Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1925, Page 33

THE EVENING STAR, \VASHINGTON, . THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1925. How the Coal Strike Strikes the Public NGRY suspicion that neither the operators nor the miners really Atried to prevent the deadlock that closed the anthracite mines- on September lIst finds expression in many an editorial and news dispatch, as reported in this week’s issue of “The Literary Digest” dated September 12th. The consumer of hard eoal, confronted by the prospect of paving a higher price for his winter’s supply, reads with smolder- ing resentment of the rich profits predicted for the operators and distributors- from the large surplus supplies of anthracite already above ground. Nor does he feel any profound thrill of sympathy when the correspondents describe the “festival spirit” in which the miners welcome their enforced vacation. '|fhv anthracite companies, declares President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work- ers, are using the strike “to unload at enhanced prices a greatly augmented tonnage of in- ferior coal.” The miners, retorts an official spokesman for the companies, are using the strike to force a wage advance which would have to come ultimately out of the public’s pocket. Another charge hinted at by the operators is that the United Mine Workers Union is sacrificing the anthracite field to serve its purposes in.the soft coal industry. But while each side is accusing the other of forcing the suspension for ulterior motives, disinter- ested journals are blaming them both for this “strike against the consumer.” ‘“The pe- riodic coal strikes of recent years have been manifestly directed primarily against the pub- lic, and this is even more true of the present strike than of previous struggles,” remarks the Buffalo Express. ‘“Both miners and operators have surrendered all claims upon public sympathy,” declares the Albany Knickerbocker Press, which denounces the strike as “in- excusable and senseless.” Remarking that “neither side to the controversy has shown the right spirit,” the St. Louis Star points out that the operators, in a position to profit which- ever way the situation developed, “have been arbitrary”; while the miners, “demanding a 10 per cent increase and the check-off, with wage adjustments for those employved by the day, have refused arbitration.” The leading article in “The Literary Digest” this week, September 12th issue, presents the story of the coal strike in all its various phases as gleaned from the newspaper press of America. It shows the prospects for and against an early settlement, and tells of the substi- tutes that have been proposed for the use of hard coal. Good News For the Rent-Payer \nother of the many interesting articles in this week’s “Digest” is a review of the recent announcement of the Industrial Conference Board that for the first time in ten years the up- ward flight of rents has been checked. It points out the rent reductions that have taken place in Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Defroit, Cleveland, and Los Angeles. In addition it reviews the housing situation throughout the country and shows how building construction is pro- gressing. This article is accompanied by a graph which illustrates the text. Tammany’s Bitter Rough and Tumble Fight Daily demands from cities in ever corner of the country deluge New York political headquarters for information about the Smith-Hylan battle in the ranks of the Democracy of the metropolis. The whole country is watching it, as the press comment clearly indicates. The chief factor in arousing outside interest, according to the New York papers, is the wide- spread conviction that Governor Smith’s political future is bound up in the result of the primary on September 15th. - As one paper says, “if the Smith-Tammany forces can not de- feat Hylan, it almost certainly means good-by to any aspirations the Governor may have fot the nomination next vear as an opponent to Senator-Wadsworth.” There is also the old Smith-Hearst fued, since Mr. Hearst and his papers are backing Hylan, and the anti-Hylan editors insist that a Hylan-Hearst victory would put Hearst in conmplete control of the city and seriously injure Governor Smith’s prestige. All the interesting developments in this extraordinary struggle are reflected in “The Literary Digest” this week. Other Big News-Features in September 12th “Digest”—News-stands 10 Cts. Is France Evading Its Debt Payment to Us? 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