Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-16
He viii Not Vote for Either
Palmer or HooVe3 - At
tacks President and EX-
Coriates Labor Unions

Ex-Governor Joseph NJ. Brown has
sent to The Journal a copy of his
reply to Chairman j. J. Flynt, OF the
state Democratic executive commit
! tee, in which he casts his vote as a
committeeman in favor of placing
! Hoover's name on the primary ballot,
but announces that he will not sup
port either Hoover or Palmer for the
| nomination. His letter to Chairman
| Flynt follows:
Marietta. Ga, March II, 1920.
Hon. j. J. Flynt, Chairman State
| Democratic Executive Committee,
! Griffin, Ga.
NV Dear Sir: Your favor of March
did not reach me till 9th inst, hay
ing been missent by the postottice
employees to Memphis, Tenn, and for
warded thence on March to me as
per your envelope address.
Allow me to say that at the time
the subcommittee acted, its action
was certainly based upon correct gen
eral premises. But developments
since your meeting, in my opinion,
have undoubtedly called for second
thought.
Reasoning from the second thought,
[ did not know until after the meet
ing of the entire state committee
that Mr.. Hoover was reported in at
least one newspaper to have voted
for President Wilson in 1916; and I
now recall that Mr.. Hoover strongly
urged the return of q Democratic
congress in 1918, these acts, to my
mind, giving him a prima facie right
to be considered a Democrat.
But there is another complication
which has a weighty, in fact, a vital,
bearing in our state. This is the an
nouncement by Attorney General
Palmer of his candidacy, based upon
an Endorsement of all of President
Wilson'S acts as president. No one
can dispute that Mr.. Palmer is a
Democrat.
But any Georgian who will vote for
Mr.. Palmer on his platform will log
ical1y vote to indorse President Will
sons course in promoting anarchy in
Georgia, besides indorsing the presi-
dents general course in bending to,
if not positively favoring. an organ
ization Of men, composed largely of
non-naturalized foreigners, which
has set up inside the United States
government which President Will
son has, by his acts, conceded is su-
government which the constitution
of the United States has ordained.
That organization is the American
Federation of Labor, ehaded by Sam
uel Gompers. Mr.. Gompers has open
ly declared that labor organizations
will do their will, claw or no law"
He has openly told a senate commit
tee that if congress enacted a GER
tain law he would have no hestta-
ton in dfsobeying 1t.
During the war there were 6,e2S
strikes by laborers, of which the de-
partment Of labors report indicate
that more than ninety per cent were
by organized labor" In 4,2o1 of
these strikes the above department
shows that there were 1885,
strikers. Hence, there were probably
more than 100000 strikers in all the
strikes.
In other words, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor matched every sol
der whom the United States had,
with a bayoneted gun, enduring
hardships and perils in France, with
a labor striker, with tools thrown
down and war work suspended, in our
country. And those who stayed at
work forced their work-day down
to eight hours, while myriads of
farmers and other patriots were
working from twelve to fourteen
hours per day.
Yet President Wilson referred to
labor unionists, who were conduct
ing organized obstruction to our gov
eminent with the words: my Dear
Mr.. Gompers,-you and your fellow
patriots" and put them equal to the
American soldier in claims upon the
gratitude of our people!
And after the mine workers
branch of the Gompers' federation
agreed to return to work, following
their attempt to coerce the public
and the government by paralyzing
the industries of the country and
freezing the people, President Wilson
instead Of rebuking them for their
hostility to the public veal, asked
their president to let him express
his appreciation Of their patriotic
action" in giving over their malevol-
ent design and returning to work.
But. coming now to the state of
Georgia: In 1916, the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric
Railroads of America, after pursuing
for years q course stained by blood
in other states, and in Augusta, in
our own state, organized the street
car employees in Atlanta, in clear de-
fiance of the law, as construed
against labor unions in the Hitchman
N Coal and Coke company case, and
u brought about strike lasting sew
9. eral weeks, during which loyal mot
Il ormen were shot at and one can was
u blown up, the dynamite tearing off a
II young lady's foot, horribly mutilat-
IT ing her sisters shoulder and shat
s tering a young mans ankle, Grip
t, ping hi mfor life. A number of other
z acars were blown up, but none of
t. them with such tragic results. The
g courts and other authorities, aided
ID by public opinion, expelled this an
st archie organization from Atlanta.
d But in the spring of 1918 President
70 Wilson virtually coerced the COM
\. pany to allow the same Amalgamat-
he de association to organize it's en-
is ployes again, with the result that
they promptly brought on another
v strike, to the great inconvenience of
90 the public and in violation of the law
Or Of the state.
III Later in 1918, it organized the
~ street car employees in Columbus and
b. savannah, and caused strikes which
lr resulted in the wounding of passen-
d. gers, including women and children
e. in these two cities.
III And now its members have again
toparalyzed street car service in At
ssgg1anta.
is AS L said in a letter published to-
day, 1 have secured a list of more
than forty cities in states from
ocean to ocean in which this ama1-
gamated association of street car
employees has been the cause of riots
resulting in either property damage
~or in wounding or killing people,
Sand in some cities all three of these
= crimes.
Yet, this is the organization of