The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-26

desire to assure you gentlemen that we
stand ready to submit to any investi-
CATION which you gentlemen may see
fit to impose. The proceedings of ev-
cry meeting of the association have
been recorded and are open for your
fullest inspection. Every statement
of fact contained in our statement OF
December 7th. which we have incor-
porated into this document, we stand
ready to prove to the fullest satisfac-
ton of you gentlemen. If you will
indicate to us the kind and character
Of evidence you require, we will glad
ly furnish the same. We will bring
witnesses before you, submitted in the
shape of afidavits, written statements
or in any other manner which you may
require. In addition to this we will
give you the names of persons whom
you may interview and ascertain the
facts from them which will substan-
tate our statements.
"All that this association asks is
the privilege of working its properties
upon fair, just and equitable terms.
We make no wal against labor unions,
but on the contrary prefer union labor,
believing it to be generally better than
non-union labor. On the other hand,
if we cannot procure miners except
they be members of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners as a labor organ
i~zation, but believe it to be an organic
alton controlled by socialists and an
archists who, p~arading under the name
of a labor organization, desire to
produce such turmoil and confusion
between employer and employee that
their s~ocialistic and anarchistic pro-
gram may be carried out; and in sup
port of this we submit the following
from the constitution and bylaws of
the Western Federation of Miners:
" sThe working class and the EN-.
ploying class have nothing in common
There can be no peace so long as hun
ger and want are found among millions
of working people, and the few, who
make up the employing class, have all
the good things Of life.
" Between these two classes q
struggle must go on until all the toll
ers come together IN the political as
well as the industrial field and take
and hold that which they produce by
their labor through an economic or
%ganization of the working class, with
out utilization with any political party.
'The rapid gathering of wealth
and centering of the management of
industries into fewer hands make the
trade unions unable to cope with the
ever-growing power of the employing
class, because the trade unions foster
a state of things which allows one set
of workers to be pitted against an
other set in the same industry, there
by helping to defeat one another in
wage CARS. The trade union aids the
employing class to mislead the work
ers into the belief that the working
class have interests in common with
their employers.
4" This sad condition can be chang
ed and the interests of the working
class upheld only by an organization
formed in such a way that all it's mem
bers in any one industry, or in all in
dustries, if necessary, cease work when
ever a strike or lockout is on in any
department thereof, thus making an
injury to one an injury to all.
Therefore, we, the industrial
workers of the Goldfeld mining dis
trict and vicinity, deem it desirable
and necessary to organize a local un-
ion of the department of the mining
industry, and hereby adopt the follow
ing constitution, bylaws and rules of
order for our guidance and control:'
eve would also call attention to a
provision in the constitution of the
Western Federation Of Miners to the
effect that "No local union or unions
of the w. F. M. shall enter into any
signed contract or verbal agreement for
any specified length of time with their
employees That is, no agreement for
peace is to be made that cannot be
broken the next day, and the warfare
so dear to the heart of the socialist
and anarchist renewed. We submit
that these declarations themselves are
a declaration of war between this or
ganization and trade unions and place
this body beyond the pale of a labor
union or lawful organization. The
history of the Federation as shown by
printed reports both state and federal.
by state documents and records of
criminal trials in Colorado, Idaho and
Montana demonstrate the truth of our
statements"