The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

WASHINGTON, July 12.-The labor
unrest is growing more ominous in all
parts of the nation as the pressure
of the empty stonRchs begins to clar-
ify the brains Of the toilers.
Strikes are approaching that cause
anxiety in the minds Of those men in
government employ intrusted with
maintaining peace between capital and
labor.
The worst trouble is reported from
the copper mine regions. The best
fields, which are essential to the car
rying on of the war, are tied up by a
strike. Butte, Mont, and Bisbee,
Ariz., are two strike centers engross-
ing the attention of the workers.
Threaten Many Strikes.
Numerous other strikes in widely
separated districts are the cause for
apprehension. The threat of $4,000
marine mechanics in the port of New
York to go out has caused the govern
ment to send all it's stanch men on the
A. F. of L. executive council to New
York to smooth things over.
The ship owners are standing abso-
lutely on their rights to fight the
union and already have rebuffed
every attempt on the part of the gov
eminent to cajole them into settling
with the union on the closed shop
basis.
In Colorado the Rockefeller miners
are going out, despite the fact that the
the advisory council of labor under
Samuel Gompers. Rockefeller con-
trolls the Colorado coal fields, and his
manager, Wellborn, is the chief op-
ponent of the union idea as substi-
tute for the real thing under the
United Mine Workers. About $1,000
men are expected to go on strike for
the right to organize.
Copper Miners Out.
In Butte, Mont, where 20 per cent
of the copper of the country and so
per cent of the zinc is produced, a
weeks strike has stopped all produce
ton.
The plants tied up are the Butte &
Superior company, operating the Black
Rock mine and mill; the East Butte
Mining company, operating the Pitts
Mont plant, and the Timber Butte
Mill, operating the properties Of Will
lam A. Clark.
The Anaconda Copper company has
issued an absolute defiance Of the men
according to word received here. and
the class war Is on in Butte, accord
ing to all advices.
The refusal of the conservative
unions of Butte to aid the miners who
| are too radical for them is the only
| indication that the forces of the work
ers may be divided and defeated.
In Bisbee, Ariz., four large prop
critics are shut down, including the
Shattuck. Arizona Copper Co., the
Calumet & Arizona, and the Copper
| Queen branch of the Phelps-Dodge
corporation. About 5000 miners are
out.
A strike seems near in the Globe
Miami district, where 1000 more
miners are employed
| Fight For Union.
In the coal mines of Hopkins
| Union, Webster, Christian and Hen
| derson counties. Kentucky, $4,000 soft
| coal miners will go on strike. That
| is the latest addition to the burden
| that the nations industry has been
| made to carry on account Of the in
| evitable strife between grasping coal
magnates and fighting miners
AS in Colorado, the strike will be
fought for the right to organize, and
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, with it's leaders on the council of
national defense, is backing the fight
to finish. They are out with an
avowed purpose to organize the en-
tire mining industry of the United
States, which will bring 100000 men
into the ranks.
In New Jersey the ship carpenters
are negotiating for an increase in
wages on government work, They
are getting as maximum 81 day.
which is far below the union scale and
less than they can get in private en-
ploy. Conferences are now being held