The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-20
MINING IN THE SOUTH.

Humor crops up in unexpected places. By the same token unin- tentional humor it is that flashes it's laughs around now and then for the amusement of all and sundry.
 In proof of which we may cite not without smiling a booklet issued by the Tennessee copper mining com pany to it's employees.
 First of all a word of eXplana- tion. The wages paid labor by this company reach the wonderful heights of sixteen and one half cents an hour. But the company boasts that it employs all Americans, no Triggers" and wants to maintain it for "whitemen". Because Western Federation organizers got in among them, stirred them up to ask for more pay, the company proposes to drive the unionists and organizers out of the camp and warns employ ees against listening to them lest the higher wages which unions may demand will attract foreign ers".
 Be darned if that isn't the best argument one ever heard against unions in all ones born life.
 Let us quote bit from this little book:
 It is written to the sixteen and half cents an hour miners, recOl- lect: We appreciate your feelings in the matter and know that those of you who have offered to get rid is too bad for those desiring to up set the pleasant relations that have existed for so many years between the company and the men, but the same thing can be accomplished by public sentiment, and let's just make it so unpopular that this whole agitation will funk immediately and that there will be no more forced into tdIcness by bunch of exploit CTS that bave desperate hope of getting a slice of your hard earned cash. Concern lest the union may get dues after the company store has got it's whack of that six teen and half cents an hour is re- ally sublime.
 The paragraph is stealthy sug- gestion of violence against organiz CTS and union men and the appeal can easily be read between the lines.
 Knowing that the wages paid are the lowest in the land the company breaks lance in defense of the scale with the following:
 "If the wages were much higher there would be such rush for this community that you would lose your present steady work and would be much worse off than at present, and as the company could not afford to pay it on the present low grade ore in this district, it is simply killing the goose that lays the golden egg"
 By the way there is a familiar sound about that argument. In Nome haywire operators justifying the long hour day and scab wages have declared that the pay was too small to justify any higher wages.
 Then follows this Illuminating gem:
 Do you want to have your life controlled by lot of dagoes, po- lacks, finlanders and niggers, and pay for their support Would you like to have them for neighbors? Remember if the camp becomes or ganized you could not complain for they would be your brothers, and do not think that they would not come and live right among you"
 Now of all the hog wash that ever was written, what is anyone to think of the, mentality that such is meant to impose upon. To live in southern squalor lest well paid foreigners of no account come and live right among you, is assuredly an ideal that is possessed of the adventage of novelty. It is surely a brand of Americanism that was concoeted by easy lived eAploiters who sit right back when reeling of such stuff and chuckle to themselves that God has blessed them with poor