The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-09-06

Little, the man who met an unfor-
tunate end, prefaced his statements In
Butte with the remark that he expect
ed to be arrested for what he was go
ling Ito say. 1t is such methods as
these that have caused our trouble In
Butte and If show you gentlemen by
indisputable evidence and facts that 1t
is this organization and its principles
that we are contending with, that is
all you will care to know about our
Butte labor trouble. Any terms you
can make with such men as these are
not worthy of consideration. Whether
their demands are just or not, If grant
ed they disregard them. If they are
given their demands today. they win
start right in and strike tomorrow. IL
they deem the time opportune.
Refutes Miss Rankin.
Statements have been made In your
city publicly in the last few days, in
Butte, and also in the halls of con-
gress, by one of our congressional rep
resentatives, that she had investigated
the situation in Butte, that the de-
mands of these men are just that none
of the leaders of this so-called strike
are members of this /. w. w. move
ment, that the Anaconda company IL
insisting on retaining and operating in
Butte a blacklist system under the
fguise of an employment Office or rust
ling card. l am not going to say any
thing in criticism Of Miss Rankin, but
will simply give you the indisputable
facts and leave the judgment to you.
81 am not interested in the result Of
her action upon Miss Rankin's politi-
cal career, but we are all interested
upon the effect that such a position,
taken by one Of our representatives in
congress, by representative of the
state of Montana, will have upon our
name throughout the nation.
81 will leave you to Judge what the
people will say of Montana when they
learn that one of our representatives,
as a leader and champion, has taken
hold of this l. w. w. cause and strug-
gle and so identified herself with it
that our Butte 'wobblies' are already
referring to her in terms of endear-
ment as Our Little Mother Jones'
Company Always Fair.
'1n it's treatment of it's employees,
the Anaconda Copper Mining company
has made a name that it or any other
employer may well be proud of: it has
always been known as paying the
, highest wages; it has always been
! known to provide the best working
, conditions and to treat it's men fairly
, in every way
You will find that this 1914 insur-
rection had practically the same lead
, ers as the present one, with the ex-
ception of Joe Bradley and Mucke
r Mcdonald. They are Tom Campbell,
Joe Shannon, Dan Shovlin, e. F. Bas-
, sett John r. McGrew, J. Johnson
! John Muzevich. William G. Sullivan
their attorney and editor of their sour
rilous bulletin issued daily; Jack
O'Brien, Pete Kelly, Tom Shannon and
imany others whom l might name
, Those were the men leading and di-
, recting this movement in 1914. They
Z are with us again.
o The "Rustlins Card"
:. Now as to the 'rustling card II
y is the right and duty Of an employer tc
0 know what kind of men are working
n for him. We have adopted this system
: to see that we get the most reliable
men, and men who, we know, are not
s disturbers and agitators.
! ''The 'rustling card has nothing to
do with the difficulty, anyway be-
cause the first mine they walked out OF
never had a rustling card system
That's where Campbell worked He
got practically 50 day for less than
seven hours work.
I prior to December, 1912, we had nc
; 'rustling card system. The foremen
employed the men without investiga-
: ton. We had no way to know their
record. In that December we heard of
the l. w. w. We heard Of their talk
of sabotage. We became convinced
, that we had to establish a system in
, self protection.
Then we were constantly waited on
J by delegations asking us to find out
about our men so as to avoid employ
, ing dead beats Merchants and even
miners themselves so asked.
Then We heard of foremen who
grafted by charging for the jobs they
handled.
What the Card 10.
Every man now who applies for a
job signs card giving information OF
himself. When he has filled this out,
. we investigate through his last en-
} ployer"
Mr., Evans then read the application
blank and the form letter sent out by
the company for information, and an
identification card given to the men
employed.
The application blank which each
prospective employe is required to fill
out, bears the following questions:
81. Name Of applicant. 2. Age.
3. Birthplace. 4. If foreign born, are
you citizen Of the United States?
3. Were you ever in the employ Of