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gentlemen are from the Stargo mine, from which a small shipment of thirteen tons to the Shannon smelter last week netted over $1 ,- 500. Regular shipments are being made to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas also. This property has been a steady producer for about three years and is a very valuable group of mines, being only about a mile from the Morenci Southern railroad, thus making the cost of transportation very low, which is great factor in mining in the Southwest.
 Mohave Miner: The long looked for test run of the plant of the Frisco Placer Mining company was made last week. The result was a success even beyond the expecta- tions of the company. The plant installed, with a few slight altera- tions, will be placed in steady operation wihin a month or six weeks. At the conclusion of the test run, which consisted of forty yards of gold bearing dirt, the basin under the second trommel was examined and there before the eye, plainly visible, was a yellow mass, intermingled with the black sand, Superintendent Murray wore a glad smile at the conclusion of the run. The exact figures of the result of the test run have not been given out but it is sufficient to say that the plant when in full operation can be depended upon to save not less that 80 per cent of the values and it is even estimated as his as 90 per cent.
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from Among the Mines of Arizona.
 Morenci Leader: Plans are being made for improvements at the Detroit Copper Mining Company's shelter and power plant; among these are new Reverbratory fur naces and new steam plant. c. Legrand and c. J. Witt, consulting engineers, are on the ground and work will be started as soon as possible.
 Prescott Courier: Major Pickerell was in from Copper Basin Tuesday last with some very fine looking copper ore from the properties of the Commercial Mining Company, which he is developing in that dis trict While he has not yet enough ore in sight to justify the erection of shelter, the outlook is very encouraging, and he may have it.
 Winslow Mail The Northern Arizona Oil company have received their oil machinery at Winslow and are now ready to commence operations on an extensive scale. The officials of the company re. port that all things are favorable for good results in a short time. If an oil field is opened up by them, it will cause big boom in northern Arizona and be of great benefit to all.
 Clifton Era; It is understood that the exact location of the site for the new smelter of the A. c. Co.,, Ltd is not in controversy with the placer claim locators and that building operations can go forward without any delay on this account. Upon the return of Superintendent Carmichael from the north, where he has been inspecting the big smelting plants of the Amalgamat- ed Copper Co.,, it is expected that work will be started on the plans for the new smelter.
 Clifton Era: Will Keepler, Tom and Steve Campbell left Friday morning for the Blue range to be gone for about three weeks. These
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Clifton Era: Will Keepler, Tom and Steve Campbell left Friday morning for the Blue range to be gone for about three weeks. These
The oasis., 1911-07-08
MINING N EW s.

4 Collection of Short Newsy Items from Among the Mines of Arizona.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-22

half reIuited toll insures their daily
bread.
These rulers no longer rule b. di-
vine decree nor is the poverty and
| misery of the workers any longer
the visitation of God but the workers
portion of the capitalist system which
they voluntarily support politically
and industriany
There is no excuse for the exist
ehce of poverty in the world today
When man used nothing buFhis
hands poverty was the common lot
of the toilers. Think how long tho
world has stood and then recall that
practically everything Lnat we Know
that is worth while We have learned
within the past hundred years In
the one hundred and thirty-five years
the United States has travelled as a
nation we have outgrown in the pro-
ductlon of wealth. in the development
OF art, science and literature. on
one side, and exploitation and plum
der of labor on the other, monarchies
OF over thousand years stanulng.
Th working class with their brain
and brawn have invented powerful
and ingenious machines that has III:
creased the productivity of the indi-
Vldual a thousand fold. But the in
Vention of these machines has only
increased his misery, for the more
he produces the less he has and the
more they have who do not produce.
These machines have in the aggre-
gate evolved into satanic system:
tyrannical and reactionary, by which
the more plentiful harvests produce
the greatest scarcity of bread, the
more wool the more nakedness Bank
vaults groaning with cash, while
children cry for bread. Palatial man
S!ons built at the expense of millions
OF dollars wrung largely in dimes and
nlckels from the hard earnings of the
poor, while millions of human beings
are crowded into dirty, sinking dis
ease breeding tenement flats. and
paupers graves are tenanted by pairs
every day in the year.
The right of this master to rule
because of their economic might is
now being questioned by the working
class as was the divine right Of kings
to rule hundred and fifty years ago.
Slowly. slowly but surely the idea is
forcing itself upon the working class
that If they would enjoy the blessing
or life. liberty and happiness, then,
tney must own the means whereby
they live. This idea grows with what
1t feeds upon and is multiplying with
tCONTINUED PAGE T,yo1
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MANS LAST
STRUGGLE WITH MAN
By j. w. BROWN.

