The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-25
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Mine War
's,,ss..@ Free America"
a,S's ..orkers Are Denied
Employment by In.
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President Is Hopeful

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Washington. June 2+-The Hi.
nois mine outrages were declared by
Senator Myers. Montana. democrat,
in senate speech today to be PROOF
that there is no "iree America" and
denounced as more horrible than
German atrocities OF the world war.
These disorders said Senator
Myers. are justification for the as.
ser,ion that there can be no free
America as long as American citi.
zens can not work where, when, ioI
whom and at whatever price they
choose without seeking the consen,
of an invisible government-an or
ganized minority
Worse Than Germans.
Senator Myers read at length from
the accounts OF the Herrin mine out.
RACES and declared them TO be more
horrible than those committed by
the Germans during the war atroci.
ties, which men stood here on this
floor and condemned in the most
vigorous fashion"
Most of the victims OF the Illinois
massacre" Senator Myers said
were men guilty only OF the crime
o: exercising their constitutional right
OF earning an honest days wages.
President Harding still is watching
developments in the disturbed strike
section keenly and hoping for good
results from the effort he announced
yesterday that the government is
making to end the coal conflict.
Plan Not Announced.
No official announcement has been
made as to the details of the govern
ment's plan. lt.is understood that i
provided for intervention by the
government with straight proposal
for arbitration by commission ap-
pointed by the president This COM
mission would adjust wages, fix the
terms OF new contract and provide
that the scale to be adopted shall be
retroactive.
The first move to be made, accord
ing to White House information, is
a conference between operators and
the miners in the bituminous field
looking to settlement of the strike.
If this conference deadlocks, as the
administration confidently expects it
to do. then the president will step in,
it is stated, with his proposal for
arbitration.
1t is now believed in government
circles, as result of conferences be-
tween cabinet officials and repre-
sentatives of the operators on the one
hand and the miners on the other,
that both sides of the wage contro-
versy will be willing to accept arbi-
tration, if strongly urged to do so
by the president.
Intervention Not Popular.
Not all the operators, it is said,
are disposed to agree to government
intervention, but it is we'll understood
by the president and his advisers that
if any considerable number of them,
in what is known as the central COM
petitive field, respond favorably to a
White House appeal for peace in the
coal industry, the remainder of them
will be induced to 60 along.
Estimates of government experts
are that the strike already has cost
the country approximately half bill
lion dollars in lost wages, loss to op-
orators and decreased business of the
public.
Senator Bursum, New Mexico, re-
publican, joined Senator Myers in
holding the state authorities to blame
for failure to take measures neces-
sary to deal adequately with the sit
uation.
IF all these men who attacked the
miners had been deprived of arms
and ammunition, and peace had been
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