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CRISIS IN COAL
executed the 2 -year union shop contract with the United Mine Workers. The legality of this union shop provision is unquestioned. The National Labor Relations Act specifically provides that a collective bargaining agreement between an employer and representatives of employees may provide that it shall be a condition of employment for the employees to be members of the particular union.
The net results of Chandler’s efforts in sending the National Guard to Harlan County, instead of attempting to arrive at a peaceful conference, have been that out of 12,000 coal miners in Harlan County, 1,200 armed, tin-hat troops have succeeded, at the points of bayonets, in driving approximately 1,400 men back to work.
General Carter, who is Happy’s puppet, and in charge of the National Guard, very succinctly expressed his instructions as to shoot to kill.
The United Mine Workers of America have won a signal and outstanding victory, not only against the coal operators who attempted to cause a national shutdown and lockout but also against the most reactionary and antilabor interests of the country, who very foolishly believed they could stop the onward march of the United Mine Workers and the C.I.O.
Mr. Albert Chandler. — My fellow countrymen; The people of Kentucky and the nation are very gravely concerned over the controversy in the coal industry. The dispute has been between the coal operators on one side and John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers of America, affiliated wdth the C.I.O., on the other side.
The whole controversy has been occasioned by the demand of Lewds and the union for a closed shop and for the elimination of the penalty clause which prohibits illegal strikes, both of which are aimed at keeping American Federation of Labor miners from the mines and both provisions having been insisted upon by Lewis and the C.I.O. for the purpose of establishing his union as the sole bargaining agency in the coal field; and for the additional purpose of requiring every miner in America to join his union and pay dues to him in order to work.
In his controversy there has been no dispute between the representatives of the mine union and the operators with respect to wages, working hours, or working conditions. The