The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-21
MINERS WILL VOTE TO-DAY
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Continued from First Page) struck, struck for wages; he struck for exactly the same thing the miners and mine laborers struck for. As far as it is within the power of the union we
 shall afford protection to every man,
 union or non-union who went out on
 strike with us. But it may be true that some will be sacrificed, and, much as we shall regret that, I desire to say that no battle was ever fought, no vic tory was ever won, that did not carry
 with it some victims. Lives have been lost to gain the most brilliant victories that were ever won in the world. If it appeals to your judgment to accept the
 recommendations of your officers, if you decide to defer to the judgment of the president of your country, if you wish to be guided by the advice of your friends all over the land and decide to
 return to work, the United Mine Work
 CTS of America will protect the man who happens to be left out of his job. In our pledge to the president of the United States, in which We notified him that we would recommend to you a re- sumption of work, we said to him that we should recommend a return of our people to their old jobs; and if the coal companies fail to give our men their old places, if they fail to treat them
 reasonably, we shall carry the question
 to the tribunal named by the president
 and ask that tribunal to decide that we are entitled to the work we left when
 We went on strike
 
 I have no assurance that if you return to work on Wednesday all of you will
 be given back your old places. do be- lieve, however, that the coal companies will gradually displace the men who have your jobs and give you your old places again. I dare say that hundreds of the men who were brought here from the cities and from the farms to take your places will return to the cities and farms when you go back. I have no doubt at all that before two or three weeks have rolled by there will be no question about the reinstatement of the men. However, remember this, that when your votes are cast, I want you to cast them with the full knowledge
 that some of you may not get your old places back. I dare say the com panies are an anxious to have compe- tent engineers, f1remen, bumpers and inspectors as you are to fill those places; and you know that the men they brought here to take your places are not competent. You all know that the men they brought here to take your places are not competent to run the hoisting engines; that the firemen they i have brought here have not been suc-
 cessful and while the companies will 1 not go out before the public and say they will sacrifice the men who stood | by them," as they call it. they will, in
 most cases be glad to have their old and competent workmen back.
 l His remarks were greeted with ap- | plause. Another delegate made a 1 speech against ending the strike with 1 out definite assurance of reinstatement and MT. Mitchell was again called upon
 on for an explanation of the status of the arbitration plan as it now stands.
 In response to this request he said: | We have not adopted their proposi- 1 tion as they made it, and the proposi- | tion would never, with my consent.
 have been adopted as they made it. When the coal companies thought to
 practically name the arbitrators we ob- | jected and secured a modification of their proposition. That modification l enabled the president to select men out
 side of the class suggested by the op-