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THE REMARKABLE SYMPATHY OF WILLIE HEARST FOR THE BRITISH COAL MINERS r. . Hearst's American this after noon prints three cartoons and a long, fine editorial about the jus tice of the demands of striking coal miners. Which sounds fine, and may make ' you think that Willie Hearst, surely is the friend of the workingman unless you happen to examine the cartoons a little more closely and "read the edi torial. ( If you do these last, however, you'll find out that the cartoons -are taken from the Labor Leader of LONDON, and that the edi torial is all ahout the justice of the demands of the striking BRITISH miners, and the piti fulness of the wages paid the. BRITISH miners, and the neces sity of seeing that the BRITISH I miners have adequate protection for BRITISH lives and limbs. There isn't a word in that edi torial about the AMERICAN coal strike. There isn't a word about the justice of the demands of the AMERICAN coal! miners, of the right of AMERICAN coal miners to a decent living wage, of the right of AMERICAN coal miners to proper protection for AMERICAN lives-and limbs. In fact, you couldn't tell frorii reading that editorial, or study ing those cartoons that there was or ever had been such a thing as an AMERICAN coal miner. And there isn't much news in " Hearst's American, about'" the American coal miners' strike for what there is before you can find it There's the whole Atlantic ocean between Hearst news papers and those poor, abused, coal miriers of Great Britain, and the mine owners of Great Britain, don't advertise in Hearst's news papers. So Hearst is for the British coal miner. He is for him strong, and he is willing and anxious to back them up in his newspapers which are published in America, and he is willing and anxious to tell just why he is backing them up. He just spills all over him self in sympathy for the British coal miners in that editorial. Here's a sample paragraph from the editorial : "And no one can contradict the actual statistics which show that four miners are killed in England every day. And no one can quar rel with their (the miners') de mand that precautions shall be taken to cut down the number of these deaths." Now would you think it ever had occurred to Willie Hearst that no one can contradict the ac tual statistics which show that TEN miners are killed in the UNITED STATES every day? And would you think it had ever occurred to him that no one can quarrel with the AMERI CAN miners' demand that every precaution shall be taken to cut down the number of these deaths? If you did think that these cither. You have to go hunting MMtMnAfeaAdbAAaaBauuutiMi