Mans last struggle with man is on
The long~drawn out conflict of al
the ages is mobilizing into the mo
mentous struggle of this hour.
throughout all the ages that are
dead the working class have honoret
those who have dishonored them.
They have worshipped their destroy,
ers. they have mmortaliZed the most
gigantic tyrants. and buried all the
great thieves and murderers in mar
BILE and gold.
In the early days of the human
race poverty and misery was the
common lot of those who toiled. That
there should be some living in pov-
erty in the midst of luxury was ex-
piained on the ground that the work
ing class did not provide enough to
afford comfort and luxury for all,
The king ruled by divine decree,
therefore. the misery of the working
class could not be traced to his exer-
ton, but was looked upon as Il visit
alton of God
This idea of any one man being
appointed to rule over another by
divine decree received severe
shock during the latter part OF the
eighteenth century. And great
was the revolution that swept fu-
dalism from the field, yet it revealed
but half truth. 1t is only recently
that we begin to grasp the whole
truth, that. tyrants do not rule be-
cause Of divine decree but because
or economic might. Only recently
has 1t become apparent to the work
ing class that who ever owns the
means whereby they live, rules, and
this whether his rulership has been
sanctioned by divine decree or not
The all importent lesson that Mr..
Morgan is teaching the working class
is this, whoever owns the sources of
wealth rules. If Mr.. Morgan owned
all the sources of wealth then Mr..
Morgan rules and the State is his.
That there may be dozen or thous-
and Mr.. MorganS does not alter the
status of the working class they rule.
there he any egotistical rep
resentatives of the middle class elect
ed as the Representatives of all the
people, he has but to rem ember the
words of Phillip of Macedonia" no
fortress is impregnable that can be
reached by an ass laden with gold"
These grave and hoary-headed hyp-
ocrites the Morgans bend to their
VIII. and right or wrong accept their
gold while sneering and scoffing at
the needs of the working class whose
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-22
UnionLabor and the Union
Label In Milwaukee
By CARL D. THOMPSON

time for rest and development. Such
specifications should also provide for
sufficiency Of light and ventilation;
they should prohibit child labor and
properly protect woman labor, and
prevent the imposition upon workers
of degrading conditions
The Milwaukee Socialists have
Struggled for years to get the city
to nse the union label on all of the
city printing. This fight has finally
been successful.
The resolution was first introduce
ed by Aid. Welch (Soc.) in 1904.
From that time on it was regularly
drought into the Council and as reg
uliirly defeated, until in 1909 an
amendment to another resolution
brought in by Aid. WeiIey (SocD
finally passed. Meanwhile the enc
mics of organized labor had fought
the efforts of the Socialists to secure
the union label on city printing in
every possible way. Remonstrances
were sent in by the concerns; in
junction proceedings had been
brought against the council; the
courts had sustained the injunctions
and the city attorney had advised
that the public works department.
However, the resolution of the coun-
Gil still stands. 1t reads as follows:
''RESOLVED, That the typograph-
lcai union label shall appear on all
Incidental printing done by the city
Upon capturing the city this ac-
ton of the City Council was, of
course put into operation in all de-
partments. The union label appears
on al the city's printing, including
even the bonds.
Thus by the use of the union label
on all of the city's printing, the
recognition of the union in all OF the
city s work establishing trades union
conditions on all contracts let by the
city. the present administration in
Milwaukee is rendering a great ser
vice in the support of organized Ia
Dor. -.i,,ErFEg-
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BY Carl D. Thompson.

