New Britain herald., 1919-11-19
WITH THE MINERS


 &1klng coal miners. the operators and #el Administrator Garfield being td as this is written the United &stes is about due to face what is Mnnd to prove the greatest economic back in it's career. Despite the Nernment injunction, despite the fer of the union heads the miners @ not returning to their jobs and &pduction is not as great as it was &nediately after the strike was Fled. They are not acting as unit & their refusal to go back, the indi- # uals are simply staying at home, Y bring unit action, and waiting, so is said, until some agreement is ched between the contendinS fac ns and q wage and time scale is
 This will presumably have to Eord with what the miners first de- Ended or the same conditions as Nv obtain will be in effect the hers will still refuse to go to work, individuals, not as unions.
 There is hard feeling between the orators and the miners, between 8 miners and the Departm ent of Ftice and between the operators and
 Secretary of Labor, all of which \ ms to invite disaster in any at ant af reconciliation rTbo r,,,hlic v assume that the owners and their ployes are both playing the role & dos in the manager, both not only &ing to get everything for them es but trying to harm the other Tow. We may readily imagine how N operators have little patience with
 miners for their violation of a tract which undeniably existed calling off of the strike by legal thods.. is naturally chalked up inst the operators by the miners their ill humor is also under ndable, though it may not be sup ted. But the two must get to- her, that is all. Their differences the acme of pettiness when one es into account the far reaching sequences of the refusal to agree. [ is. time that the government Xpped in and ran the mines, though is not apparent how it is to get ults. There are none forthcoming & other way, however, so that there hot great deal to lose. The pub demands coal for it's factories, in CT that it may have jobs, for it's mes, that it may not freeze, for it's lroads, that it may receive supplies &m ether points, for it's public utili- s that may have light and power. ere arc over one hundred million bplc that are interested, vitally, in bat enough, their need overwhelm- the mines will be run-som chow fe government will be aided in the < to run them, labor in the per-
 of the coal miner, will not be q to stage the holdup that may template.
 We do not believe that the miners receive, with any great misgiv- IS, the news that the government ito run the mines, in fact, we are # hyinced that they will welcome the Rnge as a measure of retaliation ainst their former bosses if nothing c But, in case the public does ert itself through official channels fuliar situations at this particular be which are not always in evidence en the government is in control ley will find that the people are
 in a friendly mood with them lt the enforced government owner ID, or receivership, will be regarded blow to American traditions ane 1t the men who enforced it vii
 treated accordingly. The usua bftness" will not be prepared fo1
 miner in this job. They will dt air work and then apply for aid.
 When the word came that the ners were not to consider them ves greater than the governmep
 n the convention which met nea1
 termination of the time allowed
 the expiration of the injunction
 declaration that the strike was of s met with q cry of relief and th &ople mentally chalked up goot rk for the miners. However, tn,
 to resume work was merely empt, rds There was no faith in it Fre has been no action on it oken pledges are again in evidence c mark is erased. And it will b