The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-11-17

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Federal
Judge A. B. Anderson Of Indianapolis
has issued another and more astound-
ing injunction against the United
Mine Workers of America.
In 1919 an injunction issued by him
made the issue Of strike orders by the
union chiefs a criminal offense. Pres.
ident Lewis and other leaders have
had hard road since that time be-
cause they did not risk going to Jail
to defend the miners liberties as they
see things.
Now Anderson forbids efforts to
unionize the miners of West Virginia
on the ground that such organizing
would create a monopoly in the soft
coal industry and as such be illegal
under the Sherman antitrust act and
he forbids further use of the check
off system of dues collecting. Under
this plan the accountant for the COM
pany gets a permit from the union
members to keep his dues out of his
pay each week and forwards them to
the union headquarters. This plan
saves the heavy expense of individu-
al dues collecting.
Union headquarters have wired To-
cal leaders as follows:
"Any abrogation or setting aside OF
any part or section Of this agreement
(between employers and employees),
including the section providing for
the checking off of dues and assess
ments cannot be regarded as other
than a violation of the agreement and
should be treated accordingly by the
district officers and local unions"
The servile Anderson's misinterpre-
tation of the law and the general sit
uation would indicate that the coal
trust Is anxious to goad miners into a
strike as a good excuse for coal scar
city and higher prices.
The we'll known conservatism Of the
mine union leaders might be taken as
reason for thinking strike would not
occur, but they have compromised so
much to avoid strikes in the last 8
years that they nay feel they cannot
retain their power without a bold
stand on the present issue.
. That part Of the injunction forbid
ding organization is Of vital impor-
lance to all organizations of common
people in the United States because,
II it stands, no organization can be in
dependent Of big business dictation
without being declared an illegal
monopoly.
! $4,000, 900 ROAD AID.
, The good roads bill appropriating
$75,o0O,OOO for federal aid to states
has passed both houses and now
awaits the expected approval of the
president. IS
The recent unemployment recon-
nended that public bodies every
where do as much public work as pos
sible to relieve the situation, and it is
expected that most of the states WIN
heed the advice. Minnesota will re.
ceive $2,130,00O of the amount.
| It was most significant that the ur-
employment conference, hand picked
to avoid so.called radical views stress
ed and urged socialistic remedy
more public work to give employment.
Lending $5O0,O00,000 to the rail-
roads from the public treasury, anoth-
er act of paternalism, or near social
ism, was also advised, perhaps with
more thought of railroad securities
than of the poor unemployed.
WATSON SPRINGS SENSATION.
! Senator Watson Of Georgia has
created a sensation by charging on
the floor of the senate that American
soldiers were hung in France without
trial. ~,
T. When immediate proof was de-
manded> by Senator Wadsworth of the
Military Affairs committee, Watson re-
fused on the ground that the military
affairs committee was biased and that
it would be dangerous to his witnesses
to testify. ,z% : ~ 8 Il. II ~
~ mean every word have said,"
declared Watson, "and ! did not over
paint the picture. / have photo
graph of the gallows upon which
white soldiers were hanged, and I can
produce witnesses who saw it II it is
safe for them to appear. ~. r
"A picture OF white men nanged
like dogs. L: can produce men, il it
were safe, who saw men shot without
trial. cannot compel men to come
to this undertain danger -S.-~2.sas%s
: Senator Watson also declared that
there was vast amount Of nefficiency
whereby food was piled up in some
places to waste and in other places
our men suffered from starvation and
were even left to die on the road.
Senator Lenroot rushed to the aid Of
Wadsworth in styling the charges as
monstrous and utterly aside from the
truth. But another committee has
been appointed to Investigate.
While the facts which Senator Wat
son declares he has are yet to be
produced, it is noteworthy that the
military clique showed the same right
eous indignation when few bold spir.
its brought out the charges of inhuman
treatment. General Ansen was reduc-
ed in. rank for his courage on behalf
OF the private soldiers; yet the "hard
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