The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-20
fools for wage slaves.

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 brand of thing is confined to the employees of the Tennessee Copper Go. In copy of Solidarity dated November Is is letter from an Ar kansas mining camp at Rush Creek, Ark. It is signed by F. c. Garris. He introduced his remarks with the following:
 Just a few lines to let you know of the mining conditions around this section, a place where they boast that they would not employ any for eigners or Triggers. The follow ing wage scale is in vogue, which is the worst in the United States: The scale is for nine hour day and Garris gives the highest paid ma chine man as $2.50 day, shovellers
 $2. Board is six dollars a week, "and rotten at that. He concludes by saying that Gin talking organiza- tion to these men, they think it is all right, but the only objection is that they hate the foreigners, and are afraid the latter will came and take their jobs.
 We said that in the booklet issued by the Tennessee Copper Go. there was an unintentional humor to be Gis covered. Hadn't we better withdraw that criticism. Is there not an inf mite pathos in the ignorance and prejudice that is revealed in both camps which have been referred to?
 Yet there is a ray of lights pene- trating. The conditions are receiv- ing publicity. The light of day is beng cast upon them. Men begin to realize this and to bring to bear the still more enlightenning feel ings of class interest, fraternity, unity and solidarity. Outside influ- ences of labor organizations with the mission to unite the workers are breaking down the century old en- Vironment that resulted in such state of besotted and befuddled ignorance The old hatred of the foreigner, cultivated with such care by an enslaving corporation which has more than it's quota of foreign shareholders, will give way to the broader manlier and more inspir- ing sentiments of human brother. hood among those who toil
 It is only few years ago since the same sentiments prevailed among the mountainous coal regions of West Virginia. The ancestors oi those pitmen had been of the ori- ginal stock that settled the country. 1 Some> of their fathers had fought i not without suffering and with much gallantry to make America free. And 1 they possessed the same binding hate of the foreigner that they had l for the "nigger". To them they were both hateful alike. Proftting ] by this exclusiyeness great coal corporations paid the lowest scale in the United States. This condition l prevailed with the tolerance Of the workers until the cost of ,ing made it quite intolerable. They or ganized and struck and the men that stood by them were the orga, nized workers: Americans, "polacks "dagoes", and the rest that they  1 had so loftily despised, while the good American corporation, owned i by stockholders in London. Paris, i Berlin, Rome, as we'll as New York, i had the officials shoot them down in i their tents upon the order of the sheriff, and the deputies asked that the murderous train be run back by the Mucklow colony again so that they could give the "coal lice another dose of the machine gun" They were taken from their homes without trial, and sent by militia officers to the penitentiary, and the District Judge by an injunction made belonging to the union a felony. Now West Virginia is organized. Now in West Virginia the American old timer and the foreigner work side by side, and where they are or gainzed there they are getting the best wages and live under the best conditions with many foreigners fol neighbors.
 It is a gloomy condition when