The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1922-09-29

railroad boards. Negotiations could
be successfully carried on and dis
putsd questions settled IL approached
In good faith"
uEARING on the motion to have
i the strike Injunction obtained
by Attorney General Daugherty
changed into preliminary restraining
order until trial began last week
before Federal Judge Wilkerson In
Chicago, and the attorney general an
nounced that It would proceed despite
the partial agreements reached. The
temporary Injunction was extended
ten days, but the court warned the
government forces II would not be
further extended. The government
presented many thousands Of afiidavits
telling Of acts Of violence and threats
and other circumstances, all tending
to prove Its theory that q conspiracy
existed, which In effect INSTRUCTED In
terstate commerce.
Mr.. Daugherty's determination to
press the case to decision Is based
on his belief that the principles ut
stake are more important than any
immediate issue or effect. The injunc-
tIon, he thinks. II granted beyond the
ten days now fixed by the court. will
not only protect the workers who have
taken places Of strikers on roads not
In the settlement. but will reach the
question of responsibility Of union
leaders for acts Of violence.
% RESIDENT HARDING and Secre
tary Of Labor Davis were greatly
pleased by the news Of the partial
strike settlement. The secretary said :
american industry has overcome
greatest economic revival the nation
has ever known. With the settlement
of the strike on many Of the trunk line
railways assured. the whole industrial
machinery of the country is ready for
a forward movement unprecedented In
our economic history.
THE disturbances I'm the bituminous
and anthracite coal mining Industries
are In the past. and the GOoOO0 coal
miners Of the country are back at
work. Our representatives In New
England have advised me that In the
textile workers strike settlements are
rapidly enabling the mills to resume
operations.
these three great Industrial dis
putes have been the only hindrances
TO the nation In Its rapid recovery from
the Industrial depression which we
faced a year ago. With them out Of
the way progress toward prosperity
will be swift and sure"
TT is true, as Mr.. Davis says, thai
the disturbances In the coal mining
Industry are ended. but the disturb
ances In the minds Of the consumers
Of coal are just beginning. The deal
ers greedy. INSCRIPTIONS and con
scienceless, are demanding exorbitan'
prices for coal and the people are wall
ing, with little prospect Of relief ex
cept In some states where the nuthori
ties have both the power and the will
To check the pfofiteering. Meanwhile
the congressional conferees have beer
dIsputIng over the Cummins- Winslov
coal distribution and price control bill
disagreeing as To Its application TO In
trastate as we'll as interstate ship
ments. Henry Ford is the most vocifer
Gus of the big coal consumers. and nc
cording to the latest reports he had no
altered his intention 20 shut down thu
Ford plants. lie charges that the inter
state commerce commission. through
its control over empty coal cars. III
playing into the hands Of coal prof
Iteers under guIse Of regulations fo
the public good" and adds: This
same interests which own the public
utilities. railroads and mines are usin'
the commission as part II their scheme
10 fleece the public. and the scheme u
so simple that nobody sees u.
CONSIDERABLY battered by results
~ In recent primaries. the "oi'
guar,I- Of the Republican party re
sumed its smiling appearance las
week after the primary elections wer'