Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-25
Gov. Brown of Georgia Sc
vereIy Arraigns Unions in His
Farewell Message.
CAUSTIC CRITICISM
is SEQUEL TO STRIKES
Declares Members Are Victims of
System Leading Up to Anarchy
and Lynch-Law Methods.

ATLANTA. Ga, June "a caustic ar
raignment of labor unions, in which it i:
charged that they form the most wide
spread and aggressively eXacting trust IL
America" is contained in the farewell
message of Gov. Joseph NJ. Brown. pre-
sented to the Georgia Legislature at 1t:
opening session here today.
Gov. Browns criticism Of organized
labor Is made in connection with his ar
gument for the enactment of laws re-
puiring compulsory arbitration OF differ
enceS between employees and employers
He predicates this recommendation upon
the strikes of employees of the Georgia
railroad and the Augusta Street Railway
Company last fall. Both of these strikes
the governor declares, were 'manfestly
;ndefensible and condemnable,'' and the
strikers placed themselves IN d state oi
open rebellion 10 the laws of Georgia
We are brought face to face with the
fact, the message continues, that the
unions or combinations OF employees or
public service and other corporations have
forced their wages above those received
by workmen in all other departments o1
life who have not formed these aggres-
SIvely militant combinations.
Pandered to by Politicians.
is to suppress combinations or trusts i'll
restraint Of trade. Yet while it is a mat
ter of public note that the labor trust is
the ncost widespread and aggressively
exac,ing in America, politicians pandel
70 it because of its voting power.
The labor unions, by combination
which they work through strikes and
kindred methods are aggressively
levying toll upon all other elements
of our citizenship. They have organic
ed a trust and demand that all other
people buy labor at whatever price
they choose TO put upon it. And, CO.
temporaneously, they are trying to
force from employment all similar
workmen who do not join their orders.
Il do not declare that all of the
members of labor unions are willful
violators of the law. Yet they are the
victims of a system which is breeding
anarchy, which already has put sta te
constitutions in contempt, which has
relentleSSly wronged hundreds of thou
sands of their fellow citizens. who have
not offended them, which. In plain
words, has applied lynch law methods
10 millions of dollars worth of prop
erty.
Recommendations in Message.
With other recommendations made by
Gov. Brown in his message are the fol-
lowing:
Amendment of the registrar ton law; ac-
ton toward double tracking of the mair
lines of principal railroads in the state
appointment of commission to devise
plans for a farm credit system: law pro-
viding for inheritance tax; reform OF
prison and judicial systems: reduction OF
state railroad commission to three mem
bers and authorization of an agreemen,
whereby the copper smelters in the Duck
town region can continue to be operated
under which the property of citizens in
the vicinity will be protected.
The house and senate convened short.
ly after 10 o'clock this morning. Senator
J. Randolph Anderson was elected presi
dent of the senate, his opponent Sena.
tor John t. Allen, having withdrawn
Representative W. H Burwell wa:
unanimously elected speaker of the
house, Messrs. Hardeman and Sheppard
having dropped out of the contest las,
night.