Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-01-13
REPORT OF THE
FEDERAL COMMITTEE
Is Made Public and Recommends
Removal of Troops. Govern
or Not Informed

IudSIuucu dS We WSlc ". Ills tilHC
satisfied that the mine operators had |
not in any particular established
case justfying eithF the bringing or
the retention of the troops, we did not
deem it necessary to take any extern
siye evidence on the other side, and
the hearing was substantially closed
with a brief formal interview with
the committee from the Miners Union.
Reviewing the conditions leading
up to the present strike and since the
strike began, November 9th last, the
report draws this conclusion:
The action of the mine operators
warrants the belief that they had de-
termned upon a reduction in wages
ana the refusal OF employment to
members of the Western Federation
Of Miners, but they feared to take
this course of action unless they had
the protection Of Federal troops, and
that they accordingly lai3 a plan to
secure such troops and then put their
program into effect
Conditions at GoldNeld, the report
asserts, did not justify calling for the
troops. The single case Of the unlaw
ful use Of dynamite, which failed to
accomplish any damage, was sur
rounded by such circumstances, the
report says, as to raise a reasonable
doubt as tot he genuineness of the
ion were responsible. The great bulk
of the testimony Of the operators
! tended to show, according to the re-
port, not the existence Of past or
present disorder, but the possibility
Of future disturbances should the
troops be Withdrawn. This view was
es, but was based on the changed
conditions since the troops had ar
rived, namely, the declaration of the
operators reducing wages and Cefus-
ing to employ union men. AS to the
refusal of the operators to employ
union men, the report sets forth a
statute of the State prohibiting such
discrimination The commission ex-
presses itself as satisfied that out Of
the entire membership in the Miners
Union there are not over a few hun
dred men of dangerous type, while the
great majority, probably three
fourths of the membership of the un-
ion, were conc aded to be men Of law
: abiding tendencies. The report con
cludes:
BY permitting their organization
to be managed and controlled by men
OF violent tendencies the union as a
body has thus laid itself open to the
reproach Of being a vicious organiza
ton.
In view of the foregoing facts, We
believe there is a feeling that serious
disorders will be attempted ii the
troops be Withdrawn and the mine
operators insist in carrying out theil
publicly announced policy. But if {
handful of men have controlled the
Goldfield Miners Union and commit
ted the organization to indefensiblt
policies and practices, 1t Is no reason
:, why the County OF Esmeralda AM
the State of Nevada should tamel,
submit to the dOminat q. this SAM
group and should not assert their au
thority and power and enforce re
spect for law and order without SUI
port of Federal troops
But We must firmly believe tha
Z. upon the assembling Of the Legisls
. ture, Or within few days thereafter
:, the troops should be removed, rega1(
: less of any request for their retention
:. that may be made by either the Les
islature or the GOvarnor of Nevada
it being essential that the State c
Nevada shall understand the situatio
80 completely: shall recognize the fac
!, that there will, at that date, b
- thrown upon It. and it alone, the pr
mary responsibility of keeping orde>
and that. recognizing this respons
bIily, it may take such action as
the duty of the State, and as will b
=. sufficient in the premises"
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