Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-01
T|E-UP COMPLETE
in ALL UNION AREAS
III EADE RS REPORT
Kentucky Workers Except
ed OH Orders to Comply
With Contracts.
GREAT WALKOUT GOES
INTO EFFECT QUIETLY
Sufficient Forces Left on Duty
TO Preserve Workings
From Damage.
WILL TOLERATE 40 VIOLENCE
Mine workers. Rcprcscntati,rs Warn
Rank nnd File Against
Overt Acts.
GREAT WALKOUT GOES
INTO EFFECT QUIETLY.
WILL TOLERATE w VIOLENCE
Wine workers. Representative, Warn
Hnnk nnd File NEain.t
overt Acts.
tBy Associated rrcss.l


INDIANAPOLIS. IND. March 5,.x
'-oa' production was stopped ,outsh5
BY tht union coal miners. WHO quit
their days work in the minessos
twenty states with the avowcd policy
OF remaining idle indefinitely in AN
effort to force the operators TO .ac-
ccpt the miners terms for new wage
Contracts. -+sss5
Officials at the headquarters here
ot the United Mine Workers .,nr
America declared that the susp Anston
would not only include 100000 work
ors. but also at least 100000 non
union men would join in the walk
out. No last-minute Instructions
were issued from headquarters. and
the only significant conference he,d
during the day by President john L..
Lewis was with I.onnic Jackson.
l:e$tdcnt of the Kentucky an;on d!s-
i:ic'. where 1000 union mon Wiz con-
tlaH. at work because theic contrac:
VITA operators has another yra- to
ran
Affects whole Country.
During tie day. Mr.. Lewis de-
clared that the Suspension of work
ny Kansas union miners would no.:
nc avcrtcd by the action Of the Kan
sas Industrial Court ordering ;hat
WACO scales Of the last two years hr
continued for thirty days. In Il for
NAL statement tonight. the union
chiei declared tho nation wide walk
out would affect Hundreds of ,hous-
ands OF citizens" not directly en-
gagged in the coal industry ana he
reiterated his charge that the opor.
ators had forced the strike unon the
miners"
In addition TO the Kentucky miners.
union men in Nova Scotia will re-
main At work. but those in the West
crh canadian provinces were cSpect-
cd TO Join the suspension. The con.
| ference over the Kentucky situation
was said by its participants 10 have
"ecn general review of the situa-
'ion there. with President Lewis ta,;
ing the position that the union must
ooeE It's contract with tho operators
Asserts Tic-Up Cnmpictc. ..
Numerous reports from the coal
h'Ids OF the country also reached
headGnarters. which Mr.. Lewis de-
ciared indicated complete t!c-upa ~
All union fields. These reports aiso
showed that $4,000 union men would
ne ieit IN the mines to protect the
property from damage, ana the only
tr"uhie between operators and Diner.
III 'h's connection was reported from
ashinston, where operators ware
sara TO DC objcctinE to paying the
wages provided for in the contracts
that expired at midnight.
Lewis Tssucs Statement,
MT Lewis formal statement regard
ing the suspension of work fol,ows
rue strike upon which the United
Nine workers OF America arc enter
ING is not question of small n,agnj-
tude' nor one 10 he lightly considered
ny the American people. II Is
frauEht with far-reaching come
auences and serious RESPONSIVENESS
as affecting public veal The witb.
drawal of in excess of 600 600 men
from the mines of the country. con.
sttutes serious problem. ssid.
from the inevitable coal short,r.,
which will ensue to the nrof, ~
coal operators and TO the dct-imen.
or the public. il will cause a ,,sI6-
cation OF industry throughout The
nation affecting hundreds of -tbon-
sands of citizens In other walks os
life.
rms IS deplorable condition and
constitutes sad commentary upon
tnc reia tionships OF employer and en-.
pioyc in the American industry.
Every thoughtful man recoynizes
ina, in the end settlement OF the
problems OF the mining Industry must
perforcc be effected. Such settlement
must come through joint conference
with accredited representatives of
the mine workers OF the nation.
1T Is most unfortunate because OF.
the arbitrary attitude or the coat
operators that such a meeting CAM
not be assembled until, the country E
has endured the agony and conSnl-
sions involved in an Industrial strike
on such a gigantic scale. In the pres
ent issue the public has been lulied
In sense of false security by-ths
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