Let the Nation Own the Mines!
COLEMAN, McALISTER
THE ONLY HJTION: Let the Nation Own the Mines! If Operators and Union Continue Dodging Others Will Raise the Real Issue By McALISTER COLEMAN IN ALL th* negotiation, ba•¦We* k.**** ^kUflft...
...Waltar Raetker aad John Oatmen, Manitowoc, aad A. .6...
...Seventeen of the 145 fatalities were due to a mine explosion at Sturgia, Kentucky, on June 8. In June last year fourteen lives were lost in an explosion at Vilkesbarre, Pa...
...Three * employes of tk* Manitowoc ship yards war* drowned here Wednesday when the staging on which they were working col lepaed'a** pl**|*d th*m Into tk* Manitowoc River...
...But this is j a fight that affects every con* \ sumer of coal, notably every citizen of New York...
...It the present anthracite situation constituted a private fight, we could understand the reasons for keeping away from a subject that involved as much J as nationalization...
...He declares the miners have ben evicted from their company-owned homes...
...When Anally a committee headed by John Brophy, tha progressive leader of the soft coal miners Pennsylvania, did bring in a carefully thought-out proposal for public ownership of the mines and their management by technical men, representative* of tab public and the miners, Lewis dismissed the committee and forbade mention of nationjdj...
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...Aa" «8> ff,w» American who waa *i*nd->a the doorway of the build-is reported to have died en "M1* »e a ho.pit.1...
...About 2,800 miners tM estt af work,™***' thteaWs th* opiriMttf have erased the 1924 wage stale sad substituted th* 1917 one...
...The minora worked nearly one year...
...He ha J heen trapped Bt • eare-in while attempting to **»*b Adolph Steucer, creaked t*y •Wth i. .„ .nrltaf/Slida...
...Th* New Leader joins with th* Comrades of th* Forward in their greetings to Comrade Veigonbaum...
...Marianelli's wire to the Civil Liberties Union follows: "Will cheerfully represent you at proposed hearing contesting the validity of th* proclamation denying elementary constitutional right* te locked out minor...
...That the right is challenged indicate* thkt a taction of the employing class and at least one public official believe that a prayer in behalf of a strike it a misdemeanor in Oklahoma...
...The law gives every man the right to work for say one with whom he can malt* satisfactory terms in order to support his family," the Governor Said...
...The, American Civil Liberties Union of New York today offered counsel for this and other court fights against the order...
...Again la the evening the non-union worker* would be j greeted with songs and prayers, ' sometimes just outside their own (hack...
...RAVENNA, Italy, Aug.* 6\— Seven women workers aad two men were killed in a factory explosion at Lugo today...
...But if these timid leaders had« taken the trouble to read and understand the* report of their own committee they would understand that the sort of nationalization proposed by Brophy and his colleagues was far different from mere public ownership...
...4Y.lt - -lit— ¦ t-atfm^ai A— (a AHW real end put to the chaos in coal...
...Henry /Baker, auditor and teller ofOnVunion at Muskogee, declares that the miners will file a petition in the Federal court asking Judge JCennamer, now on the bench there, to restrain the Sheriff from halting public prayer by fore...
...Won Over Many "Scabs" Th* religious bands say they won away sixty workmen...
...Spokesman for the delegation conveyed to Comrade Feigenbtum, who, through illness, has been confined to his home for *oirie yeirs, th* gratitude of the Socialist movement for his years of service...
...and Mr...
...Of course, one raaliiea why flit operators ahy away from every mention of so unpleasant a topic...
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...8— After b.lM buried under a (lid* j»f earth ant] rock for nearly ten -Jfjera, Suvio Guieaul was roacaed fMj* yaalerday from- the Tilden Mia...
...m BESSEMER, Mich., Aug...
...In a speech at the convent ion of Sheriffs snd police chiefs •t Ardmqre the Governor defended the Okmulgee Sheriff...
