The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-04-10
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ever the next move OF officers Of dis
trict -. United Mine workers may be.
II viii be directed toward forcing
Governor Henry J Allen to make
good on his industrial court law he
has talked SO much about. or tu fail"
Alexander Howat. president OF the
district said. late last night in the
Crawford county Iuil
u do not know whether We shall
appeal this case tO the supreme
court" fo'vat said. THAT Is q mat
ter in which We viii bc guided by
our attorney mn n. Gallery.
There u another way 90 bring this
thing to a showdown. That other
way IN a strike of the miners of the
district.
THE workers Of kansas are not
going 10 submit to this law. II isn't
a law, It's an outrage"
Howat gave the following state
mcnt to ihe press;
"Our position now Il the same as
Il has been from the beginning since
the industrial court law was passed
at the instigation OF Governor Allen.
This law Is intended 90 enslayc the
working class OF this state and To
destroy orEanized labor and is in
tended to put the minc workers and
all other Cinsses ~ labor back where
an organization. The mine workers
uf district II we're compelled to
strike for -four years in order 10 COM
pei the coal operators in this state tu
recognize our rights to belong TO "a
labor organization The miners and
their Families suffered untold hard
ships to establish our organization
here. We we're fighting then for "a
/ principle AID We hoped that when the
A. HnffNI Stand md
proclaim TO the world that at last We
were free men Governor Henry Al
len and the Kansas Legislature" have
decided now 90 put us back whore We
were years Igo.
Governor Allen has decided that
our struggles OF the past amount tu
nothing aud that we ARE again Co ho
chained to our Jobs like pack of
I slaves IN this country. which ts called
free America. our attitude toward
/ tine industrial court law is like that
uf Mcndcl Phillips regarding IN"
fugitive slave law before the CiVil
war, when % slave escaped from
his master To- a free state he could be-
taken back 10 hia master and chained
I TO his job. They said thar Was the
/ pw at that time and they say the in
dustrIHl court law ts law aH this
time. hut any law that makes slaves
~ honest wurkmcn should bv tram
I Piled under the frct at the people and
receive mo- more consideration al the
hands of the men who are affected
Ly % than they received at the hands
ot those who pHsscd b."
= am determined that the mine
workers OF this district shall never
submit tu this form of slavery which
b. provided for in the court Of iu-
dustfinl relation. We have committed
no crime of any kind. We are put iu
Inu merely because We refuse To tell
three corporation lawyers something
about mining business boo this state.
These three men were appointed 10y
Governor Allen. the slave driver:
Governor Allen the politician; the
Would-bc destroyer 81 urguuizcd Ia
Tor and the opprvssur of human
rights
The fight is ON and bclic,, the
time b. near at hand when tho toiliug
musscs OF the country will take the
law into their own hands and refuse
to continue to submit as they have
boz tho past To- the uutrugcs that have
hvou Imposed on them by the large
employers of labor aud the lcgisla'
tive bodies Of thh country We sut-
fcrrd under the iron heel Of uppros
sion tor many years The wurklnH
I classes. however, are beginning IA
understand that 10 is in their hands
20 right the wrongs tFNt have been
imposed upon them in the past and
I believe at the next general election
thar they viii demonstrate that fact
Whatever move b. made towards oui
freedom. I don't know hs it is en-
tuclN iu the hands OF our attorney
"Wc expect 10 remain IN lnu in
definitely from present indications
MI Huwat declared he and hti
a--oclatcs did not question the con
stitutiunalitv OF the industrial rclu'
uuus court act.
we declare it is slavery b,
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