The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY, WORKER SOLONS RESENT OPPOSITION TO ANTIALIEN LAWS Try Red-Baiting Stunts in Committee Hearing (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 29—Scenes reminiscent of the hysterical times of 1917-18 were enacted by Chairman Al- bert Johnson and Representative Free of California in the house com- mittee on immigration when spokes- men against the anti-foreign-born bills in a formal hearing on deportation bills, tried to present their views. Relatively courteous treatment was given Prof. Ernst Freud of the law school of Chicago University, who made various criticisms and sugges- tions. He urged chiefly the right of aliens to the presumption of lawful entry, whereas the proposed changes in the law would make it incumbent on the alien to prove his right to be here. Free Becomes Hysterical. When Francis Fisher Cane, former federal district attorney at Philadel- phia, suggested that the United States, having brot resident aliens under the | draft act during the war, owes them certain duties, Johnson and Free be- gan to make hostile comments. Free said that he “had to be guarded front these fiends”—alien gunmen—for six months at one time, and he disputed Kane's view that deportation would not solve the problem of gunman vio- lence in Chicago. When Free claimed that the churches were the chief element de- manding deportation of alien bootleg- gers, the Civil Liberties Union repre- sentative, Allen S. Olmsted, second, of Philadelphia, introduced Dr. W. L. Darby, secretary of the Federal Coun- cil of Churches’ national bureau in Washington. Dr. Darby read the formal action of the council’s adminis- trative committee, opposing the depor- tation and alien registration measures as being harsh and productive of ill- feeling and injustice. He was soon interrupted by Free, who had discov- ered a copy of a statement on the hearing which the Civil Liberties Union had prepared for the press. Johnson Does Red-Baiting. In a loud and bullying tone Free called attention to the fact that not all the speakers mentioned in this state- mént had actually appeared, and ‘that the committee had not permitted dis- cussion of the alien registration bill. Johnson and Free then tried to force an apology for the issuance of this statement. Explanation, but no apol- ogy, was given. Jounson then began demanding of the Civil Liberties Union representa- tives the whereabouts of Roger N. Baldwin, director of that organization. Johnson raised his voice higher in ac- cusatory questions. Miss Edith Spruance of the Delaware League of Woman Voters suggested that John- son was reading from a red-and-black reprint of Lusk committee findings, published by the American Security League. Johnson denied knowledge of where the document came from. Miss Spruance was firmly ordered by Free to give her name and affiliations. She was asked whether the League of ‘Woman Voters of Delaware stands for overthrow of government by force and violence. She replied that it stands for the rights of citizens, but that its activity in this instance was due to the growth of Prussianism and fas- cism in public administration, Johnson proceeded to recite, from the black-and-red document, the al- leged radical attitude of other mem- bers of the A. C. L. U. board, but fin- ally agreed to let Dr. Darby finish his statement. ‘Two Congressmen Oppose Laws. Representative Sabath of Chicago and Dickstein of New York alone in the committee defended the right of aliens to considerate treatment, and deprecated the rough treatment of the witnesses. Spokesmen of the American Federa- tion of Labor, the railroad brother- hoods, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the National Council of Jewish Women waited to be heard. The Social Service Commission of the Episcopal diocese of New York sent a letter of protest against the deporta- tion and registration bills. Geo. W. Wickersham, former attorney general, as one of this commission, wrote a Personal protest against the proposed legislation as being contrary to the spirit of American institutions, Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. “BIG TIM” MURPHY EMULATES ANOTHER GREAT “LABOR LEADER” Evidently taking his cue from another “labor leader” who once said, “tam not going to fight the government,” “Big Tim” Murphy, president of the Gas House Workers’ Union of Chicago, repeated those very words with the addition, “That government licked Bill, the K: ig Tim's” return from Leavenworth where he did a The occasion wa LaFollette Wages Big Fight to Get Strike Investigation (Continued from Page 1) from each side in the dispute the moment the meeting opened. He stipulated that arguments would be made in a closed secret session. Mc- Lean, a big business representative from Connecticut and lackey of the textile interests of that state, fought McNary’s proposal. “Will Settle Strike.” Edwards than made his protests against federal interference and when he saw that