Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-11-13

held in all lower courts in its conten.
ton.
From the standpoint of the government
the miners themselves are not absolved
from further obedience to the courts
injunction through withdrawal of the
strike order.
Thirty-one officials of the organization
were served with copies of the temporary
restraining order issued October 81. re-
turnable November 20 and about 81 others
were served during a session of the con-
ference yesterday
MINERS HAVE AMERICAN SPIRIT
Patriotic devotion To the government
and American ideals and institutions
caused the United Mine Workers Of
America to comply with the order of the
United States court to withdraw the
/ strike order. according to a. statement
made tonight by Ellis Searles editor Of
| the United Mine Workers Journal. The
| statement follows:
| when the officials of the United Mine
| Workers Of America announced that
! they would comply with the order Of the
| United States court and obey its man
date, they simply followed the historic
! policy of tho union of patriotic devotion
| to the government and American ideals
and institutions The United Mine Work
ers will not fight the government. 1t
| is their government just as it is the gov
eminent of every other citizen. It is
their government Just as it is the gov
eminent of the coal operators
80 far as their dispute with the coal
operators is concerned. the miners con-
tended all along and still contend that
! their cause Is just and that they are en-
titled to higher wages and better working
conditions. So long as it was d contro-
versy between the miners and the opera
tors 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 Americans
who believe in law and order and who
always have insisted on lawful and or
derby methods of procedure
There is nothing new in this attitud,
of the coal miners In every instanc,
where Americanism was needed, in every
emergency where American citizens haC
10 come to the aid Of their country, III,
coal miners of America have led tn.
way.
Eighty thousand members of tn
United Mine Workers Of America entered
the military service in the world war an,
more than three thousand gave their live
in that struggle. The United Mine Work
ers and it's members bought more thar
S10,0O,000 worth of Liberty bonds out o
their small earnings They contribute,
! hundreds of thousands Of dollars to tn
Red Cross, the Salvation Army, tn
i. Knights of Columbus the Y. NJ. c. A., an,
every other war relief fund The nation
asked the coal miners for maximum
output of coal during the war and the,
produced more coal than ever before il
: the history of the world-the coal tina
won the war for liberty and American
r ideals.
THE coal miners believe in observanc
t Of the law of the land. When their gov
! eminent speaks they obey, regardless o
t personal sacrifices Naturally. then, whe,
the government told them TO call off tn
l strike they responded periodically an
/ loyalty
Now what will the operators do?''