The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-25
INTERFERENCE FROM
OUTSIDE IN ALABAMA
BECOMES NUISANCE
Walter Moore Comments on
Latest Effort In Appeal
Made to, Secretary
Davis

And now, The American Civil Lib
critics union, whatever that may be,
enters the ring and proposes another
field" said Walter Moore of the En-
pire Coal company, yesterday.
This union appeals to Secretary of
Labor Davis of the federal cabinet
to probe Alabama mining conditions
charging a violation of civil rights IN
the decision of Governor Kilby endins
the recent coal strike in Alabama.
observe that the appeal to Secretary
Davis is signed by Mary Mcdowell
of the Chicago stock yards; one Fitch
of the New York School of Social
Work, James H. Manner of the Penn
sylvania State Federation OF Labor
and others. A nice bunch to be med
ding with mine conditions in Ala
bama.
1T is no surprise that Secretary
Davis has very promptly declined to
interfere with the settlement made In
Alabama. He is a man of clear head.
wisdom and a mind imbued with
sense of justice and right. No official
at Washington is better acquainted
with labor conditions in Alabama than
Secretary Davis. who once lived and
labored here in Birmingham. He
knows that it is not a function of
decisions of impartially and jointlN
selected state arbitrators in matters
of industrial dispute, and properly de-
clares himself hands off.
Mr. Davis is not ignorant of the
fact that it was on motion of the
miners union official here that to
Governor Kilby was assigned the re-
sponsibility of investigating the
strike, and that the coal operators,
anxious for investigation. simply &C
quiesced in the proposition, Both sides
agreeing to abide by the governors
decision, and that after full investi-
CATION the governor rendered a de-
cision, and under all rules of honesty
and square dealing that decision is
morally and legally binding upon both
PARTIES in the contest, and it was =,
declared by the Alabama miners and
the operators.
He knows, too, that Governor Kill
by was not personally interested on
either side of the conflict, being
neither q miner nor an operator. AS
chief executive of the state. he was
interested in the matter of peaceful
industry and in an observance of law
and order. 1t was his duty to ex-
anime into the proposition with view
to find solution, not to appease the
dissatisfaction of the miners nor to
give favor to the operators. but a
solution that would remove the bur-
den of disturbance from the taxpayers
OF the state and restore normal indus
trial conditions in Alabama. he did
accomplish this purpose.
IF innocent women and children
have been made to suffer by the acts
Of men whose duty it was and is to
care for and protect them, 1t becomes
the moral duty of the community in
which they dwell to care for them, in
view of the denial of help to them by
the United Mine Workers of America,
anG a response to the cry for such aid
from the community is recorded every
day.
Stock Yard Mary with her asso-
ciates may get a true insight in the
ways that are dark and the tricks
that are vain of the modern paid agi-
tators who feed upon the misfortunes
of their misled followers, If they Will
come down this way and look In.