this argument was not sufficient to justify a réfusal of the customary senate privilege to LaFol- lette to present reasons for the pre- liminary investigation and his intro- duction of the measure in the senate, he made the offer of settling the strike. He declared that he “would settle the strike” and would refuse to deal with any of the present strike leadership. Big Business Against Investigation. Senator Weller of Maryland, who voted against the preliminary in< vestigation, is an administration re- publican lined up with the big busi- ness interests. Metcalf of Rhode Island is a woolen manufacturer and is aiding Edwards to stifle the in- vestigation as he fears the investiga- tion might spread into Rhode Island and thus expose him and his treatment of the workers employed in the mills run by him. Metcalf at all times speaks for the Rhode Island textile manufacturers in the senate. Smith of South Carolina is a demo- crat and has posed as a “friend of labor.” He represents the textile in- terests of his state. Tyson of Tennessee is a traction mil- lionaire and was at one time presi- dent of the American Cotton Associa- tion éf mill owners. Reed of Missouri was not present at the meeting as he was ill. Reactionaries Jubilant, Tyson and Metcalf are just as jubilant as Edwards over the outcome of the meeting. They realize that since the committee decided that Ed- wards and an official of the depart- ment of labor were to report on con- ditions tn Passaic inside of a week that this report will be conservative and will find “conditions the best in the industry” and that they can then report to the senate there is no need of an investigation and this move would also keep LaFollette from tell- ing the stories of the strikers before the senate committes. q After the meeting several of ths senators declared that the strike would end soon as the manufacturers were eager to settle the strike and would grant the strikers concessions in order to forestall a probe into the textile industry. Green Aids Textile Barons. President Green of the American Federation of Labor, who since he took the place of Sam Gompers has been trying to put over one class collaboration scheme after another, declared in an interview that he was not going to help the 16,000 Passaic textile strikers in getting an in- vestigation into the conditions in the textile ihdustry. Many of the union members here in Washington are wondering whether the paid ads that now appear in the American Feder- ationist, which is edited by Green, of the Botany Worsted Mills of Passaic and of the United Piece Dye Works in Lodi are, responsible for the at- titude of this labor head. The United Textile Workers’ Union heads have declared that tho the Pas- saic strikers had asked them to come to Passaic to organize them, they would not do so as they were not prepared to “absorb 16,000 new re- cruits into the union at once.” Simple Blood Test Determines Cancer LIVERPOOL, England, March 29— The claim that a means has been found of detecting the inception of cancer by a simple blood test is made by Dr. H. McCormick Mitchell, senior medical officer of the cancer hospital here. Altho English medical men are not en- tirely convinced of Dr. Mitchell’s theory, he is enthusiastic and declares that his finding is “the dawn of a gerat discovery which will bring con- solation and comfort to many suffer- ing hearts. “By means @f a cleverly destroyed apparatus,” Dr. Mitchell stated, “the scients can now examine a few drops of a patient’s blood and detect cancer in its earlier stages in any part of the body. Further than this, by a similar blood test six months after an opera- tion the sicentist is able to discover whether the operation has been suc- cessful.” ROBINSON ASK THAT DEBT PLAN BE RECOMMITTED Democrat Derides the Terms of Settlement (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 29.—Declar ing America has crificed her repu- tation for generosity” In her settie- ment of world war debts without gaining an additional cent In payment, Senator Robinson, democrat, of Ar- kansas, opened the long-heralded at- tack on the Italian debt settlement te- day in the senate. He asked its recom- mitment to a committee, which if done, would amount to defeat of the settlement for this session at least. The method of basing settlements upon the debtor nation’s “capacity to pay,” Robinson charged, is “imprac- ticable” and “impossible of applica tion.” Compares Treatment of Germany. Deriding the terms given Italy, Robinson declared it was amazing that defeated Germany's “capacity to pay” reparations was estimated at $625,000,000 a year while a victorious Italy, it is claimed, can pay the United States only $5,000,000 annually for the first five years of the debt settlement. Robinson warned that Italy will default in her payments as soon as Germany defaults in reparations. He said it was a “bad policy” to make private loans to Buropean nations, when, as Senator Smoot, republican, of