The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-22

union. because, they say, the union Is not
a party TO the submission. Attention Is
called to the fact that Mr.. Mltcnen APP
resentative of the anthracite coal mine
workers." and not in his official capacity.
They also call attention to the fact that
The agreement to arbitrate was rather be-
tween the operators and coal miners con-
vention. The commissioners say that trades
unionism is rapidly becoming a matter OF
business. III the energy OF the employer
is directed to discouraged and repres-
sion OF the union he need not be surprised
If the more radical ones are the ones most
frequently heard. They express the opin-
ion that differences can best be settled by
consultations by the employer with COM
mittee chosen by his employees, but they
add that in ''order TO be entitled TO such
recognition the labor organization must give
the same recognition TO the rights of the
employer and OF others which II demands
for itself and for its members. They add:
THE union must not undertake TO assume,
or 10 interfere with the management or
the business of the employer" They also
pronounce as untenable the contention that
"a ma jority of the employees of an industry
by voluntarily associating themselves in a
union acquire authority over those who do
not so associate themselves.
BoYCOTTING AND DISORDER
Touching the question of discrimination,
lawlessness. boycottir and blacklisting. the
commission states that during the contin-
uance of the late strike disorder and law
whole region and throughout the whole
period. Continuing, the commission says:
1T is admitted that this disorder and
lawlessness was incident to the strike. Its
history is stained with a record of riot and
bloodshed, eliminating in three murders.
unprovoked save by the fact that two of
the victims were asserting their right to
work, and another, as an officer of the
law, was performing his duty, in attempt
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TO be employed, or who remained at work,
were assailed and threatened, and they and
their families terrorized and inundated.
In several instances the houses of such
workmen were dynamited or otherwise as
saulted and the lives of unoffending women
and children put in jeopardy. The armed
guards, employed TO protect the collieries,
and the men who worked them appear not
to have been an unnecessary precaution,
and the Governor of the State was, as the
evidence before the commission shows,
justified in calling out the citizen soldiery
of the commonwealth to preserve its peace
and vindicate its laws.
THE resentment expressed by many per-
sons connected with the strike at the pres
ence of the armed guards and militia of the
State does not argue well for the peace
able character or purpose of such citizens.
Peaceeble or law-abiding citizens have no
reason to fear resent the presence of
either. 1t Is true, and justice requires the
statement that the leaders of the or
ganization which began and conducted the
strike, and notably its president, con-
demned all Violence and eXhorted their
followers to sobriety and moderation. 1t
would seem, however, that the subordinate
local organizations and their leaders were
not amenable to such counsels as to pre-
vent the regrettable occurrences to which
reference has been made.
I'm making this arragnment we are not
unmin6ful of what appears to be the fact
that the mine workers of the anthracite
region are in the main we'll disposed and
good citizens of the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. and that 1T is in the power
of a minority Of the less responsible men
and boys, together with the idle and
vicious, unless properly restrained, to de-
stroy the peace and good order of any
community"
Regarding the boycott, the commission
says: What is popularity known as the
boycott "a word of evil omen and unhappy
origin) is form of coercion by which
combination of many persons seeks to work
their will upon a single person, or upon a
few persons, by compelling others TO alb
stain from social beneficial business in
tercourse with such person or persons. Car
ried TO the extent sometimes practiced In
aid of a strike. and in some in
stances practiced in connection with the
late anthracite strike, it is cruel weapon
of aggression, and its use immoral and
anti-social, and the concerted attempt to
accomplish ii is a conspiracy at common
law and merits and should receive the pun
ishment due to such crime"