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Show LAWSON DOES NOT THINK PLAN WILL WORK IN CAMPS TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct. 2. John R. Lawson, international board member of the United Mine "Workers .of America, confined in the county Jail here awaiting await-ing decision of the supreme court on his application for a new trial, said in a statement tonight relative to the Rockefeller Rocke-feller industrial plan: The plan is not practical and will not prove the factor to promote industrial in-dustrial peace in Colorado, because it does not contain the essentials of collective col-lective bargaining, but rather attempts at-tempts to substitute paternalism for democracy, or philanthropy for justice. jus-tice. The coal miners of Colorado are not seeking charity, they want justice. jus-tice. They are only asking the same rights that the officials of the C. F. & I. company claim for themselves the right to Join the organization of their choice, which is provided for by statute in Colorado. They demand the privilege of selling their labor through the medium of collective bargaining. bar-gaining. They desire an organization on each side equal In strength with a sense of equity to govern a contract that is binding on both sides. This new plan of labor union built along the lines of the old provincial Workmen s association of Canada, now defunct, will not do In Colorado. Colo-rado. Without an organization there is amassed on one side all the wealth and power; on the other side is grouped the partially organized employees em-ployees without any real organization organiza-tion behind them. Referring to that part of the plan which says that the company will pay the expenses of miners' representatives to the conferences and reimburse them for time lost, Mr. Lawson said: It will be a hopeless task, indeed, If safe representatives cannot be found under this benevolent plan. No intelligent person is going to be deceived by this subterfuge. |