The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
Local Data

1 an officer of the law it is his duty to enforce it. Prohibition, therefore, he
 said, is no longer an issue This is a l government of law and not of man, he
 said, and he did not Goubt it's enforce ment
 'As a senator of the United States | it would i'll become me- he said, not l to vote for the eighteenth amendment
 in it's full intergrity, and from now un- l til the end of my term and the next term if I am reelected I will vote for it's enforcement. My opponents could do no more. So there can be no issue 1 in this matter"
 1 He told of his efforts for years be-
 fore the war to effect the production of | nitrates by the government; ntrates for munitions in the war and fertilizer in 1 times of peace and of their eventual source in the building of the nitrate plants al Sheffield
 For the first time in the history of Alabama" he said, ''one of their chosen representatives stands indicted at the bar by class. For the first time in the history of the people of Alabama he is blacklisted by organized labor He told of the custom prevailing years ago of railroad managements carrying blacklists that prevented men on them from getting jobs on any roads. Organized labor, he said objected to
 
 end to it, and now they put him on a black list. Because he voted for one thing organized labor opposed he was put on the black list, he said
 THE RIGHT OF LABOR
 'Iabor has the right to pattie upward, he said, ''but it has no right to battle upward over the dead bodies of the bal ance of the American citizens"
 He said he took William B. Wilson from near the foot of the list and made him chairman of the committee on la bor in the House of Representatives and aided him in passing the bill creating the department of labor, and President Wilson appointed him the first secre- tary He asked his hearers to investi- gate his record before passing upon his indictment as being unfriendly to labor. .'But the vital thing, Senator Under wood said, Ifs shall the representatives of class have the right to dictate to the man you elect to represent you! He said he declined to yield to Com pers demand and was blacklisted and that one of his competitors had been indorsed by those who blacklisted him and had accepted that indorsement 1e told of the ruin to the country contained in the threat of a universal strike in 1916. of the enactment of the Adamson bill, of the demand of labor leaders that railroad employees salaries be fixed and ccntrasted their position with their fight against the Cummns bill which creates court to fix their wages
 He said he was told by an Alabama farmer today that a carload of hogs shipped to St. Louis was stopped at Memphis and turned back to him at great loss on account of the strike there.
 He said the Adamson bill was passed in an emergency to save the nation from destruction, that Congress yielded to their demands and increased their wages by law, but that he said then, and says now, no settlement of the ques- ton should be made without consider ing the public in the equation. At the conclusion of his speech Senator Under wood was given great ovation, the great majority of those in the room go- ing up to shake hands with him Sena- tor Underwood speaks at Montgomery tonight will rest there Sunday, and start on his second week of his swing around the state at Anniston Monday.