The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-01
this LABOR WAR CAUSELESS.
FACTS ABOUT TIE MINERS UNION
CtYP.tIGN IN KENTUCKY.

usual treatment FROM bueiF fmf
ploycrs which Makes the Hopkins
County Mlners Loyal to the Compan,
Now-Aid In building Homes. In
SAVING Money and IN Their
social L~mc-yioience Of the Labor
Agitators Fails TO Affect Them.
FApIIYoroS, Ky. Nov. s0.--In order
to get n just appreciation Of the state OF
Affairs which exists here In the Hopkins
county coal region. IL must be understood
at tho very outset that there is no strike
whatever among the coal miners and that
there has been no strike or semblanoe OF
strike.
Over eighteen months ago when the
United States Mine Workers beg al the attack
,Ipon the district which finally eliminated
In the anarchy and reign OF terror OF the
last four months. there were ? .0OO miners
reaceably working in the coal mines here.
A. the present moment. In spite OF all the
dynamiting. midnight murder and assas-
sination, there still are 1900 asd probably
moro than 1000 men at work just where
they were when the campaign against
thcm began.
Perhaps. all told, 200 men have been
coaxed or bulldozed into joining the union
or 80 inundated by the outlawry which
has bcon conducted under the unions
a,lspioes for now the better part Of two
wears that they nave fed the country:
That il one thing To keep constantly. IN
mind in an effort 10 grasp az FAR az possible
the all but inconccivHhle conditions which
have so long existed liere. Many of tho
newspaper Dispatches refer to the strikers, y
and speak of This. that and the other deed
Of lawlessness o by the strikers.
dismiss the term ron your mind There
are no strikers.
Deeds of lawlessness there are; atrocities
continued and almost beyond belief In
their wantonness there are. But they are
not done by strikers.
They are lone by an invading army
of thugs recruited in other States. organ
ized and armed with the best and deadliest
e modern firearms and sent into this State
and country by Mr.. Mitchells United Mine
Workers Union for the purpose OF driving
thrifty and contented men from abo
at which many Of hem have been en-
ployed for a generation to drive these
peaceab!e aw.abiding citizens of by sheer
force Of terror, or, II necessary to shoot
hem. their wives and their children down
in cold blood.
All this kind u deviltry has been going
on for months, until women are afraid to
60 on the streets even in day time: until
COURAGEOUS men in all walks Of h!e-men
If the highest professional and commercial
standing in the community, who happen
TO be in III favor with the dehauched thugs
and loafers who are in command OF Mr..
Mitchell's United Min cohorts of anarchy
here until such men yield TO the ~pleadincs
II their families and do not entur out
If their houses AZ night, except in cases OF
extreme necessity
II is a condition Of avagery here IN
Kentucky such "a Daniel Boone encoun-
tered when every log house was a fortress
end when skulking Indians lurked on every
hand looking for a chance 70 assassinate
from ambush.
This illustration is cited, let 1t be said
in all Apologize haste. not In any way 10
bring into comparison tho relatively decent
Red Indian savages Of Boone's time with
he cowardlv vagabonds now IN evidence
in heir union reign OF anarchy. 1t was
only by way Of pointing out the swift return
to primitive pioneer conditions OF society
which has been brought about here.
In addition 20 a full grasp OF the fact
that there is not has not been and In not
likely TO be a strike here. II Ia necessary:
in order TO understand the full extent, OF
the terri BILE wrong this lawless union has
been permitted TO bring about to know
something OF the history Of this great coal
industry which has transformed Hopkins
from a pauper into one OF the most pros
porous counties In the State.
The father OF the coal industry OF the
county : John r. Atkinson and his, too.
l. the Land which laid the foundations Of
%frTnness. sympathy and generosity OF
which this Darlington community. the
most thrifty contented and prosperous
coal mining community IN the United
States Las been built
MR.. ~ArKINsoN's WAY
Mr.. Atkinson came here in 1871 and dur
ing thirty year has devoted all the energies
of his life 10 creating the industry which
has lifted the county from abject poverty
90 wealth and. above all, 20 creating such
conditions that for the humblest lsborer
In the mines there has always been an
o%ppouunitv 90 win q good home, good
food. good clothing good education for
his children, healihful and elevating sur
rounding and TO have continuously the
opportunity and the encourage x incentive
90 save money ard acquire a modest in
Dependent"
These are the broad lines un which Mr..
Atkinson hAr worked To g. lnto the
details 81 hl- beueNulrnoe, a. tell all the
.tory IT hi. personal generosity and HE
increasing iptr' e-t aud sympathy ~ the
Asuira iun- Of the nearly f~ourto-n hund red
meu aud th"lf families who's destinies
have besr 80 long a. "a measure "a his hands
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