The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1919, Page 11

MINERS ROAST " GOVERNOR HART |Say His Letter on Strike every WIZARD MOP. and Wizard Polish—is ver arowid the house, and cleans we wanfievery woman to have a for he . $1.00 to $1.75 This is a high broom corn. This is Ford S et Keys 7c 4in-One Key. Has s iece blade, black FRNSTHARDWARE(@. 514-24 PIKE. ST) SEATTLE. U.S.A A Vi ry Efficignt Heater for Goal and Wood Fuel ple system of tion; a grate of coal, a very b little a ning for tion, will keep hours. te lex burning wood and,coal with equal success. é —has ¢hot-blast draft, insuring thor@ugh uw tion of the heatigg elements in the fuel. & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AT PINE STREET | Shows Ignorance Tn anrwer to a telegram to thr coal miners of Washington from Gov, Louls F. Hart, in which the ox ecutive warns them that the min will not be able to “freese the gove ment Into submission,” and that the [state will protect itself againet the | Proposed coal strike, Robert H. Har | tin, president of district No, 10, hus | addressed a letter, in which he de | fines the issue between the operat jore and the mine workers, and an nounces that the Washington mer will go out on strike with the United Mine Workers of America unless thy national demands are met by Novem ber 1 In hia letter, Martin dectaren the relationship between the workers and operators has been most agree able, and that no grievances are in volved in the pending dispute other than the fundamental point at insue @ raise In wages which have beer stationary for the past two years. Marlin declares the argument iv hinged on the pre-war agreement be tween the local operator and workers when it was agreed that the scale of | prices and rules conditions of ja bor should continue only for the du ration of the war, or at the very latest up untll August 31, 1918. The agreement provided that the con tracting parties mect atx weeks be | fore the expiration of the agreement and formulate another one. | “phe operatore of the atate of | Washington informed the under | signed representatives of the United Mine Workers at a meeting held in he city of Seattle yesterday (Tues day), wrote HA&rlin, “that they did | not recognise our right to terminate | the existing agreement. This in the ts j|mue between miners and operators land it embraces the coal operators of the state of Washington in tho same degree an the coal operators of the rest of the country. We informed the “| Washington Coal Operators’ associa tion at our meeting yesterday that unless we received counter instruc |tlone from our international organi zations in the Interim a strike of ali {coal miners in the state of Washing ton would take place beginning Sat . November 1, 1919." | meantime the operators are | making preparations to protect their | mines and holdings. Agreed that engineers and the like will not suspend work, but will re- main and do much work as ts neces. | sary to protect the mines, | Harfin, continuing in his letter, | | went Into detail concerning the pre | war agreement: It Was War Contract “This agreement entered into be tween miners and operators was a wartime agreement. Its purpose woe to insure continued production of « vital commodity during the period when our nation was at war. It served ite purpose well, as the ree | lords will show, for, notwithstanding | the fact that approximately 70,000 | mine workers left their homes to/ nerve in the armed force of the gov ernment, those who were left to pro-| duce the coal so necemmry to our nation in the trying months of 1917 and 1918 performed their duties so} well that all records for coal produc tion were broken, and the coal min ing industry boasts a war-time reo ord of unhampered production that bespeaks more eloquently than can be exprenned in mere words the loy alty of the mine workers to our na- tion @uring times of stress; and their good faith in keeping inviolate their war-time pledge. t “The European war ended on No vember 11, 1918, and with it ended the emergency that brought into be- ing the Washington wage agreement. The miners have continued to work under the terms of that agreement during the period of industrial dis- location following the termination of hostilities down to this date without seeking to officially end their war- time compact, and in view of the fact that living costs have been steadily increasing since October, 1917, and the earning power of the miners’ wages decreasing as a consequence in like ratio, we feel that commend- able patience has been exercised by | the miners’ union and any charge of disregard of public weal made against us at this time by responsible offi cers of our state and national govern. ment comes with bad grace indeed, and shows a deplorable lack of con sideration of the facts in the case, Blame Operators renders it unnecessary on our part to make any detailed defense of our demands, The coal operators contend | that the Washington war-time agree ment has not terminated, and it is because of their unyielding attitude in this respect that the nation ts threatened with the impending coal strike, “The operators of the state of Washington informed the undersign in the stomach, ac- that full, bloated feel- teaspoonful in ter right after and prevent © 14 no #OK od Magnegia or form——ney leas to the THE SE. ; Sy | Il il iltitl te i It has been | ff Zw rr oe. 