Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-09-04
COMPENSATION ACT
(Communicated)

| Editor Bonanza, Sir:-Friends in
Tonopah have informed me that there
are some people there who persist in
telling the uniformed that was re-
sponsible for the present amendments
to the compensation act and they have
asked me to reply through the col
umns of the Bonanza.
realize the importance of this mat.
ter in the minds of the workingmen
of Tonopah and elsewhere and it is
my earnest desire that they be fully
informed of their rights in the matter
and to that end | would suggest that
they write to the industrial commits
sion as to whether the law requires
that they submit to a physical exam
inatiOn or not and that same law re-
quires the commission to inform the
men of their rights without cost or
obligation. The commission should
have voluntarily done this when the
examinations were first started in
Goldfeld and by not doing so they
/ have been remiss in their duty
There is no necessity of any defense
for my responsibility for the bill as all
that is necessary is to compare il with
/ 'hS biiAo anu
ask if it looks like one that came
from me. Is there any resemblance
between the compensation act and the
universal eight hour law, the fresh
air bill, the semi-monthly payday, or
the six hour day in places which are
over So degrees in temperature? All
of these bills and others were termed
Seaman measures by the newspapers
but none of them ever tried to give
that term to the present amendments
to that act 1t is sufficient for me to
say that my bill providing for in
creased compensation, shorter wait.
ing period, ETC., died in the committee
and | opposed the present amend
ments constantly and persistently.
If the mine operators claim that
the examination is compulsory then
they must admit that all the mine OBJ
orators throughout the state with the
exception of Goldfield are law-break-
ers.
! If this is not so then the operators
! OF Goldfeld are law-breakers because
they have by coercion and intimida-
ton deprived their employees of their
constitutional rights, to-wit: Right
to contract without intimidation, etc,
but more particularly by Article Nv of
the Federal Constitution, which reads
as follows: THE right of the people
to be secure in their persons, houses.
papers and effects, against unreason-
able searches and seizures, shall not
be violated, and no warrants shall is
sue, but upon probable cause, support
ed by oath or affirmation and partic-
ularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to
be seized" The same section is found |
in the state constitution and if it
means anything then the persons of
workingmen should be as secure as
the papers of the corporations are |
and we well know what would be the |
result If the industrial commission |
should insist upon search of their
papers.
When the constitutional rights of
the corporations are encroached upon
they go into a court and get an in |
injunction to restrain such encroach- /,
ment but when they wish to violate |
the rights of the people they claim it |
is for the peoples benefit and the sin. |
gular thing about it is that many of
those who are willing to relinquish
thelr rights agree with that theory.
Ihey nave followed that policy so
long ana successfully that they have
practically nulliied all of the "Declar-
atlon OF Rights" and the enforcement
OF the examinations in Goldfield were
Dut the starring ana carrying out OF
conspiracy on the part OF the mine
operators to establish an effective
BLACKLIST. | WAS informed last winter
ny state oHlcial tnat tnese eXamlna-