The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-06-23

mines N the norwood district on
Monday was, descrycdly, an suomin-
ious failure. About fifty per cent ~ ilic
employees 81 the mines went oui in the
morning, but n Few hours nitcraard
many az them might have bCon seen re-
turning 60 The workings. with the ulti-
mate result noted above following rapid
ly la the wake uf that action. The men
f,r4ck for 50 90, Tor an cight-l.our day
for miners aud SlG5 for day Of tie
same length FOR laboreIs. That the de-
mand was an Outrageous one while pres.
ent conditions II demand and prices
govern The ore market, reed not
be stated The Inct primarily work.
ng to the dcreat az the nt.
tcn,ptcl strike was The refusal oI u
large percentage of the skilled lnbnr,
miners, to participate This skilled
lnbor i- confined largely io thcinlclligcnl
clnsses among the Cornish and Scundi
nayihn population, while the active
workers IN the movement were largely ni
the NEST ignorant and unreasonable
class of foreigners. Tie nlinir was
launched under the auspices OF nm Orgnu-
ization known ny tie American Fcd.
crntion IL Labor, Of which, 1uE nh.
MoND DRILL. Is informed, that rcpulsivc
bEtEcrskilc aud carousing drmagoguc
Frank Notion, who hcl,l forth in Crystal
Fallsa couple Of years ngo is the organ.
izcr for The district in which the Iron
wood mines nrc situated Ii IL NOT
slrangc, therefore, flhc original Frank
Notion il in communal that trouble
has resulted lie viii stoop tn any
measure 10 prey upon the cnsily-pcr
turbcl minds Of a malcontcnt people
pnd in the ignorant 81 isses ot the Iron.
wood district he hns apparently found -
fertile field. The ftrt of the matter is. IL
this Notion j. the product oltheMrnum-
incc range, ~ TuE DIAMOND DRtL has
been informed lac il not dislstruusly at
pca,e with The work habit, and that hr
is naturally inclined TO occupy his time
ia attempting to dislodg, the tranquility
of those more industrimlsly inclined than
himself Is not surprising TnE pr,,
MoNB DEIIL sympathizas with th,
hHwuy Fellows Who dplvc into the earth
al the risk ui life and limb FOR thcncugr
consideration they now receive, but
while present conditions prevail an,
reasonable miner can plainly see that il
is more 81 u blessing tu the wnrl, people
/ than il i. tu thc operators Of the mines
4 that they b. wrnnght even nt Tie wages
current Many, II not al 81 The mines la
the Lake superior basin are being
wrought totay on the plan oicNchaugina
4 AN oid dollar fJr a new oLc. Many good
mines are bying literally robbed of thch
resources merely e. keep dependent
miners from aims, il not starvation. 70
bling about these conditions men oi the
stamp Of Frank Notion wroueh hammer
aud tungs in the campaign of 1892, in
the interest ol Grover Cleveland aud The
'cloyci" party. The DIAMOND pRuI j.
gratilicd To know TINT uo Fra lk Not
tons, nor "Icdcration4 OF labor" hamper
the iuiccsis OF Il @ miners oi tlc ryslal
Falls field and That tac promised re-
sumptions ia the near iutuic will not b,
waylatcd hy any ~ ch nonsense as has
bccnpracl,cd into the noddlcs oI The Go
grbic miners.
LATER: Since the above was put in
type, news cones from the Gogrbic range
20 the effect that . TOO miners ot the
Norric, Eust Nortic, pahat ad AurH3i
mines have struck, under the direction oI
Nottpn, the bum ngitntor, and thnt work
IN these properties has been entirely s,l,-
pended, with lhc excerii ion ui Keeping The
mines ircc from water. Wmt the out
come viii bc is nov problcinatical