The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-02
ASkSHIS MENN0T
TO VIOLATE LAWS
President Mitchell Addresses
Striking Miners.
QUIET DAY IN SHENANDOAH
BEDDALL DID NOT SHOOT
WITHOUT PRovocATIoN.

(NCttANION, Pa, Aug. line nfSt
y of the strikers mass meetings
planned to take place at the vari-
Gus strike centers was held today in
the Round woods. Seven thousand
strikers were present from all parts of
the city and the adjoining towns. some
locals having marched four miles to
the meeting. headed by band or drum
corps and carrying flags and banners.
President John Mitchell and several
of the district officials delivered adj
dresses. The crowd enthusiastically
cheered all the speakers and fairly
went wild over Mitchell.
When he was introduced TO speak
some one shouted Hats on" and al
though the suns rays beamed down so
intensely that many were carried from
the crowd exhausted, every man in the
vast assemblage barred his head and re-
manned uncovered until his speech was
concluded.
Then the crowd surged about the
platform and shook his hands until Mr.
Mitchell was almost exhausted.
Mr.. Mitchelrs speech was brief, and
dealt only with the live issues of the
fight. He said, in part:
1T has been said by some who are
not your friends that the miners of the
Scranton region are getting tired of the
strike, and are about to return TO work.
L come to find out if this is so. 1 want
to know If you are going to return TO
work. dishOnoring your organization
and dishonoring yourselves. (Cries of
Never. never, no NJ" Don't you be-
ieve it," and the like).
eff Strike Is Lost"
eff the strike is lost may God AL
mighty help the men, women and chill
dren who depend for their subsistence
on the mining of anthracite coal. If
the strike is lost you viii pay the cost
of the strike.
81 want TO say that the anthracite
miners went on strike themselves. They
voted for the strike. 1t was not the
officers of the United Mine Workers
union who called the strike. 1t will
never end until you vote it ended.
From the offices of the local presi-
dents in New York comes the declara-
ton that the strike will be settled only
in their own way of settling it. /
would direct your attention to similar
declarations made in the 1900 strike.
1.-THE coal trust may be powerful and
strong, but the American people. whose
hearts throb in sympathy with the min
ers' cause are stronger than the coal
trust. The American people, like a
jury, have passed upon this conflict.
They heard of the miners request
for betterment of conditions and the
operators refusal They heard of the
miners proposition to arbitrate and
the operators further refusal. Ninety
per cent of the people have agreed that
the miners are right and the operators
wrong
II understand there is some dissatis-
faction and misunderstanding about
the distribution of the relief fund The
operators have sent men among you
20 urge you to be dissatisfied
Through the newspapers they have
told you that you were dissatisfied. We
have sent a circular TO all the locals
which will explain in detail the plans
for the distribution Of relief, and
trust that when you hear it read there
Will be an end to dissatisfaction and
misunderstanding.
While We have not got millions we
have enough to see to it that no miner
viii starve during the continuance of
the strike. Cloud cheers),
Must Not Violate Laws.
Il want to appeal to men with means
TO refrain from applying for relief. Let
the fund be used by those who are in
absolute need of help. Be patient with
your committees. Put your shoulder
TO the wheel and do your share of the
work. Don't depend altogether on your
officers 10 win your fight. If we are TO
win we must all help.
The one among you who violates the
law is the worst enemy YOU have. No
one is more pleased than the opera
tors in New York TO hear of disorder
in the coal regions.
Il want our men to exercise the
rights that lnure to them under the
laws. but L want no man TO transgress
the laws.
The strike will be won cloud and
prolonged cheers). l have no more
doubt it than 1 have that I am stand
ing here addressing you
The operators are trying to make it
appear that the strike is beginning to
break up There is a saying that
those who came from afar can lie with
impunity.
At shamokin the operators tell the
strikers that the men at WiIkesbarre
are returning to work. At Wilkesbarre
they tell them the men at Shamokin
are returning, and at other places they
tel them the men at Scranton are
Weakening. l fail to see any signs Of
Weakening here. daughter and ap-
plause).
This is possibly the last time / ever
VIII talk to you. L want you to listen
to me- I want to impress on you the
Importance of winning this strike
II you win, as you surely will. there
VIII be no more strikes. There will be
a basis of adjustment arrived at which |
VIII prevent strikes. If you lose the
strike, the operators will make you pay
for their strike losses by reducing your |
wages.
And if you lose the strike you lose |
your organization. l trust and hope
and constantly pray you win stand as !
you did in 1906" CHEERS and cries of |
I'VE WILL
Before the handshaking episode had
begun, Chairman Phillips asked an who
favored a fight to finish to raise Their
hands. Every hand went up.
ALL QUIET AT SHENANDOAH
Physician Saws PeJda11 p.o.:I