The New York herald., 1922-04-26
COAL STRIKE MASKS
DRIVE TO CONTROL
STEEL INDUSTRIES
Attack on Non Union Field
Prelude to New Fight to
Unionize Mills.
MINERS LINES WAIVER
Reopening of Frick and
Other COllieries StlrS La
Dor Chiefs.
APPEAL TO POCKET NERVE
Expose of Swollen Profits
Discounted by Failure to
APPEAL TO POCKET NERVE
Expose of Swollen Profits
Discounted by Failure to
Pay Strike Benefits.

This is the third Of a series OF
articles by THE New YORK Her
AID Analysing the coal strike, ats
nro1ress, causes and 0utlook.
The fourth aciA appear to-mor-
roio.
specidl DisratcJ, to TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, April 25.-This
dispatch is filed from the headquarters
for the union drive against steel, the
object OF which is to win the coal
strike by cutting off steeps supply OF
coke.
The field marshal William F. Kee-
ney, international organizer for the
United Mine Workers of America, di-
.ects the campaign from gray
wooded labor temple" In West
Brownsville, across the Monongahela.
lie also restlessly roves the battle front
N person, for he devised the strategy
Of the campaign against steel and his
fortunes are wrapped up in its sue
.ess.
His chief lieutenant is Jack O'Leary,
district board member Of the mine
Norkers' organization. They are lead
6rs intent on winning for the union
nc additionally non-union coke re-
zion. which has been free of labor
ordinations since the brief reign OF
the Knights OF Labor back in the
i'netics.
Kceney. O'Leary and their army OF
ssanizers closed, Tssae after mine in the
Est ten days of the strike, beginning
,,,ril 8, but since then they have found
lic going harder. and the operators now
eofess to be gaining. as indicated oy
a-oups Of men returninl to the mines
ore and there and slight increase IN
oduction.
rhe operators contend that major
\. OF the strikers are eager TO go back
d work. That some of them are re-
ie,ninr is suggested by the fact that
lie union invaders are devoting much
d their precious time to persuasion OF
lie presumably faint hearted
walk 10 Miles to Meeting.
The correspondent of THE New YonK
HERALD, crossing Fayette county from
cast to west to-day. dropped Off at the
be- seen up on the side or the hill lis
tening 70 orators who we're addressing
them from the roof OF a lone cabin.
il proved to be an assembly of strikers
from the non-union railway mines at
Davidson. Hecklcy and Orient, and
some had walked as much as nineteen
miles from the more distant collieries.
Their leaders said they were not al
lowed to meet on company property"
and so they had rented the mountain
top near Davidson siding for the after
noon. Among the 1000 were native
Americans, Slovaks Poles Hungarians.
Russians and negroes the largest group
being Slovsks. Mostly they were neat
and clean and fixed UP in their Sunday
clothes. The robust stogie and corncob
pipe were much In evidence. Looking
across from the outdoor theatcr one saw
smoke rising from the stack of the
power house at Davidson Siding, the
mines closed, but the pumps and fans
continuing to work.
The union exhortcrs on the roof OF the
shack were engaged In telling these
strikers. good mnny OF whom have not
Joined the union although they have quit
the mines, why they should stay out
until the strike Is won and the full BEN
cfits OF aHlliation with the United Mine
Workers becomes apparent.
speak I'm Divers Tongues.
Van Blttner, an international organ
izer. talked In English and Czecho-
Slovak followed him. speaking a dialect
which all the varied Siavs understood
The sort of speeches that are being
made TO sway the miners in this part OF
southwestern Pennsylvania, the pivotal
field of the coal strike, it is called, ought
20 prove interesting to the rest OF the
country.
Bittner contrasted the situation OF the
union miners on the other side OF the
river with those In Fayette county. much
20 the disparagcment of the latter He
described the union miners wage a 8 run
ming from 81 TO 50 a day higher than
those OF the non-union men and passed
lightly over the fact that although the
union mans wage has been higher the
number of days he works has been so
much less that the non-union member OF
tho coke region on the average has
been earning more than his organized
brother
Bittner asked the crowd II IL were
not true that they were paid nothing for
dead work" They nodded assent, and
then he asked them how they'd like to be
cleaning up a fall of slate at the rate
of $3.50 a day as he said the union
miners across the river were paid before
the strike.
Over here, he said, III they don't
like the color OF your hair they won't
even give you rib to draw. Over there,
IN the Pittsburgh district. the men have
something 10 say about wages aud con-
6ltions. A few years ago. over here, at
Revere. miner couldn't leave his town
to buy his food outside the company
store. What existed years ago won't
b4 D drop in tho bucket to what you'll
get if you lose this strike
The orator constantly touched the
pocket nerve OF the miners. He said
Coutiuupd ou paro EiChf