The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01

have made the United Mine Workers
 of America the great organization that
 it is fighting men, men who have
 never known when to quit
 COST OF STRIKE
 What has the United Mine Workers done for the miners in Alabama? They have spent s2,25000o for food alone dur ing this strike. We have spent $l7f,0oO for shoes and clothes; we have spent more than $20o,oo0 for tents and lumber; we have spent more than $40o 900 for law suits and legal expenses-that Is what the Mine Workers union has spent here in this state. We have taken care Of
 your doctors bills when 1t was neces- sary, and we paid the hospital bills. We have even buried the dead when 1t was absolutely necessary to do it. All these millions and millions of dollars that came into Alabama were given you by coal miners and coal miners wives. just as you are who are gathered here around this platform.
 Who gave you that eight-hour work day? The government did not give you that The only thing the government ever gave you in Alabama was the last decision that the governor gave you. "The mine workers organization has won this strike here in Alabama. There won't be any reduction in wages. They know that the spirit of unionism is not crushed in this state.
 GO FORWARD FIGHTING "Go forward fighting. You will turn this into the biggest victory that has ever been won for miners anywhere In this country. You are between the devil and the deep blue sea. If you don't keep the union here, you are going to starve to death-
 "Twenty-three men died in Westmore-
 land county, Pennsylvania, that the
 United Mine Workers of America might live Those are the kind of men that have made this organization. Dozens or
 men in Illinois gave their lives that the United Mine Workers of America might live. Here in Alabama men have done 1 the same thing. They made the same sacrifice my friends. They have gwen | their lives in order that this great or l ganization which protects you and your families might live When these soidlers up here in Jasper-but, no, l dont want l to dignify them by calling them soioieIs' I have respect for soldiers, these miiitia- men: no soldier would do the things they did-went in there in the jail and took one of your members from that jail ana l took him out on the roadside, and when he was found he had 22 bullet noies through him. Are you going to say that these men did the right thing when they took William Baird out of the Jasper Jali and crucified him? Are you going to say that he died in vain. or are you gong to say that the flag of the United Mine Workers of America will fly from every tipple in Alabama as a monument to the man that was crucified on Jaspers cross What is going to be your answer, my friends?
 .Iudas Isacriot was the first scab that ever lived; he scabbed on our Saviour. What did he think of himself2 He thought so much of himself that ne finally went out and committed suicida The only reason most of these scahs have
 not gone out and committed suicide is
 because they haven't got guts enough to do 1t, that is all. There is the compari- son, so far as real men are concerned.
 STAY IN ALABAMA
 Stay right here don't allow these coal
 operators and these scabs to drive you