By Carl d. Thompson
The position of the present city
administration in Milwaukee on or
ganized labor and labor in general,
was Splendidly illustrated in the mes
sage of Mayor Seidel, upon assuming
office at the time that the Socialists
captured the city. April 10Th, 1910
That part of the message read as
follows:
The workers of our city are it's
most valuable asset. Your attention
should be directed to the passage
OF such measures as will promote the
well-being of this class of citizens,
safeguard health, check any tenden-
cy to encroach upon such few rights
as the workers still enjoy, and where
ever possible extend for them the
opportunity of life.
In this direction number of
steps can be taken. The administra-
ton should constantly watch over
the conditions prevailing in factor
les. workshops and places of employ
ment. with regard to sanitation.
There should at all times be full
and hearty cooperation with state
factory inspectors in the enforcement
of measures providing for industrial
hygiene.
Contracts to be let by the city
are awarded to the lowest bidder.
This does not preclude the right of
The city as a corporation to demand
compliance with certain specifica-
tions. Thus. the quality and treat
ment of materials may be specified
to insure economy. 1t is the height
of absurdity to contend that this
should not hold good with regard to
labor. The contention that the city
cannot, as an economic precaution.
specify the treatment of labor, is a
violation of the right of free con-
| ;ract, right enjoyed by corporations
and individual employers. There
fore in contracts to be let by the
city the specifications should provide
Cor hours of labor that are not ex-
| hausting, that leave margin o
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Pamphlet
Is Ready

Capitalism's conspiracy to crush
out organized labor III California
and the Pacific Coast. which recently
has taken the turn of kidnapping and
perpetratinS fake confe ssions and
ldentifications, is attracting world
wide attention.
So fiagrant has been the campaign
OF misrepresentation in the capitalist
newspapers all over the country thar
there has been an insistent demand
Tor the truth about Los Angeles
In response to this demand Frank
f. Wolf of Los Angeles has written
startling phamphlet which gives a
history of the Times disaster and the
subsequent attempt to turn the occa-
sion of a gas explosion and fire in a
death trap into a dynamite outrage
perpetrated by members of labor
unions.
This pamphlet is calculated to set
at rest all doubts in the minds of the
working class as to the conspiracy in
the Mcnamara case. 1t carries a
wonderful parallel with the civil war
in Colorado and shows that, step by
step. the crimes against labor there
are being duplicated at this hour.
The story. with its gl1resone shadow
OF the gallows as background, will
cause million to think and it should
do untold good in Strengthening out
the thought of the workers as to the
actual situation in Los Angeles and
California.
The pamphlet contains 32 pages
and IL half-tone Illustrations The
price was placed at 10 cents a COPY
in order that the book may receive
the widest circulation.
The pamphlet. which is entitled
"Caritalism's Conspiracy in Califor-
MIA may he procured by enclosing
10 cents to Frank e. Wolf. Room
925 Higgins Building. Los Angeles
Cal. special rate will be made to
those wanting 100 or more
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SOCIALISM, AND EDUCATION.

written for the Columbus Socialist)
When the workers have solved the
problem of the bread, and humanity
is reed from hunger and the fear
OF hunger. then we have also freed
the human intellect
There is no standard by which We
can measure the possible achieve
ments of the mind. Our own Conr-
rade Joseph DietZen taught that the
brain was the organ of knowledge
and, since its function is to know
no limitations are to be placed upon
its possibility.
When all human minds are free
to think. and each one can profit by
the others accomplishments: when
IN short, knowledge is socialized.
then the real education of humanity
will begin.
Under such a condition originality
would be encouraged. The public
schools Will be training-places to
Give each child possession of his own
POWERS.
Self-expression and social service
will be the twin goals of education,
and the two will by no means con-
flict. Commerce now demands that
the child's mind shall be crammed
with mathematics in the early grades
Under Socialism the child's psychol-
ogy shall be the determining factor
in laying out the subjects to be
studied.
The child shall be the important
citizen of the new state.
FREDERICK GUY STRICKLAND.
Seemingly the Charleston Board of
Affairs was so named because it is
run by and in the interest of men
of affairs
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BERGER'S SPEECH

