Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-06-15
G. @. P. FEARING
MINE LABOR'S
LASH AT POLLS
Republicans are Uneasy Over Effect
Coal Crisis Will Have First Test
In Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON, D. C. While Sec
reary Hoover is understood to believe
there is no settlement of the coal strike
in sight, Republican leaders were Mon
day deeply concerned over lis possible
effect upon the congressional elections
i'll November. In Pennsylvania alone,
where there are two United States
senators to be chosen this year, there
are approximately 10000 coal miners
idle, and although many of them are
foreigners about half Of them are en-
titled to vote.
Their vote contributed largely to
the victory of Clifford. Pinchot in
sna-ching the Republican, domination
Tor Governor of that state from the
old Penrose organization" Counties
which are centers of the coal industry
either swung into the Pinchot column
or contributed to the big vote polled
y Representative Burke as a labor
candidate, who unsuccessfully opposed
Senator George Wharton Pepper.
Burke, despite his defeat in the pri-
mary is threatening to run independent
iy against Pepper IL november ali.
there is serious talk of the D.. 80 rats
~ l'eHnS ylyania Withdrawing one III
Their ), material cani ,stes in his favor
The industrial unrest in Pennsyl-
vania is also being seized upon by the
Democrats as a portent of probable
victory for them in a rock-ribbed Re-
publican state. They are known to
be already at work among the strik-
ing coal miners, and among the rail-
road workers, whose wages have been
slashed recently, and who are also
talking of strike, not only in Pennsyl-
vanla but in other thickly populated
Eastern industrial states.
Labor Report Flags Court
CINCINNATI, O.,-Smoldering re-
sentiment of organized Labor to the
courts, which in the past year have
rendered several adverse decisions,
broke out Monday at the American
Federation of Labors open session of
it's And annual convention.
Not even the Supreme Court whose
august body heretofore has gone un-
criticized publicly, escaped in the re-
port of the executive council of the
Federation, which devoted itself in
large measure to fiery disparagment
of the entire judiciary.
Arrangement of the judiciary for
alleged increasing hostilities toward
labor" led to a recommendation of
the executive council to the conven-
ton that an appeal be made to the
higher court of public judgment and
that the public conscience be aroused
to the great and grave menace which
contronts the perpetuity of the con-
stitutional rights and liberties of all
our peoples las originally conceived
by the founders of Our republic"
The executive council report said.
We have passed through a year
of unusual strife and unusual indus
trial depression. Our movement has
been beset not on y by the work of
opponents who have more active and
more determined than ever, but it has
had to contend with an industrial sit
uatlon which caused thousands of our
members to be idle during the great
part of the year"
The report discussed the coal strike
terming it the most important indus.
trial conflict, of the year" The miners
lines it said are holding fast and labor
OF every description it is reported SOL
idified.
The Railroad Labor Boards recent
decision, which has resulted in wage
siashlng OF workers of Approximately
SllO00O,000 was attacked as unjust.
Congress, the council reported has
tailed to meet the responsibility placed
upon it by great war.
1T has proved its inefficiency in
great crisis" the report continued
1T has proved that only those who
are well-to-do, or control great in
terests can induce Congress to listen.
Those who favor subsidies for railroads
and shipowners, those who believe
in paying back to the profiteers in food
and fines assessed against them; those
who believe in relieving the business
of the well-to-do from taxation but
substituting the sales tax and those
who believe in compulsory labor find
ready listeners to their demands for
legislation"