The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
Lecturer Here Monday Night
in Great Demand as Speaker
Had Unusual ? periences
Working in Mines
Of France

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a coal mine IN northern France.
In narrow, perfectly vertlca,
coal seam q miner, bare to the
waist, his body blackened with coal
dust, braced himself in his precarl-
Gus position and carefully swung
his pick The coal dislodged By
the implement fell sixty feet 10
the bottom of the working place.
The dust md gas could not be TAX
en- away BY the ordinary means Of
ventilaton 80 that a puncture OF
the miners lamp meant destruc.
ton.
0utside the mine signs in French
cautioned extreme Scarefulness with
the inmns and explained that forty
men here and fifty there had been
killed IN explosions through care.
lossness
Not long after this same miner
was comparing his experiences
among the woflimen of France and
Germany with Statements made to
him by Premier BRAND OF France
and by Lea ers OF the Krupp organ
izetibn In Germany The "miner's"
name Is Whiting Williams.
He had q similar experience in
tho sumner OF 1920 In England,
working IN the mines there for
three months. His conclusions and
experience there are recorded in a
book called Full Up and Fed
Up his summing up OF what is
on the workers mind in crowded
Britain
MI. Williams will speak at the
Joint meeting of the Industrial Su.
peryisprss Club and tho Falrmont
Chamber OF Commerce, which Will
be held at $40 O'Clock next Mon
day night in the Y. NJ. G. A. Build.
ing
Visits Many Mines.
"a the summer, OF 1921 he worked
IN the coal mines and steel plants
IN devastated and occupied areas OF
northern France, the Pittsburgh"
or Ruhr district of Germany, and
visited some of the deepest mines
III the world, which he found in
Belgium
Instead Of meeting with one sin.
Ele class of people" he told IN In
terviewer, Y worked in the mines
and shared the miners experiences
and views slept with them, ate
with them and talked with them.
got their postwar Views and their
opinions on industrial and econom-
IL conditions.
did not confine myself to this
class however. I went to see the
first week Of operations Of the sec
ond annual assembly OF the League
Of Nations at Geneva, where repre-.
sentahyes from Guatemala sat next
IN Alphabetical order to representa-.
tiyes from Great Britain.
y also revisited some OF the min.
ing towns in England where had
worked the summer before, to de
ternine the feeling as the result Of
the coal strike. The e10,000,0OO
EVEN by the British government to
the mine operators helped to make
possible the settlement, but the
workers I found to be far from sat
istied.N
Mn Williams mentioned that he
had visited the famous Krupp fac
tories in Germany, which recently
has reduced its force from $4,000
mengto 10000.
They're not making war mum.
tons now he observed, "but loco
motives, farm machinery, typewrit-
ers sewing machines and the like :"
liz Williams is as much In de-
mand as q speaker before factory
clubs supervisors !, clubs, college
clubs Rotary clubs, etc. as any
gpeaker In the country. During the
Year 1918 and 1920 he spoke to the
chambers OF commerce In eleven
elties TO manufactors' groups in
fourteen cities, at thirty meetings
81 industrial executives, foremen
and workers and to twenty.sIx 9th
er organizations such as Rotary
clubs Kiwanis clubs, forums and
colleges.
Heihas also written several books
Including Whats on the Workers
Mindgs and Full Up and Fed Up"
and articles for Golfers. Serb
aer's Red Cross, and Popular Sci.
etre magazines.
Everyone Is cordially invited to
hear Mr. Williams. but us 140 OF
the 200, tickets which were put on
sale have been sold 1t is consider.
ed advisable that those wishing 10
hear him secure tickets at once.