The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-10
BAL OWN DEFENDS ACTS IF MILITARY
 DURING STRIKE
Military Commander Says Guard Is Only After Law breakers and Deserves
 Support of All
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 the military authorities were making some headway and had actually dis l covered some of the real criminals i and were proceeding against them.
 the shop crafts, through their att torney, MT. Altman, applied 10 our | courts for ana injunction to prevent l our making further arrests. This petition for injunction was very ! promptly ndiproperiy denied.
 The shop crafts have taken tho 1 position that we have arrested mem l bers of their organization and in- l vaded their homes atnight. The facts | are tlHht we have arrested real crimi- nals and at the time we were mak- ing the arrests wea did not know that the parties being arrested were mem
 bars of any labor organization, ans in many cases the first assurance that we had that they were members I of auy labor organization was when l they were defended in court by MT. 1 Altman, who seems to be tre att ] tornex for the various shop crafts
 .Tame and again union leaders I have made thes statement that if any l of thd'ir men were committing the \ crimes that we were attempting to
  and would further be glad to see \ them arrested and brought to justice s-but their statements are not borne tSout bY the facts and their actions. Gunrd Is Strictly Neutral
 The position of the national guard inSso far as labor and the employers of labor are concerned Is one of strict nssutrality. It was not a mat ter Of any consequence to us whether
 the railroads won the strike or whether The labor organiza ttons were victorious sn their fight. but the fur ther along I've. got with our investf- gations the sRrer 1t became that there wast oiGy one side violating the law, and that while perhaps 1t was not the unions as an organiza-
 ton committing the crimes, 1t is fact thnt mefilbers of the various
 unions. individually at least, were guilty ofscrime4-and the unions as an organization have employed counsel and, in our or'i nion. have been n- strumental. In making their bonds.
 "As far as arresting people at night is concerned, we see no differ ence in whether you arrest a man in the night time or whether he Is arrested in, daylight, and. as a matter of fact. we made many ef- forts to arrest them in the day time and In most every case 1t was im- possible to locate the men until a late hour, at which time they were usually at home. H They have further stated that they have been subjected to hnmilia- ton. In just so far as it humiliates manr to arrest him they have been humiliated. We do not believe that any man can be arrested and feel 1 n man being arrested and thanking l the arresting authority for doing | 1t. Such an attitude is adverse to | human nature.
 No Case of Dfscourtesy
 They have had considerable to say about the emba rrassment to | | their families. There is not single 1 case of any member of their family | being mlstreated or even spoken to 1 discourteousiy The wives of some of the men who are now under bond have called at military Headquarters ! In connection with their husbands arrest and were alwas the utmost consideration and respect by ! the commanding officer and the of- 1 ficers under him"
 1 The names of those now under ar | | rest are given as follows: Kelly | | Barnett. arrested in connection with | dynamitins, is either in Jail or under | bond under one federal and two state bonds.
 C. c Moore Is under two state lbonds. c. c. McGraw is under two state 1 bonds Dick, crnnk Is under one etate bond. l k. NJ. Thompson Is under one or l 1 two state bonds.
 1 k. T.. Cox is under a federal and | state bond. Arnold shariti is under one state bond. l James Mooskey Is under one state | bond. Tn all probability" continues Ma l jor Baldwin the men that are not al | present under federal bonds will be | arrested on a federal charge. There | is certainly ample evidence to justify l such an arrest, and this information | | is now in the hands of the federal l authorities.
 The national guard has no per- asonal quarrel with organized labor, | but from the attitude and actions of | l the shop crafts in endeavoring to secure<an injunction and endeavoring 1 to prejudice public opinion by the meeting they have called for Sunday | afternoon clearly indicates that they l have quarrel with the national ! guard.
 we believe that If union labor really wished to keep their hands clean, they would openly cooperate ! with us in bringing the guilty to justice instead of building up a bar Tier around the guilty and hedging l on every legal technically known to the legal profession.
 SCase of Assistance
 At the time the petition for the 1 injunction was filed, a Mir, Gentry, preacher and a union striker, made an affidavit that the soldiers had annoyed his family until he had to send them away from home. MT. Gentry evidently had forgotten that i just some few days before this he appealed to Captain Taylor. the ex- executive officer of the national guard now on duty. for protection at night