The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-15
time TO ASCERTAIN TRUTH ABOUT
:.:. MESABA RANGE STRIKE SITUATION

Governor Burnquist is taking too much for granted
in dealing with the strike on the iron ranges. We
will put it in another He is relying on informa-.
ton cued from prejudiced and fails to
ing to get at the facts in the controversy between
the strikers and the mining companies
The governor knows there two sides to every
question. This is exception. Daily papers trying
t., befog the issue by laying the entire blame the
few agitators' who belong the Industrial Workers
of the World.
But we repeat what we stated in these columns last
week. No set of agtators would be able to start any
thing the iron anywhere else unless there
was something rotten in Denmark
Yes, there two sides to the question.
There are sides to the shooting affairs that
Of Duluths best citizens, jamie Myron Governor
Burnquist has version Of it. His representative
sent to the to Investigate the trouble got his
information from side and, reliably in
formed by Mayor Boylan of Virginia, made attempt
to get the other side, the miners sde of the affair."
For example: The truth has been withheld regard
ing the activity of the mine guards in connection with
Mr. Myrons murder. 1t is said by those in position
to that the shooting started solely account
of the aggressveness of one Nick Dillon. mine guard
who received his training bouncer for house OF
ill fame in the outskirts of Virginia. go. ::
Our informant tells us,-and this is matter of
common knowledge among the people on the range
that Dillon stormed into the miners home and de-
The woman at the house told the mine guard that
her husband would not be arresteu by Dillon. She
told him that her husband would submit to- arrest by
Officer OHara of Bwabik This angered Dillon who,
acting under the authority conferred him by the
mining corporation and the sheriff of St. Louis county
attempted to make the arrests. .~.::
We presume that legally Dillon has the right to
make arrests.
But we don't have to presume this: We know that
the mine guards attended to their business OF pro-
tecting mining properties if the St. Louis county
authorities would stop deputzing the private guards
of the mining corporations, the trouble the range
would quickly adjust itself.
The strikers the range would be peaceahle II the
st. Louis county authorities would give them square
DEAL
private mine. guards and giving them the
authority of county officers giving square deal
to the strikers.
In the first place these not paid by the
county, but by the mining companies They know their
masters; they will do their masters will. Theoret-
ically they officers of the law, but actually they
are private thugs of the mining companies with the
cloak of legal authority thrown about them by the
sheriff of st. Louis county.
In the very nature of things they cannot act with
the fairness and discretion of real officers of the law
paid by the people of the county.
servants of the people, employed to protect the public
interest. -.~ -
They are merely the paid thugs of the mining COM
panies with the legal authority of the county which
attempts to give them a degree of responsibility.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Let us go back and dig up little local history.
Some two or three years ago there was dock
workers strike on in Duluth course the daily
laid the responsibility at the door of the l. w. w.