Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-02-25


will be one Of the largesti break
downs that this grand old United
States ever had. Bat if we, as loyal
citizens will get busy with our coil
cans IN the way of stored away
cash. and use our influence to keep
the grand old wagon running at ia
full speed. there will be prosperity.
and everybody will prosper.
Dear fe.low-citizen, did YOU know
that every financial hound" over
the country, is crying out "opcn
shop? Just think for one moment
how this will effect the industrial
interest Of more than so million Gin
dustrlal workers. Mill, mine, farm.
factory, foundry, and forge. These
men and women have the right to
be protected industrially under our
american flag. We, the industrial
workers of this grand old domain,
demanI that we be given square
ueai. Ihere is not one true American
IN all this grand army of the In
dustral Workers, that asks for NOR,
imam what is right. and square with
true American principals. In this
grand army, of the industrial work.
ers, you, or any other reader of this
article. will find nothing wrong with
what they ask for, and upon close
examination you will find true Amer
ican principles dwelling in each
neart. If we are to place burdens and
taxes on our industrial workers. SO
'haC thcy cannot prosper, then where
are we to get our future manhood
IRON! There is over half n million
oil anthracite and bituminous coal
miners" in the United States; these
men are patriotic coal miners. They
should he treated as loyal citizens.
ana be given their freedom and lib,
critics. Some people would cndeavor
10 make you believe, that these pat
Tiotic coal miners, are nothing but
brute beast" and have not one
Scruple of self-respecting humanity.
10 70" remember back in l9l6-17,-
10 the poor unfortunate coal miner
was asked to do his bit, in Winning
inc world war: The patriotic miner
dii his bit, and showed that he WAS
not Stacker Mt all. He observed The
"whcatless. and meatlcss DAYS" he
purchased Liberty and Victory
Bonds" and War Saving Stamps. He
done his bit, and went over the top.
III our country was to get into war
again, what would you EXPECT this
same patriotic coal miner to do? Dc
you appreciate coal miner as a
gentleman of toll, OF do YOU look
upon him as dirty dog. All along
the Elkhorn and Tug River, i'm West
Virginia. and along the Clinch Val
lev in Virginia, will be found true
specimens of these patriotic coal
miners. These men, would have YOU
to know are far from being brute
beasts
II you are not friend to the in
dustrlal workers of the United
States-if it be that you do not love
America and the products of her
forge I'm "
If you live in country. where
you are not allowed the freedom of
tongue, or speech, pen or press, YOU
90 not live in America or the Unit
ca States, you live in hell Patrick
Henry Mt one time said, GIVE me
liberty or give me death" AS who
would want to live in land, where
they had no liberty? Open shop poI
lcies' is to crowd out all fellow SYM
pathy Tor any labor organization. Its
Poilcies rs. to put into action "brutal
force" 1t has been said, and it
suasion will do more to bring about
normal conditions of to-davs inhor
market. than all the "thurs~ he
tween here and Baltimore. ThupisN :, is
only feeder to another Civil War y
ii you are an employer of labor 7
would advise you to get rid of YOUR
thugs" as fast as you can; but if
you want to keep your "thups" Won
can reap what you sow. If YOU are
a true American and love America
De American-like. and treat Amer,
leans as Americans. But if Won arc
from h--,of course we all know what
To expect from the devil. Do Won
want to throw your own country in
open revolt. do you want to start
more hell than can he stopnedq IF
shop. ing o'e''
Wheh you pay twen;y dollars for
ton OF coal, do not think for one
moment that the patriotic coal min
er IS getting only about five per cent
OF the ninety-fve per cent. Big bus-
mess has got it in their hands that
they can run their mills. mines r,ce
tories, farms. foundries and Fore
with green foreign labor. The green
man IS only about one third efficient
ana II 1t costs one third and one half.
IL IS the buying public, that is WIN
VIII pay the BIZ. You will get DUAL.
ity, If it is Union Made. but if It is
made by 'scablabor. you get uuan.
tlty only. but pay the price, and be-
mar: believe that you are getting
quality only. The coal miner wants
u price that he can afford to feed
sloIne ana educate his family. A coal
IN h;l''er mas just as much right to give
ms boys college education, as we'll
f $500 aoeI0r or merchant, lawyer or
patriotic coal miner we have rot to
Keep him. and provide decentiv fop
him, and his family as he is an NOV ~'
ican. and has part in our povnrn
ment affairs. and he too rnst ho
recognized, and be given as GOOD q
snow as our American farmer.
M. PISTOL PETE.
Matcwan. w. Va.