The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-08

lie urSt came to AuDufn With COl. w. H. Chambers from Russell county. Train ed by one of the old-time southern fami- 1 lies, old Joe had absorbed many of the fine qualities of courtesy and dignity that 1 characterized the old-time southern gen. l tleman. His funeral was conducted yes l terday, the college bell being tolled dur 1 ing the services. Representatives of the | entire faculty were in attendance. 1 ne memory of faithful servant is well | worth recording.
 our family, first, our state next. and for our fellow workers in the neighboring states thirdly.
 Strike We'll Managed. 'I want to correct three mistakes. The l report has been all over the United I States, and several newspaper men have approached me on the subject, that had I been in Alabama last July, there would 1 have been no strike. You know that | was not in America when the strike was i declared. l want to say to the world, that | had I been here l would have advised l exactly what was done.
 l There is another report that remained | away from Alabama during the time of the strike because l was not wanted | I l port that it Is absolutely false. There has not been a month in which I was not l importuned to come to Alabama
 "'rhe third report was that l was not i satisfied with the administration in Bir- mingham that one object of my visit was 1 to remove Fairley, etc. In reference to this error I will state that the condition of the strike suits me we'll that it has 1 been better managed than any other that l hoC in thp horn states and that it has been condutced as we'll as any that has occurred in America.
 None Hungry.
 "I haven't seen a miner look hungry yet l Better financial support wouli have been i given you, but we were not able. We i have done our best. I her that none are l hungry, and that all of the children have l shoes and that coal is in the grate. We | will do that much as long as the strike l lasts If they freeze you out it will take a long time.
 "If you stick together, you will win They may bring foreign labor to Ala bama they may go into the southern counties but still they need skilled mi ners and will have them ultimately. If we act as one we cannot be licked visa we could get together with the agents | and operators and make honorable terms. l ir order that all of you could return to 1 your work But what can we do when l there is no justice, when the operators refuse to lsten?" strike cried several "Yes: strike" replied the president.
 "On one hand there is humble submis- sion. On the other hand is to continually | fight and fight The honorably thing for us is to fight on in spite of the suffering. | There are many things worse than the l strike Strikes as bad as they are, de- velop the highest civilization. That di- vine discontent the desire for better things. which brings hope for better days, better homes. happier wives, higher civ l ilization is the backbone of an honorable strike. When this kind of discontent is referred to, l plead guilty of being q | labor agitator.
 Abject contentment. "I have seen contentment In the most abject states. I have seen woman and a dog dragging a loaded wagon They l were conducted because they had been l beaten down to the lowest depths. There I is nothing ennobllng in that work to | which we are driven. Labor unions are making work ennobling.
 Where is nothing ennob'ing in send ing girls of eight years into the tobac- l co and cotton factories of the south. There is nothing ennobling iu sending | your sons into the mines at the tender l age of twelve. 1t Is done l, is against | the law If there is any place where | the eye of the law is shut, 1t $ In the l south (Cheers). If there is one thing l that southern men should do above the rest. it Is to make the effort to save the l child l worked before l had this job. | went into the mines at an age too early, and know wherof I speak"
 Federal Judiciary.
 q have for the judiciary. as a whole, Il. are better than the average man. Some of our julges-federal judges-have gone l entirely too far. They are endeavoring | to restrain men from doing what they | have a legal right to do. l, for one, In l spite of them, propose to assert my legal I rights l would not transgress the law, | but would not hesitate to do what | have the legal right I urged you not | to transgress the law. When ever you l do, then our union Is harmed more than | an operator can harm 1t"
 | The President then terminated his ad- | dress by referring to the injunctions that | are existing against the miners. He said | that the miners were restrained from giving a dissatisfied man money to get | back home with "A judge should be | fair to all" he said, "and the humblest among you should be just as great as the greatest then he Is to decide upon you. | Why have not the miners been allowed | to answer these injunctions? Mayhaps they should have existed always, but l anyway, the miners should have been | allowed to make answer Every man is entitled to trial by jury. If these in- functions are violated, does man get a jury tralr No. Does he get any trial' 1 No"
 President Mitchell ana National Com mitteeman Fairley and other local off | cials of the United Mine workers. will
 leave Birmingham Wednesday morning on the early train for Blocton. where MT. Mitchell will address meeting oi the miners there at 10 o'clock. Thursday morning at 10 o'clock he will address 8 meeting at Blue Creek and Friday after.
 noon at clock he will speak at Brook side
 While in Ensey this morning papers
 were served on MT. Mitchell in the dam.
 age suits filed by the non-union miners
 against the officers of the union, through
 Attorney w. J. Martin of Ensley ant
 Attorney Richard Fries of Birmingham
 The plaintiffs in the case are miners for
 merly employed in the mines in Tusca-
 loosa county but who are now working
 in the No mine C. the Pratt division.
 
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