Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — LET NO SURRENDER BE MOTTO [ARTICLE]

LET NO SURRENDER BE MOTTO

Of the Government and the People in Coal Strike. In speaking of the action of federal Judge Anderson In citing for contempt of court of 84 officers and heads of the miners’ union for failure to obey the orders of the court in the recent injunction ordered, the Lafayette Journal says: It is quite evident that the government is determined to break this strike in some manner and every legal procedure will be exhausted in the endeavor. Still, filling the jails does not fill the nation's coal binds. But Ihe public will find some considerable degree of satisfaction In seeing punishment meted to the men who have brought industrial paralysis and' suffering upon the country and have spurned every offer of arbitration. From Washington comes the announcement that the operators have agreed to a slight advance over the 14% wage increase recommended by Mr. Garfield, an agreement that will be submitted today for the approval of the fuel administrator. Whether that will prove sufficient incentive to induce the miners to return to work remains to be seen. It would seem that they would be exercising the part of discretion if they found some excuse, for returning to work soon. Public sentiment is going to’demand drastic action on the part of the government in the very near future. Nowhere is there talk of surrender to the demands of the miners; the puonc is with the government in this matter and the public is going to insist that coal be produced.