The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-11-15

go; Sh idmlllar with, and
SO hat neither the onam os
Ho l the miner can control 1ba iWC
ISe- notce a reference -o Us
u zen dollars provided for me
epoit' mat 1 understand has -
@aoS agreed upon before ~
wri,ins presented their demands in
nansi,SS YESTERDAY. 1t makes the
than five hundred dollars. 7 more
I IS. l haven't it before ma e
nehory may be wrong as r. ~
mount but my recollection is NE e
Is not less than ten nor MOI ma
I'VE dollars, and rhaI ; 1
not paid in less than ten 6avs
a. penaitS might be imposed. NJ
-osa is that II you recommen5 Sls
10 The Governor, he will NJ, lnat
20 n Legislature. Whya Pa-
aust II is a serious question wbs,hs.
"ouio not oe nconstirution, =
MS: me statute law and The -
atl'ution OF this State provide Iba,
AZ man sna.. be deprived of lifa
a"-ts OF property without due mo
,eers aM, ana the Judgment of the
500 mat statute does NOT soy
inythlns about an appeal. Yon No.
ID! the genera law provides for ~.
ippeai' Dat that statute saws ~ ~
ne is not paid within ten DAYS r.
! jail sentence. 1t takes in .ou1 ~
ne jurisdiction of the Justice. and
lakes II a question whether it -
.lthIn the jurisdiction of n inst;oc
NY prediction is thai should yon're.
ooro tnat provision tosthe Governor
ne VIII never report il to the IegisIa'
su!e' because he will say, ..Yon d.
Drive q man there of his constitn-
tlonai rights" Now, let ns Iooi,
a. inns question. squarely in the face,
( us hrst provide the conditions.
ana then make the penalties e.
strong that the miners of this St,tN
%ho Will be presumed to know wboi
sne ID" requires of them in their No
Iuiiarly hazardous occupation- vii,
know what they lave to do. and e.
.ney 90 not do it. then they are
violating the law. Then they viii
Anow mat they will be dealt with
accordingly. Let tina same law on
crate against the operators. so If viii
lot be classed as class legislation
1ou VIII then have a situation in
his state hat will bring back to rs
Competent, conservative men.
Mr: chairman, l apologize for the
tenSth or time / have taken. 1 wan1
20 say that Brother Jackson-and
l am sorry to see that he is moi
here-made a point here that DO
aot feel like letting go unchallenrcd
de asked Mr.. Lewis if he thought
e was right for a miner to go and
arrive a hole into a keg OF powder
With a pick. Mr.. Lewis said. mo"
u course. he would say that. 1t re-
hllnos me OF the story that you all
remember, that the mothers used to
ell the children, and do yet:
Once there was a little how who
wouldn't say his
his mother sent him to bed, away
off upstairs.
His mother heard him boiler. and
his daddy heard him bawl;
And when they went to look for
him., he wasn't there at all.
Icy seeked him in the chimney
hue the cubby hole and press;
They seeked him in the cellar, and
everywhere, l guess.
But all they ever found of him was
mis- pants and roundabout;
And the goblings will get you. #
you don't watch out"
Maybe Mr.. jackson knows that the
pick was driven through a full can
of powder, but he couldn't prove it
by the man who used the pick. His
spirit a taken it's flight to, we
trust, a better world. He avs, gen.
tlemen, n now to think of this,
hat his information is hat these ac-
:idents are due to experienced min
ers. Governor Fleming was a great
Governor of this State-a great and
strong man. We all wish him well,
and want to see him get rich and
prosperous, but 1 say to you, Gov
ernor, that when you say it is due
to experienced miners, you have not
he proof, because the miners who
we're in that mine are dead and gone.
1t won't do. The papers say when
he disaster occurs, hat it is due to
inexperienced men, and that is your
trst Information the public has of
it.. l call your attention to this
thing, because the experienced Gov
ernor, the great lawyer, is not so
liable to make a mistake in his old
settled days, when he looks at the
things of life clearly and truly.
Let us all get together. as men
in eac others welfare, and formu-
late fair and reasonable demands, to
be presented to the Governor.
MIR. E. l.. JUDY:
l want to say in reply to n re-
mark made by the gentleman who
has just taken his "a that the
Commission has not yet considered,
nor tried to consider the matter of
the constitutionality of the laws that
it has primarily passed upon. II
does before it finally re-
ports to the Governor, to try to have.
through the advice of responsible
attorneys, the law in proper shape,
but l would say this: That the pro-
vision that he expressly objects to is
already in our present law, section
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