The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-07-18
KEY EXPOSES COAL TRUST WITH
COPY OF OPERATORS AGREEMENT
Recent Colorado Scene Would Have Been
- Enaeted in Oklahoma if it Had Not
Is Been for Busby s Refusal to Sign
Open Shop Agreement.

| the agreement" and that should a
| vacancy occur on the committee 1t is
70 be filled by appointment of sew
| anty-ive per cent OF the output tom
| mage OF the operators represented on
| said Exhibit A exhibit A is sup
posed to be a list of the members of
the Southwestern Coal Operators AS
Section XII obligates the operator
class ,sBee to the
i5output tonnage, as and for liquidated
| damages" by reason of a breach of
Ithis agreement.
! Sections XIII and XIV provide for
ia means by which this contract may
| be terminated and stipulates that II
shall not be necessary that the op-
rators each sign the same copy, but
that they may sign separate copeis
"and that all copies of this agree
ment signed by any one or more OF
the parties shall be held and consid,-.
cred as constituting one agreement.
l ask Mr.. W. e. Beatty. the lobby
ist and spokesman of the operators,
II this contract was not presented at
the operators Kansas City conven-
tion in 1910. In his three columns
Of purchased space in the Qklahoma.nl
of June 90 1914. marked political
advertising, he wastes tears upon
the cause. of the mine lanorer.
demand of him to tell the people OF
this state whether or not his name
was one of the first to be attached
to this agreement. VIII Mr. ]. Q.
Puterbaugh, who heads the McAlester
Fuel Company. and who used half
page in the McAlester News-C Capital
on June 49, 1914 70 deny what ] said
about the coal trust and to charge
me with dema gogery, deny that lac
headed this committee NJ i've fnat
operated and practically owned for
the consideration Of one dollar every
mine in the Oklahoma coal feldi L
ask both OF them II they Will in.
clude in the literature that they ana
their hirelings are sending broadcast
over the state the name Of the at,
the name OF the coal operators COM
mittee who employed him to draft IL
| have not time TO take UP all OF
the things that I know about the
coal trust in one speech. ! am simply
giving Just a few salient points that
the people OF the state may under.
newspapers that they control are
fghting because I had the temerisy
to charge that a coal trust existed.
! want the people of the state to
this Kansas City agreement. want
the people to know that they give
this committee unlimited power to
employ guards and hireiings &c en-
force the open shop proposition IN
Oklahoma. want the people to
know that but for the better judg-
late William G. Busby the scene in
Colorado that has appalled, the nation
might have been enacted in Oklaho-
ma In 1910
II has not been my Intention to de-
vote any more attention to the coal
mine situation in Oklahoma than
many other propositions that are
equally important in so far as the
attitude of the next attorney general
is concerned.
] am not making a one-ldead cam
paign. and primarily ! am guarantee
ing II elected to enforce every law
on the statute books Of Oklahoma In
so far as II is within the province
Of the attorney general Parentheti-
cally I might say that an opponent
Of mine. who prcsumes 10 be running
on a one-idead platform, quotes me
as saying that | mean TO enforce the
laws In safe and sane manner
Inasmuch as he claims however, that
those opposed TO my policy should
vote for him. II is but natural 10
infer that he guarantees TO enforce
the law IN an unsafe and insane
manner" which is probably true 8
far as the ordinary Judgment Of the
man goes.
gertisement.)