Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-07-14 | Page 15 | Begin Probe in Coal Lockouts

r h BE C. C g i c e J Senat Senators r Hear Witnesses ses for forI i t p I B Both Sides a I i i WASHINGTON J July ly 14 A 4 A senate committee e t today began Bl 1 est in Investigation ga lon lont of t ord orders r In Sn the Mingo coal conI fields of ot West Vest which which have led recently recent recent- cent ly to to declaration of ot martial law bythe by the goye governor or Nell Neil B r cen hn representing rep resenting resenting- the J of ot America being b Ing the first witness called The trouble was due he said Raid to a a. lockout lock out of ot union miners by the mine operators op op- craters Miners rs had b been n evicted from company com corn cornI p pany ny n houses and nd terrorized by bv gunmen gun gun- men nien Burkenshaw asserted mi miners ml- ml ners and their t families s having been housed In t tent nt cities eWes by the union l. l n. n These people are 92 98 p per r cent American Amen Ameri can can born Durk Burkenshaw said a and the tho mine mina oPEr operators tors are arc employing Spaniards Span Span- lards Gre Greeks k k I Italians alf ns and every type of ot foreigner the they can get to take the places s of ot the tock locked d out out- miners J L. L T y er VInson t for r the operators operator I 1 said B stat statement would woul 1 bo be overthrown b by evidence c I 1 For twenty ya years eara 8 he said ml miners ers and employers lived In peace undera under a a scale of oot wn wages R. R that permitted an efficient man to o earn from to I a month and nd that this condition condition condi condl- tion persisted until the United Mineworkers Mine Mine- j workers sought sought- to g get t control of ot t the o. o I field Wo We propose to show that that- the United Unit Unit- I c. c ed Cd d Mineworkers 1 rUp up p to 1912 was wn R a a straight labor Jabor union but that in that year It adopted prIn principles which hays hayo I 1 I turned Its membership into Into a a. band of Of t robbers rs Vinson said These are I strong words but what they have done Is to declare that they will never r remain ro- ro I main maln satisfied with on an return for tor I their their- labor which except that includes Uie the tle- full tun social value nIue of ot the coal that thatIs I is mined E m murder rd r and every v ry riot in W West st Virginia can n I be bp laid to this po no- icy of ot the tho United Mineworkers first to unionize and md then to own own the mines Where d dO you ou du get It et that Interpretation tion of or the term tei-in of t social value alue of ot otc c Ch Chairman IC Kenyan nyon asked From the mouths ot of their officers and delegates In the words wonis of own official records replied This Issue l I lic j one of robbery pure and simple vinson on n It Is Is' I not nn an an open shop shoo q i Vinson n said ald t twenty seven entY le en men len had Ib J I f b been n killed In In o j p nc 1 1920 20 five I of ot th m officers of ot the law Jaw shot InI in I t the back k from ambush The United d have sint I In in- assassins he hi said gunmen picket picked for tOr their work Out 0 of fifteen men In Jail jaH the other do day n arrested In thi thIs t only four tour w were re citizens I of ot West Vest Virginia In spite of ot this in intimidation we c nr are getting out 90 90 per percent percent percent cent of ot normal coal output We c have vc here the p petitions of pf men and women working In the mines asking asking ask ask- ing InS you to protect them In th their lr right to work