Utah, predicted, “they can never be collected, except at the cost of transferring the money center of the world from the United States to some foreign country.” “When Germany breaks down, as she probably will,” Robinson said, “and fails to pay the enormous re- parations exacted of her; when Ger- many defaults to Italy, Italy will de- fault to the United States. So we will have accomplished little of value by this settlement insofar as recovering the amount due from Italy is con- cerned.” , Reparations to Be Readjusted. Robinson predicted readjustment of German reparations within a few years. “Who does not know that the Same yardstick will in the end be ap- plied both to Italy and Germany in de- termining their ability to pay?” Robin- son demanded. “Who does not know that radically different yardsticks are now in use and that Italy could as easily pay $40,000,000 per year as Germany can pay $600,000,0002” Fear Break by Mussolini, “Tt is idle to talk about economic stabilization when political revolution is threatened,” Robinson said. “We read in the press of alliances, secret and open; that the dictator of Italy is forming combinations which threaten the peace of Europe; and we are told that all this is none of our business.” As a result of the administration's attitude, he declared, the United States will attend the league disarmament conference with our delegates crit- icized as the representatives of “an avaricious and greedy power. It is not clear that the immediate ratifica- tion of this settlement will promote either political or economic stability in Europe,” Robinson added. “It would seem the wise course to inquire into this subject.” Clash on Fascists. Robinson’s speech provoked a sharp debate over Mussolini, Italy's fascists and their military ambitions, “I understand fascism is the Italian ku klux klan,” observed Senator Reed, democrat, of Missouri. The debate swirled around a state- ment attributed to Mussolini that he would shortly have something to “ap- pease the restlessness” of his fol- lowers. “I presume he meant that he would use his followers and they would use their arms,” Senator Borah, repub- lican, of Idaho, interposed. Why Not Pay in Full? Opposing ratification of the $2,042, 000,000 Italian debt settlement, Sena- tor Reed, democrat of Missouri, this afternoon offered a resolution in the senate calling for an investigation by the foreign relations committee of the ability of America’s eleven war debt- ors to pa ytheir obligations in full. The resolution alos would provide for an inquiry into loans to foreign governments by American bankers, and the circumstances surrounding such loans. Immediate action on the resolution was blocked by Senator Smoot, republican of Utah, member of the American debt commission. Ocean Booze Runners Face U. S. Destroyers (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 29, — The coast guard today took over five naval destroyers for the rum navy. This will give the Atlantic fleet 27 destroyers to be used in anti-smug- stretch for complicity In a $385,000 mail robbery. The gas house workers did sling operations from Florida to not turn out en masse to greet their martyred leader. Only his wife, a friend and the secretary of the union were the reception committee, It was when he was asked about the payment of the $20,000 fine he has| mandant of the coast guard, said hé for Maine. The ships carry anti-aircraft and machine guns. Rear Admiral F, C, Billard, com: Mexican Labor Gathering. Shows U.S. Is Backward (Continued from Page 1) world war because it meant the break- down of German resistance, but hor- rified even at the thot of such a flag appearing in Amerjca, A wonderful general strike has been going on in Mexico, he stated, quite unknown to the workers of America. It appeared that an adjutant colonel of the army, together with several privates, met a labor organizer who had come to a Mexican city to union- ize the miners and shot him to death. It was a coldblooded murder, utterly without excuse. Every organized worker in the entire country stopped his work for two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon on the day agreed upon for the demonstration of protest against the murder. Not a machine was running; not a store was open. Everything came to a stand- still, It was labor’s method of empha- sizing its demand for the punishment of the murderer and a warning against any repetition of the deed. According to Horn, the Mexican miners are not yet organized. Due to this fact their conditions are intoler- able, He stated that a government report in 1914 revealed the alarming fact that 87 per cent of the miners were suffering from venereal diseases. A subsequent investigation in 1924 showed a further increase in such dis- eases of 5 per cent. These terrible conditions are due to the fact that foreign capital and the Roman cath- olic church are working hand-in-glove to exploit the Mexican workers to the utmost. The Mexican Federation of