The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-12-14
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,hos. Ioc.I,,ies These men have been warned not to come
to the camp on the peril of their lives One who dared .
brave these threats. Mr.. +. ]. Campbell Of Denver. and part
owner of the vindicator mine Of Cripple Creek was oru'any
assaulted and cowardly beaten and forced to leave the ds-
trict.
standardization miners and citizens who have in
CURED the enmity of the union have been beaten up II night
by the score and compelled to leave the camp. This has been
especially true Of miners suspected of being what are
called "scabs" and who have been under suspicion OF aiding
the mine owners cause In Cripple Creek or other places The
latest of this kind was that of Mr.. Herbert r. Belford.
son of Hon. James b. Belford of Denver. appointed py
court of Colorado and for many years sole representative IN
congress of that state. On last Saturday night November
80. 1907. M. Belford after being accused of being a Cripple
Creek scab' and taken over to the Miners Union OF ~
purpose of clearing himself OF the charge was taken to a
dark spot on Main street of Goidheld. and most inhumaneiy
and brutally beaten. He will be manned for life.
Third-Citizens and merchants Of the camp who have
dared to protest against or even disapprove these outrases
have been threatened. boycotted. beaten up and even muir
dered. One example of this class will suhhce. Anton silva
was an inonensive italian. the proprietor of a restaurant In
the camp. During the strike in March, 1907. he dared to sell
meals to the members of the carpenters union that was OPP
posed to the Western Federation of Miners. and In other
ways incurred the enmity of the union. On the evening of
March 10. w. R. Preston, the walking delegate of the
Miners union. backed by a large number OF Its members
went IN silva,s place and shot him down in cold blood.
Preston and Joe Smith. another omcer of the union were ar
rested. tried and convicted Of this murder. The union Is
for funds to secure their liberation and calling them martyrs.
Fourth-The union has encoura ged. protected and as
sisted its members in the crime of stealing ~ from a
mines Of the district. The ores of Goldfeld are very hiSh
grade and in all the mines are millions of dollars worth OF
ore running in value from 81 to $50 per pound. This ore has
been stolen in a way almost beyond Dene1 Durihs te sN
months ending December 81. 1906. there was stolen from the
Mohawk mine alone not less than one million dollars ana
during the past six months there has been taken from n
Little Florence lease on the Florence mine not less than two
thousand dollars a day. The union has refused to permit
underground watchmen. has ordered a strike when enective
change rooms were placed upon the properties. has protested
against. and prevented almost every effort to prevent this
practice and in every way encouraged the ore thieves ana
thwarted the efforts Of the mine owners 10 oe'ec' OF UNI
them.
Fffth-In violation Of repeated agreements and under
standings the union has ordered strike after strike to the
incalculable damage of the mines and enormous losses to the
owners and general arrangement of the business OF the dis
trict. without enumerating strikes that went before, from
December 1 1906. to December 1. 1907. there were four gen.
eral strikes in the district resulting in complete shut downs
of mining. A total of more than ninety days were lost py
reason of these strikes o practically one-fourth Of the entire
year.
without going into detail as to each OF these IL VIII u
flee here TO give the cause of each. December. 1906. ana
January, 1907, for higher wages; March and April. 1907 De-
cause the mine owners refused to discharge carpenters VINO
belonged to the American Federation of Labor and did not
belong to the Western Federation of Miners; August ana
September, 1907, because some of the mines insisted on