The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-04
UNIONS IND
TBE MILITIA
Certain Lines of DISTINCTION
Made in the West
ONE CASE IN DAKOTA
East Not Bothered With the
Proposition
ONE CASE IN DAKOTA

Washington. June Sin the East the
new militia law passed by congress is not
expected to stir things up very much, ex-
cept in those quarters where new uniforms
and equipment. and changes of regimentai
and troop organization, are made neces-
sary to bring local military bodies already
established into substantial conformity
with the Federal army. But in the West
it bids fair to make plain certain lines of
distinction which the bulk of the people
would rathed ignore. Issues Of the Dead
wood IS. d. Pioneer-Press recently re-
ceived here have contained a rather start
ling collection of advertisements. On one
page there appears among the paid an
nouncements the following:
NOTICE OF MUSTER.
Notice is hereby given that 1 shall be in
Deadwood Tuesday evening, May, &c, 1853,
for the purpose Of mastering into the ser
vice of the South Dakota National Guard
e company of infantry. said company to
consist Of not less than forty men.
The muster will be held in the armory
at eight o CLOCK p. m. of said day, when
and where all those desiring to become
members of said company shall he present
TO subscribe their names ard take the
oath. A. PATRIQUIN.
Col Assistant Acknowledgement South
Dakota National Guard.
On the opposite side Of the same leaf, in
an equally conspicuous position, appears
this:
NOTICE.
To members Of Deadwood Federal Union:
Whereas. 1t has been brought to our no
tice that a military organization is about
to be organized in this city;
Therefore BE it resolved, That all men,
bers Of this Union are hereby forbidden
to join such organization, under penalty
OF being forthwith expelled from such
Union.
Be it further resolved. That no member
of any military organization shall be ac-
cepted for membership into this Union.
(Signe0 DEADWOOD FEDERAL UN-
ION NO. 2SS.
BY JAS. T. JEFFRIES, President
(seaD c. c. CHARLSON, Secretary.
Inquiries of the law officers of the gov
ernnent here show that, although this dis
elimination is without doubt deliberately
INTENDED to interfere with and hamper
lilt tACtul4tl VI Nllt lAVN 4 a. AAiiA'N--N
act, there are no statutes under which it
can be reached. Public sentiment" said
one officer, must be left to deal with
that matter unaided, except by local en-
actments. 1t seems to patriotic men that
such a spirit as the second advertise
ment hreathes is as reasonable as any
thing said or written since the foundation
OF the government. Unless it is forcibly
III In -f,.af
form it win appear next.
THE newer communities, of course
have always had a rather more serious
problem TO face in the labor field than
the older ones in our country. American
development has for the last twenty-five
wears followed Industrial and mechanical
lines. so shat the question Of procuring
skilled labor has been the chief considera-
ton in making any great local advance.
The West. which begins where the East
leaves of. has naturally had its double
. share of this sort of trouble. While the
East. for example. was stiil using horse
cars everywhere in its large cities, no
Western town of any size and enterprise
was without its cable lines, and while
Eastern builders were still using tntiquat-
ed methods of putting houses together,
the West was forging ahead with us sue
cessfuI experiments Of modern construc-
ton. With its slower ways, in short, the
East was stIl employing unskilled labor
in branches where the West was utilizing
only skilled and sometimes craftsmen Of
uncommonIy high degree.
THE West has had therefore much
larger proposition to wressle with, proper
tionateIv. than the East, "a its treatment
Of the unions Had public scntiEent-
that is. the sentiment Of those memtv:s
of the community who ID not belong to
any labor rganization-become anti
union In almost in any Western town
since 1870. the unions could have utterly
wrecked its future 10y marching out OF it,
for there would have been practically no
economic fabric left The sense Of their
dependence has induced a very great
difference in the attitude of many West
ern communities towards organized labor
from that which is observable in the East
I have read the notices posted by en-
ployers of skilled labor in both sections
FOR the information of their employees,