Labor convention, he stated, condemned both these oppressive agencies, calling up- on the government to break entirely with the church and to restrict the operations of imperialism. President Calles gave a special au- dience to the American delegates. He said that Calles assured them that while he had the highest regard for the American people he despised the American exploiters, such as Harry Chandler, publisher,of.the Los An- geles Times and one iof the blackest reactionaries in all America. Chandler owns 50,000 acres of land in Mexico, He and his kind, Horn declared, are responsible for the present contro- versy between the two’ peoples. Horn criticised the’ compulsory arbi- tration board of Mexico. While it is not at present dangerous to Mexican labor as the gov. ental represent- atives are most lik to favor the |. workers, here in the United States, he pointed out, the reverse would be true, The Mi unions, he ex- plained, do not junctions be- cause their judges even those on their supreme not lawyers and are therefore closer to the people. op An educational treat for the dele- gates came when he ead aloud many paragraphs of the Mexican national constitution. These,.in themselves were a striking jent of the shortcomings and lencies of the American Federation of Labor, both in policy and method. ‘Particularly did his whole speech point out the need for labor organizing itself into a mighty labor party and fully organiz- ing its economic poWer on a militant basis, looking to the conquest of power. ‘ Coolidge Tries Force Selection of Railroad Hireling WASHINGTON, March 29.— Under @ unanimous consent agreement the senate met today in executive session to resume consideration of the nomi- nation of Thomas F.. Woodcock of New York as a member of the inter- state commerce conimission. Woodcock is opposed by a number of progressive senators from-both par- ties on the ground t he is not in sympathy with go ment regulation of the railroads andywas named while a railroad director, contrary to law. Administration spokesmen predicted Woodcock would be confirmed. Fear That Execution Would Arouge Koreans Causes Commutation TOKIO, March 29.—The prince re- gent has commuted!the sentence of death passed on Boku Jun-Shoku, a Korean, and his Japanese wife, Fumi Kaneko, yesterday for their part in a plot to kill the emperor, to one of life imprisonment, The commutation 1s believed due to the fear that their deaths would give new life to the Ko- rean movement for independence. The two were arrested two years ago, but the fact has been concealed all this time under the police regula- tions which allow of such a prepos- terous action. Mrs, Jun-Shoku met her husband while working in a cafe, A Class Collaboration Argument. CLEVELAND—(FP)—The Chamber of Commerce jn Cleveland has discov- ered that nonunion carpenters cost more and aren't worth it, The cham ber built two cheap houses of identi- cal construction here and in Detroit to compare building costs in a union and a nonunion city, The Cleveland union carpenters did the job in 518 hours at a labor ¢ost of $682, while the nonunion Detroit carpenters took 711 hours on the same job and cos: their bosses $727) Fortunately for Cleveland merchants and business tito settle for that Murphy said he didn’t think he was legally responsible | hoped to tdd'Yater a few destroyers tq) houses, the Cleveland workmen wore 6 fine now that he had done his stretch, altho “I am not going to, eto.” |ihe Paxifié riim navy. || paid more per hour, > It Is Treason for the A.F.of L. Officialdom to Associate with Traitors By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. W' pathways. LLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, at the last annual convention in Atlantic City, got purple in the face and nearly broke several blood vessels thundering against insidious “propaganda” crossing the At- lantic Ocean and misleading American workers into wrong To be sure, Green’s mighty bellowing was all against Moscow, the Communist International, the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. Green insisted that all Bolshe- vik ideas must be kept out of the American labor movement, ° that must remain loyal to Gompers’ ideas—to the Gompers philosophy. Green has proved again, however, that he does not ob- ject to the employers’ propaganda that comes across the At- lantic. It is welcomed with open arms. This is shown, not alone in the reception given the servile delegation of German labor officials, champions of the Dawes-Morgan plan, who visited this country, ut is revealed clearer than ever in the heated brotherly embrace bestowed by the whole executive council of the A. F. of L., upon a selected “labor delegation” now touring this country under the direction of Lord Rother- mere’s Daily Mail, with all expenses paid by this anti-labor sheet. Two facts damn this delegation as hostile to labor's in- terests, both in England and in this country. The British workers have a daily of their