Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-20
COPPER ERA AND EIGHT HOUR LAW.


 ing through an era of industrial de- pression that is really causing alarm on the part of the business men Of PresCo.. The cause is a disag e- mert between the mine operators and the employees over a question cf wage p.ec,pi:a5ed by the recent eight hour law. As a result a meeting o.. the business men of Prescott and tho mine operators convened in Prescott last week for a conference. A sec ond meeting is arranged for the 10th at which time the situation will be thoroughly discussed and an efor- made 70 effect a compromise betNee2 the opposing interests. The Re view hopes the effcrts of inc Citizens league will be success sful. This is no time for mines to lie idle in Ar zona Review
 , "The above is in 'artling contrast to the editorials winch appearel !r the Review while the legislature was in session, urging the immediate pas sage Of the eight hcur law This law has been the means of closing down many mines in the territory and the end is nc. ye.. And besides that it has given the territory a baJ name abroad. II is now much more difficult to secure money for Arizona mining enterprises than it was before the passage of this law, and thc strike and troubles which fcl,cwed it. Millions of dollars have alread" been diverted from Arizona to M .c) by the passage Of this law and its ef- fleets upon the labor market. Prev. csr to tha. time labor troubles were hardly kncNl .n Arizorq. but since {, en the. havs been cf common oc- currenca. Tho Era aces not believe in a law that prevents a man from working more than eight hours day if he wishes to do so. The Review is largely responsible for the state Of affairs winch exist, a-d is trying to crawl cut of very small hole but its efforts will not be successful. Cop per Era.
 The Copper Era belongs to thac class of newspapers never known tr have an opinion of its own. IL s wiling 10 toddle along. in its weak isneed eougsee eeehoing the opinions of , others and sadly lacking in sufa- cieGt quantity of gray matte. b make . .tself felt outside of, its own press room. During the last campaign the Copper Era dared not take q . stand either on one side or the other but was busy believing about the principles of the G. O. P. Every body knows what the G. O.P. got ill , Arizona last year. It was akin tc something an individual named Pete Kitchen. received in Sonora in years gone by. Now the Era is busy pub fishing to the outside world tn: fact @ that MILLIONS have beer diverted to Mexico as a result of tho passage of the eight hour law in Ari zona. For the information of th' Era we wish to state that such is no the ease in this district, the larges and. richest in the territory, and w doubt ve.y much if the editor of tn Era on the witness stand would swea that his own district had sufere' from a lack of capital for like req son.
 The labor trouble in Arizona confined to about sky miners in ff vapai county working for question: ble development companies depent ing rpon the sale of stock in the eas for their life. This is sixty men or of a possible ten thousand. Tn mining companies in Arizona, tn producers employing American laboi have long ago recognized the jus ness of the el"ims for an eight hoT day and voluntarily acceded to th request. Bisbee and Jerome. tn two largest camps in the territor. have lcng been eight hour camps. an the superin :endents of these comp nies are willing to state that the now accomplish as much work eight hours as they formerly did rine and ten.
 The miners Of Arizona asked f m eight hour law. They represel the great army of wage earners this territory ard hae a righ:- to e