0N
Inventions, machines and improve
ments now goes mainly to the small
class of capitalists. while on the
other hand. these new inventions
machines. improvements and labor
devices displace human labor and
steadily increase the army OF unenl-
ployed, who starved and frantic. are
ever ready to take the places of those
who have work, thereby still furth Ell
depressing the labor market
The average of wages, the GER
tainty OF employment, the social priv.
ileges and the independence of the
wage-earning and agricultural po.-
ulation, when compared with the i'm
crease of wealth and social produc-
ton, are steadily and rapidly de-
creasing
Things cannot go on like this in
definitely declared Berger. Some
day there. will be volcanic errupt-
lon A fearful retribution will be
enacted on the capitalistic class as a
class, and the innocent will suffer
with the guilty."
referring to the various remedies
that have been proposed such as the
single tax, free silver, etc, Berger
said none of these would improve
the condition of the worker He
called attention to the big strike now
on at Vancouver, British Columbia,
a city which has been painted in
glowing colors by Representative
henry George. Jr., because of its
adoption of the single tax.
ihere can be no social freedom"
decla red Berger, NOR a complete
Justice, until there are no more hire
lings in the world; until all become
both the employers and the employ
ed OF society
This social freedom, this COM
plete Justice, can be accomplished
only by the collective ownership and
democratic management of the social
means of production and distribu.
tion.
1 realize that all this cannot be
brought about by single stroke
NY a one-day revolution. But 1 know
that all legislation, in order to be
really progressive and wholesome,
must move in that direction.
Legislation that does not tend to
an increased measure of control on.
the part of society as a whole is not
in line with the trend of economic
evolution and cannot last.
Legislation that interferes with
the natural evolution of industry
means the taking of backward steps
and cannot succeed
Legislation that divides nations
into armed camps, that creates USE
less navies. that puts up Chinese
walls between people eager to trade
with one another, is reactionary and
cannot endure
Referring to the Underwood bill
FOR the revision of the wooden sched-
ule downward, then under discussion
Berger said:
Inc measure now under discuss
ION is of small immediate concern
to the working class. In itself it
means no material change in the con-
ditions OF the working men and
working women. But because it is
in line with social and political eyo-
luton: because it tends to DESTROY
the old tariff superstition: because
1t tends to break down the barriers
between nations and to bring into
closer relations the various people
of the world, L shall support the
bill
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Wisconsin
Notes
Socialist Kill Non-Part.
sian Bill.

one victory at least has been scor
eo by our Socialist members Of leg
| lslature The non-partisan bill has
been defeated. This bill was intro
uuced FOR the purpose, as our enc
mics admitted, of knocking out the
socialists in the next Milwaukee cleo
tlon. AS first introduced, it pro-
Vlded for non-partisan election for
! cities of the first class" AS Mil
Waukee is the only city OF the first
! class in Wisconsin,. of course it
aimed straight at 'Seidelburg," ONLY.
1t provides that no candidates could
run under any party name. This
would have made the work of the
SOCIALISTS doubly hard in the next
clectlon, and very likeley would have
meant the election of some pretended
refornler" who really belonged to
The interests 1t is usually some
unknown man, who has never been
tried and therefore has no enemies
lhls has been the result over and
over again.
SO the Socialists in the legislature
at Madison got busy. They devoted
d good deal of time and energy tt
hlllihs this non-partisan bill. One O,
our new members of legislature.
Comrade Vint. who until last winter
had no experience in Legislative work,
liiaue an especially good speech on the
subject Finally the bill was killed.
ana the would-be ''reformer' who
stood sponsor for it, walled on the
Assembly floor, The Socialists are
SO uncoinpromisinE,r
f'ut 1t is very necessary for Social
ISIS TO remain uncompromisiny on all
Huch measures as these. We cannot
aHord to be humbugged by the cry
non-partisanship in all city elections
ana municipal affairs," The princi-
pies of Socialism must be aypIied to
city afalrs-that is our first task
ana Tor this purpose we must elect
men definitely pledged to put these
principles into practice.
me battle against the Milwaukee
,ociaiiSts' herce as it is, has also
us humorous side. The two Anti
ooclalst aldermen who a week ago
were defeated in the debate held in
tue West Side High School after
their defeat suddenly discovered that
IL was very wrong to hold political
discussions in school buildings and
Drought complaint before the school
BOARD. The hearing of the case be-
iore the school board brought out
some amusing points The Anti
O.
SOCIALIST aldermen had claimed that
'ne meeting was ''packed' by the So
claHsts. Some of the non-Socialist
witnesses admitted that the Socialists
We're considerably in the majority at
the meeting, but stated that this was
usually the case in meetings where
civic topics were discussed. 1--WE
must at least give the Socialists cred
IL for enthusiasm they conceded
ne ADMISSION that the Social, as
are the men and women who take
the deepest interest in public
aHalrs Is an interesting conces-
sion on the part of the non
SOCIALISTS. 1t would give much
1000 for thought to any sin
cere 'reformers'' and ought to teach
them where really vital forces OF So
c1ety are at work.
+. n. THOMAS.
State Secretary.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE LAROR
ARGUS:
-ARGCS:

