The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-09-26
PORT AMENDMENT
HAS ENDORSEMENT
OF LABOR UNIONS
Resolutions Adopted by Bir-
mingham Trades Council
Declares Proposal Need
full Undertaking

Charles Franck. president OF the
Mobile Central Trades Council. who
has been In Birmingham the past
week in the interest of the seaport
amendment. in a statement yester-
day points out the benefits to the
working people In Alabama to be de-
rived by the adoption of the seaport
amendment.
Since coming to Birmingham Mr..
Franck has addressed several labor
organizations which subsequently in
dorsed the amendment.
Endorsed by Local Labor
The Birmingham Trades conucil
has adopted a resolution heartily ap-
proving and indorsing the proposed
seaport amendment, believing that
it is a worthy and needful under
taking of direct benefit to all the
people of this great state of Ala
bnma"
In the resolution the Birmingham
Trades Council urge all other organ
izations of wage earners, farmers and
citizens throughout the state to sup
Port and vote for the seaport amend
ment on November 7.
In discussing the advantage to be
gained through the adoption of the
amendment, Mr.. Franck said yester-
day:
The occasions upon which the av-
erage voting wage Garner has had an
opportunity of having a 'say-so' as
to whether or not the general bus
mess of whole state shall be pro-
noted developed and expanded have
been exceeding few in number and
possibly for the first time in the his
tory of our great state, Alabama, the
wage Garner Is to be given this OPP
rortunity, in connection with what is
now commonly known as the Ala
bama seaport amendment.
Wage Garner to Benefit
Looking at this proposed amend
n1ent from labor's point of view. 1t
is measure which will promote the
welfare Of the wage Garner and pro-
duoer in the state of Alabama, in
that, from the very beginning, the
wage Garner and producer will bene-
fit by reason of the work to be done
and later to be proposed in eonnec-
ton with developing Alabama's only
seaport. The adoption of the amend
ment the equipment of our only port,
with needed wharves and docks,
warehouses, quick loading and I'M
AONaAAH hpP6A AUS dHplc
space. etc. will invite and bring to
Alabama. as similar developments
have done in other ports. new indus
tries which in turn will use the prod
ucts of Alabama's fields. forest and
mines and many more employees. This
all requires labor and the Alabama
seaport amendment may almost be
termed labor amendment.
Backed BY Labor
1T is safe to predict that labor, as
well as the farmer, will soIidly sup
port and vote for the port amend
ment, and especially so by reason of
the fact that it will promote the
welfare of both, by making possible
not only new work, but expanding
the operation of existing mills. shops
and factories. Continuous employ
ment is one of the things labor has
been contending for in industry, and
1t Is not far-fetched to suppose tina
through the port amendment there
will be better prices for the product
of the farmer, as well as more and
better opportunities for employment
at better wages for the man or
woman who works in the shop, fac
tory and mine, office, mill or forest,
the railroad crafts and all others"