The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-11

is here to stay regardless of open shoI Ior any other shop.
 They have accused organized labor
 of being un-American. We advocated
 compulsory education and secured ninety-day compulsory school attendance If this is un-American. then l am giaa that 1 am trade unionist We workso
 for woman suffrage and contended that
 women engaged in the same occupauon with man should receive the same pay and there should be no sex discrlmina- , tion- Congress itself is nothing mort 1 than collective bargaining.
 1 There are two kinds of asitators, those who advocate violence and those Who do not. Organized labor does not nave ! the former. We do have the latter. All of our laws are started by agitation. Tne American government was started py agitation. The presidential candidates are seeking votes by agitation.
 1 Had organized labor been un-American Samuel Gompers would not have been 1 invited to meet with the peace con1er' ence. The League of Nations is the same with nations as the union is with ln- dividuals. The unions are here, and hers to stay"
 The following telegram from Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, was read by Archibald c. Warren of the Postal Clerks Union:
 ''The President has referred to me your telegram of October 6. The mili- tary forces now in control III the coai fields are not subject to the jurisdic- tion of the federal government Federal troops can only be used under authori.s granted by the constitution, when grants such authority first when the property of the federal government must be pro tected and second upon the request oi the governor, who has first exhausteo state agencies and is still unable to control disorder Under circumstances stated in your telegram the military forces of the federal government are not and cannot be used. Your recourse is the governor and courts or your state.''
 FOR JERRY GWIN
 Mir. Warren urged the people present to be sure to register and use their vote, He said the recent report of the grand jury was a frame-up, because the men who wished to put Mir. Gwin out of of- flee were mad because they could not handle him as they would like. The vote of organized labor, to the man, he saiu' would go to Jerry Gwin
 The speaker scored the Kiwanis Clup and its vigilance committee. He said they were very active in condemnins the union miners, but that no e11or' was heinz made by them to stop tnd wave of crime that is sweeping the city Almost every day hold-ups and muT' ders are committed on the streets oi Birmingham, and yet this altruist'c body of men takes no step toward stop ping it. They permi. street cars to run without lenders, he said, killing ana maiming innocent people, and their hu- manitarian voice is never heard in pro test.
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
 ;x.r ft1n ing resolutions were read and unant mously adopted:
 Whereas the miners and their fam flies in Alabama are engaged in a life and death struggle for the right to live in free American way as men and women; and,
 "Whereas, the coal operators of the Alabama Coal Operators Association have employed hundreds of gunmen, who have intimidated and otherwise mis- treated the men and women of the mine workers in several instances, wounding and killing, and their action has resulted in the state militia being sent into the mineral district of our state.
 "As as result of this the military com mander in charge has issued orders which replace civil and constitutional government with military rule, which it. self is the antithesis of democracy and IS OBNOXIOUS to lnuepeHueiit lpeity-ioN- ing people.
 ''Under the military orders, the miners have been deprived of their constitu- tional right of assemblage and freedom of speech. They are refused their un- doubted right of assembling without in- terference for the purpose of carrying on their business meetings and are de- nied the right of holding public meet ings for lawful purposes.
 s.- hirtr Nf bama have the constitutional rights of free speech and of assemblage been de- nied the people of Alabama. Therefore. be it
 Resolved, That we, the citizens of this mineral district of Alabama, do enter our most vigorous protest against the action of the military commander in de- nriving the people of their constitutional rights. and we do condemn this action as autocratic and un-American. an open and indefensible violation of the consti- tuition of the United States and of the e.ate If A1ahar,a And wA raco~niye ant characterize this direct, unnecessary. in- defensible and inexcusah1e ravishment of our organic laws as tyranny of the worst type and mockerv to the boys who died in France to make the world safe for liberty and democracy. Be 1t further
 Resolved. That we call upon all the people whether of labor organizations or otherwise. to reflect upon these condi- tions, and we recommend that the entire labor movement of Alabama and of the United States of America take steps to- wards the employment of every lawful means and method to destroy this mill tarv autocracy and to restore constituted authority in our state Be it further
 "Resolved That we do call upon Gov ernor Thomas F. Kiby and urge IT. at