III SIKERSHI j SJMjjHEFlIS j ! Secretary-Treasurer Doyle of H District 15 Produces the i , J , Union Records. J n LONG COLORADO FIGHT ) , t Michigan National Guards-, Guards-, i men Testify Before Con-i Con-i i gressional Committee. i I , DENVER, Colo., MaTch 5. The United Mine Worknre of America havo y paid practically $2,000,000 iti strike benefits to Colorado minors since April I 1, 1010. This was the statement to-)' to-)' day of Edward L. Doyle, secretary and treasurer of district li, before tho house f subcommittee investigating the Colorado coal miners' strike. The total in striko benefits, as shown ; by Doyle 'g records, was $1,995,S9S. Of thia $1,040,412 was paid to miners in northern Colorado beforo the calling of the present stm?e last September, The ' turn paid since September 20, 1913, is ' $9ii5,4S4, of which $714,585 was ox-f ox-f pended in the southern field. The rc-j rc-j maining $240,S99 was expended in the northern field since September. The labor leader was asked by a member mem-ber of the committee whj' the union did not use $2,000,000 to lease all the Colo-i Colo-i rado mines and keep the men at work. Given for 'Strike. "The money raised for strike benefits bene-fits was contributed by members nil over the United Stntcs' replied Doyle. "It was given for the support of a I strike, with the object of benefiting the r organization aud all its members. We would not consider it fair to take this common fund and expend it in a way i that would not advance- the union cause, I however much it might benefit the individual in-dividual miners in Colorado." The witness was asked why the union I did not incorporate, thus eliminating Y one objection urged by tho operators to signing contracts with the organization. organiza-tion. He replied that the proposal of the operators would make tho organiza-J organiza-J tiou lcgallv responsible for the acts of its individual members and that the United Mine Workers lid not wish to 0 assume this rcsponsibilit3' without being permitted to select the men who work in the mines. ' Question of Right. The committeemen questioned Doyle " regarding tho testimony yesterday at Walscnburg of E. O. Bcttis, operator of , iho Royal Gorge mine in Fremont , county, "who declared that in a short experience under a union agreement he had found that his business was absolutely abso-lutely dominated by the union. Doyle arguod that the right of a la-l la-l bor "organization to require only its members to be employed was similar to the right of a community to make laws for thoso living in it. ' "The city can force a man to connect his property with a sewer, because it , - is a sanitary regulation or interest to i all," he said. "In the same way, a union baa the right to rcriuirc a man 1 who works in an 'industrial community to live and work under conditions tha't , , advauce the general welfare. As a city t can force a resident, to pay taxes for tho support of the municipal government, v. so should a union have the right to re-I re-I quire a workman to give his moral and ;, I m Jinaiicia' support, to' an organization 1 which lias worked and sacrificed to bring about bett.rr working conditions for all tho laboring people." ii