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Show PUBLIC WILL DECIOE STRIKE i . So Declares Samuel Gom-pers Gom-pers on Way to Textile Battlefield CHARLESTON. W Va.. April 14 An Injunction was granted in the United Unit-ed states district court here today by Judge George W McClinilck to re-iStruln re-iStruln the United Mine Workers of America from further efforts to organize or-ganize the non-union miners employed by the MoKel) Coal company and three other companies of Payette and Raleigh Ra-leigh counties. West Virginia. NEW YORK. April 14. Samuel Gompers, president of tho American ! Federation of Labor arrived here today to-day to begin a tour through New England, Eng-land, during which he will ho)J conferences con-ferences in the textile industrLtl region. reg-ion. Mr. Gompers. who Is accompanied by his wife, will address the students at Loyal tonight and will see officers and delegates of the Connecticut federation fed-eration of labor in New Haven Sunday Sun-day for a conference on labor conditions. condi-tions. He will then go to Boston for slmllnr conference s-md on April 18 plans to address the navy war college at Newport R 1 . on labor's contribution contribu-tion to the war ( OAL mti vnov. Concerning the.coal strike situation, ho declared that working and living conditions in th non-union bituminous bitumin-ous mines of the country "are tho same today as they were In 189.7" "Conditions should be Improved." reasserted, re-asserted, "because the workers, who are quite used to missing meals, are prepared to tako another hitch in theli belts and see this thing through ." He expressed satisfaction with the progress of the strike in both bituminous bitum-inous and anthracite fields. Mr Gompers assailed the mine operators op-erators for their "greediness" and said that the rapid spread, of unionism union-ism in the West Virginia. Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania an 1 Eastern Kentucky fields was evidence the miners were denied a h inge In con.lltlonjs at anv price. r.Tl I X12 IV TIITTV "Th-'v are still living in huts" he added, working about 115 days a year ind being goug d by company merchants mer-chants and at the mercy of employers' hints The non-union man worked for a mere pittance under medieval conditions. When he cannot stand It any longer he throws down his tools and Jo.ns the union "Public opinion will dictate settlement settle-ment of -lil strike." Mr Gompers doubted the government govern-ment had the au horlty to compel bi-tumlnous bi-tumlnous operators to confer with mlier h over wages and addl d, "I hae my own opinion as to how the Btril o will be settled, but I decline to maki predictions. The Amerli m Federation Federa-tion of iat.or. however, is solid!) with the strikers and Will stand back of them to the In L ' oo |