The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
Nd COMPR OMISE
WITH AGITATORS
Trouble at GoIdfield Will Not
Be Settled Until |. w. w.
Are Beaten.
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION
INTERVIEW WITH MAJOR w. A.
STANTON.
lsnecial to The Herald.l

, AN ON.
Special to The Herald.)
Golddeld. New. April 13.-The situa-
tio1 I'm GoIdheld from the standpoint of
The business man and mine-owner was
discussed by Major w. A. Stanton, for
merly of Salt Lake City, now chairman
If the executive committee Of the Bust
,oss Mems & Mine Owners association
of Goldfeld. today. The committee, as
y committee. has had very little to say
bavond brief formal statements issued
from time 10 time ana at Irregular in
tervals
And il was with the greatest difficulty
that Major Stanton was persuaded TO
-nbD1if to the committee a request for
an authorized formal interview. The
committee. after hearing arguments for
and against the matter, decided that the
interview might be given out. and that
chairman Stanton was the man to han
die il. The major was asked to go into
the GoIdfeld troubles from the begin
ming. To detail, as far as he could with
propriety. the work of the committee
and its plans for the future.
Amone other things, he said
Must Be Settled Right.
N. one deplOred the situation more
deeply than The men and the interests
represented by this committee. The
trouble they are neither responsible for,
nor did they seek il. on the contrary,
they have gone 10 an extreme several
times heretofore in order to avoid it.
They realize perhaps more fully than
anyone else how huTtful these things
are not only to themselves and TO the
district but to the state at large. They
have been absolutely compelled, how
eyer. to force conditions to an issue,
which must have come sooner or later.
Ii is now here and must be settled right
10 be settled at all.
The cause of all our troubles may be
traced to "a sO-called labor organization
styling itself The Industrial Workers Of
The World. This concern is Of compare
lively recent origin. II established itself
here with the development of our mines.
Ii is a very comprehensive scheme, de-
signed 10 comprise all classes and con-
dItions Of men and women who labor or
who are classified as employees. The
union of these classes with the Organi-
zati0n is made compulsory. Those who
do not voluntarily join it are forced to
do 50 by any and every method neces-
Sary for that purpose. This practice
has been successfully pursued here as
against all OTganlZa tons except the car
penters. Its officers. through their con-
troll of all employees, are thereby en-
abled to. and do. dictate such conditions
as they see tit 10 employers of every
grade. and the disregard by any en-
pleyer of any order of the central body
means ruin. bodily injury and death
itself. if disobedience becomes obstinate
or long continued.
Simply Means Anarchy.
Those controlling this organization,
in Goldhell at least. are aVOwed So
cialists. but their definition of Socialism
is anarchy. They respect neither prop
rr,y contract nor security of life or
limb. They flourish in an atmosphere of
disorder Their displeasuTe means not
only a boycott, but industrial ostraciSm.
They have not only terroriZed the COM
munity and retarded the development Of
of camp. but their power is felt and
feared by public officials high or low
II is with these conditions that the con-
sentative and law-abiding element of
Goidheld has had to deal since the camp
became sufficiently important TO attract
attention.
III temerirv to criticize some of the Of
fcers of this orga nization was not only
boycotted but suppressed; a few resC-
lutte men stood by il, but il was unable
10 continue business except through its
purchase bV outsiders. Shortly after
wards The miners were ordered out of
one Of The mines in the district, and
business for the time being was paral-
wed. as tie other mines could not af-
ford under the circumstances, to con-
tnue operations. and therefore closed.
Settled for a Time.
This situation Was met at the time
by the business interests with earnest
efforts 10 compromise, and these were
partially successful. The mines re-
sumed work within a few days, about
which time the local union of the West
ern Federation Of Miners became di-
rectly identified with that of the l.
". ".
During the late summer and fall of
1905 the great bodies of very rich gold
ore in the Mohawk mine were plundered
by sO-called high graders" "a practice
Which the mine-OwnerS and their les
sees endeavOred to suppress. This
practice became so common that but lit
lie cOncaalmeut was attempted, be-
cause the l. W. ". organization defend
"a and encouraged ii. and. through its
enormous power, shielded offenders ana
assisted i'm the conversion OF the spoiis
INTO money. The mine-OwneFs there
fore determined, upon the falling in OF
he leases. TO take measures for their
Protection. in consequence of which the
l. W. w. pTecipitated another strike
condition. IL is Just, however. to say
that the large body of miners neither
Sympathized with nor were identified
as miners with that movement
Trouble Soon Came.
As a result the camp was for a Sec
oHd time tied up, business languished
and the entire district was virtually at
The mercy of the ]. w. w. Through the
influence. however, of the mine-owners
and business men upon the one hand
ana the conservative miners upon the
other. a second agreement was reached,
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