Arizona republican., 1903-06-04
How Do Arizona Timers Like the
rloyer Doctrine?

A few days ago, at Denver, Mr..
Charles Meyer, president of the West
ern Federation of Miners, made his an
nual report to the assembled delegates
of the union. Laboring, evidently.
under that most incurable of all dis
eases. swel!ed head, Mr. Meyer pro-
| ceeded to take a fall out of President
Mitchell. the official head of the an
thracite coal miners. Mr.. Mitchell. it
will be remembered, conducted last
year the greatest strike in the history
of coal mining. Finally. the president
OF the United States having appointed
commission TO settle the strike-a
commission of arbitration. in fact,
composed mainly of the friends of or
ganized labor-Mr. Mitchell and his
miners gained nearly everything for
which they had contended. 1t was
generally suppose that President Baer
of the Reading railroad was the only
man dissatisfied with the strike COM
But that was before the world had
heard of President Moyer-what a
mouth filling name: President Meyer.
1t was not only supposed that every
body was satisfied, and that Mr.. Mitch
ell had gained immense prestige for
| organized labor. but nobody had sus-
pected that President Roosevelt. Presi-
dent Baer and President Mitchell had
committed a fatal error in not taking
President Meyer into their conferences.
Moreover, the ignorant public would
have surmised that II the anthracite
miners OF Pennsylvania and their pres
ident, Mr.. Mitchell, were satisfied. it
was not up to the gold and silver and
copper miners of the Rocky mountains
to make a howl. But this is what the
great President Meyer says about
Mitchell and the coal strike commits
sion:
can the leader of this army of men
expect. TO hold his organization intact
when he advises them to continue a
policy which offers nothing for the
future but strife and restitution and
commends the findings of board OF
al OAti obiOh SCICEANh ny TIC
tives of capital which binds the chains
of slavery more securely around his
membership and deprives them of even
the privileges of appealing to their
masters for a period OF three years
John Mitchell need not be surprised
should his membership turn their faces
TO the west. seeking utilization with or
CARNATIONS which have sent out their
lY,,a fn ha hot 1ah
produces all wealth. such wealth be-
longs 10 the producer thereof"
OF course, President Meyers rea-
soning must be accepted as correct. He
has the backing of powerful authority.
The Chicago Haymarket anarchists.
and Emma Goldman. Herr Most. and
the murderer of President Mckinley I'll
agreed that las labor produces all
wealth. such wealth belongs to the pro-
Queer thereof" The soundness of this
doctrine loses none of it's force because
| it happens that none OF it's apostles
have been guilty of working with any
thing but their jaws. They are too un-
selfish to take Jobs that belong 10
| somebody else.
But what do the intelligent miners OF
Arizona think of the Meyer creed? A
majority of the miners, we believe. be-
long to the federation of which this
fellow Meyer has been president for a
long time. What do they think of their
leader, really? No doubt, the Arizona
miners who belong TO the union-other-
wise known as the Western Federation
of Miners-sometimes feel that their
employers and the general public are
! unreasonable in criticising the union.
The average miner can see no harm,
but much good, in union. He belongs
to the union because he believes in the
principle of organization, because his
heart is open to appeals for the FRA
ternal spirit, and because he believes
it is his privilege as an American TO
take any lawful step which in his
judgment will lead TO his material bet
terment. And he cannot understand
why everybody should not take the
same view
II intelligent miners of this class
would pay some attention to the antics
of the leaders and walking delegates
who make a fat thing by working the
union for all there is in it. it would
not be so easy for agitators to lead the
miners of the Rocky mountains like a
flock of sheep. Nire-tenths of the
white miners of Arizona, for example,
are men who are ambitious to achieve
place in the world. Almost without
exception they have mining prospects
of their own and they hope to own.
some day, mining properties of value.
Let each one OF these miners take the
Meyer doctrine of socialism home to his
own breast and to his own property.
The miner prOspector. a member OF the
union in good standing, owns a pros
pect in which his ambitions have been
wrapped up for a decade. Suppose
that tomorrow he makes the long
dreamed of strike, and can see at last
some return for his years of labor and
anxiety. He employs force of miners