10 you suppose our State Fire
Marshall ever went on top of one of
our skyscrapers, and took a look at
the vast amount of rubbish that
would burn like thunder in the rea-
or our largest business houses?
] have.
Did you ever take a stroll on Mar
garet street and see and smell that
surface sewer?
have and had to take medical
treatment afterwards
HESEkIAH
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Senator Watson travels in a lux
urant private car. and Democ ratio
newspapers refer to him as a states
man When the late Senator EIkins
did the same thing he was sneered
at by these lickspittle sheets.
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a small boy. who was brutalIy
beaten by his foster mother, has
been put in the Clarksburg Jail with
hardened criminals until the woman
can raise the money to send him to
an orphan home in Oklahoma. A
capitalist government can humiliate
and punish the innocent and unfor-
tunate, but it is unable to offer en-
couragement. If this outraged youth
should go wrong as the result of
such inhumane treatment the law
will take revenge with fiendish de-
light and his offense will furnish
preachers with subject for solemn
words on the depravity of man.
The Socialist stands for a parti-
sanship that represents his inter
ests- for right principles as a basis
of obtaining the right persons. for
making democracy efficient instead
of surrendering democracy in the
hope of getting efficiency, Y,A
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ing that Adam Littlepage has be-
come a national figure. o?
Vote to employ yourself and give
the Joss brogan.
Thee is something seriously
wrong with system of government,
under when an able bodied man can
be imprisoned when his only offense
is begging for work.
His boss was arrogant, therefore,
Ignorant; his work was grinding.
the pay small and the hours long,
but grim necessity compelled him to
toll on. There-you have the def
milton of slave.
When it comes to buster and
bluff, Gov. Glasscock is almost the
equal of the late Thcadore Roose-
welt.
GOV. GlasScock says the Demo-
Gratis are liars and they say he is the
same. II will not be difficult to con-
vince the people that all are telling
the truth.
Inc last Indictment against Boss
Coz. of Cincinnati, has been quash ID
by the unpurchaSeable and unim-
peachable Judge Dickinson. Now
let the gang meet on Dead Man $
corner and sing: Praise the Courts,
from which all comm ercial and polit-
ical corruption flows.
The Ciarksburg Exponent appears
to be shocked to learn that kellogg,
who is prosecuting the United
States Conn any is counsel for that
| company. What the E%.cpenG oaE
| ne" Is 90 do 4 to purge Ii nself of
| pchtical rrei eiI%ice and acq l:~c a 1T
| tie general Information.
! to be the most brilliantly lighted
| of any biu!dinG Iii the world. Proba-
| bly, this explains WHY the brilliant
| on who 60 represents the first
| district, was so quickly obscured.
Senator George Bland, who was
discredited for standing by the people
in the last session of the legislature,
/ has purchased the West Union Rec
ord. through which he will defend
himself. George is a splendid man,
but he has yet to learn that reform
| means defOrm'
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Scattered Shots
tBy o. II. Atkinson. }

Democratic newspapers are claim
ing that Adam Littlepage has be-
come a national figure. o?
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The: is something seriously
wrong with d system of government,
under which an able bodied man can
be imprisoned when his only offens<
is begging for work.
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Vote to employ yourself and give
the Joss brogan.