The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-30

"scabs' and an air of uneasiness in the speeches, that the company might be successful, marked the proceedings.
 Organizer 8. K. Fleming called the meeting to order and prayer was of fered by Rev. John Bass Shelton.
 Following the invocation. MT. Shell ton said that he desired to say a few words. He had volunteered to speak. He was not member of a union or of secret order of any kind. He be- lieved the men would have justice given to them, that God would direct Justice If that Is what they are asking for.
 The question. he said. was as to the right of capital to organize. He could prove by the Word of God that 1t is right. but money is not every mans capital It is the right of monied cap- ital to combine, he declared, and 1t is the right of the laboring man to com bine his capital.
 He had witnessed several strikes, but he had observed that J the men who caused trouble were not the union men, although the union men were blamed for it.. He believed the statement of the union men that they did not throw the eggs" He urged the strikers to do right and to stick to the correct paths and he expiatiated on the importance of having backbone"
 You need not fear; right Is right, and right will win out in the long run" said the speaker. "and for all I known. some of you might as we'll quit the Montgomery Traction Company forever"
 A c. Hendley. a deacon of the Adams Avenue Baptist Church, a com mercial telegrapher. and a member of the Central Labor Council. was the next speaker. After a summary of the trials and frthNIlaffnna Of ,k he 1k- car men, he said they were the most accommodating men he had ever come across in public business in his life.
 Th7 present strike was the first he had ever had any experience with. but from all reports 1t is conducted quietly and orderly. If the men were getting the demands they are making, he insisted, they would not then be getting enough for the sustenanee of life.
 Even if we lose" he avowed. I've will do 1t honest and upright. If we do not win the strike. beg you to join the walking club so as not to put money into the hands of the corporation to starve the working element."
 T. R. Hicks spoke briefly but in sympathetic tones of the situation. He was at the meeting to lend his sympathy and assistance to the strik- CTS. for in unity there was strength. He pleaded for organization, the on- ly means by which the laboring man could protect his interests, and he urged the men to do right
 Organizer Fleming then made few remarks in which he expressed his ap- preciation of the addresses and gave a history of hts connection with the strike as division organizer. When he organized the car men he did not dream of a strike. He had organized the car men and he was ready to or ganize any other laboring men who might desire it.
 Two significant statements of the organizer in reference to the strikers and the situation were these.
 'whether they win the strike or not, they will be out once. and forever unless they go back as union men. Once a union man always a union ma"
 ''The purpose of this meeting is to try to influence the other side to arr bitrate."
 An appeal for the good influences of the '1adies'' and a bitter arraign- ment of "scabs" characterized the talk of the next speaker, w. R, Fish CT, ex-president of the Central Labor Council. His Idea was that the geu- tier sex could exert influences that a man could not, in bringing others over to the union sides