...a*y«t'the attitude taken by ^he leaders of the mint wonwn who hive pot a strict quia*** upon any reference to thia . dread subject...
...I Jn> bodies of the workmen are Mill hurled |„ rulnu Flrt_ *r* working herd to clear f**T the wreckage...
...They would leave Hen ryettn in autaaadblUe with tle*h» husbands at sunrise, would leave the men at the a4|* *' th* mine property aad the* march, singing hymns, la the ahafts...
...At Atlantic City th« conferee* have talked about the check-off and wage-scales, about, profits and salaries, about U*\ substitutipjis and *npa of productioiH|m>ut *> moat everything ifPfot tht vita) matter of natteaalieatJon...
...It Was proposed to have a Secretary of Mines in the Cabinet, to have the industry under a tripartite management of consumers, technicians and workers, much as the Plumb Plan would have done for the railroads, and to keep the Mine Workers' Union intact with the bargaining powers it now has...
...Furthermore, the leaders have a natural antipathy for any form of governmental interference, an antipathy born from many unhappy experiences with Fuel Administrators and Boards of Arbitration...
...Labor's Dividends, Accidents at foal mines in June resulted in 145 deaths among th* workers, according to the Commerce Department...
...Thi lay*** is pus-zM, and riglkl...
...Peaceful public meetings and picketing of the mines have been prohibited...
...It appears that the right to pray when exercised by strikers is an offense in Oklahoma...
...Th* attorney for th* miners charges that the Sheriff's order and the**placing of a few troops in the area by the Stat* authorities Is "the outgrowth of a conspiracy between the Governor of Oklahoma, the Attorney General and th* operators for no other purpose than to protect capital in th* violation of the letter's solemn contract," Governor Trapp is firmly behind Sheriff RuSsell...
...The op-[mteniMy they caoaot *9#ra&«n ith...
...A member of that most expensive body, the United States Coal Commission, told me the other day that the Commissioners took a vote when they first came together and decided not to touch the subject of nationalization as "there was not enough public Interest in the question...
...I' MANITOWOC, Wi...
...William Dalrymple, district Miners' Union President, states that the order is a violation of Article I of the Federal Constitution end the Bill of Righto of th* State...
...WM most effectiv, in inducing M.he to w-V I...
...MEXICO tJITY, Aug...
...Time and again national conventions of the miners have declared in favor of nationalization, but always John L, Uwffc, flit band of th* mtnarf, cona^ijlwva J!i$tyyot$S^(tt& Workers' Journal, have managed to wad off any altempts at agitation for nationalization...
...cation in the .Mine Workers* Journal...
...The miners are the logical group to lead this discussion, but if they continue to dodge the responsibility that is rightfully Theirs, then some other body must be found to take .up the battle against, privilege and greed, the twin Kings of Coal...
...As a matter of fact, the entire report, with its figures showing every symtom of a diseased industry, constitutes an irrefutable argument for nationalization...
...For nearly a month the wive* and children have been holding daily prayer meetings at the mine shafts on th* 'romparrtW properties...
...What is'happening now is that we are drifting into nn-Other strike with the issues confused, the public disgruntled with the tactics of both sides to the dispute, and'no "long view" of the future of the industry even so much as attempted...
...We Have a right to ask that there be at least some intelligent discussion of the reorganization of an industry that today is being run in the most slipshod and wasteful manner...
...Tk* men df*w«.d are...
...In view of this, the time-worn arguments brought forth by every opponent of nationalization about Post Office mismanagement, etc., fall to the ground...
...The death rate, Baled on the month's production of 44,971,000 tons of coal, was 8.22 per million tone, as compared with 4.18 deaths per million tons in June, 1924...
...The operator* have repudiated the *ame arbitrarily...
...We offer onr aereicea to contest it I* th* courts...
...Sheriff Russell has enjoined the prayers by proclamation and has., announced his determination to jail strikers, their wives and the sweethearts if they attempt another demonstration...
