The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Voluntary Letters Coming in to Chairman Nesbitt
 at Headquarters
OLD EMPLOYES ARE
 PROUD OF EMPLOYER
Nesbitt Says Opposition Has Pre- ferred Many Charges Which
 Are Acting as Boomerangs
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

The efforts of Judge Brandon to preju- dice the man who works by referring to Lieutenant Governor Kilby as a capf- talist, have been and will be futile, if one may judge from the communications from labor which daily reach the lat- ter's headquarters.
 Tt is a noticeable fact said w. D. Nesbitt, Mir. Kilbys campaign manager yesterday, that never passes a day which does not bring us unsolicited let ters expressing satisfaction of working men with the record and platform Of Mir. kilby. Despite charges to the con trary the people have been informed of the fact as a result of investigation oS those not employed by us. What those employing the investigators desired to ascertain. they learned not.
 During all the years in which MT. Kilby has employed men, no strike, at either of his plants, has occurred. There has been no aggravated dissatisfaction. no temporary disaffection which was not immediately, patiently and satisfactorily adjusted. He has never had shut down even during panicky periods. He has produced and store his products. This was not philanthropy. It was business But, at the same time such procedure kept his forces employed and satisfied
 SOME LETTERS CITED
 Mir. Nesbitt has not been surprised as a result that those who have worked for Mir. Kilby have rallied to him in his face for governor. A letter received yester- day he declared to be typical of many which have been received. It was written by J. H. Duncan, union man of Bir- mingham.
 The pr ad n ba r,- ployed by Mir. Kilby in 1908; that as d res suit of his own carelessness his foot was mashed by car wheel; that he was ab- sent from duty for about five months, and that MT Kilby, without solicitation paid him his wages, and at the same time his doctors bill. The letter was con- cluded with: T feel it my duty to rec ommend Mir. Kilby to all working men"
 Another letter came from John A. Fry, who for b years has been employed by the Kilby Car and Foundry company. Fry wrote because he had heard that Judge Brandon was charging that Kilby's plants were conducted under the "open shop policy, and that in consequence Kilby was unfriendly to organized labor Fry is q member of a union.
 He declared that in MT Kilby's plants union hours and wages were observed and paid, and union men employed. He wrote particularly of the consideration which MT. Kilby has always shown his employees, white and black" as he ex- pressed it. Arthur l.. Ritch of Anniston, another unio nman mployed by MT. Kill by, declared in an address in Birming ham yesterday, that the union forces were so satisfied with the Kilby brand of honesty that on the occasion of two local strikes in Anniston, they enlisted the services of MT. Kilby as arbitrator, which function he performed with fine results
 NESBITT IS CONFIDENT
 Mir Ncsbitt is satisfied with the labor situation" He is confident that MT. Kilbys record for fair dealing with la bor, having become known ns result of investigation of at least neutral char acter, has won the sympathy and support of labor.
 "The situation all along the line is good" continued MT. Nesbitt. T have never seen finer prospects. MT. Kilby is a business man. The business men are with him. At the same time he Is an employer of labor with which he has always dealt fairly and with fine con- sideration. In consequence, we are as- sured that labor. too, is with him.
 'The opposition has preferred many charges, some of the most picayunish variety All have been disproved. And it is safe to predict that Alabamians will elect q man capable of dischaging the duties of governor as business man should discharge them. The opposing candidates have been the beneficiaries of politics for many many years"