The bee., 1901-09-19

their husbands, and who up to the
time of the trouble in their county
enjoyed high living while at work
in the Reinecke mines, but who sew
cred their connection with that COM
pany when they cast their lot with
the agitators. Usually when we go
visiting tits expected that additional
care in the good things set before us
be taken, but this seems to be an ex-
ception to the rule. Imagine my
surprise when L sat down to the
table to partake of meal where not
even particle of meat was in sight.
My sympathy for them was aroused
and l went down town and bought
a chicken and brought to the house
to have cooked, and when the fowl
was dressed and / went to put the
same on to cook not bit of grease
could be found on the place. / then
asked if this was the way members
of the U. M. w. over in Indiana
lived, and the answer was that so
dull was the work, and that the
miners were compelled to pay tax to
support idleness in Hopkins county
that enough money to buy even the
necessaries of life could not be made.
Seeing their distressed condition, /
then ventured this advice: If L
were you 1 would go back to Hop
kins county and get down on my
knees and ask Mr.. Bailey to again
give me work before 1 would live
F, this life of half starvation"
Sergeant Henry Jones, late of the
U. S. Volunteers at the Philippine
Islands, is now doing guard service
for the st. Bernard Company as
guard at the Barnsley mine. Henry
has had some experience with the
Fllipinos and understands how to
handle them.
The attempt to ride rough shod
} over the peace officers of Madison
vile last week by the U. Ii. w.
struck a snag when one of them, it
is stated, attempted in a foul man
ner to do serious injury to an officer
by slipping up to his back, dealing
him almost deadly blow and for
said act was fined.
Many expressions of sorrow are
heard. from the, lips of the miners
here over the untimely death of the
President of the United States whom
they had learned to- love because of
his high christian character and the
great sympathy he always showed
for labor before and since he became
President, ~
The great steel strike has ended
and resulted as was long ago fore
seen, in the almost total defeat of
the strikers who have littlefleft be-
sides the right to return to work.
Several places formed under the
control of the steel strikers union
have now passed out of their hands
and they came out of the battle bad
ly SCARED.
Not coal operator in this county
but who is greater friend to labor
than Jim Wood. One likes to keep
the miner at work at good wages and
the other wants to keep them in
idleness or run the mines as they see
fit.
If the U. NJ. w. should in the least
/
way control the mines of this county
loss of one million dollars to the
farmer, miner and merchant would
be the penalty.
Said one of our miners the past
week: "With me it is question of
business this fall when go to cast
my vote, and not politics" Ifevery
property holder would take that
view the question of having the
right to run your own business
would be forever settled so far as
the U. M. WIS are concerned. Vote
for home and more work, and let the
men who belong in other counties 60
home and attend to their own busi-
ness.
Grant Dunning who writes to
labor journal from Barnsley, KY, is,
or pretends to be, sanctified
preacher of the gospel, and should
therefore, we think, be controlled at
all times with sincere desire to
state facts, but if you take an article
lately written by him on the late
battle fought between the sheriff's
posse and the union miners of st.
Charles who resisted arrest, you
would be led to believe that sancti-
fication don't always mean chris
tianity pure and undefiled. But If
Grant was in the battle as he seems
to think he was, perhaps he really
believes there was one hundred and
fifty instead of less than forty from
| the waV the shot rattled ahout hin,