Show WHY OPERATORS I FIGHT MINE UNION I WASHINGTON WASHINGTO Au Aug Aug- 18 1 Attorneys Attorneys neS for the bituminous operators sp committee committe today submitted to the th United States coal commIssion commIs- commIs sion on lon a voluminous brief condemn condemn- condemnIng Inc Ing the United Mine Workers Worker of America the off check system and the shop chop I 1 ho he commission was Invited to visit isIt the union non non coal lei as of ot West Virginia and sot sot- sotis sat satisfy is Itself that conditions there Were not as bad as private Invest Investigators 1 gators had painted them Continued resistance would be ott offered red by the mine companies to c e lorts of the th United Mine Workers Worker ot of America to unionize distrIcts now flow operating union non-union the com corn commission commission mission was as as Informed The companies companie are arc that contracts contract with that organization I tion are In the Interest neither ot of the operator nor of ot the miners minors but to stifle stine Industry and Individual Individual butI I ual Initiative e and locate a relation relation- relationship ship based not on mutual relation relation-I confidence confidence dence and sense sens of ot responsibility but on mutual hostility They are eon convinced ys s the document that to contract with Ith that organization Is t put the eco eco- economic economic eco economic future of their fields 5 ha hae no local markets at the mercy of ot wage ware agreements dictated I by International officers of ot the United Mine Workers Worker of ot America who aho ho have haH a deep depp rooted hostility to this field and whose primary In tnt are art elsewhere Wisely or unwisely un they the object to tl the principle of being compelled to employ only members of ot that organization and to being forced to collect by the th check ort for that organization such uch dues and assess assess- assessments assessment meats ments ment as It sees see tit fit to Impose on each cach worker In their mines |