The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1913-07-04
Investigation Discloses The Fact, That Facts
Have Been Grossly Misrepresented--Ma-
jority Of Miners Claim to Tired Of Agi-
tAtators And Want to Work
Actual Ss'ts Show That Miner Earning More Money Today Than
Ever Before-Recea Visit Of Senatorial Committee Had
Much 10 do With Extended D:-ss.isf.et;o.

The much dreaded and long talked o
strike" has I--en call off, snd Thousand,
thon<ani- of men, Whose fsmilie.
would have suffered by thu misguided
energies Of a special few, can now bask
IN the sunlight of the fact, that each pay
day with bring to them the rain bow ri
promise and the heinous howl of the vol
OF poverty and want will not be heard al
the door. Perhaps the most convincing
I 4 re about this Transaction is that the
heats Of the Union saw that To call out
the nien for the sake Of the ambitions oi
. lew dissruntlesi wonld work hardshir
upon thousands of Innocent persou- and
they used the sense and wise judegas.ni
of men of sound wisdom and adjusted
the affair without any OF the impending
trouble
The Governor OF the state and many
other big hearted men, Interested i'm q
public way have labored night and day
to bring about this result, for they fore
saw the great amount of needless suffer
ing it would incur.
Much # this trouble has been brought
about by the late senatorial investigation
held in Charleston, because men from
outside the state who were paid the price
to invade its borders and who really did
not have the Interest OF the miner at
heart, more than from the viewpoint OF
dollars and cents, gave the miner to un-
derstand that the United States govern
ment Was supporting them in anything
which they could cause to be brought
about. IL is high time that the miner
should be acquainted with the truth aud
not made the tool Of men and corpora
tions on the an,sids, ,of tbe stsfe. oi West
VirRsnis, xho have nos The Interest of
the state ct heart, but rather, who desire
to destroy its industry in order that they
may produce more coal In their own state
tOf THE, We shall have more to say later }
We have yet 70 approach an operator
who is oppoeed to unions, or orgonized
labor, as far as unions ann organized la
Dor are concerned. On the other hand,
We have heard the expressiod from
vast majority that they are good things
The only contention is, as Governor Hat
field has put il, and well PIT il, that they
go about what they want according to
law and order and to use his exact words,
do not break the laws of man and God" ."
Ii is conceded that every man, the miner
included, should have every dollar that
il IL possible for him To legitimately and
honestly earn IL is his by right OF his
toll and labor. While this is true, it be-
hooves him 10 take into consideration
the safety and welfare OF those who are
dependant upon him a3d the debt he
owes the community. There is not q
better class Of citizens than the miner
anywhere Certainly there IL not a class
that doe more to bring prosperity to our
state, and when you come To consider
the fact that a man is earning from one
hundred To one hundred and fifty dollars
and upward per month, you must con-
sider that TACT that that man il the re-
cipient OF q salary equal To and greater
than the general run Of men earn. Now
Il conditions are not all they ought TO be,
they can be eorrected and should be cor
rected and they will be corrected when
applied for in an orderly and systematic
way. The most serious objection We
have in this matter y the fact that We
are able 20 adjust our own differences in
this state and do not need to go outside
the state 10 get support in thct direction.
The miner l. a. intelligent a. any Other
class Of working men end all he want.
and all that he needs j. ~ have the fact.
laid before him and he can conclude 10,
himssI and make hIs own Deductions
Now IL y desired just for the sake of IN,
Own enlightenment, that every miner
read the following for IL Represents IN.
other side Of the Question, other than
what the sgitator has leen espousing, and
when the miner has read thee thing h.
viii think fos himself. lie will think a
his family. and certainly he will - the
Inconsistency Of making q change befor,
he knows he can gee something better.