The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-10-09
|. v. W.ISM MAY Be
SETTLED IN NEVADA

probable. that in the ear future
Nevada will be the legal battle-ground
on which will be fought out questions
involving the future existence of |.
w. W.ism in the sense at least of its
being a disturbing element in the in
dustrial life of the United States.
The recent Developments at Divide
and Tonopah have indicated that the
governor of the state and his associ-
ates. who have for weeks been busily
engaged in seeking a solution for the
disturbed conditions in the silver
camps, have figured out a plan that
bids fair to put the mines. ere long.
back on a normal production basis.
1t has appeared that a way has
been found to eliminate the radical
element and agitators who might
come from the outside and stir up
unrest and trouble, and place the sit
uation Ia the control of conservatives
and bona-fide workers of the camp
who constituted the membership of
a labor organization of standing.
Injunction a invoked to give the
organized workers the protection of
the court and the laws of the state
as they returned to their tasks in the
mines and at the mills. and their
every interest was safeguarded by a
restraining order unusually far
reaching in its effects.
In the words of Governor Boyle.
"The restraining order is the pre-
liminary to determining by law the
status of persons, for the most part
not previously employed in the mines.
who undertake to disturb the indus
trial and public peace by counterfeit
strikes and by libelling the community
for the purpose of aiding their plans
of overthrowing established govern
ment and depriving employer or en-
ploye and the public generally of their
of their property without due process
of law"
As soon as the Injunction was
served, members of the l. w. W. i'm
nediately got in communication by
telegraph, with their attorneys in
cities of the West and middle
west. Although reports indicate that
there is no violence or disorder and
that the 1. w. w. members appear
to strictly obey the restraining order.
there is every indication that they
Will take all possible means to fight
the injunction through the courts
and possibly farther. They undobut-
eddy realize that if they lose out en-
tlrely in the attempt to dominate the
situation at Tonopah and Divide. the
and conservatives have
shown the country the way to combat
|. W. W.ism and render it compare
lively powerless. They cannot sub
NIT to the terms of the injunction for
would put an end to their meth
DDS and teachings.
Therefore, there is every likelihood
before the passing of many DAYS
attorneys of great prominence in their
connections with the Industrial Work
ers of the World will be in the state
bending every energy to have the in
junction issued by Judge Averill
quashed and the results so far ac-
complished by the men who have
labored to restore industrial activities
TO their normal condition nulliied
1t is a certainty, that in any legal
undertaken, the /. w. WIS will
represented by the best legal tai
ent money a hire. Right here
arises the question of the rights of
outside attorneys who come into the
state to handle cases in the Nevada
courts. OF course, if any objection is
raised, it will be necessary for i'm
ported attorneys to be admitted to
practice by the supreme court. 1t is
Understood that the admission of at
torneys in governed by law and rules
as drastic, perhaps. as in any state in
the union. 1t is doubtful, though, if
any attorney of good repute, who
complies with the laws of Nevada
and the rules for admission, adopted
Tor the guidance of the supreme court,
1uld be denied admission no matter
his mission n purpose.
Accordingly, it appears that evenfs
ave set the stage for the Industrial
Workers of the Worlds legal battle
life right here in the courts OF
Nevada. If they succeed here they
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