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MANUFACTURERS Seattle Store 1519 Third Avenue B+tween Pike and Pine ed representatives of the United Mine Workers at a meeting held in the city of Seattle yesterday that | they did not recognize our right to “The attitude of the coal operators | ¢ terminate the existing agreement This is the issue between miners and | operators, and it embraces the coal operators of the state of Washington | in the sar “ree as the coal oper ators of the rest of the country, We informed the Washington Coal Oper- ociation at our meeting yes terday that unless we received counter instructions from our inter national organization in the interim & strike of all coal miners in the state of Washington would take place, beginning Saturday, November 1, 1919) “Now, sir, as to our position reta- tive to your statement received by us this morning We feel that as the ex ive officer of a great commonwealth, owe it to the you serve and who have en- you with their confidence tain all of facts before you assail in a public document t loyalty of an organization and its leaders whose war record is second to none and which we submit as @ complete and crushing answer to your unfounded charge. The min- ers’ union is a democracy respons- ive to the will of the rank and file of its membership, and we, the elected officers of district No, 10, desire to Inform you that we ac- »|cept full responsibility for our part in carrying out the strike order as promulgated by the representatives of our membership, If our action in declaring the existing wage agreement officially ended at mid- night, October 31, needs any justi- fication, we refer you to no less tl authority than President Woodrow Wilson, who, in vetoing the prohi- bition bill, declared that with the demobflizing of the army, the war- time emergency had ended. If our n in calling the strilte needs y justification, we refer you to the unyielding position of the rep- resentatives of the coal operators in refusing to negotiate with us a new wage agreement to replace the inexpennive t form of magnen| irposes, is used le who enj tear take and the for stomach thousands heir meals one made for the duration of the ‘ar. “There is but one answer, that coal operators in this situation, and that {# to exercise the only power we have, our inalienable, inherent right to collectively refuse to work under an agreement that has be- intolerable and which denies to thousands of American families States the oppodtunity to enjoy decent living conditions that conform to American standards. } As Good as Your Record” ur reference to the impending strike as being att attempt to starve and freeze the nation into submission is an ex parte statement, and would be justified only if the United Mine Workers had declared in favor of the overthrow of our government. You know, or at least you should know, as a public official, whoxe sworn duty it is to act as an impartial represent jative of all the people, the workers | included, that there is not in the Jong |record of the United Mine Workers |of America a single act that would |Justify the assumption that we are |wecking to destroy the government, or to compel it to yleld its proper | d-up! Quit blow- ing! A dose of Compound”, taken ev- rs until three doses are ally breaks up a cold and srippe misery, first dose opens clogged-up ing and “Pape's Co) ery two taken constitutional functions to any un authorized body. There haa been no statement made or act committed to Justify your assertion that the United Mine Workers is under the leader ship of men who have no respect for government of the people, no regard in the coal-mining regions of the |for their fellowmen and no sympathy | | United | |for suffering humanity, “We submit, Mr. Governor, the record of the accredited representa- tive of the United Mine Workers will prove that their devotion to the prin. ciples of a government of the people; their regard for their fellowmen, and |their sympathy for suffering hu- manity will compare favorably with yours, or with that of the many other public men who take advant- age of this opportunity to assail the good name of the United Mine Work ers of America and the integrity and |citizenship of its leaders.” | LONDON, Oct. 80.—Belleved to be a relic of the last Gotha raid on Kent, a large shell fragment has been found lodged under the tvy on Bearsted church tower, nose running; reeves head- juliness, feverishness, sneez- id Compound” is the quickest, costs only stores, It Clark P, Bissett, noted writer and lecturer at the University of Wash- ington law department, was sched: | uled to make the opening address at | the organization luncheon of the | Constitutional Government Jeague, in the Masonic club rooms, Thursday | noon. % = ey = it is the folly to postpone at Dental work both appearance height having done whi methods so b n our patrons © tht these prices ¢ And our past p ‘by a staff of high iy certified Den- that. 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