The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-05-04
GOTWALDT BOOSTING FOR
GOLDFIELD IN THE EAST

William Mcclure Gotwaldt. connected
with The Goidheld News has been tour
ing the east. and spreading the fame OF
Goldheld in his picturesque style. The
following interview with Mr.. Gotwaldt
appeared In the New York Commercial
of April "a:
after weeks of silence the hoists of
the Goldheld district are again hum
ming" said W. NJ. Gotwaldt. mines
editor of The GoldfeId News. who is in
the east for a few days. to a Commercial
interviewer. Mr.. Gotwaldt is a guest
at the Hotel Putnam and will shortly
return to what he terms the greatest
gold camp on earth"
This shut down Is generally consid-
cred In the east to have been the Sc
quence of a strike. There Is also a be-
lief that serious differences exist and
have existed between miners and mine
operators, concerning hours of labor.
remuneration and membership in the
Western Federation of Miners.
such a conclusion is absolutely un-
warranted. There exists an entente
cordiale between workers and employers
that manifests itself in good fellowship
and the asking, receiving and returning
of favors. often of a very substantial
sort. Perhaps nowhere in the world,
certainly not any other mining camp,
has there ever been such a comar-
aderie existent in the relationship known
to common law as master and man. 1t
Is not unusual for the miner to request
that he receive his pay in stock and very
frequently the operators reward the
miners with pay in excess of the scale
because of excellent service rendered.
All the trouble of the past weeks Is
traceable to an alien organization, one
known as the Industrial Workers of the
World, which hypnotized and s~pellbound
the Western Federation of Miners into
losing it's entity and becoming the min
ing department of the I. w. w. thus
making of the toilers in the paramount
industry Of Nevada a faction with the
same men as those who black their boots
and wash their dishes after they dine.
THE Industrial Workers of the World
will now be compelled to work, for the
Western Federation of Miners in Gold
field. The latter organization. wearying
of enforced idleness, satiated with an
archistic oratory and smarting under
the whips OF the l. w. W. agitators. has
reasserted it's independence.
There are 16S power hoists and whims
in operation in the Goldield district.
This number may be counted, and was
counted by DR.. Robinson n myself
several weeks ago from the summit of
Red King hill, recently famous by the
discovery of probably the richest quarts
In the world in the Robinson & vfckers
Little Florence lease.
"Goldheld promoters are making good.
True 1t is that there were. and possibly
still are, w~ildcatters among them, but
they are growing less daily. The pres
ent system of mine fiotation in Goldfeld
admits of no graft. In nearly every in
stance the promotion stock Is pooled and
the officials of the companies serve with
out recompense, while application for
listing Is made at the earliest possible
moment.
THE investor in Notation shares still
takes a chance. but not so long a one as
formerly. He gets a good run for his
money, and If he places his eggs in .
number of baskets. one or more of them
should become filed with little yellow
chicks.