The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-26
FLYNN AND FARLEY
 TALK ABOUT STRIKE
United Mine Workers Officials
 Address Trades Council
MORAL SUPPORT WAN TED
Mir. Flynn Discusses Operators and AIudes to the Internal Ma chine Found on Mir. Mabens
 Porch-Routine Business.

Press Agent Ed K. Smith of the Bir- mingham Trades Council gives out the following report of yesterday afternoons s meeting:
 The session of the Trades Council was called to order at 2.SO o'clock by Presi- dent L. K. scherry. Harry L. White was at the secretary's desk.
 Delegate Smith call the attention of the body to the fact that Ed Flynn, pres ident of District No. 20 United Mine Workers. was in the hall and President scherry invited the visitor to seat on rostrum. Upon motion by Delegate Mos ley, the regular order of business was suspended to give MT. Flynn the floor that he might state to the council the object of his visit
 Flynn Speaks.
 MT. Flynn taking the floor stated that the reason of his visit was to ask the council and all affiliated locals individ- ually and collectively to extend to the United Mine Workers their moral sup port. He stated that they did not ask for financial aid that as far as finances were concerned they were fairly well fixed and had sufficient money if necessary to continue their fight for five years with out asking for aid
 Mir. Flynn said he was proud of the showing his people have made. stating that great credit was due the miners in this struggle; that never had there been an organization of men when engaged in strike so true to ---e cause of union- ism as his people. That there were $500 men out and up to this hour there had not been fifty men that had proved false to their obligations.
 AlluG-i to MT. Bacon.
 He said MT. Bacon had boasted that he had nonunonized the bricklayers. had nonunionize1 the boilermakers, had non unionzed the machinists working for his company, and that l.e would nonunion- ize the miners, and do so in month, but that up to the present da.- Mir Bacon had f1.led in his efforts, that the strike has been on now for three months and MT. Bacon's disruption of the organiza- tion like the strike had hardly started.
 If ever there was peonage in Alabama, MT Flynn said, 1t is here now Men are met at the train with guards, he contin- ued, carried to the mines by guards. es- corted to a boarding house by guards carried to work in the mines by guards and guarded while at work. He said the struggle was not now for a wage scale; that the Republic Iron and Steel company had let the cat out of the bag by posting notices that they would pay 55 cents per ton under the open-shop plan, which Mr. Flynn described as being the closest shop he ever heard of. 1t being open only to those who would forever foreswear alleg- fence to trades unionism.
 MT. Maben and the Dynamite.
 He referred to the dynamite placed on MT. Mabens porch. saying he did not believe any one gave the report any credit. 'The idea of a man. he said, "and l believe there are men in this hall as brave as any man. seeing a man on a porch with an internal machine, ad- vancng, grabbing the bottle and taking time to cut the fuse twice. Why no mat ter how brave the man was himself or any man present I would venture to say he would have thrown tha. bottle fuse and all as far into the street as pos sible." The mans own safety continued MT. Flynn, would demand quicker action than a prolonged search for knife to dissect two feet of burning fuse leading to a mine of dynamite placed as such ac- tion would leave the public to believe for the purpose of demolfshing the prop erty and perhaps life of Mir Maben He could not account for the dynamite being placed there, but supposed that the man who lit the fuse was going to commit suicide and thought that MT. Mabens porch the very best place he could find to commit the act, and that when he was by the other fellow he ran away. thinking that perhaps the ether fellow was going to commit suicide. toe. MT. Flynn concluded by saying that he believed that this fight if won by the op- perators. though he did not think it pos sible for them to win would sound the death knell of organized labor and the prosperity they had brought to them- the wage earner in the last ten years
 MT. Flynn's talk was received with ap- plause from the delegates present who at the conclusion of his address voted him a rising vote of thanks for the infor- nation given the body and pledged them selves to render all and any assistance possible.
 Delegate Smith requested of President Flynn and his co-workers that they pre- pare q full list of all domestic coal on the market mined by union miners, that this list might be posted in the different labor halls as information to guide the different union men in the district when buying coal for the winter This will be done at once by the district office.
 FairIey Talks.
 The doorkeeper announced at this time that Executive Board Member W. R. Fairle5i was outside seeking admission Upon being admitted MT Fairley was greeted by cries of speech from the dele gates and upon invitation MT. Fairlev de- livered short address. He said the operators had declared they could not pay more than 40 per ton in tha beginning and keep their mines running. but as soon as the strike was ordered they posted circulars agreeing to pay 45 cents under the open shop plan and that if they could pay 45 cents per ton now. hire guards feed and care for them and keep thein mines running they could cer- tainly pay 50 cents per ton without all this expense and more harmony and do something. He did not think the opera tors knew what they wanted but the miners did know what they wanted and