The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1920, Page 13

“SE .ATT! WwW SH., FRIDAY, OCTOBEI > oO & 22, 192 20. JUST BACK FROM WORK IN ENGLISH MINES, | ~ WHITING WILLIAMS TELLS OF COAL STRIKE jee cant] Campaigning Is | SSubtful Whether Move Can| | Be Prevented From Be- coming Revolution Just beck from working in English mines to find oat first-hand what workingman in Hngtand thinks, ag Chairman and Fellow Work- . Chairman and Fellow _ No could ever forget the dead- earnestness of that appeal to our and good-will there in the! of the little South town, as one miner after an- his voipe and vote strike, t two days’ strike which result- a gety & teanl ons. but it was P 4 and accomplished by men ‘epenls proclaimed themselves to the raising of the red flag ‘Bolshevism over the house of par. it, Welsh enough they were 4 not Russian, but they claimed to le in touch with secret London rep tatives of the Soviet, who gave to me as we walked together th the darkness two miles up and down dale that led from the to our locations “at the face.” aeed besa all they do be the of the whool crowd of us thot be fair con “appy.” Sruke TALK TALK ‘This unhappiness tt was very easy | gee even in the thick darkness of | Feoutinas 900 feet away from sun- As he brought down the coal the bulging seam and I carried | in my “curlin’ box” to the “tram”)| or car, we could hear the other col | Miers or “hewers” in the next stall| trying to persuade their friends not to work or else dixcussing the card | fmal points of their new industrial political faith, Whether they ed or not the minimum wage , in effect since 1912, would bring m practically the sume pay as the thauliers and other “day” workers ‘who put in a strenuous turn. Now the roof of the industrial Vhouse of Britain is quivering with | B the shout of its 1,200,000 miners as| lay down their picks and] ovelx. ALL BRITISH MINERS (40 EXTREME | » Luckily not all British miners are extreme as my Welsh buddies. | 'p in Yorkshire, for instance, where se coal “tips” rise alongside the| wureh spires to grace the landscape Hof picasant hedge-lined fields and| ows, they voted against the na | tion-wide «trike. Meanwhile, | against the owners of the mines, but| fp against the government, which has in control of them since the ")f the war. The union leaders, | fide and Hodges, claimed that the | governmentfixed ‘prices cave both | the government and the owners too| much profit and so demanded a re duction of 14 shillings tuppence per ton to the domestic consumers as a\ means of lowering the cost of living. | But this clatm was abandoned some} weeks ago. Since then they have re-| fused to submit to arbitration the matter of the rightness of their claim | 40 two shillings more pay per day In spite, too, of a constantly falling output of coal per man, they refused to consider any plan for increased pay to follow increased coal? Hence | the strike. | BITTER TOWARDS | THE GOVERNMEN | It remains to t en whether a strike thus against a government ean avoid becoming revolution. It ja highly doubtful. Last summer | found men more bitter towards their | government for not giving them the id of jobs and pay they want: han I have ever ween them here| against their private employers. | That spirit can make very serious | trouble in a country which will, of| course, be brought to a stand-#ti the lack of what they call But if reprewniotive government the strike is not| 4 cow town tn of “et |but the one ap | the | was the tent, | aepirant vine is @ sorry substitute for old frontiorsmen who he offies, Too Rough for | These Fellows MILES CITY, Mont, The people of Stacey which in a der River county ‘er buck ed that the modern candidate fame, are con the hardy | id public or sought it, in the pioneer bases this belief on tty own The town wtaged a bi« Ss. The » the program for which Dighest he € entdrtained candidates’ steer riding con It was announced that every for office who anaes aber YOU CAN'T ROB A BANK all are in pri Ustment in the Canadian army supreme penalty in Manders field. Not all cities have a perfect record in catching bank robbers, but the percentage is so high the job is regarded the most dangerous for IOS A of the vete bank and « too Thin city's thieves | ve “cant | San Francisco is ptanning a $2,500, tions convention at Geneva before' his time and electioncering on the |easy bet Stacey votes must appear and try 000 civic center as a war memorial. = |to ride a wild steer. would not count against the office | seeker, t Stacey wanted to know was much sand the average candidate | carried in bis mal fot a candidat re wy they it in predicted thy there when it comes to county offices: ‘County Jailer |$13,500 SAMPLE Is Prisoner in | CASE STOLEN His Own Prison |Sacramento Police Hunting WHITESBURG, Ky. 22 Thieves Fess Whitaker in ing @ in the county Jail here, and what’ SACK ul, Oct AND GET AWAY WITH IT VELIS, Oct. 22. Moffit of the detective force untry, #ayk you can't many t 1 of the who got away was traced to en and it was established he paid the 19 mer dead, One man Oct. 2 y were without @ who last night » cane from the 1G. Morris, 0 while the « parked on K et, the al thoroughfare, ‘ more, folks think he'll be successfu Whitaker {a ebunty jailer. Aleo is. Bi Stiscker serving 's Dr. Koo Appointed || months sentence in his own Ja | He jets himeelf be a trusty Alec Al! as London Minister he. ie @. onndidate for county judge how | The facts are in this wine W N ‘ 22.—J | ~iheny WASH N After! reas keeps the pretticet jail and|~ pearly five years as Chinese minister | oo. leave the city but bh at Washington, Dr, Wellington Koo | nd four days or {has been appointed Chinese minister h h month, if electe poh putof-town yhody in Latcher county come to Washington. Dr. Fess and while he's aot & Me's serving |candidate of either party, it t= am folks eay, he'll be next county judge Reing thrown ) he posters specified house square in the t long ago officers ne on reports of distu threw ‘em out. V 4 him up he let. him h his own keys. He promise county roads making & voters. up. } peared, Stacey a bad lot and lot of ballots | blank |St London, succeeding Dr. Sze, latter will | Koo will be wholly &. A. WEEK will attend the league of na-|tenced to six months ‘olng to London name time, so to speak. He can’t “Where you eatin’ today?” asks Tillie, who sells ribbons in a New York store, of her girl-friend in the glove department. | Back floats the answer: “Trinity Graveyard.” Oh, my, yes! Everybody's toting the old lunch bucket in| | Gotham these days to beat H. C. L., and a comfortable grave with a nice marble stone for a back rest is a prize. Here we find Miss Ida Schnurr cutting the cost of living with Miss Madge Kuecke by consuming luncheon in Trinity's marble | orchard. means anything the probability | Children’ 8 Home Is that a way out will be found short of any fatal overturn. For, while the other unions publicly voted com. plete approval of the miners’ stand, | they were all privately praying that the fearful crisis would not coma, | Individually I found most of the Workers of the country very unde. cided about nationalizing the mines | —even among the miners themselves | there would usually be representa tives of the pro and the con in any group. and few workers, were for stopping thelr own jobs on the rail-| way or in the milis simply, to «ive two “bob” a turn more to men who! they felt were already very weil paid Given Foodstuffs Foodstuffs donated by residents of | Sunnyside in the Yakima country to i} the Washington Children’s home inf Seattle will almont fill a freight car, according to word to the Chamber | Commerca, | Included are 600 sacks of flour, 60) casea of home canned fruit, 200 boxes | of apples, 1,200 pounds of mixed ves: | etables, 120 sacks of potatoes, a mum | ber of sides of bacon and other sup plies, —-&. A. WEEK —— MRS. MARGARET B. 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