Mohave County miner., 1917-01-06
FAIR AND UNFAIR

HE Daily Miner has desire to be unfair to US com
 pettor in branding 1t an unfair sheet put when the
 public realize that the men at the head or the ofgan zation owning the Mineral Wealth represent corporations that are getting the last dollar available out of the com muny and that only the of S60 per month Tn wages stands between it and the terms union and rat they will appreciate the Daily Miners position. The Miner is paying the union scale of wages and employing who have come here with their families to become part of the community and aid in its upbudng The other shop has been employing fy-by-nighF' fellows who only will re- main long enough to get road" stake and who do not want 1t known that they have "rated the fraternity
 After three months of conference offand-on with the Typographical union, MesSrs A. E. Ware and FA Wilde owners of the Mineral Wealth, informed the Oatman- Kngman Typographical union that they had concluded to remain out of that organization because they would have to pay S60 month additional wage to their printers those in that office who would come under the jurisdiction of the union scale. As there are only about two men Tn the office to whom the scale would apply 1t will readily be that the scale paid there the lowest in the state
 The only interest the Daily Miner has in the affair that these men, paying low wage bidding for the patronage of the business of Kingman and Mohave county against newspapers that paying living wage to their employees AS illustration of the working out of the proposition: month or two ago the Daily Miner asked to bid booklet that to be gotten by the Chloride Chamber of Commerce of which F. S. Virgin IS the chairman The bid of the Miner based the rule laid down by the United TpOtheta for that class of Work and about the same price as eXacd by the first class shops of Chicago. The work given to the unfair office because cut below the bid of the Miner and will go to the public without the union label While know that the employed in the office of the Daily Miner have a over the cheap labor of the other shop there are people who little how their work looks as long they get it cheap.
 And again would call the attention of the people to the fact that F. A. Wilde is at the head of the Desert Power Water company which today is exacting from the light and power of this county every cent the tariff will bear He plays favorites and gets the money And we might say right here that the high rate of power and lights has done more to retard the upbudng of the county than anything else Later the Miner will quote the rates of all the other power companies the state to i lustrate how the people are being exploited here
 Allen B. Ware is local officer of the Tarr, McComb Ware Com Co., another corporation that not in business for It's health And it will be noted that about the only important business received by the Mineral Wealth comes through that corporation.
 The cheapening of labor in these days of high living costs thing that would not be tolerated and especially the labor of men who have made study of the printers art But the odium of "rat is worth $6O per month to the Mineral Wealth. we'll guess they are entitled to it