The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-21

is as dear to us as the man who ran t1e
best engine; that while we shall try wifi
all the power we have to get every mar
that struck back to his old lob. we vii
make special efforts for none and show
! special favoEs to none. We want tn cen.
I gineers and the firemen, and, the punp.
men, and the inspectors, and the bosses tc
go back, but we don't want them to &c
, back one bit more than we want the LITTLE
H. >aker boys to go back. There was nc
si4so, class of workmen who went out or
q s1ia> athletic strike.
..,7s.,, nan who struck, struck fo,
ooas. Us g, suck for exactly the same
thine tbe 1ni4Iar.> and mine laborers struck
for As far as is: within the power
Of the Union we shah arIora protection tc
every man, union or non [uilioil, VINO Went
out on strike with u.s. b. sshlletlleh' II
may be true, that some WIZ ~ aeGi
and, much as we shall regret TN -, ueslfe
to say that no battle was every h 'osh' no
victory was ever won, that did no. = carry
with it some victims: Lives have oeen
lost to gain sthe most brilliant victor es
that were eyer won in the world. II n
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
IL -
work, the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea 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 we would Recommended to
you resumption 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. +
Now, gentlemen, those are my views.7l
have no assurance that if you return 70
work Wednesday all OF you will be
given back your old places. l. 90 believe,
however,, that the coal companies VIII
gradually displace the mem who have your
Jobs, and give you your old places again.
brought here from the cities and frons
I dare say that hundreds Of paen who were
the farms to take your places Will return
to the cities and farms when you go back.
have no doubt at all hat before two or
three weeks have rolled by there Will De
no question: about the reinstatement OF
the men. However, rem ember this, that
when your votes are cast want you to
cast them with the full knowledge that
some of you may not get your old posi-
lions back. Il dare say the Ncompanies are
as anxious to have compel ent engineers,
firernen, puna3pmen and insI ectors as you
are to fill those places; and ou know that
the men they brought here to take your
places are not competent. ou all know
that the men they brought lere to take
your places are not competent: to run the
ho1sting engines; that the fiji Nemen they
have brought here have not be- al success
full; and, while the companies \ Will not go
out before! the public and say they will
sacrifice the men who stood by then,' as
they call it, they will in most cases be