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Show DRAFTING MINERS WOULD SOLVE PROBLEM, REPORT The solution to the problem of the miners, if the strike is renewed, re-newed, is easy. Congress should promptly pass a law, empowering the President to draft miners for the public service, using the Selective Selec-tive Service machinery, and enrolling en-rolling all necessary miners in the service of the Government. Thereafter, the miners would be treated as soldiers, receive $50 a month and carry out military orders. or-ders. If they disobeyed the orders of . superior officers, they ' would be subject to the same penalty as soldiers in battle zones. This suggestion may sound drastic, dras-tic, but, in essence, there is no reason why striking miners should be allowed to imperil the security of the country. By going on a strike against the government, they create a situation of peril which the government must meet in order to exist. |