The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-13
BOYLE BRANDS !. W.. ".

He called the attention of the
men to the fact that the business of
cropping vainly after ar ideal was the
sort of a business on which the
world might starve to death; h a
their industrial reorganization was
not going to happen in 1919. 1920.
or as long as any one of the audi
ence lived and that this strike,
after all, was merely a business
proposition to determine whether or
not certain working conditions would
or>would not be granted to miners
in the district.
He likened the modern industrial
dispute to a family quarrel. in fact,
a quarrel between man and wife, in
which neither side could operate
without the other and maintain the
home, and here he defined the most
precise definition of solidarity as the
solid ivory" which would cause
men to stand pat when they knew
that they could not win on their
demands with their existing or
ganization. He gave an example
of revolutionary reform as exempli-
fled by the orderly progress of the
American government in contrast
with the revolutionary reform ar
fected by the French communists
with it's immediate collapse and the
substitution therefor of a military
despotism, the evil effect of which
is still felt by the whole world.
The governor likened the moder-
ate methods of progress employed by
conservative men to the substan-
tial reforms effected in American
government and the proposed revo-
lutionary reforms to the results OBJ
tanned by the French in their early
efforts.
He stated emphatically that the
state had secured the fullest possible
opportunity for the present strikers
committee to present their case;
that if the independent operators.
now willing to meet their demands
or compromise with them, were to
re-employ their entire crews there
would be only So men working i'll
both districts. and he characterized
this as "a hell of a victory"
Governor Boyle said he had dis
covered on his arrival here that
the L. w. w. are 10 longer talking
syndicalism and sabotage; that he
had their assurance that henceforth
their policy was one of passive re-
sistance; that they proposed con-
tinuing strict adherence to the same
in all their operations.
The governor congratulated them
on this reform. stating that it was
in sharp contrast with the utter
ances of their leaders a few years
ago. when murder, arson and vio-
lence were openly preached by them.
He also congratulated them on their
patriotic reforms, which he said
were in equally sharp contrast with
their actions or the actions of indi-
vidual members during the war,
saying:
1.-The whole civilized world was
on strike against an autocracy which
threatened every democratic institu-
ton, when the l.. w. w. or the in
diyidual members thereof scabbed
shamelessly on the job"
He painted a picture of the de-
serted Tonopah. which some of the
more radical leaders insisted would
result from a continued refusal on
the part of the operators, and stated
that while he preferred suggestion
to the strong medicine of compul-
sion, as long as the former would
produce effects he could see circum-
stances under which such medicine
might have to be administered if
solidarity" on both sides We're
carried too far: that, in short, the
public interest entered this dispute
and that he was here to assert it.
In conclusion Governor Boyle en-
phasized the fact that the presidents
of the principal companies were ap-
pealed to, over the heads of the
managers, and that in every reply
received the determination was ex-
pressed to adhere to the resolutions
of the managers, He said the pres
ent committee had completely played
its strength and exhausted its power
of accomplishment as far as the Sc
curing of the demands made by any
processes of negotiations.
The governor stated that the state
would enforce the law impartially
and asked the men to seriously con-
slider a new diplomatic move per-