El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-29
The Former Negotiations.


Just demands signed.
The Former Negotiations.
That is the language of men who
recoS nize that they are helpless. but
know that they have been treated uu-
Justly and IL is i'm reference to a
wage scale under which the mine man
ayers claim the largest wages in the
history of the district are being paid.
Again read the correspondence be
tween the company and their employees.
the companies printed pronuncia-
mentOs. the stipulations In regard TO
holding an election for committeeman.
waving recognition or the union. etc
before the mine managers would meet
them In conference to adjust differ
ences- Would not an honest man Cousid-
er that there was promise 10 adjust
differences amIcab bly, Have not your EN-
ployeS met every requirement, What
nave the companies done except TO pub
fish an ultimatum threatening to i'm
poverish the community and Starve
their employees into submission
says People Behind Strikers.
TT YOU make real Investigation yOu
VIII Ind that 90 percent of the people
in the district and a much larger per
cent Of your employees stood squarely
behind the demands of the workers,
that minimum OF s. for the muckers
500 Tor miners So for mill and smell
tcrmen ard $3.50 for outside labor Is
less than that paid i'm competing
camps Of the state Tile only company
that stands 10 win from the deplorable
controversy is the Phelps-DOdEe. WHY
should your stockholders suffer to Clut
their vengeance
Are YOU aware MT Miller. that
henchmen OF the mining companies
broke up the first organization meet
ing in AIorenci. attempted to prevent
free speech as il had been prevented
for years; that they nearly precipitated
a riot. that 7 was i'm greater danger
at their hands than Mr. Carmichael has
been since from . Gfrf1-a-e hn
a former official of the Arizona Cop
per company is reported as having that
work directly in CHARGE Later he ad
vertised himself as having left the dis
trict on account Of threats
The Governing Business.
Mining companies have been i'm the
governing business for years in the
Clifton district; the people dislike their
rule IL rs not strange that when you
investigate the way in which they used
their power you Will find that they
ruled business and social conditions
almost IS arbitrarily as they did the
mining industry They dictated who
went into business and how the bust
ness was conducted, they allowed no
competition.
I trust that YOU Will realize, as the
Investigation proceeds, that copper is
not the only product Of that district.
that men and women are produced as
We'll; that wages determine living
standards Low wages mean that lit
man perishes- 10 is well to strive for
cheap production but in the long run
that can not be accomplished by
cheap" labor.
The Cheapest Way
It costs less to redress a grievance
than to perpetuate it.
A knowledge Of the human element is
Just as necessary in the conduct of
great industry as is knowledge Of the
financial and technical sides. I fear
that has been overlooked.
An enforced promise to act as strike
breaker If strike was called. backed
up by time check. caused the strike.
II was an act Of self-preservatiOn on
the part of the union. That scab-list
was species of intimidation. Just as
the mine managers ultimatum is the
most Ominous kind of violence.
7 trust that your investigation may
result IN an era of industrial peace
basel upon justice.
Guy r. Miller.
tive BID Member, ". T. Of NJ