The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-17
UnderWood Cites His Chief
 Attention To Labor Problem
Tells Bessemer Audience He Has No Doubt of His Nomin ation May II, But Says Remainder of State Is
 Nervous About Jefferson County
Ky W. J. ROLES

next" he said. q never believed 1t wise to criticise an opponent in my own party. as it only lets down the bars for the time when you are to meet your political enemy"
 He said if his opponents criticised him justly he could not say word. but if the criticism be unjust he felt tt.at there should be some reply. but that he did not feel called upon to answer all the charges that had been lrought against him in this cam paign.
 He told of the efforts to build up an American merchant marine, of re- publican policies. such as the tariff, that had destroyed the American mer- chant marine. of the passage of the bill which would have restored it, and then the breaking put of the world war. He was leader of the House of Representatives and had the direction of the bill while it was pending in the House.
 "For the first time in the history of Alabama a senator of the United States stands indicted. not by judge and jury but by a class" he said. For the first time a senator of the United States is blacklisted because he acted for what he believed to be for the best interests ot his constitu- ents,'
 THREAT OF BIG STRIKE
 He told of the conflict between the four brotherhoods and the representa- tives of railroad investors in 1918 which resulted in the calling of a railroad strike extending throughout the country and of President Wilson's s appeal to Congress to prevent the strike; of the passage of the Adam son bill; of the demand of the labor leaders that Congress fix wages by law and their promise to recall the strike order if such were done of the inclusion of the wage-fixing clause in the Adamson bill, and then said that because he proposed to create court to fix wages, after the war had ended, he had been blacklisted Declaring that he had not been un- | friendly to labor, he stated that labor must have the right to battle upward. 1 out that 1t must not battle upward ever the dead bodies of the rest of | the people.
 i He told of the vegetables rotting in the fields near Mobile because they could not be shipped to northern mar kets on account of the unlawful strike now in effect, and asked Have
 we no heart? Can we not breathe in sympathy for humanity? Can you 1 NlSudllIS lHt iInilk lTdlnS COlnlHR lHtu
 the cities every day. and what it
 means when these milk trains stop: l Can you not see the mother standing with the babe in her arms looking for 1 the milk train that means life to the
 babe and it cannot come because there is striker
 He said he could not understand
 why if it was right to fix wages by l law in 1916 it is not right to fix them | by law in 1920.
 He invited an inspection of his rec
 crd, declaring the balance would be ir
 bis favor.
 Do you want man in Washing ton to dictate to you how you work
 how you vote and. how you live?" he ! asked, and then added, If I had done
 ss Mr Gompers said he would have put his hand on my head and said to Alabama. Return Underwood to the Senate"
 He said he Esd just returned from a swing around the state and had nc
 aoubt of the result. that he would bs elected. but, he added, "The rest of the state is uneasy about Jefferson bu not about what they are going to do.'
 Senator Undarwood will speak al the Jefferson theatre at 8 o'clock Sat vrday night.
 He leaves Sunday afternoon fol l Washington to resume his duties ir ] the Senate