The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-12-01
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By C. T. RAWALT

In the coal strike pending we regard it GER
tain that the coal companies will win not because they
ought but because they have prepared the ground with
great for the past four and have
ated conditions that compes the crop they planted to
fruit in just such wages they fit to pay
They are cutting wages practically onethird, 300
Their talk of passing the saving the people who buy
coal is rot 1t will be done with the possible excep
tion of the Pueblo steel plant which may get its coal
little cheaper.
while are considering these matters cogitate
little the state of the coal miner Who is there in
other walks of life that contemplate of
his income one-thrd except with actual horror?
Remember that the coal miner does not scarcely
single get in than half time employment
At this moment with the strike on, coal
miners working and sometimes three days week
only In mine with which the management has taken
into their confidence, miners average about $3.50 per
day Six days work would make these very prosper
Gus Two days work makes them hustle barely exist.
Shortage of orders creates this condition and back in
and other middle states the people burning
because it is cheaperhan COAL thus reducing
still and more.
Some of readers will recall the strike during
the war, when the men demanded five day week a
six hour day. and lot of hafbak declamed
against the outrageous demands of the miners But if the
public had understood that the miners demanding
longer hours and days they were getting in
stead of less the purbnd public would viewed the
contest differently but the papers, controlled by the
poyers, misIead the public the decent sheets
could not spread the actual truth in time defeat the
grafters.
This should have taught labor severe lesson So
should this strike should the railroad strike which
coming off in the future, but will it?
Last year very considerable number of the miners
now on strike voted for shoup against who
then and sympathzes with labor every walk of
life Railroad in yards still think Mr.
ing ideal president yet under his orders his depart
ment of Justice ready to Jail you if the late
ened strike had been pulled off. he will Jail lot of
in 1928 when you forced STRIKE you
Why is it that you that your political
tions lead directly to undoing? I not ad-
visng to vote for any certain party there was
one could whoeheartedly talk but not at
present Last year the democrats offered you good man
for Governor and elected tub of who thinks
the rises and sets in the elevation a military
oligarchy and we all taxed to pay for it
1t is only by comparing the present with the past
that we obtain intelligence to meet the future
But, you say, how decide how and whom to
vote for? Am to follow you and to be lead
astray? Most certainly not Observe what your enemy
the class that crucies you doing the other
way 1t is certain rule for doing the right thing Your
prosecutors all yode against socaed
But they vote with and for their Recall if YOU cap
does not them 1t is which in
is criminal that constitutes the highest virtue in
them.
year hence you will have another chance to vote
The results will show whether you yet
point where you worthy of the franchise
There is i'll which the producing and labornp
class correct in this country by lawful
means The sovereign ballot yours extent of S5 60
of the population unhorse your enemy destroy
your despoiler If you do that weapon ntelli-
gently set of congenal idiots born to be the
tools and servants of those who have brains.
Keeping the home fires burning the easy prop
osition it once thanks to the profteer who
doesn't know that the is over-Labor Wash, D. c.