The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
GENERAL FIGHT ON
 SALE OF PLANTS
AND MEETING IS HELD AT WOOD LAWN-RAILWAY TRAINMEN ARE AGAINST THE SALE

The fight to prevent the sale of the North Birmingham water and light plants Is assuming large proportions. and Is be- coming the chief subject of converse ton. The city democratic executive committee last night went on record as opposed to the sale and appointed cam paign committee to work at the polls Monday. A large crowd of Woodlawn citizens organized last night to fight the sale, while the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen passed resolutions opposing it.
 The city democratic executive commit tee met in the criminal court room of the courthouse last night at s:30 o'clock to discuss several matters which are of in- terest to the voters of the city. The first matter up for discussion was whether the committee should take any action re- garding the ordinance pending in the City Council as to whether the incoming city attorney should be allowed to name his assistants. No action was taken on this subject, however.
 The next proposition up was that re-
 garding the attempt Of the City Council to sell the water works and electric light plants at North Birmingham Roger Snyder and others took the ground that
 the plants should not be sold for any consideration claiming that with the sale
 of the plants goes a perpetual franchise to do business in the city of Birming
 ham, and that the question is not what
 the plants are paying the city of Birming ham but what Is saved for the residents of North Birmingham in their water and light bills.
 There was a very spirited discussion as to whether the executive committee
 should go on record as a body opposed to this sale or whether the individual members should organize and go to the polls on Monday to see that the project is defeated.
 A motion of Judge H. B. Abernethy that the chairman of the executive com | mittee appoint committee to fight the
 sale carried and Chairman O. s. Finch
 appoined the two committeeman from
 each ward as committee to work in
 their respective wards against the sale of
 the plants. The committee will endeavor
 to see that enough enthusiasm is worked
 
 next Monday.
 Present at the meeting were: | Chairman O. S. Finch, Acting Secre- tary Roger Snyder, M. J. Sullivan. J. w. | Douglas, Ben Leader, I. B. Bethea, H. B. Abernethy, John B. Rosenstihl, | William Tompert, w. H. Johnson, S G. Fry, William J Randall. E. A.
  | and two proxies.
 A large crowd gathered at the city hall building in woodlawn last night and appointed a campaign committee, consisting of F. Brewer. T. E. Green, Ben Davis, J., E. Spencer and J. B. Robinson, to conduct the campaign against the sale of the plants. The following resolution was adopted: Be 1t resolved by the citizens of Wood lawn in mass meeting assembled that
 we strenuously object to the sale of the North Birmingham water works and light plant. and insist that the same should be held by the city of
 Birmingham as nucleus for further
 development. B. Brewer, T. E. Green,
 Ben Davis"
 Among the speakers were J. c. Wal
 drop, chairman of the North Birming- ham committee: E. J. Wood, F. D. Mo Arthur. Ben Davis. J. l.. Shelton, J.
 H. E. Moseley, Barnes Morgan. Graham
 Perdue. and D. H. Dunlap. At a meeting of Birmingham Lodge No. 590, Brotherhood of Railroad
 Trainmen, at the hall, committee
 composed of w. H. Carney, J. F. Crawford and N. J. Ptllgreen was ap- pointed to draft a resolution opposing the sele of the North Birmingham
 plants, and the following resolution was adopted:
 Resolved. that we oppose the sale of the North Birmingham water and cleo trio light plants. and we pledge our selves to use every effort to defeat this mea asure, and we solicit the efforts and influence of every member of this lodge to accomplish this end. We also re- quest that our members go to the polls on Monday. September 19, and cast
 their ballots against the sale of these plants,
 wv. H. CARNEY, Chairman. IT WEORD