The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
responsibility for Stoppage of Roads
And Coal Production Put SQuarely Up
70 Unions By President in Dean Letter
Constitutional Right Men Refuse Accept Labor Board
Decisions Denied Forces Not to Be Used
to Force Them SubservenceTroops Only to Prevent
Violence

under precisely the same working condi
tions as those under which they had been
working contentedly for the last two
years. Those who spoke for the mine
workers refused such proposal. There
is no dispute of the right to refuse. Since
they declined to respond, and since it is
believed there are enough men who love
this country and cherish it's security, and
believe in serving the common welfare,
believe in serving the common welfare. to
come to relief of mining situation, and
avoid suffering, priVation and paralysis,
I asked the governors of the coal mining
states to invite mine operators and mine
workers to resume their activities, and
to promise that to which every man is
entitled, namely, protection in his lawful
pursuits. This protection applies alike
to the men on strike who observe the
law and make no lawless interference
with men at work, and to the men who
are lawfully at work and entitled to pro-
lection by every agency of government
in that work. If you mean to challenge
the righteousness of free men to be pro-
tected in their lawful pursuits against
interferences and violence, [ will be glad
to join you in submitting that question
to the decision of the American people.
Is Inclined
To No Class
1T will interest you to know that in
stead of the governments action being
an expression of the preference of the
capitalistic class, it has been quite as
much opposed by those who speak for
employers as it is by you and your asso-
ciates, government undertakes to repre-
sent neither class alone, and is opposed
to all conflict among classes, and dis
putes the right of any group or a class.
organized or unorganiZed, to imperil
American welfare. Government speaks
only for the American people as a whole
and the common good of all it's citizen
ship.
'In view of all that the government
has done or attempted to do during the
past year and half to relieve the Amer
lean farmer from the burdens of read
justment and to relieve labor from the
hardships of unemployment, know your
attempted appeal to American prejudice
will fall upon deaf ears. 1t is ungrateful
and it is untruthful. If you are the be-
lever in peace and harmony and the
reign of justice which you would have
believed, / invite you now to pass judg
ment on the failure of the mine workers
to accept the awards of an able and i'm
partial commission in determining the
merits of the dispute between coal min
ers and coal operators, and I invite you
to urge the striking railway workmen to
accept the decision OF the american Kali
road Labor Board, acting under authority
of the law, which must be supreme, and
return work under that decision, until
you and I, and everyone else interested
in American welfare, may join in asking
the railroad labor board to give a re-
hearing on any question concerning which
there is reasonable doubt about the cor
rectness or the justice of the decision
made. These are the ways Of peace,
these are the requirements of enlight-
ened civilization these are the things ex-
pected by your government of it's loyal
and law-abiding citizenship