The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-07
EnSley GrOWS Restless
 Under Strike Conditions
Steel Mills and Furnaces In Full Blas-5000 Men Employed and Unmoested But Commercial Business
 Paralyzed-Possibe Contingencies
BY FRANK V. EVANS.

The plant at EneIey Is comparatively new. While every success Is promised under normal conditions. the proposition is as yet largely experimental.
 May Become Discouraged.
 Youthful effort can easily be discour- aged and benumbed by unhealthful cir cuinstances. conditions and instances. If the United States Steel corporation Is forced to pay thousands of dollars in taxes to the state of Alabama, and from this tribute does not receive the states protection against riotous and incendiary onslaughts, but must pay for it's own swords, with no power to wield them, in addition to this tax, then, indeed, there must arise Encouragement. Unless Ala fama grants protection, this company gets nothing from the state. Therefore, Alabama is much more dependent upon the industrial company than Is so rich corporation dependent upon Alabama.
 Idle Men.
 Your correspondent is informed that hundreds of Idle men, who are walking the streets of Ensiey today, and louhg- ing in public places are recently en- rolled members of the miners union. Most of these eie negroes with no Knowledge of mining, and many of them longtime habitues of billiard and pool rooms. They cannot now be arrested for vagrancy because they have visible means Of support, to-wit: union cards and free rations from the union car.
 Dark Spectacle.
 One of the darkest spectacles of the la mentable strike Is the idleness which 1t prodnces, encourages and sustains No greater danger turks in community than fdleuess. It always begets crime and 1na1 1, ff, ,l,a,N not refer to the recent criminal assaults by negroes upon white women in two of the strike districts. Let US guard we'll that there be no more of this
 One wholesome movement for the pre- vention of idleness has been called to my attention. Supervisors In different parts of the county have recently issued sum- monses to large numbers of idle miners to work the public road, and it is pleasing to note that in number of districts they are plying the pick and shovel on the highways in goodly way. This means work and better roads,
 Looks Some Better.
 It is pleasing to learn from statements by one high in authority among the strik- ing forces that the fear expressed of an entrance into the district by alliance with the United Mine Workers of the Western Federation of Miners is without foun- dation. This assurance will encourage the hope that this strike is to end at an earlier date than was apprehended and ended in manner that will mean peace and law and order. It may require the shedding of more blood to do It. and the sacrifice of thousands upon thousands of dollars, but it. Is hoped the end Is not so far off as 1t would be should that monstrous alliance Of the west with it's hldeous criminal record, its hands stained with the blood of the innocent, it's mil lions of money and flags of destruction and death borne by inhuman leadership have entered the domain of Alabama. I say, therefore, that the people of this state-the law and order people-will thank the official of the mine strikers for that one word, for, if truthfully stated, it means an early return to normal condi- tions-an early exhaustion of means for warfare against reason. law and order.
 Recognition, But Not Submission.
 conservative citizen of Ensey said to this writer today: T know of number Of union miners who are working In the openshop mines of this district, and the relations which exist between these oper- ators and operatives are perfectly amic- able. The mine owners thus 'recognize' the union in proper spirit but does not submit to it. You understand that there is quite a difference between recognition and submission. l am quite sure that there Is not a reasonable mine operator in this district who will deny the right of men to form unions. It IS submission to their arbitrary demands to wni 4. they do now and will ever hereafter strenuous ly object"
 Ensley was growing so rapidly, pro- gressing sa satisfactorily birding her self so joyously on her onward and up- ward march before this strike, that the damper cast upon the picture today de- picted in the faces of her splendid citizen ship, is exceedingly narrowing. Existing conditions here call forth the oft repeated question: Who IS to blame?