Show BLAME FOR ACTS OF CARBON CAHON MINERS DC LAID AT DOOR OF AGITATORS that the campaign of the united mine worker workers of Ai Ar rerita carried tarried oa on in utah in 1922 1022 was warlike in character that the organization 14 t both monopolist to and war warlike Mell that the utah a yar year ago was not dIg designed ned tu to aid tho condition of the miner but to prevent the bonum OR ag public from receiving nonunion coal when union ra liters 1 throughout the nation were on strike Is aa charged in n a brief filed last list that thui cy with the united states coal com commission masion by tho the bituminous operators special commit tee the brief being signed by henry L stimson mon former secretary of war warp and goldthwaite II 11 dorr an councel the brief deals axtens vely and I 1 entirely with the campaign of via lence conducted by the united mine ulna of amerita Ame riia against the non union mine mines of utah to lor yea years according coding nc to this brief the united mie mi e 0 workers had bad ansue easefully eese eess fully endeavored bored to the utah coal fields and from time to time had met with gome some little success conclusions banuard up summing up their conclusions on the utah situation of lat last year the oper acors in part hayt notwithstanding tho the fact that previous failures had bad made it clear that the majority of tle utah miner miners did not want the united mine worker workers of Amer america leg thia this organ determined to force itself upon the community in the evident attempt to keep coil from the american public while ita its strike in union territory eon con linued Is accordingly its paid agitators in abed a peaceful community stirred up zt ife fomented violence and discord endeavored to tp strike terror into thi hearts nf of a susceptible foreign tion lied tied their utmost efforts to pro vent tie tle interference of tho the state au thorit lea ties to maintain law and order and finally created such a condition of law less nesa and disorder thal the state an ihori ties had bad to step in with their troops to bring about the peace and quiet and orderly gov government emment which hd thad existed before this lose ass vital borce and with he re ament of law and order we see th thi united mine workers of amerlean a as a vital force pa pas out of r the picture and carbon coasty resume rume ita it normal time 16 ti thill RIOS we 1 1 I ready mady to these facts and to provo prove oar our propositions in pay wy jy in which the commission delre desire the brief of the operators was filed ai at h reldo roquet of the coal commission asked for fact facts respecting lola tiona of law and constitutional right and nueh of the twenty eight pages Is d vote I 1 to detailed recital of such violation on the part of the united mine N workers in utah lait last summer it deal deals at length with the campaign la utah during the nation wide strike of last year by y representatives of the united mine Wor workers kerso and contends that the unions spokesmen forced a temporary 50 per cent detection defection among the ale aa employees only daring during a pa in aih hs h they were to carry on a campag ii h of intimidation bad tind violence attempt to stop ion the utah incident pl says the brief teaches that the united mine work erst effort to organize nonunion terri tory and to so prevent the production of nonunion coal is not an effort to im prove the wages or the working condl condi eions of the miners in nonunion terri tory but is a measure solely to aid th the strike in union territory 11 burthe r re furring to the united mine worker the bil brif f says thai that to prevent non union coal from reaching the american public its paid organizers and agitators rely largely upon violence and dation to accomplish their ends deprived of thi weapon and corn com belled l belled by the authorities to obey the lay law and to maintain order the united mine vo V r ors rs were unable to persuade the of utah that they bad had any grievances Ancee ii sufficient to justly the con ainu ince of a strike in territory like utah where the living and working conditions are good and where the operators refuse to accept the check checkoff off the united mine workers of america cannot for any length of time successfully maintain local organizations not organized in V utah the utah operators sinco since 1903 have refused to recognize the united mine workers and have consistently refuted refused to institute the cho chek chok k off rho he mines have been run on A nonunion banis bails but in many man y casca cases no opposition hasteen has been raised ratted by operators to their men joining aa the union utah operator opera torr it la Is asserted have based their scale of wages on the scale in wyoming and coal wage wages in bitah have averaged