| Show WOULD STIFLE AMBITION Archbishop Keane ap Hpe king to an Iowa congregation a few days ago po said The man who slights lights his work and gives his employer less than he agrees to give is 15 a thief and any labor lalor union u ion that upholds him in this slighting of work is a school of thievery The archbishops stinging words were called out by a resolution intro introduced introduced Introduced in the United Mineworkers con convention convention and referred to the scale com corn committee committee The resolution calls attention to the fact that coal mining is carried on under much more favorable condi condl conditions lions in some sections of the tho country than In other sections This has a 8 tendency the resolution goes on to tomake tomake tomake make it harder hard r for us uis to obtain an ad advance advance advance vance In wages at our convention The average miner cannot make more than per shift and the resolution continuing commits the union to a re restriction restrIction restriction of f per p r shift clear of all mine expenses on all miners work working workIng working ing at the face The resolution was Wall submitted by a delegation from Illinois If the scale Beale committee recommends its adoption at atthe atthe atthe the next session of the United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers and the recommendation is IB adopted the union will place itself In itt Inthe Inthe the position of preventing its most competent members from earning all aU they are aTe capable of earning It will place the most efficient and the least efficient on exactly the same footing There Ther is no justice in this and the In Injustice injustice Injustice justice is done to the very men the unions want most to benefit The employer as Archbishop Keane says Ys Is entitled to the t e best efforts of his but mining is largely piece work The employer is not hurt hurta a 8 great deal if the miner earns only per shift But some miners can oan earn six and seven dollars a shift That means a 8 good deal to them and to their families Yet the union would cut them down to a scale that by corn com comparison parison means penury The propos proposition proposition tion is so 50 utterly unfair that It should not be entertained for a moment mome t Unions should protect their weak members rs up to a certain extent but when that protection roaches reaches the point of ot suppression In of ot Individual effort it should cease se |
