The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-11-12
Miners are Urged to Be
Ready For Strike.
RESTRICT OUTPUT
Tho Remedy Urged BY Ono
Speakor--Meetins Of the
Miners Of Sub Dis
trIct No. 3.

Massillon, Nov. IL.
A mass meeting Of the miners and
mine laborers of sub-district No. 3,
United Mine Workers of America, was
held in the armory in this city Sat
urday afternoon. The hall was well
filed, when the time for opening the
meeting came, with miners from all
of the mines In sub-district No. 3.
Robert Legg, of East Greenville, pres
ident of the sub-district, presided at
the meeting. With him on the plat
form were Tommy" Lewis, of Bridge
port, national vice president of the
lumbus, state president; d. H. Sullivan
of Columbus, state vice president, and
John Morgan, of North Lawrence, SUBJ
district secretary.
The afternoon was devoted to ad.
dresses by Messrs. Lewis, Haskins
and Sullivan. The
KEYNOTE OF THE REMARKS
made by them was the betterment OF
the organization and a closer affiliation
of the members with each other, the
preservation of harmony among the
various local organizations of the mine
workers throughout the country and
the aff1liation of the national organ
ization with the other branches of or
ganized labor. President Haskins was
the first speaker.
| He opened his address with refer
ence to the conditions which are ex-
listing in the mines owned and oper-
ated by DeArmit in Pennsylvania. He
said in part:
Those men down there are work.
ing for 67h cents per ton, making per-
haps $1.S0 per day. They are also
compelled to move the worthless coal
for nothing and they are all bound by
contracts which contain clauses for
bidding them to go on strike or leave
the employ of the DeArmit people,
under penalty of losing all of the
wages which they have coming to
them. They must be good little boys
or they do not get a cent of their
wages. That condition of affairs must
and
/ ra Will. BE STOPPED
even If we are Obliged to go out on a
strike to do so. And IL those men
strike, all of the miners in the coun-
try who are members of the United
Mine Workers of America, must be
prepared to go out on a. strike with
them. There is no telling when this
strike may come and so it is expe-
dent for all of the local organizations
to be preparing for the struggle
you say that there is law against
this condition of affairs, but how are
we going to enforce It? If the case
comes up for trial the judge will de-
clare the law to be unconstitutional, for
he Is on the side of the capitalist who
was the means of electing him. You
can do nothing with the law until you
elect those men for judges who are not
under the thumb of the capitalists.
Your best weapon is the ballot, and
yet you still keep on electing these
men as judges. The struggle is one of
LIFE VS.. MONEY
and do you suppose that for one mo-
ment the Judge Is not for money and
is for life? Your past experiences
show that he is all for money. All
the way through those men in power
are considering money first and life
afterward.
"The steel workers lost their last
struggle against the corporation not
because the corporation was stronger
than they, nut because the corporation
was better organized. II had all of
its interests centralized and all of the
owners worked together. II all of the
organized labor In the country had
been affiliated and SO we'll organized
that all of their interests had been CEN
tralized and each union had gone out
on strike with the steel men they
would have won the strike. The
other branches of organized labor
DID NOT DO THEIR DUTY
or the strike would have been won.
so you see, my brother miners, that
from now on we must work to perfect
our own organization and to bring II
in closer aililiation with the other
branches of organized labor. And un-
til this is perfected you may rest as
sured that we will never be able to
win all OF our strikes on which we go
out when we are in the right, and II
we are In the wrong we will always
lose"
Vice President Sullivan was next in
troduced. He first made plea for the
betterment Of the local organizations
the laying aside of all petty jealousies
and personal feelings and working foi
the interest of the organization. He
said In part:
There is one great question which
should be taken UP and studied by the
, miners and that Is the problem of
RESTRICTING THE PRODUCT
lof coal IL the market Ia glutted wi