The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 07, 1946, Image 5
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FRIDAY, 4 vmxt 7, 1940
THB NEwraenrtY SUN
Newberry WONT Shiver With Cold.
But It’s Going To Cost You $50,000.00!
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We really should have said, “Newberry won’t shiver MUCH,” for even though the county is going to pay
close to $50,000.00 additional for coal it will be scarce another winter—as usual!
Oh, sure, the strike is “settled”! And how!! (It stinks to high Heaven if you ask us!) But this does not
mean coal is going to be plentiful come winter. The facts are that stock piles are so low they can not be
built up in time with miners working only a few days a week—and a few days a week is all they will work
—and we don’t blame them! Why should they work six or seven days a week (even as you and I) when they
can make enough in three or four to live on?
You are paying them to dig coal so you won’t shiver, but even before this last handout high wages caused
33 per cent absenteeism in two mines we know personally and it is reasonable to consider this an index to
other mines. WHAT WILL absenteeism be now! You figure that out next winter to the tune of chatter
ing teeth!
But DON’T BLAME John L. Lewis and the miners! Your Government is solely responsible. Even though
you may hate John L. Lewis with all your heart you can’t blame him if the jellyfish we have running the
country wiggle and squirm for him—and hand him and his miners $200,000,000.00 of the coal consumers
money. Blame the jellyfish—not Lewis and the miners.
But even jellyfish can be high handed sometimes—just look what they did to the poor coal mine owners
and operators! (You see the owners are not banded together waving a million #r so votes.) We are not car-
rying the torch for the mine operators, but after all they are the boys who own the stuff—who invest abou^
all they make in ponderous equipment to produce coal to keep you warm. And what happens tp them.
They are kicked out the back door, their mines seized and a contract they never saw , ne .? 0 . tor
them. They are hog tied and handed over to Lewis! Sort of reminds us of the head of John the Baptis on
a charger!
How would you feel if your Government stalked into your factory, store, filling station, hot dog stand,
and said, “We are taking over. We will negotiate any contract your employees want, you * abide by i ,
and you can like it or lump it!” How DO you feel having this kind of Government m the first p ace.
Are you REALLY doing anything about this—except bellyache and cuss? The only remedy is through
your law makers! Do something to let them know you are around! You see what they did tor Lewis—ne
controls a million votes! They can and will do things for you if enough of you yell the same thing at
same time loud enough and long enough!
Yell and YELL for legislation to prevent any man, any group of men or any union from throttling the
country! I
Yell and YELL for legislation against seizure of private or public property just to appease a labor union!
Yell and YELL for the right to free enterprise! Free enterprise made us the greatest nation on earth, but
Bureaucratic meddling is going to tear it down unless you yell and Yell and YELL...
Farmers Ice & Fuel Company
Newberry, South Carolina
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MEMO FROM E. L. LOWIE
Our previous advertisement with reference to the coal strike was published with
no other thought than to acquaint our coal customers and other local citizens with
the critical conditions existing in the coal industry—to sort of prepare them for
the coming winter by explaining in advance why we won’t have all the coal they
will need. No one could be more surprised than the writer at the reception the
advertisement received. We have received letters from far and wide, innumer
able oral comments and requests for close to 6,000 copies of the advertisement for
private distribution by others. This unexpected reception of the original adver
tisement and subsequent developments in the coal industry seem 3 to require a fur
ther statement from us—and you have it above.