Skip to main content

Letter from Forney Johnston in Birmingham, Alabama, to Governor Charles Henderson in Montgomery, Alabama.

Thumbnail for Letter from Forney Johnston in Birmingham, Alabama, to Governor Charles Henderson in Montgomery, Alabama.
View
@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Description

In the letter Johnston explains that industrial production in Jefferson County is threatened by labor shortages and excessive compensations, which he argues lead to idle employees. In response to this "menacing" situation, the Birmingham city commission plans to adopt two ordinances to combat vagrancy. Johnston asks the governor to "issue a ringing proclamation denouncing as slackers any laborers within the State who fail to work to the limit of their physical capacity and opportunity" and to encourage other municipalities and law enforcement agents to adopt and uphold similar vagrancy laws.
Type:
Text
Format:
600 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1918 April 8 1918 04 08
Rights:
This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study,
View Original At:

From Collection

Alabama Textual Materials Collection

Record Contributed By

Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Keywords

  1. Alabama
  2. Birmingham (Ala.)
  3. Henderson, Charles, 1860 1937
  4. Home Front
  5. Jefferson County (Ala.)
  6. Johnston, Forney, 1879 1965
  7. Labor And Laboring Classes
  8. Law And Legislation
  9. Race Relations
  10. Vagrancy
  11. War Work
  12. World War, 1914 1918

Related Content

Letters between J. B. Greene, chairman of the Lee County Council of Defense in Opelika, Alabama, and Lloyd M. Hooper, in Montgomery, Alabama. Letters between Lloyd M. Hooper and Leslie Gilbert, in Montgomery, Alabama. Letter from Dr. P. Colfax Rameau, president of the Southern Federation of Afro-American Industrial Brotherhood in Birmingham, Alabama, to Governor Charles Henderson in Montgomery, Alabama. Letter from George B. Ward, president of the Birmingham City Commission, to Senator John Bankhead in Washington, D.C. "Workers--White and Negro Unite to Win!" Correspondence dealing with a Communist activities in Birmingham, Alabama. "For Higher Wages! For Unemployment Insurance! For Recognition of the Labor Unions!!" "Miners, Fight To Win! Steel Workers, Strike!" Material related to the African American committees of the Alabama State Council of Defense. Members of the African American committees of the county councils of the Alabama State Council of Defense. The Negro Worker, Volume 1, Number 1. "Plan for Organization County Councils of Defense." Report on activities of Alabama County Councils of Defense from Frank Stollenwerck in Montgomery, Alabama, to Lloyd M. Hooper in Montgomery, Alabama. Letter from Booker T. Washington, Jr., at Tuskegee Institute, to Lloyd M. Hooper, chairman of the State Council of Defense in Montgomery, Alabama. African American servicemen singing on stage during a recording of the "Sgt. Gene Autry" radio program at the municipal auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama. Crowd celebrating V-J Day on a street corner in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Crowd celebrating V-J Day on a sidewalk in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Crowd celebrating V-J Day on a street corner in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Young woman performing on stage during a recording of the "Sgt. Gene Autry" radio program at the municipal auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama. "Third War Loan Bombers Christened."
Download JSON