Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-02

Carter hdSeted on his chair. "Well. you see, it's this Way, Rob: We held a meeting today, and we decided that in view of the struggle that labor is making here all the mines should either shut down or put their men into the ranks"
 You have asked my men to join. haven't you:"
 Yes"
 "What did they say?"
 Munro clipped in, They said, Go to blazes.
 Raymond smiled. How impolite of them. Well, now, let me say once again, Carter, l am in sympathy with your main objects. I think d man should be paid for every minute he works, but don't believe in any meth o1 of forcing men who are working and want to work into q strike I can't afford to go into any such organiza- ton"
 You can't afford not to-" growled Brock.
 His tone angered Raymond. What have you 10 say in this matter:''
 Pm member of the executive com mittee.'
 '.Sncc when:"
 No matter when, What 1 say goes :"
 "Does it? Well, you keep a civil tongue in your jaws when speaking to me-
 Brock rose. You'll close down to- morrow or we'll close you down."
 Raymond faced him. We will not down. Carter kdows, and you know Jack, I've played fair in this. I have not believed in your methods. I stood with Larned. your own organizer against violence. If you can't convince my men by argument you needn't come to me to dragoon them into your ranks What difference will my hands make anyway"
 Carter seized upon this. 'It will make all the difference there is There are a dozen of these small operators holding out because you and Kelly do. Your men are all strong men and ought to be with us. Besides, it weak ems our discipline"-
 Raymond interrupted. We've been all over that before am not concern cd with your discipline. l have no quarrel with my men. They are satis- fled with our present arrangement You're going at this back end to. If you would turn your attention to re forming mining laws and crushing out these speculative owners of mining lands, you would really be doing some thing. but your assault on men who are paying labor full wages weakens your case"
 while Raymond was speaking.
 What's the meaning of all this?" he asked.
 Raymond coldly replied, "These men have come to serve a final notice on us to discharge our nonunion men or shut down"
 Not at all"' cried out Carter, who feared Kelly. "All we ask is that you recommend your men to join the un- ion"--
 Brock sprang to his feet again. "Oh,
 
 rats! What's the use beating around the bush? We know that you fellers are the backbone of the free miners association and that they would all come in if you said so, and we need you and your men. We want you to head 'em our way"
 Kelly smiled. We're not asking much. So far as Fun concerned, Car ter, don't believe word in you and your schoolboy, tomfool antics. From the very start ye've gone wrong You began by defending lot of drunken blaggards, and that Queered ye with every decent man. Go back to camp. arrest Denver Dan, San Juan Jones' Hob Smith and the rest of the bunch and send them down to the valley as peace offering; then serve notice on the men that blew up the Red Star that they'll be hung tomorrow morn ing. By that time I'll begin to believe in you and your love for the honest workingman."
 Carter, utterly unable to stem the flood of kelly's indignant speech, sat with dropping head. He stammered, "You-you're traitor to labor"
 "I am 8 traitor to nothing that is good, but l am worn out and weary with your yellin', cursin', gamblin' :, drunken looms that assume to be work men. l have more respect for the weak little dagoes, for they do want work and need it, but the buns that fill the streets are a sorry threat to decent man, let alone decent woman. And here's Jack Munro''-Kelly turned, and the smile died out of the young desperado's face-''he's chief of gang of hoodlum cowboys and still pretends to be keepin' the peace. If you want to help the cause of labor. Jack, me boy, close the saloons while this strike is going on, protect the women and children, arrest and throw out the men that blew up the Red Star mine-you know who they are"-
 "l do not" said Munro.
 Kelly was honlike in his wrath, and