The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-20
Southern Non-Union
Coal Saving Nation

| NOQ-unlOn ldUOT Ill SOCluGIu COdl
fields is saving the nation from coal
famine, which union miners are seek
ing to create. Without this non
union production we would have been
forced to shut down many of our in
dustries, and possibly some of our
railroads. This would have brought
stagnation to the country.
These non-union coal mines are
producing steadily, day in and day
out, and their product is being push
ed far afield into territories in which
these Goals had never before had any
regular market, but from which by
reason of their superior quality they
will never be driven.
AS the south with it's output of SO
per cent. of sulphur and it's cotton
production made possible our success
| in the European WARRIOR without
these two products, it would have
been impossible for us to wage war
in Europe-so southern coal is now
saving the nation industrially, and
winning the battle for independent
or non-union, labor as against the
domineering policy of rule or ruin
with which union labor seeks to con-
troll the country.
Union miners have for years strug-
gled to force their organization into
West Virginia and sometimes have
been almost as despotic and lawless
as were the murderous union miners
of Illinois. They have murdered
without compunction innocent non
union miners. They have defied the
laws of the state and of the nation,
led by unscrupulous agitators hoping
to break down non-union mining op-
operations in West Virginia, Ken
lucky and Alabama, and thus give to
union miners an absolute domina-
tion over the entire industry.
The whole nation has cause to be
thankful for the sturdy independence
of the non-union coal miners of the
south, and for the backbone and
stamina of the coal operators Of these
states who have stood for independ-
ence in mining operations regardless
of threats of death and regardless OF
the denunciation heaped upon them
| by many newspapers and agitators
| who have sided with union labor
without knowing anything of it's in
fuence for evil.
| General Grant more than forty
years ago said to his son Jesse, rs
| reported to us a year ago by the lat
ter, that he regarded the rush of
| foreign immigration to America as
so serious danger that he thought
the time would come when the Anglo
| Saxonism of the south alone could
| save this country from destruction
by the alien element. The indescrib-
ably horrible conditions which have
| prevailed in Illinois where men and
women and children joined gleefully
| in gloating over the death of dozens
| of non-union miners, murdered IN
| cold blood, murdered as fiendishly as
ever the savage Indians in olden
days killed their victims, were
brought about by the union coal labor
element composed largely Of the low
er classes of aliens led by unscrupul-
GUS radicalism. We can readily COM
prehend that if this country is to be
saved from destruction it must be
| by other sections and the south
standing together in the fight, re-
| gardless of personal consequences or
| personal danger, for the right OF
| every man to work untrammeled by
| the chains of union laborism. We
| have brought in the lower class of
| foreign immigrants more rapidly
than they could be assimilated and
Americanized and that is why they
are a danger to our nation at pres
ent.
The managers of every railroad
and every industrial enterprise in the
country using coal, and all people
| who are dependent upon the opera
tion of their enterprises, may we'll
give praise to the southern non-union
miners, and to the southern coal op-
orators who, having fought the good
fight for, Independent labor, are sav-
ing the country from ruin.-Manu-
facturers Record.