| Show OPEN AIR ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT I MITCHELL ON SUBJECT OF STRIKES I lun I t j W Va Vs March 24 Koal Coal op opt opi t 1 tIr i laborer professional men tn bank hink hinka and a lid nd business men n to th the number of Inure ure crowded about the front fronti fronta i 1 K al a hotel here bere he today to listen Ii n to an anI I n U sir b by John Mitchell preal prem I II i e C the United Mine on Oft the i i j t of strikes His Ulo H remarks were di dl did d 41 1 almost entirely to tv the situation in int Int t Virginia at this thu t time thee He said in i f Th l h capital a pit al and labor question d 4 di 11 i hW 1 is the serious attention and In f e r n i tI 1 the Americas American people It is the i mount subject of 01 the American AmericanS S i III kini k kt IIII n people and a nd all l chimeras chimera and nd the th thI i i M int bO DOW before bf lore the great eat facts J I UK II t for tor solution and settlement I 1 Ii l i i t an Jm fl advocate of strikes but there limo ura ms s when they the are necessary to tol l II j the hf I argument of truth in the in ini i 1 of vt the laboring people of this i ir try Il ea are aft a feature of civilisation t I h i are t merely dy a C means to aa an a end nd 1 in n i II h social evolution that ia is sow now i r run tift the ue American people Bas Bag ii us t sad and states Mates have no 00 strikes they thy are unknown there then Strikes are arc rt the sledge III hammers bammen that weld the connecting of labor and capital and a an make the endless n chain of prosperity wl WI want a better understanding between em employer e and and n we come COllie with offerings of peace pea The labor unions are aft trusts Just like your doctors doctora trusts trusta the ministers trust trUM and nd the money trust only we call those th associations association and nd cur cor white we style Ie ourselves unions union There is III no civilisation without labor there then liD can be no DO progress without this patent lIt factor and why should we not Dot and foster the interests ot such an Important lID porta ut element clement in our oar national MS lIS We W have ban an abiding faith in the pen peo people pie pAr for an amicable adjustment of the 1 differences between taker JaIlor hor and capital and through them that Jewel for which our great Economic statisticians are searching nc will w l settle all alt strike and nd adjust all aU differences We dere an amicable I I settlement of the tile pressing questions Orua of UM labor movement la hi West Virginia and andl andI l I every fair means meana will win be employed by the United Mine Workers Worker to bring about this tb happy result |
