The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1913-08-29
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Regime Of the

- come aud 20? And now the miner
since he and the operator are beginning
30 understand each other, have begun Z,
ask the question: What has become o
thai Committee? What did it do? VIVA
u IL going 10 dor and these question:
receive echoes for answer While ia,
yellow press Wa raving and rantinl
asout our state of affairs, Why did il No
ask the Committee % investigate every
thing connected Herewith Had II nav,
this investigation IL might have asrer
tanned that Senator Kern, Who Vas -
active, is q candidate for reelection L.
the Ssnat. in his owe state. Their. il 4
large LABOR vote i'm Indiana. perhaps thir
Trsnd stand play would strengthen him
in that particular, might further have A.
certain that Mr. Dets' coming with
Others wss a master stroke T. build up a
political organization fCr his party in this
state (for certainly the Socialist Party
has no stronger planks in il platform in
favor of Labor than the Republicans or
the Democrats) might have asa'ertainesl
that operators i'm the states of Indiana
Illinois, Ohio and Michigan were trying
10 put West Virginia coal in packet
IN order that they might lnonOpolize the
coal trade ON the Great Lake.: might
have ascertained that the Pennsylvania
Railroad system. togethet with the veal
thy coal barons in the East will not let
West Virginia coal through To Boston
and the sea board ON long haul over
their lines but make us take il down To-
to Norfolk, reload il and then lay itdown
In Boston and other eastern ports where
IL comes in competition with the Canal
an coal and the operator has % stand "a
loss Of the reload and pay the extra tran
sportstion rate, and the system does all
this 70 the West Virginia operator he
canse there are vast areas and Wide ace
rAges Of coal land assayed hut not opened
IN the eastern and southeastern part oi
Pennsylvania, which. if the West Nirgi-
MIA coal were shut out OF the market,
would be Immediately opened and mined
and laid down along the Atlanctic sea
board while We, the SECOND coal produ-
sing state ia the Union, paying even bet
ter wages than any other state under all
these hsndicaps, would lie I,ocketed with
millions awaiting the miners pick, but
unable ~ get our products 10 the market
Of the world might have a-certainei
that even now 10 lay our coal down ON
the shores Of the Great Lakes the opera
tor must abide by the freight rates ~
these states (they themselves Icing coal
producing states) $50 bit 10 fix and you
may rest assured that there il little IL
any charity in the rate fixed The L. :
COMMITTEES helped US none ~ We can 49,
Jet Ii 10 just as well t. draw the man
tie Of charity over the actions Of some of
il members and let sacred silence lie "A
monument to the same for all time To-
come. True some papere were caused u
be suspended in publication for a short |
while, bat it was not until after their CO. |
lumns had been thrown To the scurrulous |
attacks Of the Chief Executive and the |
general administration. and this. We are |
are advised, is what gave rise u the lie |
lief that the Socialist Party was dealing
md delving into the strike proposition
for political advancement. IL certainly
had that color In n recent publication,
in an article, il was said that ''GOvernor
Hatfield requested an interviews with MIR
Dsbs and later with the entire cammitts-e
The committee received the assurance
from the Governor that he Was in favor
Of unionisIn and would Use the power Of
his Office 70 protect the miner i'm his
rights" Now, in the somewhat long ago
late with her tickle fOibles fortunately
threw us in contact with the present Go
vernon and we came - know him pas-
singiy well and gathered much 81 hi-
ideas Of square deal u men and his hixh
regard for order and law. Governor
Hatfield may have requested an inter
veiw with Mr.. Dels. We would not for
one moment say he didn't, but somehow
Nc have q bunch that this was just "
The reverse As u his favoring unionism
We believe he said every word Of IL, b1i
vel wager our Eight hand against q gol.
den guinea that he qualified il by saying
"ss long a. they conform to the laws Of
God and man" and Ne further believe
thsf Mr.. Debs will 80 state In tbesane
article appeared the following: About
70 per cent of the miners are Socialists.
and they already at work ~ capture. not
only the County 81 Kanawha but the en-
tire Third Congressional District II
this - not an open acknowledgement and
confession that the Socialist party j. ~
ing the labor qne-tion and attempting D.
take advantage Of tbs Dissatisfaction that
rhey are able - crese among tie miners
- ard tssir Own political advancement.
then ne have never heard q confession
made. But your attention for a moment
10 tie statement that go per cent Of the
miners are Socialists. There are about
1000 miners in the state. 5000 are
native whites, between 2t,OOO and =. 90
are Foreigners and l5.VOO ColOred. Can
you conceive that ~ per cent Of the =. 20