somewhat higher than those paid id wyoming a fully union laed territory direct dealing between the utah operators and their men has brought satisfactory result ae As shown by the almost total lack of strikes about 50 per cent c rt the utah min ers are american lira in the foreign element japanese greeks and italians predominate Pro domInate in iri 1622 the organizer organizers directed their first efforts at the for eign element and found few era among american Americ arx miners minerd in fact mod mort of the strikers were foreigners foreigner li in the bri f is set forth in detail a ra review llew of tit we activities of bf the organizers ers their threats and attempts at intimidation and specific acts of violence beginning april 20 26 and ending with the holdup at jacobs on june 14 are detailed men honing orting ti the trials fo fOI lowing OwIng the strike hc beitf makes this comment a the defenses del t nees in these trials are a repetition of the defenses produced by the attorneys for the united mine workers of aletia a in similar basei we see in these utah murder trials ft it replica of the herrin murder trials la it that the desense dei ense while strenuously con cori for the theory of self defense W aid 1 a justification of the union relied 1 chiefly upon alibis the juries tf u utah however were not sitting in the aam atm atmus phere of Wt W illiamson county HI and the persons guilty of the utah murders murder have not escaped at the bar of justice it disorders ended by declaring martial law governor mabey is given credit for having brought the disorders arf a an ai i end and the impartial atti attitude of the military authorities was so marli mariel bays says the b brief that the strikers th themselves selves on several occasions publicly expressed their appreciation of it to this signify cant comment Is added deprived of ise wd weapons of violence and ton tion and compelled campt ailed to obey thu tr law the invading of the united mina workers vere fere powerless to further the community by lawful method metho 14 they could adlish nothing itt in otherwise contented nono o 0 16 ov community n lt the miners them solve wes be or a great majority would not voluntarily subject tte melVes to tho enforced taxation of if the united min workers the result demonstrates wit clearness that at least in fields where living anti nil wor ing conditions are gool goo the th united aline workers with the I 1 present high cost of its milliant orgal hatton requires the artificial support of the checkoff check off and its system of er eri forced taxation n keep keel it in cal en e ta I 1 r 10 I 1 1 effect or achter la ra summing up the ejlert of the li vallon ablan of militia tue bria byet it that as aa soua soon as all law an anil orr fer effectively restored AS goo jooa aban jal I 1 persons fr sons ivera assured that th at they the r would bu JQ protected iv 10 heir help eon strike failed man r atil strikers kers returned rett r ped to work and mn miny r on page seven rite tiit piH rt la baig b ai g r M W ilk w s 1 i j i FOR at i a all M page tagi tP amed fro I 1 ia in and na went tn to work I 1 men tame of violence and apons the we intimidation organizer were ert POW by uy legal methode tho thod they eo could uld a aam nothing for their r ral al e not the operators nor their m mine 1 guards wa was nor the rall atia to outstanding fact facts of this situation are eadd up as a follow follows in the briefe 11 1 the policy polley of the coal operator operators et of utah to tun their mine mines on an open shop b 2 cordial relation relations chith hail had al waya ways existed their between operators opera tora end and employee employees and the enlightened polity policy of the operators it giving their men the host possible poe sible living conditi condi tlona 3 complete failure of all attempts attempt a by bf the united mine of amer lea 1 to get a foothold la in this district prior to april 1922 4 the la invasion aslon of the utah coal field fields by skillful and exper lencel or gazil maloyd mr loyd l by the united mine 1 workers of kni eries during the tpring spring cf of 1928 1922 tor for the role sole purpose of disturb ing 1119 the existing ideal 13 3 the repeated net nets et of tion and 11 olence i by tin the halted mine V arker of america end and their atter attempt art to enforce their will by means of a rien of terror 6 6 the complete failure of their at te n its hen ben low and order ordez were en f forced 0 r ce d 7 failure bt the strikers to present ent any tiny grievance to t the operators opera tora anul I 1 the strike was wa almost over 8 the ole sole impose of the strike was vaa to aul the gendral Re nral strike in the fet t of the country by preventing the utah mines from tarnishing furnishing the ameri c can an public with coal |