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Show and Bergers and Debsca and other revolutionaries revo-lutionaries in prison and out who have traveled the same road in flouting the. authority of the government and asserting as-serting that now is the time to "fight it out and have a showdown for fair" to quote the leader of the miners in the Kansas district. To this moment, happily, the miners who followed their leaders into this causeless quarrel with the scores of millions of Americans who aro not parties to the dispute, but are made parties to the privations and annoyances annoy-ances the strike brings in its train, have refrained from overt acts and the resources of tho government to combat disorders have not been called into play. Tho hope may be expressed that the struggle will proceed to an issue without disturbances which will discredit dis-credit the nation. Meantime the government should exert ex-ert its undoubted powers to ferret out every mischief maker, alien or native-born, native-born, and deal with him in a manner to vindicate the authority of the republic. repub-lic. Immigration laws may bo stiffened stif-fened until they cannot bo made more secure and still fail of their purposo if the firebrands already in this country coun-try are permitted to have residence here and stir up trouble. Tho arrest and deportation of all aliens who are guilty of attempting to undermine American institutions and the arrest and disposal in places where they will be harmless of the native-born aliens j the un-American aliens is the first and imperative item on tho program of housecleaning which congress must make up its mind to begin and push to a completion. . TEST THIS WEEK. Despite the restraining order of Federal Fed-eral Judge Anderson which cut them off from irommimication with twenty-six twenty-six of their principal leaders, more than four hundred thousand members of the United States Mine Workers' union left their employment in response to the strike call. Reports indicate that the tie-up of the bituminous coal industry in the country at large is almost al-most complete, although in certain sections sec-tions non-union miners are still at work, while in other districts the full membership mem-bership of the union has not yet complied com-plied with the strike order. In some four thousand mines, which are responsible respon-sible for the production of about 14,-000,000 14,-000,000 tons of coal a week, hardly a pick is being swung. The writ issued by Judge Anderson, which did not prohibit the strike itself, it-self, has failed entirely in morally influencing in-fluencing the mine workers to remain on their jobs. The subordinate district officers can communicate with their national chiefs and the latter are tied by the federal writ and are unable to make response or assist in directing the men, now that the strike actually is under way. The situation is that of an army trying to effect a movement without the directing cooperation of its generals. Judge Anderson 's authority is confined to the district in which he presides; hence the activities of the district dis-trict leaders, unrestrained by a federal court prohibition. There is a strong probability that thi3 week will seo similar federal court actions in other districts embraced in the soft coal mining territory, thus affording af-fording full scope to the government program of combating the strike, since it will blanket every striko field with an injunction and make effective the provisions of Judge Anderson 's writ against the fifty-eight mine workers' leaders upon whom service could not be obtained in the Indiana jurisdiction. These officers have been making the most of their immunity and to their activity is due the wholesale desertion deser-tion of tho mines by members of tho unioo. The premnt week doubtless will seo the government's measures in full force, and, since the miners' officials' evidence evi-dence no purpose of receding from their position, the test of strength of government govern-ment and mine union will not lontr be delayed. As for the gotornmcnt, its course is clear and its position equally unclouded. Whatever the merits of the disputo between the mine operators and mine workers, tho attack instituted by the miners' union is an attack against the, community. The government, therefore, there-fore, Is Justified In any means lt may take to defend tho community against j t his attack. Tlw mine workers' loaders aro Ihcui-fiolves Ihcui-fiolves to blame if the public finds it, 1 difficult, lo distinguish between their striko and tho industrial diltUybnlKMi which have been precipitated by Influences In-fluences of unquestioned radical character char-acter and very doubtful loyally, and conclude? that, tho strike of tho coal diggers another manifestation of the revolutionary spirit fostered by tual contents working through Ihe agency of labor unions, for the utterances of some of the nitno union officials aiv a direct ohalleuge to loyally and sub versi n of good citizenship. The courts ho.vo bean scorned and wrils laughed at and the president of ihe United Mtat'a has been aceimed of deliberately play ing into the hands of the eumica of organized labor. The Fritri inyloici and llowats and Milchoa and their kind are naturally grouped in I lie public mind with th" Fosters and Filzpatriek-i |
