The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
President Attacked For His
Sending Troops to
GOldiield.
CRY Personal HATRED
Western Federation Committee
Says He Could Have Prevented
theWest Virginia Catastrophe
Had He Enforced Mining
Laws of State.

GOLDFIELD, New, Dec. 9.-An au-
thoritative statement was made today
that sufficient men are already on the
Wednesday. The total lumber of those
that have been quietly brought in and
those who have secretly made applica-
ton to return to their former posi-
tons is placed at 1000.
There are about 1900 Western FEEDER
alton men out. The men who are to
take places of the strikers are not to be
housed at the mines, but will be scat
tered through the camp and protection
for each individual will be guaranteed
by the Mine Owners Association.
Two propositions nave been posi-
lively decided upon, the making of an
open camp for oil time and the early
lowering of the wage scale. At the
same time the Mine Owners Associa-
ton is going to begin a vigorous cru
SADIE to lower the cost of living In
Goldfeld.
The scope of the Mine Owners As
ISOLATION is to be greatly enlarged by
the organization of the Nevada Mine
Owners Association, of which the
Goldfeld Mine Owners Association will
be a part.
DENVER, Col, Dec. 9.-The execu-
tive board of the Western Federation
of Miners has issued the following
statement concerning the present con-
troversy in Goldfeld, Nevada.
ION December 6 President Roosevelt
$1,000 ~,~11o-4aktA A.l1.fn1 E7ol-
eral troops to go to Goldfield, New,
ostensibly to protect life and property.
That there was even any danger to
personal property is emphatically de-
MED by officers of Esmeralda County,
and by the merchants and citizens of
Goldfield.
''The only reason for the present
trouble was the decision of the mine
operators to force upon the miners a
scrip that would not be taken at par
by the railroad companies, the Wells
Fargo Express Company, the stores or
the boarding houses.
Neither would the mine owners
agree to guarantee that they would
redeem this scrip at any time In the
future.
in refusing to accept this worthless
scrip in exchange for their hard labor
the miners of GoIdfeld are taking a
manly stand against the usurpation of
governmental functions by unreliable
banking firms which assume the right
to set aside the legal money OF the ma
ton.
1--WE desire to call the attention of the
American people to the disaster at Mo-
nongah, w. Va, where five hundred
coal miners we're murdered by the cap
italist system I'm it's greed for profits.
Had President Roosevelt been as anX-
ious to enforce the mining laws of West
Virginia as he is to send the regular
army to crush an organization whose
only aim is to better the conditions
and make happier the lives of the work
ing class, five hundred blackened corpses
would not today be laid on the altar of
greed at Monongah, around which weep
widowed wives and orphaned children.
w protest against this action of
President Roosevelt, knowing that he
was animated by personal hatred
against the Western Federation OF
Miners and its officers. The moving Of
troops on n peaceable community must
be regarded at least as hasty and Ill
advised, and we call upon the working
class of the country to protest against
this unwarranted and Unprecedented
action of mimic warfare"
Captain Sage, of the Consolidated Mines
Companies detective patrol, reported last
that he had seized one hundred rifles
that had been hidden, presumably by
union miners. within a short distance of
Goldfield.