own, the London Daily Herald. For any worker to give support to or help develop the pres- tige of a capitalist publication like the Daily Mail is to dagger labor’s own daily in the back. But Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail is especially vicious in its war on the workers. Rother- mere succeeded to the position held by the late Lord North- cliffe, “the Hearst of Great Britain,” who owned a multitude of “catch penny” publications as well as the London Times, semi-official organ of the British overnment. This delega- tion is in no way representative of British labor. It is not impossible to find workers, on all occasions, who will scab ‘against the working class. The “labor delegation” sent here by Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail cannot be con- sidered otherwise than as a strike-breaking outfit. Instead of treating it as such, however, the executive council of the A. F. of L., in session at the American Federation of Labor headquarters, in Washington, officially received Rother- mere’s “outfit,” which in turn banquetted President Green and his fellow officials at the Hotel Mayflower, Washington's biggest and most luxurious hotel. The labor delegation of eight did not pay for the banquet. That was some more of Lord Rothermere’s money, dipped from his many millions, ing in its work, because this paroqevion is returning to reat Britain on the eve of May 1st, to aud the conservatism of American labor, and plead with the British workers not to press too energetically their demands against the mine owners, the railroad owners, and other cliques of capitalists with whom labor in the British Isles has some old scores to settle. Thus the A. F. of L. officialdom allows itself to be used directly on the side of the anti-labor, “open shop” Brit-- ish employers. That is where the anti-militant, class-col- laboration policy of Green's administration directly leads. It is doubtful if Gompers would have stooped so low. The conservative British labor leaders, with whom Gompers hobnobbed, grudgingly give their support to the London Daily Herald and certainly cannot countenance the fake “labor delegation” that Rothermere’s Daily Mail has sent over here. In fact, the British labor movement is officially on record, in the Anglo-Russian Trade Union Unity negotia- tions, co-operating with the Russian unions in developing the world solidarity of labor, that Green opposes so energetic- ally. It was not a Russian labor spokesman that Green at- tacked at the last A. F..of L. convention, but Arthur A. Pur- cell, the official representative of and fraternal delegate from the Bri h Trade Union Congress. British labor denounces “the delegation of eight” now in the United States as a mission of treason to the British labor movement. The A. F. of L. executive council, which is supposed to lead the struggles of American labor, consorts with these traitors, In the same hour it refuses to come to the assistance of the 16,000 striking textile workers at Pas- saic, New Jersey. The Green bureaucracy commits treason to American labor in the hour that it associates with traitors to labor from across the sea. In that alone it is consistent. American labor must move against such traitorous leader- ship. HAVE YOU SEEN CHICAGO'S LIVING NEWSPAPER YET? The mystic attractions of a news- paper production, its editorial staff, ticker, copy boy and all will be trans- planted to the stage at Imperial Hall, 2409 N, Halsted street, on Thursday, April 1. It will be the first appear- ance of the Living Newspaper in Eng- lish produced by. workers, It requires no exertion whatever on the part of the audience to get the contents of the paper. They will not need as usual to wade thru pdges of advertisements and nonsensicals to find the news worth while knowing; events of the world will be presented in living, moving nows before their eyes—and then, it will have a real working class interpretation, The reporters are going to do their stuff, Snappy stories will be told showing the funny side of life, relat- ing some of the little embarrassments that most of us become subject to now and then. There will be serious stories, right from the fleld of battle, told by reporters who have them- selves gone thru the mill, wha have participated in strikes and always been present where the: blows fell the heaviest, The latest internation- al complications will be the usual language of ¢i% capitalist press intended to hide and befog the minds of the workers, but in a plain workers’ language tear- ing to pieces the veils of diplomatic secrecy, News from the shops, ex- posing the methods pursued by the bosses in cutting wages, will be \pre- sented by the staff of the living news- paper. Those who have heard a great deal about a Mving newspaper but have never seen what it really looks like should not miss this opportunity. Those who have never heard about it before should by all means come to the Imperfal Hall on Thursday eve- ning, April 