The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-25

to be solved before we can secure the
desired goal of cooperation between
labor and capital-before we can Sc
cure industrial peace.
1t is particularly. noticeable that in
dustrial unrest has increased as the
number of hours of labor has de-
creased. This is the problem of the
leisure hour-probaby one of the big
gest sociological problems of the day.
Eight hours for work, eight hours for
! sleep and eight hours to spend in some
form not yet well defined. We call it
recreation, recreation being the bal
ancing influence of our lives. To be
correctly applied, recreation must ne
cessariIy consist of those things that
tend to develop the faculties that are
not developed during the other l6
hours. In mining camps, particularly,
there is not available sufficient recre-
alton of the proper kind to make an
adequate use of eight hours. What is
the result? A man will probably
spend three or four hours in the recre-
ance of the time wondering what to do
or convincing himself that he is dissat-
isfied with conditions; probably the
latter. 1t is no wonder, then, that agi-
tators can use to their own profit a
part of these eight hours and, talking
to restless men, can easily stir up
more unrest. The first problem for
the mining camps, then, as | see it, is
the proper and efficient use Of the
leisure hours.
1t is also noticeable that with the
increase in reforms, reform laws, etc,
there has been an increase in unrest
Probably the most prominent reform
| in Arizona has been the adjustment
of the saloon. 1t would be folly to
say that this has been at all RESPONSE
sble for the unrest of today but it is
nevertheless. a factor to be considered
not from the point of view of a sa-
loon but from the point of view that
it's removal has taken something from
the life of the men and has not re-
placed it. Prohibition has been a
wonderful thing for Arizona. 1t has
empted her jails; it has multiplied
her bank accounts and has emptied
her poorhouses but, considered only
from the point of removing the saloon,
| it has not been complete success.
reform that takes off the top only,
leaving the foundation standing, is not
complete; the real problem is to re-
move the cause. Prohibition will I'M
doubtedly eventually remove the cause.
but not for a generation or two. and
something must be provided now to
replace the saloon.
No Satisfactory Substitutes for the
Saloons.
Considering the matter as it relates
to unrest, it takes no stretch of the
imagination to see that the saloon
provided something for the occupation
of the leisure hours. 1t provided 9
place where there were bright lights
where a man could sit around and cha
with his friends, taking the occasional
drink perhaps, and there is no doub
about it that after a man has takel
a few drinks he Is not in the mood u
magnify his troubles. 1t is argued D.
some that the movies" replace thu
saloon to some extent, but If one OBJ
Serves the attendance at the moVlnl
picture theaters at the mining camps
he will observe how few miners arr
included. Few men who work under
ground in silence and in semi-darK
ness all day will select the same con
ditions for recreation hours. 1t is un
natural.
|. This criticism is not intended for
moment to discourage prohibition bu
lit is intended to show that one OF TN
great problems of the camps today !
to make a study of what constitutes
satisfactory recreation for the mine
and how to provide that recreation.
is also intended to show that whe
one removes something from the Iii
of a man. there should be substitute
an equivalent or something better.
, Noticeable again is the fact tha
i with the diversity Of nationalities rer
, resented in mining camp there ha
lbeen an increase in unrest This
perfectly natural for with the increas
/ lin the number of nationalities thel
must come an increase in the numbt
[ of recreational pursuits available IL
t and appealing to the various classe
Y represented. Many OF these people
Y are clannish; they do not care to mi
' with others, this characteristic servln
! to no other purpose than to mcrea'
the difficulties of the occupation OF u
= other eight hours. Then, too, there M
f been for several years growing Zee
r ing of suspicion of our government
= that it is for the rich--this. suspicie
" having come largely from the foreign
d ers in our mining camps VINO ma
=. come from governments of this nj
: ture.
It Decline of Loyalty With Large orsa'
h izations.
l. Probably the most important TACT
= in industrial unrest has been the
/ crease in the size of individual orgal
q izations Many Of us have to look pa
30, ,,oarc IN recall the days