The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-10-21
JOHN MITCHELL DOES
NOT ADVISE 4 Strike
President Of the United Mine
Workers Never Made War
like Statements,
A Part of Stock Gamblers
Scheme-No Cause for Fear
About the Coal Supply.


use the name Of the miners leader
to further their private ends. For
weeks It has been heralded far and
wide that Mitchells mission in the
East is to oragnize a monster strike
and the yellow journals, ripe for SEN
sation of any kind, have circulated ex-
aggerated reports Of the storing of coal
BY tho great corporations against ex-
pected trouble next spring. The Mine
Workers Journal sounds note OF
warning against these speculatlng
sharks:
I'm view of the many statements
in the public press anent President
Mitchell's tour of the anthracite region,
and also Of some schemes being con-
nected by some financial highwaymen,
the Journal desires to make few facts
plain. so that the mine workers. the
operators and the public will not be
misled.
I'm the first place. President Mitch
ellis mission there is one of peace and
to bring the workers into solid union
50 as to insure peace. Secondly, Presi-
detn Mitchell never thought of nor ut
tered the warlike language attributed
to him and given the widest possible
currency by the press. Third, there
IS a plot laid to wreck the three great
coal companies-one in the anthracite
region, one in Western Pennsylvania
and the other in the West. They COM
pose the same crowd that caused such
a great loss to the stockholders OF the
United States Steel Co. They began
this campaign as soon as President
Mitchell went to Pennsylvania. Inter-
views that never took place, words
that were never uttered were shreWdly
broadcasted throughout the country to
cause the public to become uneasy
about the coal supply. Their idea for
doing this was to cause the coal con-
sumer during the fall and winter to lay
In large and unnecessary stocks of coal.
This will give an unWonted and un-
ma tural stimulus to the trade, cause
large dividends and increase the price
Of the stocks they hold. Then next
spring, come peace or come war, there
would be little or no demand for fuel,
as all were we'll provided. Then the
consequent ,dullness will form their
hour and weapon. The coal stock will
be attacked, raided, demora Liked. and
the Yultures will enjoy g Tea st
-!
serr bio
iis clear. Let the miners solidly Or.
ganize, the stockholders cling to~their
holdings. and the public refuse to be
stampeded. The miner must not only
organize, but he must cling to every
penny he can, to spend nothing fool
ishly, and then he will be prepared.
ITO the public we would say that
the leaders of the United Mine Work
ers of the nation and the districts have
not lost one, iota Of their common
sense and sense of equity. They are
still the same clear-headed, right-mind-
cd men, and are not secretly or openly
plotting to wrong you. Let the public
remember that all these interviews, the
incendiary language, the warlike atti-
tude and the belligerent spirit attrtb-
uted to the United Mine Workers are
as false as hell itself, and originate with
q set of as remorseless and as relent-
less and as conscienceless pirates as
ever hoisted the black flag on the
Spanish main or originated swindle
in Wall street.