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Hellraisers Journal – Friday August 19, 1921
Charleston, West Virginia – Governor Morgan Replies to Miners
From The West Virginian of August 18, 1921:
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OPERATORS ARE UNIT ON
MINE WAGE QUESTION
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They Agree That Amount Paid Men
Will Have to Come Down
———-Coal operators are apparently of the general belief that a wage readjustment is necessary to get anywhere in the present status of business. There might be some difference of opinion as to the open shop perhaps, but when it comes to the proposition of having a wage reduction operators appear to be a unit.
There continues to be some discussion of the open shop, but there appears to be little new developments along those lines, as operators trying it are doing it on the quiet. On the other hand the officials of the United Mine Workers of America contended their forces were holding and that no more than two non-union mines were operating today and one of those with some difficulty. Statements from other sources place the number higher but at best they are at variances…..
[Emphasis added.]
