The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-21
]. B. Akin Believes that
Such Result, EIiminat.
ing Union, Can be had
WEAR|EO OF M|SRULE.
Miners of GOIdfieId Will Shake Off
Domination Of Union Leaders,.
BIoOdshed if Troops Withdraw.

J. e. Akin of Goldfeld, who has
many friends and acquaintances in
this district, is here on short bust
ness trip in connection with his local
holdings, which are extensive. He
is straight from Goldfield, where
United States troops are quartered to
prevent conflict between union min
ers and the mine owners of the dis
trict That the wisdom of sending
troops to Goldfield is debatable
question at this time, is Mr. Atkins
view.
Labor has been ruled with an iron
hand for the last two and half or
three years by men in power in the
labor organizations there said Mr..
Akin last night. These leaders, and
the organizations who make their
leaders their absolute masters, have
governed the district with an iron
rod. A full and impartial investiga-
ton will show that they have intimi-
dated everyone and many criminal
acts have been committed by men,
bers of these organizations, being di-
rected against those who opposed
their autocratic methods.
''The mine owners have done their
best to get these agitators, Vincent
st. John, and others of his kind, to
give the camp peace by entering into
written agreements for specified
periods, in order that they. could i'm
prove their properties, market their
stocks and operate their mines peace
fully.
efforts to reach an agreement
which would give them a specified
period of peace and prosperity, have
invariably been frustrated by agita-
tors. There is an explicit agreement
among the agitators not to enter into
any agreement for a specified time,
they being ever dissatisfied, and ever
wishing for better conditions than
any they have had. They believed
that they can better themselves by
this incessant warfare.
1.-The mine owners have despaired
of ever having peace and in their
statement to. the commission sent by
President Roosevelt to investigate
conditions, have offered to prove that
Miners union, No. 22O, of the West
ern Federation of Miners at Gold
field, is not an ordinary labor Or
ganization, but a pretended Social
istic organization which is in fact,
an anarchistic society. To prove TINS
they show the assertion that the un-
ion leaders are opposed to any truce
or written agreement with the mine
owners.
1.-The mine owners also reclte all
of the strikes that have been expert
cnced at Goldfield, and acts o! law
lessness and violence that nave
grown out of them as proof of their
assertion as to the character OF this
organization.
whether the brin ging of the SOL
diers to Goldfield by the governor was
a wise move, is debatable at this time.
81 do not believe that the dispatch
published in local paper yesterday
afternoon announcing that president
Roosevelt had ordered the Withdrawn
of all of the troops from Goldheld,
is wholly true. I believe that 1t may
be possible that part OF the 1orce
has been ordered withdrawn.
1.-The people of Goldfield have Gen
eral Funston's assurance that part,
at least, of the military force VIII
remain at Goldfield all the winter.
They also have his assurance that the
commission sent to Goldfield by Pres
ident Roosevelt to investigate the sit
nation will be in session for from
60 to 90 days. The troops VIII re-
ho
investigation.
sI believe fully that the removal
of the entire body of troops at this
time might precipitate blooasiieu,
Old scores might be wiped OUT oiu
grievances and feuds be settled by
primitive methods. mt.
..While it is possible that cohilict
may lie precipitated. believe that
hoth the union and the mine owners
of Coldfeld will profit by the MS
tory of the labor troubles at Cripple
Creek and I hope that the commls.
eion sent by President Roosevelt VIII
~ able to bring about compromise
along conservative lines on both SIDES
without the necessity Of bringing III
foreign labor. -, =.
"J believe that Goldfield Will I'M
mediately, when this matter IS set
fled. issue upon n better future thah
che has ever had in the past. because
of the assurance of peace ana pros
peritv that will come from the set'ie'
ment. ,.,
"G,be camp is as rich as ever; mere
are untold millions of dollars remain
ING In tho ground there, waiting 10
be brought to the surface ana put in.u
circulation, and there is no reaso,
why, this matter once settleo; "era, e,a,
field should not take and holu nrs'