The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-19
KEY EXPOSES COAL TRUST WITH
COPY OF OPERATORS AGREEMENT
pocor+ Co1orado Scene Would Have Been
i'e'e'1 Enacted in Oklahoma if it Had Not
Been for Busby's Refusal toSlgn
Open Shop" Agreement.

tho aereement" and that should
vacancy occur on the committee II ls
10 be filled by appointment Oh Sc
enty-dve per cent Of the OUTPUT tol, m
DaGa NJ the operators represented on
SAID Exhibit (EXhibit Is SUP
posed TO be a list of the members oI
the Southwestern Coal Operators AS
Section XII oblgates the operator
IN class to pay the conhIttee
for the benefits of operators IN m cidI bIs
nutnnt tonnage. as and for liquidated
Gsmages" By reason of a breach oil
this agreement. ~, ,..id. Cor
Sections XIII and XIV pro oatte lav
he terminated and stipulates that IL
shall not be necessary that the opt
Stors each sign the same copy, nus
that they may sign of his aeree-.
T+nt signed by any one or more a.
he parties shall be held and consul "
sTed as constituting one agteettuu.
ask Mr. W. F. Beatty, the Ioopy
60 Snd Spokesman of the opera iors
- ,Sis contract was not presented az
H. 'onerators' Kansas City conven-
ton in 1910. In his three Ibon1an r1,orria'o
Of purchased space in the QKla5iiGiiii l1aoiiticai
s5vertising, he wastes tears upoi,
the cause of the mine laoorer. -
demand Of him to tell ne tne PTop name
80 - oIa Of the first to be attached
70 this agreement viii NJ. ".
Puterhaugh. who heads the HcAIsaiissI
Fuel Company, ar ana 1osSdr VINO &SseTws-CapitaI SsT
- Tune o. 1914 10 deny what ! salI
about the coal trust and TO cna
me with demagogery' deny una ,a5
"radad this committee If hNe 'Iit
operated and practically owned 10
lie consideration of one dollar ,eVery
mine in the oklahoma coal ne,u
ask both OF them II they VII VII md
! their hirelings are sending orodIcdsN
over the state the name OF tIe a.
| tornev who drew this contract -
| tbA name OF the coal operators com
y,t,,ae Who employed him 70 draft II;
7 have not time to take up al OF
the things that I know ABOUT tne 1t;
| coal trust in one speech. am s'iiPat ~
| giving lust a few salient points Ihal
! The people OF the state may uhder,
| stand why the coal operators anu
| newspapers that they cohtrol ,arg
! fChting because had the te,itstni
TO charge that a coal trust "a
| 7 want the people of the state 70
| know their methods as revealed ~
! this Kansas City agreement: l VIZ "i,is
! tbfs committee unlimited power 70
employ guards and hirelings 70 en-
force the open shop .prop0siun9Pan ~ ~
Oklahoma. ! want wan tba the better PePp'i iudg.
ment and sterling manhood or the
| late William G. Busby the scene ~
| Colorado that has appalled, the h{Il1n hatloi
might have been enacted in Oklaho-
II has not been my intention to de-
vote any more attention to the coai
mine situation in Oklahoma than
many other propositions that are are
| equally important in so far as the
i attitude OF the next attorney general
Il am not making a one-idead cam
I naiCn and primarily 1 am guarantee
ing II elected o, to enforce or essry lam IN
60 FAR as IL is within the province
the attorney genfbTat tbat an PaGen5Hei 6eponen;
80 nine who presumes to be running
on one-idead platform, M spf0Tcs quotes ,bs nbe
iaus IN "safe and sane" manner.
y inasmuch as he claims however tna, ,,t
!, vote for him, It is but natural TO
infer that he guarantees to, enforce
the law in an unsafe and insane
manner" which is probably true as
far as the ordinary judgment Of the
: man goes.