The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
UnderaUood And LdbOr

The friends of labor among public men are generally of two types-those who act and those who articulate, and it is not infrequent- ly happens that he who harangues the most accomplishes the least, while he who talks the least achieves the results most to be desired.
 Senator Underwood is not a demagogue with respect to labor, agriculture, business or anything else. During his tweny-nine years of service in congress, each has received at his hands fair honest and conscientious treatment. He has not been an agitator; he has been doer. He has not been a crusader, but he has been consistent; and his record with respect to the measures in the interest of the man who earns his bread by honest toll has been one which win stand the test of loyal and sympathetic support of the right eous cause of labor.
 Unlike many of those who cater to class interests, he has made no spectacular display of his advocacy, of the things urged by labor, but examination of his record speaks for it. self.e It shows him to have been real and true friend of the workingman without hay ing sought advantage, credit or praise for having done that which he regarded as bene- ficial and just.
 When measures either favorable or inimical to labor have been before congress he has supported or opposed them as seemed to him the right thing to- do. ..'.W ,roT
 Here are some of the items in his, labor record which appeal to those who are most concerned with labor measures: 4 -.s
 He voted against the Esch substitute for the LaFollette hours of service bill for rail- road employees. The Bsch measure was op- posed by labor. d.
 He voted against the Frey ship subsidy. bill which contained very objectionable con- scriptiOn provision injuriously affecting sea- men. He supported the employers liability bill affecting railroads.
 In 1910 when the Democratic house added the Hughes amendment to sundry civil ap- propriation bill providing that no part of the money appropriated should be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agree ment having in view the increase of wages, shortening of hours, or bettering the condi- tions of labor, Underwood supported the amendment. A Republican senate sought by amendment to strike out the provision, and Underwood voted in the house to disagree to the senate action and to insist upon the Hughes amendment. When President Taft vetoed the sundry civil bill because of this provision, Underwood voted to pass the bill over the veto
 He supported the .anti-phospborus match bill and the children's bureau bill. He voted for the Clayton injunction limita- ton bill urged by the American Federation
 
 bill, also advocated by labor.
 He not only supported the immigration bill, with its illiteracy test for immigrants as favored by labor, but again he voted to override the veto of President Taft. & He voted for the bill granting compensation for injuries to workmen engaged in interstate commerce.
 He supported the provision in the naval bill prohibiting the use of time devices on work of employees and cash awards known as the Taylor system. s
 He voted to establish the board of media tion and conciliation.
 He voted for the seamen's act and the later amendments to it.
 He voted to establish an eight-hour day for employees of carriers engaged in interstate commerce.
 He voted for the minimum wage bill to protect the lives, health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Colum- bia.
 He voted for the various measures affecting the interests of labor during the great war, and for appropriations to extend the activities. of the department of labor
 He voted for the joint resolution authoriz- ing the president to convene a meeting of an international labor conference in Wash ington.
 These are only few of the measures which Mir. Underwood has supported in be- half of labor, and all this he has done not because he sought any political preferment in return, but because he believed these measures were just and righteous.---Maco Telegraph.