The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-09-06
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Capt. Marcus L. Fay, who is a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for Congress from this Congressional
district, was asked by the Labor
World reporter what his Views were
of the great coal strike and what
methods he would. suggest to obviate
these great strikes. and his views
struck US so forcibly that we feel con-
strained to give them to our readers.
The Captain said: IT consider this
strike a battle between giants: organ
lied capital and organized labor. Or
gained capital has the advantage be-
cause it can lie idle and suffer nothing
but the loss of profits, while labor must
suffer from the loss of earnings to buy
necessities of life, but believe the
IA, 900 mine workers in the coal fields
Of the east who are on this great strike
have the sympathy Of the American
public, and if the public could, it
| would, by some feasible method or or
ganized effort, give the miners moral
and financial support in this fight.
my own sympathy is certainly with
the miners, for I believe that if 147,000
men are of one opinion that they are
| being wronged and will stand out in a
! fight like this, which has lasted as long
as this strike has, and suffer what
they have suffered, then these men
must be in the right on the question
which they are contending for, and the
coal trust in the wrong.
"Of course the coal trust suffers
nothing. They have not so much coal
| on hand for the coming winter, but the
people of the country will simply have
to go down deeper in their pockets and
| shell out to them at an increased price
for what they have.
Nov, 1t seems to me that the Amer
! lean public is almost as vitality inter-
ested in this great strike as the strik-
ers themselves. The mass of people
who must use coal are now suffering
as much almost as many of the miners
who are out on the strike, and it seems
to me that If Congress has power to
enact tariff laws which will protect
these great trusts, and coal barons par
ticularly, and allow them to fix high
prices on their products and keep out
foreign competitors and have the COM
plete control of the markets of the
United States, that it also has power
to so regulate commerce that the lab
oring man, who by his toll produces
this wealth, shall have his fair share
Of it.
1T seems to me that it would be a
feasible thing for Congress to create a
National Board OF Arbitration, a board
that would have some powers Of in
QUESTION:; that could investigate all
natural monopolies that are being con-
trolled by the great trusts an dcorpora-
lions, and In cases Of these strikes,
that it could on application from either
party, have hearing in the matter,
make complete investigation, and
compel and make settlement Of the
differences between the employee and
employer. This board could certainly
be Of this use. II the employer should
be protected. BY our protective tarin
laws, and it should appear that the
men had reason to strike for higher
wages and that the employer was not
paying the employee fair wages, then
this Boa I'd Of Arbitration could, if the
employer would not accede to fair
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and Congress could remove the protec-
tive tariff from such goods as this par
ticular employer manufactured or pro-
duced.
AT the present time it would look
as if the great trusts and the employers
of labor in this country had a cinch on
the thing. They may go into the
courts and get an injunction pre-
venting the men from influencing other
laborers to take the place of strikers
The laws and courts seem to give CAPT.
tai about everything it wants.
Congress could do something more.
1t could provide a law that would COM
pei any corporation or employer who
applied to any court for an injunction
against any striker or strikers, to file
with the court before the court would
issue any injunction, an agreement that
it, or they, would submit the matters
in controversy between it and the
strikers to the National Board Of Arbi-
tration. ~,~''*'
1T seems to me that this thing can
be made feasible, and if I should. be
elected to Congress from this district,
I would advocate and use every effort
in my power to have some action taken
by Congress along this line.
1.-The greed Of some Of these great
trusts. and particularly the coal trust,
has become unsuitable, and it certainly
is high time the government was
stepping in.
IT have never had hankering for
political life and especially to be Con-
gresham, but I do say this, that if
there was anything that would make
man feel like jumping into the hot
bed Of politics. it would be with the
idea that he: might do some good to-
wards remedying these great evils and
curtailing the privileges and power of
the great trusts
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