The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-01

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meet him at a certain time and place that
night. When he got TO the rendezvous
he found a committee which without q
word quietly conducted him TO a railroad
bound north was in a few moments due.
Mr.. Llewellen,' said the chairman oil
the committee. "there II a train coming
in a very few moments which VIII take
you 20 Indiana. We advise you 70 &c,
aboard Of II and not stop. travelling untl
you are on the other side OF the Ohio River,
II Is the general opinion Of the boys that
the climate OF Kentucky will not be found
conducive 10 -FOUR health. Now take our
advice and go"
Mr.. Llewellen went. That was the last
effort Of the Mine Workers Union to To-
wade thisd district until some eighteen month";
ago when began the troubles which have
resulted in a reign OF anarchy but winch
the loyalty Of the non-union miners OF
Hopkins county to their employers.
YoR EMPLOYERS, o
That liberal wages and generous methods
In dealing. with employees are not neon
sistent with the financial success OF a great
corporation is impressive!y demonstrated
IN the history of the 81. Bernard Coal Com
rany. For ten years after Mr.. Atkinson
came here, during the fundamental con-
struction work Of the enterprise. the COM
pany did not pay a cent In dividends.
In 1882 It paid ? per cent: from 1882 10 1925
rer cont. in isoo I, mid Z per cant, in 1900
anJ in 100, 4, hoo,s \ a nar CON, no wing
property. At that point the returns to
the stockholders ceased.
Mr.. Atkinson definitely announced that
9 per cent Is the limit Of dividends that will
be paid. All surplusage that Is left after
the payment OF that return TO the stock
holders will be devoted TO two objects:
Firstly, the plant will be kept up and Jl-
dicious investments in new coal lands. TO
avoid the payment OF royalties, will be
made: secondly, there will be an nnual
dividend called the labor dividend. paid
share aud share alike 10 every employee
Of the company. with the exception OF the
higher-salaried officials. .
Last year the amount 40 distributed
amounted to something like $1,000. This
year 1t will he quite as much, IL not more.
No matter how large the surplus may be
after the payment OF the 9 per cent. dividend
and the proper maintenance and judicious
extension Of the plant. IL will be distributed
among the employees OF the company.
This practically makes every employee
a shareholder in the concern. Last year,
for instance. IL was as though every ON
plovee in the company, from the mule driv-
ers up 10 the clerks In the Office, held one
share Of stock that paid a S per cent divi-
dend. There IL every reason TO believe
that this labor dividend, which is nov a
permanent feature Of the %company,s deal
ings with its employees, will soon become
a substantial addition to the annual revenue
Of every man and boy working for the
concern.
UNION IrrAcxs on ArxIssoN
7. - - .I,..-. -.
~ asa'nn, suon Al n"duhuyp hin'
SON thai Mi;cbel's United Mine Workers'
Union has thrown into HOPKINS count
an army of thugs and outlaws to carry on a
warfare of murder and destruction. There
has hardly been a moment within the past
four months when Mr.. Atkinson himself
has not been in danger of assassination.
The dir has been filled with threats to
murder him and 10 murder those subordi-
nate to him in the various heads Of depart
ments. Against his own wishes and in
spite Of his prot ests he has been constantly
kept day and night under the guard OF
armed men.
BY Mi tchell's gang Of United Mine Worker
agi,ators and outlaw leaders he has been
constantly yilifed and held I'D 20 the exc
Grafton Of dupes as the personifcation
Of all that was inimical TO labor. The one
man who probably has lone more than
any other In the entire country To advance
the welfare and comfort of coal miners has
been thus branded ~ a very fend incarnate
in his oppression of coal-mine workers.
Only this week a ranting political dema-
gogue denounced him in language almost
unprintable In n speech made in the court
house at Madisonville The political
slime left by the trail of Organism and Goe-
belism i'm Kentucky has been stirred TO its
depth by such mel as this. and. unfor-
tunately, mas naO only TOO mucn euect IN
bringing about and maintaining the shame
and disgrace which the ~long-continued
reign Of anarchy and terrorism has brought
TO the fair fame OF The state OF kentucky.
UNION LEADERS IN CLOVER.
The only p.onl. who have not been the
losers in The Mine Worksrs' war unon Hon
kins county ha We b..en tho leaders and the
agitators MIR lin Mood the President of
rhis upion district has not done n stroke
OF work save with his tongue for eighteen
months YET he ha. b.san able 10 Keep well.
Eel w.ll-clad and In funds 10 suppIy the
needs of ms rather luxurious tastes.
In addition to this he has bean able to
purchase two houses and lots and a fine
re,taurant prorerty In Central CITY. Bill
Campball col6red, j. another OF these
workers He, too. l. an officer Of rank ia he
organization of the Twenty-thiri dist riot
of1hs Tnitet Mine Workers
He was one of the orators who went about
the country under guard Of the State militia
a few w,..ks ago making addresses here in
darlington and elsewhere, where IL war as
sarei bv IA. and the regular
salariai liar. Of the union tina, free speech
wa denied
With a guard 81 twenty-five men about
darlington lie - a negro. black as the