The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-15
,UnderWood Is Not Worried
 About SenatoraL Outcome
Short Term Race Now Threatens to Overshadow Other in Public Interest Efforts to Create False Issues
 Proving Futile
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

who supported him in 1914sshould not now support him. Senator Underwood
 entertains no fear but that his prohioi- tion strength will be increased rather than diminished.
 The senator is not at all afraid of the labor situation He knows that radt- cal labor leaders are endeavoring to enlist all labor against him. He does not believe that they will succeed. There are reasons, it is pointed out. In 1914. Senator Underwood was O.
 K-ed by Samuel Gompers Since then
 he has taken but one position to arouse i the ire of the radical labor leaders. l That position was one in which he 'op- posed the alleged right of railroad protherhoods to strike whenever they desired to strike. He advocated the establishment of a governmental board | to arbitrate differences.
 His attitude was due to his belief l that labor has no right to strike against interstate commerce which Is, | in certain aspects, the government of | the United States. His judgment was l that a general railroad strike would | paralyze all business, and mete out
 death to the old and young in all con gested centers. Such fate would not be reserved only for the children of capital. On the contrary, the children l, of labor-certainly of the poor-would l be the first to suffer, and in the end the principle sufferers.
 l Senator Underwood does not believe | that even the brotherhoods can be | punched against him because of his position. He is confident that other craftsmen will not blindly follow na- tional radical brotherhood leaders striving to grasp the reins of govern ment under threat of destruction of the government.
 1 There is another interesting angle. 1 Even were organized labor against Un- derwood. for whom would organized | labor vote? Col. L. B. Musgrove, a null millionaire of Jasper, for years an employer of labor, does not pretend to | be the pulsating heart of the individual who actually works While in recent years he has fixed above his head a right royal halo, nevertheless it is pub | lie property that he indulges his taste l for high living and the good things of 1 life. And. furthermore, as far as 1 known, Colonel Musgrove has not ex- pressed opinion that labor whenever it sees fit should tie up the commerce of 1 the United States to the distress of the
 public and all legitimate business And. ! therefore, there may be no difference between his position and that of Sena- l tor Underwood.
 There are other reasons, according to reports reaching Washington, why rad l ical leaders of labor, in obedience to dictation of national leaders, cannot corral under the Musgrove banner the rank and file of union labor. Union ] labor has never, H Is pointed out, knelt at the shrine of the Rev. Brooks Law renee, never taken position that any political organization has the constitu- tional right to deprive it of any liberty without it's expressed permission. And organized labor has never stood with 1, Colonel Musgrove in his efforts to se- cure votes for women In a state where lthe negro population Is numerous enough to constitute problem. Senator Underwood, because of the foregoing, Is not at all in doubt as to the result in Alabama. The persistent and futile effort of Mir. Lawrence to 1 lash out of the temple one of the other aspirants is regarded in Washington as another sign of distress if not ad- l mission of impending disastrous de. ! feat.