Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-03-24

-. urged that the national go
- = tie first step in a fnndamef
49, Jared that 'the necessity of |
z.s.iT and human wastes Of priyat
~ gational convention of the Unit
~ Workers of America was
ezyszfulated for setting up the ma
ss..s Lotion research committee "tc
..-.4sfeT.n the miners policy OF ma
..zssI.zation from a vague aspiration
- lighting program.
ny ms call TO the public, the min
ers say. = -..,,a 81 .eonor,;c
- in4ustrial life in America is built
o. aa coal and the miners who dug
- The national wealth IN coal
vs.sh Is both a heritage from the
- and trust for the future, has
20 mismanaged and squandered by
80 kind of ingenious waste. 4.
The hunger for quick profits has
LIE is millions of tons beyond re-
r.gary under ground. The stream of
- coal for which the miners get
- -. than bare living, passes
.sr.,.yb the hands of endless specu-
- and middlemen, each of whom
- toll and adds to the price
Lefere II reaches the consumer.
efhe supply of coal to the market
a. ierkv because of bad management
o,j speculation, over-production al
,ornates with coal shortage, the con-
sgr,ar takes coal when il can get 1t
nd NAYS what he must; the miner is
inekg # ne gets 200 days work in
the year.
coal industry? They are three: A
steady supply of coal to the con,
sumer at reasonable cost, good
American life for the miners, the in
teligent protection of the interests
of future generations. The present
ownership and management of the
coal industry meets none OF these
tests.
aThe public's grievances are high
prices and irregular supply; the
miners grievances are low wages and
irreqularity of work, to say nothing
Of unnecessary accidents and need
lessly ck-breaking kinds of labor,
such as car pushing. Slowly the
feeling that has long been in the
minds of the miners is growing in the
mind of the public--that the coal in
dustry as now owned and operated is
a hopseless mess, basic public
utility run and ruined by a group OF
hnanciers interested only in private
profit and therefore inevitably care
less of the public as we'll as of the
living conditions and even the lives
of the miners.
THE grievances of the public arise
out of the same mess that spawns
the miners grievances. Now, Just
as the miners are turning their
angry rebellion into constructive
policy, responding to the experience
of human beings who dig coal, SO
our naturalization research commit
tee calls on the public to turn its
rebellion against waste and high
prices into a constructive program.
at is time for the consumers to
stop kicking and think out a plan.
Let our miners indictment of the
mismanagement of coal find loud echo
in the consumers indictment of the
cost of coal. The consumers are still
doing more kicking than thinking. To
give definiteness to their kick, we
offer them our committees first re-
port on The Mismanagement of
Coal We ask them to go further.
ave miners have a policy, the pol
icy of naturalization, which We be-
heve as good for the public as for
u.s. We ask the public to turn from
kicking and help us put our policy
through. But if the public still doubts,
if they are not yet ready to join US
on naturalization, as they are bound
sooner or later to do, then we ask
them to join with US now In the de-
mand for compulsory information on
coal through a national fact-finding,
publishing agency"