The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-29

the carpenters union, and as the OLD
saying goes, we were between the devil
and the deep sea. All the carpenters
were in the carpenters union, and we
could not employ any of them for the
reason that they were not under the
jurisdiction of the Western Federation
of Miners and would not affiliate with
that organization. Consequently, for a
time, it was impossible for us to have
any carpenter work attended to.
This peculiar condition also existed
in the town of Goldfeld with regard to
other local organizations which were
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Their members either
had to give up their organization and
join the |. W. W.. organization or
they were branded as scabs; and who
ever employed them or had anything
to do with them were retaliated upon.
MINERS UNION FAITH.
/ want to call your further attention
to the preamble and bylaws of Gold
field Miners Union No. 220. You will
notice the color of the same is red, and
the preamble commences as follows:
"The working class and the
employing class have nothing in
There can be no peace
so long as hunger 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 a
struggle must go on until all the
toilers come together on the po-
~litical, as well as the industrial
field and take and hold that which
they produce by their labor
through an economic organization
of the working class, without af-
f~iliation with any political party.
"The rapid gathering of
wealth and the centering of the
management of industries into
fewer and fewer hands make the
trade unions unable to o 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 another set in
the same industry, thereby help
ing to defeat one another in wage
wars. The trade union aids the
employing class to mislead the
workers into the belief that the
working classes have interests in
common with their employers.
"This sad condition can be
changed and the interests of the
working class upheld only by an
organization formed in such a way
that all its members in any one
industry. or in all industries, if
necessary, cease work whenever a
strike or lockout is on in any de
partment thereof, thus making an
injury to one is an injury to ALL
[ dislike to mention all these mat.
tiers and only speak of this to show
you some eff the absurdities of the con.
ditions with which we had to deal
The facts stated, however, are the
truth, and there has not been publish
ed enough of the truth in regard to
the Goldfeld difficulties.
The next chapter relates to the con.
ditions which existed in Goldfelc
about the first of December, 1907; and
while | was not there at the time,
am entirely familiar with the bitter
ness which existed upon both sides IN
this controversy, and i do not be.
lieve there is one man in fifty upon
either side who did not fear that be-
fore matters were ~peaceably adjusted
something would happen that would
disgrace the fair name of the state of
Nevada as a peaceful and law-abiding
community