Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-11-21
MINERS OBEY THE
COURT MANDATE
PUT PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY
TO GOVERNMENT ABOVE
PERSONAL INTERESTS.
ARE LOYAL NOW, AS ALWAYS
secretary Of Labor Wilson Has Called
Meeting to Discuss Settlement of
Wage and Other Questions
Involved.

Indianapolis, Ind.-The way for the
final adjustment OF the controversy be-
tween the bituminous coal operators
and the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, which resulted in strike of 42o,-
600 union miners and action by the
government in the federal court, ap-
pear in sight.
While the representatives of the
miners, who earlier in the day, after
II hours discussion, had agreed 20
comply with the Mandate OF United
States District Judge A. B. Anderson
and mailed an order resembling the
strike, were discussing the future pol
icy of the organization, kilograms were
received from w. b. Wilson, secretary
of the Department of Labor and Thos.
#. Brewster, chairman OF the operators
scale committee, by John L. Lewis, act
ing president of the miners, inviting
the miners representatives into con-
ference.
Mr.. Lewis, on behalf Of the mine
workers, accepted the invitation of
Secretary Wilson to meet the bitumi-
nous operators of the country in
Washington. and replied to Mr.. Brew
ster, who requested meeting OF the
central competitive scale committee
with the operators of the district in
Washington. ito negotiate a contract
to be in force upon the termination OF
the contract now in effect" that the
miners already had accepted the invi-
tation of Mr.. Wilson. Copies of the
miners kilograms to Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Brewster were not available, but
their contents were made public.
Patriotic devotion to the govern
ment and American ideals and insti-
tuticn caused the United Mine Work.
ers of America to comply with the
order of the United States court to
withdraw the strike order, according
editor of the United Mine Workers
to statement made by Ellis Searles,
when the officials CT The United
Mine Workers of America announced
that they would comply with the or
der of the United States court and
obey its mandate, they simply followed
the historic policy of the union of
patriotic devotion to the government
and American ideals and institutions.
The United Mine Workers will not
fight the government 1t is their gov
ernment, just as it is the government
of every other citizen.
so far as their dispute with the
coal operators is concerned the min.
ers contended all along, and still con.
tend, that their cause is just, and that
they are entitled to higher wags and
better working conditions. So long
as it was a controversy between the
miners and the operators, the miners
were determined to wage their battle
for the things which they believed
then and now they we're entitled to.
But when the government entered
the case and proceeded to make a
fight against the miners, the entire
situation was changed. They felt that
the government was wrong in taking
this position, and they contested in
the courts the right of the government
to do so. But the court ruled against
them and laid down the law, and the
miners accepted the mandate of the
court because they are good Ameri-
cans who believe in law and order and
who have always insisted on lawful
and orderly methods of procedure.