Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-09-24 | Page 3 | Miners Reply to Assertions

REPLY TO ASSERTIONS ASSERTIONS' Refuse to Arbitrate as I Long as Operators Re Re- Renounce pounce Contract Contracts s 1 Sept 24 VP 24 4 The The anthracite e scale committee of or the United Mine Workers today to today to- to day lay sent a II telegram ln to tho New I Coal Coni Dealers Dealers' association n in lit convention at Beslon outlining the Ihl he reasons for the refusal of the th I miners to submit their difference 11 I I with the hard coal operators to ar I The message was sent In answer to an address add reSS reS'S before the tho convention yesterday by hy Walter ler Gordon Merritt counsel for the anthracite operators operator Merrill Merritt said the miners miner union was the banner bearer of It Industrial com com- combat combat combat bat us as 11 against a aln t peaceful arbitration The Th United Mine MinI Workers cc- cc re refuse fuse ful to arbitral the terms and re-I re conditions that arc to bo he written In and in I constitute a contract said I tho tha Ih unions union's telegram It will and do do- doR R s arbitrate questions that arise tinier linger the terms of or a Ii contract ct after af af- after af- af after ter the agreement has been made No business man would agree to submit to outside arbitration the tho terms and conditions I hat that arc are to topo togo po go o in his contracts Coal Co operators do not nol agree to offer to arbitrate the price Irlee at ats s which they shall shell sell their coal nor the tho amount of profit proUt they may ma make snake Then why wh should l tho the coal miner he be compelled to arbitrate th till the pi price Ice at which he shall hall sell his labor John D. D Rockefeller Jr Is a 11 goof business man vet veL his hI coal co refused reful ed to arbitrate thi th wires W of ot Us its miners In Colorado In 1914 19 Judge Gary Is ts a n good bus bus- business iness inc s man yet et he lie refused refu td to 10 bus I ar ar- arbitrate arbit bit wages w es In the steel strike of 1919 although by the president of oC tho the United States Statts to arbitrate COIl Col operators of ot Min Min- Mingo lIngo go county West Yest Virginia who arc are and disciples of ot Walter after Industrial philos philosophy ophy ephy refused rd to arbitrate the tho wa wates es cs of or their miners tuners in 1920 The anthracite miners are art merely merel protect protecting the Interests of or themselves and anti their families 00 00