...They have cut was** thirty par eant, evicting miner* from company hou.es and prohibiting public meeting*, piehetiug, .parades aad public prayers The latter moan*, on th* part of th* minor*' wives...
...Brooklyn...
...It is something new, it requires a new technique, and any Labor leader who is well entrenched in a good job naturally despises th* new and untried...
...This remarkable philosophy dominated all their efforts...
...Comrade FeifenbaufS't 68th Birthday On the occasion of the 85th birthday of Comrsde Benjamin Feigen-baum, on* of the founders of the American Jewish Socialist movement and the Jewish Daily Forward, tht •ntirt editorial staff of that paper Wednesday afternoon visited Corn-rade Feigenbaum's home, 871 Lenox road...
...qU), Quaff all its Broke The ban pl*C*4 on the "prayer meetings" which have been an unusual feature of th* eoal miner*' strike in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, is but th* Neeftt of th* series of violations of la* minors' civil sights, according to information received by th* Civil Liberties Union, 100 Fifth avenue...
...but when they were through with their researches they had to report that coal was "affected with a public interest...
...Werkmee were engaged In •JWeS rep.irs In the building {jfja* the eeltapea earn...
...In a telegram to tbe miners' officials today the Civil Liberties Union said: Sheriff Issism Injunction "We consider Sheriff Russell's orders denying th* miners of th* H*nry*tta diatrict th* right to hold open-air prsyrr meeting* Illegal and a clear violation of civil rlghta...
...The Civil Liberties Uatbs, which organization carried on the defense in th* Tennessee Evolution Case, has undertaken to defend the Oklahoma miners in their effort* to continue their "prayer meetings" at the mine Kates...
...J. M. Hetliday, William Bank* .•no" William Simpson, workmen, and an unidentified carpenter...
...Msrianelli wired the Civil Liberties Union today declaring that present conflict in the Oklahoma cosl fields is the result of a lockout by the operators, rather than a walk* out by the miners...
...The Union announced today that R.C Mariaaalll, It*legal representative in McAlestor, Oklahoma, has been assigned to represent the union and the miner* at a proposed hearing contesting the validity of the ukase on the "prayer meetings...
...i—!¦ ™* collapse of a three-story •eliding o*i tbe male *(r*et Of Mexico City yeaterday fifteen *erkmen were killed...
...They are ttill willing to work under the exUting uneanired wage agreement...
...Then came Sheriff Russell's order...
...The "praying mine striker*" of Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, have bean ordered by th* Sheriff with the approval of the Governor to refrain from appealing to their God for favor in their struggle, ' To Test Case In Court But the miners will not let th* matter rest there A test will be inhde in th* courts of tht right of Sheriff-lyussell of Okmulgee County to forbid th* striking coal miners in th* Henryclta field, to pray publicly in outdoor groups near the mines to influence th* strike-breakers who afa at work...
...The manifest fear c4 discussion of nationalization by the miners' leaders is due, I believe, as much to their ignorance of the subject as their desire to please conservative politicians...
...Rut tire, Superior...
...For Vtime, the VM nols Miner campaigned amokl lt§ readers for consideration m the Brophy report, but of lab)' this piper has given up it* Ion*: fight...
...He declared that Russell was "doing hi* djty'r When h* issued the order barring outdoor "prayer meetings...
...S. , —firemen recovered two bodiea, ' bringing the death toll to five la I Ike collapse of a three story brick rooming house here late yeater-day The dead are Mr...
...The Facts are: this ia not a strike but a lock-out...
...KANSAS fITY, Mo.—Aug...
...Hare they would sing until th* non union miners came to work, whereupon the lander* would be • gin praying for th* souls of th* man 'who had taken tk* strikseV places...
...PRAYER (by Strikers) BECOMES A CRIME Oklahoma Forbids Meeting at Gates of Coal Mines ONE of the few civil rights remaining unchallenged now tends to go the way of free speech, free press and freedom of assemblage' which trinity at one time, it is said, distinguished the United States...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 33
