference, if not the | hostility of the people Of this state to
 unionism menace to the organization l established in other States and 10 tne national associations.
 | This apprehension on the part of the labor leaders was intensified by the pas sage of the anti-boycott law, law which opponents of unionism in other States of | the Union. These leaders, 1t is conceiva- | ble look upon the anti-boycott law as
 measure which may be used as prece- dent by other States.
 One of the speakers said last night that Alabama had been neglected by the National Associations in union labor. It was realized now, he said, that this neg Iect was a mlstake sano IL was propoSeu l to remedy the mistake. It was proposed I to inaugurate an active campaign to strengthen unionism in the State. i The speakers of last night were, Joseph T. Faust of New Orleans of the Tobacco Workers International Union, H. N. Randall. State organizer of the American Federation of Labor, and George B. Sauires, second vice-president of the Clerks International Protective Associa- tion. Tbay 1vera fo have snnkan under the auspices of a local committee, but the members of the committee were not present when the speaking began. Only small crowd was present.
 Politics is Adised.
 The anti-boycott law was the subject of attack by all speakers. Labor union men were advised to go into politics. It was declared that conditions in. Alabama demanded that the workingmen should go to the polls.
 It was declared by the speakers that they had been told that Montgomery was the worst place In the country to try to organize labor unions. It was intimated by the speakers that the condition of organizations. One of the speakers de- clared that the textile workers of the North last year lost their fight because the manufacturers were able to import expert non-union textile workers from the South. d
 In the absence of members of the local committee Joseph T. Faust called the small crowd to order. He said he ap- preciated the effect of the incemency of the weather and the effect it had on the attendance. Nevertheless, he said, there would be three short speeches.
 He introduced H. N. Randall whom he said would speak on Trusts, Good and Bad" He declared that trusts were the most dangerous organizations that civi- libation has to combat. This was the key note of his address.
 MT. Randall was among the crowd who filled the lobby of the capitol during the Legislature of last year. He was then assisting in the fight to prevent the pas- sage of the anti-boycott bill. He ap- peared before the committee of the House which had that bill in charge and made a speech against 1t.
 He speaks clearly, but not easily. He pointed out the Standard oil Company as the most gigantic, the most dangerous of trusts. He said he had no faith in John b. Rockefeller's religion. Rockefeller, he said, went about giving money to schools and churches and taking 1t out of the pockets of the people by raising the price of oil. |. a- " tical trusts and corporation, who were threatening republican institutions. Mill lions of dollars, he said, had been spent by the Democratic party in buying votes in a Presidential election.
 "A great political trust in our own State of Alabama framed a new constitution in the interests of trusts and capital" said Mir. Randall. That constitution has 'disfranchised 50,OOO men in Alabama, and many of them are working men. They said they were going after the negro, but they got thousands of white men."
 He attacked the last Legislature for passing the anti-boycott law. This law, he said. was contrary to the Constitution of the United States.
 Boycott Law in Courts. l And tell you," he said heatedly, that l 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, ht 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. l He dnclarad that 1t a lax.z=ah hidira