1. There will also be danc- ing until 12 o'clock. Consider German-American Claims. WASHINGTON, March 29—-The ad- ministration’s bill for settling German- American claims arising out of the war was introduced in the house to- day by Representative Mills, republi- can, of New Yor CUSTOMS MEET DECIDES UPON -GHINA TARIFF Powers Would Estab- lish New Shackles (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, (By Mail)—The Interna- tional customs conference has finally agreed upon the revised tariff sched- ule for China. After weeks of debate they have decided to grant substant- ially the rates proposed by the Chin- ese delegates at the opening of the conference last October. Surtaxes in addition to the duties now in force will be allowed running from 6 to 30 per cent, with the grant of complete control by China in 1929. It yet remains to be decided what shall be the disposition of the in- creased revenues resulting from the jnew schedule, This is almost certain |to delay proceedings considerably longer. The powers demand the abolition of the likin, an arbitrary tax laid by the provincial authorities upon goods in transit over their districts or within them. The Chinese have already agreed to end this system. Would Arrange New Shackles. A serious controversy is sure to oc- cur over the proposal that the out- standing unsecured or inadequately secured foreign and domestic debts shall be covered by a new internation- al loan to be arranged by the con- sortium, the international group of banks which have arrogated to them- selves the control of loans to China. These unsecured obligations run into the hundreds of millions, including some, such as the infamous Mishihara advances by Japan, which the nation- alists are bitterly opposed to paying. The Nishihara loans have recently been taken over by the Japanese gov- ernment itself, an ominious sign that they are to'be among those which China is to be obliged to assume. Some Loans Defauted. The defaults on the Hukuang and the Tientsin-Pukow railway loans have complicated the situation, According to those loan agreements in such a case the interest and installments due were to be paid from the surplus jcustoms receipts. The total of de- faults is already over $2,000,000 and jif they continue to the end of 1927 it is estimated they will total nearly | $18,000,000. Holders of other railway bonds on which there has been no de- faults declare that the prospects are that China’s financial breakdown will also extend to these, and that they also must have a customs guarantee for the future, The powers expect to recoup their losses from the raised tariff rates by compelling the application of the in- creased revenues to these loan repay- | ments. Whether they will succeed in the light of the strong agitation among the Chinese for the removal of all forms of foreign control is very doubtful. To Inspect Proposed Waterways by Ship William Hale Thompson, chairman of the Illinois Lakes-to-the-Gulf water- ways commission, and 100 other not- ables, will leave Peoria April 20 on the steamer Cape Girardeau for a 10- day study of waterways in Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee. The inspection is preliminary to the com- ing waterways fight in Congress. FOREIGN EXCHANGE NEW YORK, March 29— Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand, 4.85%; cable, 4.8614; France, franc, demand, 3.42; cable, 3.42%; Belgium, franc, demand, 3.89; cable, 3.8944; Sitzer- land, franc, demand, 19.24; cable, 19.25%; Italy, lira, demand, 4.01%; cable, 4.01%; Sweden, krone, demand, | 26.80; cable, 26.83; Norway, krone, | demand, 21,26; cable, 21.28; Denmark, krone, demand, 26.48; cable, 26.50; Greece, drachma, demand, 1.33%; cable, 1.33%; Spain, peseta, demand, 14.07%; cable, 14.09; Holland, flor- in, demand, 40.06; demand, 40.08; Aus- tria, crown, demand, .00141-8; de- mand, .00141-8; Poland, zloty, de- mand, 12.50; cable, 12.50; Hungary, crown, demand, .00141-16; cable, -00141-16; Finland, mark, demand, 2.52; cable, 2.52; Jugo-Slavia, dinar, demand, 1.76; cable, 1.76; Czecho-Slo- vakia, crown, demand, 2.95% cable, cable, 2.964; Rio de Janeiro, milreis, demand, 14.27; cable, 14.32; Buenos Aires, peso, demand, 39.78; cable, 29.83; Uruguay, dollar, demand, 101.78; cable, 102.08; Peru, pound, demand, 3.84; cable, 3.85; Chili, peso, demand, cable, 12.11; Shanghai, tael, id, 73.00, CONNELSVILLE BY-PRODUCTS COAL COMPANY ANNOUNCES LOCKOUT OF UNION MINERS ON APRIL 1 (Specih! to The Daily Worker) ‘ MORGANTOWN, W. Va., March 29.—The Connellsville By-Products Coal company announces a lock-out of union miners at four of its min This announcement follows the refusal cent cut which w mn April 1. of the union miners to accept a 20 per ordered by the company. The Connelisviile By-Products Coal company is one of the largest union concerns in West Virginia, The company announces it will close its mines the Jacksonville agreement. The union re Tee rather than run the mines under a ea oo