Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-24

the labor unions must move forward step
by step with never a step backward
HIS LIFE PLEDGED
TO LABOR MOVEMENT.
80 long as [ live J intend to give to
! the labor movement whatever service and
whatever experience the labor movement
has given me"
He declared that experience gained in
the labor movement is not the private
property of the men obtaining it, but of
the labor movement. He said these men
are married to the labor movement and
they cannot be divorced from it,"
We are now confronted with a drive
for the open shop or what some others
blasphemQusly designate as the American
plan he said.
He called attention to the injunction
suit just filed In the Federal Court
against the miners union as an example
of such activities. He said the advocates
of the open shop say they wish to pro
tect the rights OF the working man.
"Whea did You ever find that the slave
owner would make sacrifices to pro
tect his slaves - he demanded "Whence
comes the solicitude for the toiling
masses? They know better and so do
the American people know better. DO
the open shop workers when they have
grievances go TO the Chamber Of Com
merce or the Board of Trade No, they
come to the labor unions"
NOT WELL TO DRIVE
BARGAIN TOO HARD.
lie said it is well to recall to mind
! that the pendulum does not always
swing one way and that 1t is not well
20 drive the bargain too hard.
He said it had been intimated to him
that the mine operators are trying to
Z brin al rfl-
may be thrown on the miners lie adj
/ vised to resist a reduction Of wages by
every means at hand
/ 1T is better TO resist and lose than
/ not TO resist at all" he said
There Is nothing more absurd than
/ the idea that men can be set to work by
cutting wages The cutting Of wages cur
/ tails Luyiug.
! He upheld President Lewis in his stand
/ on the West Virginia trouble
Peace can not be- maintained at the
! point Of the bayonct Of the muzzle of d
/ gun be said
"A Gar Of Russia once said that such
/ a place was maintained at Warsaw, but
that place did not continue to exist"
He said the mine operators must come
to an understanding Of their place IN
America and that their system must be
| driven out He advocated the settlement
Of the trouble through conference
Il believe, supplementary to sending
/ the Army into that region, a plan should
! be put in effect to settle the difficulties"
| he said. Bear this in mind. that his
tory shows that no great principle has
ever been put into practice unless 1t was
! sanctifed with blood. The memory Of
| Hatfield and Charles Will stimulate and
! accentuste the spirit of Americanlsm
among the miners Of West Virginia"
He than went back to the application
/ for injunction and said that he doubted
whether under the terms OF the appica-
| ton the miners would be permitted To
| breathe.
! The fight in the convention between
Alexander Howat president of the Kansas
miners and leader of the radical element,
and John / Lewis, international presi-
dent, and the other members of the ad-
ministration and their friends was ex-
pected to continue this afternoon.
The contest which had been predicted
for some time. opened when the committee
on officers reports reported favorably on
the section Of the report Of President
Lewis in which he demanded that the
striking Kansas miners go back to work
and condemned what he termed a viola
/ ton Of contract on the part of Mr.. Howat.
A storm Immediately broke loose and Mr..
! Howat was given the floor
He then explained that at the
/ Dean Mire one of the properties in
tolyed, attempt was made to use
machinery in place of the common labor.
and that the common labor was laid off
/ He cOrtended there was no strike at that
mine. He said that all the miners are
asking as a condition to returning to
work is that the same conditions pre-
vail rs have prevailed in the past
| The difficulties continued and the OPP
orators appealed to the international
| union, as they always do The interim
| tional union sent District Board Mem
! bers Andrew Steele of Missouri and VIII
! liam Dalrymple of Oklahoma to Kansas,
and they agreed to meet the operators
! The miners were given no consideration.
| The board member listened - the OPP
orators and not the miners"
Mr.. HOwat said ne could not take the
matter up according to contract because
the mine superintendent refused to talk