The Butte daily bulletin., 1919-06-12

In address before the Butte Ad club sometimes known
among those not of the elect as the Coote club Monday
evening John Mclnosh chief EN-
Ioyers association referred to what he termed serious
labor shortage that impending due to the exodus of
foreign born persons to their native lands Mr. Mcntosh|
stated that government estimates showed that by the end of
The the number of aliens who will have departed for
ei9n shores will reach 100000.
Incidentally. Mr.. Mcintosh let out wall to the effect that
great Of these laborers leaving of
their ifeimes and it this statement particularly that
caused the fnancer in the group Of auditors to and
since finance and industry ineNtricaby mingled there
doubt that the representatives OF The Anaconda Copper
company who were present WINGED also.
truly il the foreign III the United States
leaving for their old homes taking
lars out of the country surely other than those whom Mr.
Mcintosh Representative big industrial empoyers-arc to
blame 1t is merely exposition OF the truth of the old
tdagc, 'Chckens always come home to roos.'
Mr. Mcintosh his principal employers mining
companies feel deeply the exodus of foreign labor and
their savings, ca their attention to the fact that such
gentlemen Mr., Mcintosh and his employers that
sponshle for the coming Of the foreign labor 1t the
AlcTntoshes the John d. Ryans the W. A. Carh
that k who imported foreign Europe United
States. not because there shortage Of labor but merely
because they believed the Foreigners accustomed to working
for few cents day in Europe would gladly work for dollar
and half in the United States. such Mr.
Mcintosh who responsible for bringing the horde of
cheaper European labor to the United States and for what?
In order workers at for which the freedom and
Justice loving American worker would not work
But where he Mr. Mcntoshes Mr.. i}yans the
others went in their calculations. in believing that
oreener no matter how ilIierae he might be upon his ar,
rival here, how cheapy he might work upon bis landing in
the United States, would continue to remain ilteate,
would continue to work for cheap These foreigners
lie said through association with American fellow workers
realize that they being imposed upon and
being used instruments to grind down in The dust OF
low and poverty their American brethren The day of
awakening daWne for time but slowly but at last the
class consciousness and the light of loHsm 2ltered on the
horizon and the Foreigners. too joined with their American
brothers to improve living conditions for the Workmen.
These foreigners. herded like cattle vile enements talk
ing matter of the brutality of their BOSSES forced to
submit through ignorance conditions here to the payment of
graft to their bosses and. in Butte, of them forced
submit their daughters and their wives to the us Of Of
cals of the copper companies for whom they worked in
der to hold their job gradually became white men in the
that term is applied to labor and today
ssten and earnest advocates of the rights Of labor will be
found in the United States.
The change in Butte has about in the last 10 years
witness the following extracts from editorial attacking the
Analeanaed Copper company for employment of "bohlnk
labor, it called, which appeared in the Butte Evening
News, under date Of July ~. 1910:
Such OF inhabitants and character Of
worlnen which the Anlal2amaed company not only per-
mitted but encouraged to slppant the longtime cit
zens and experienced miners OF Butte in It's employ
They most excellent instruments for weakening
ard Of living was low enough TO make lower wages at
tracve to them where such reduction would be mpos-
senng the profits Of all the combines making handling
the necessities Of life.
That it is not only in the copper industry and the steel in
ustry that such tactics those mentioned used but
that in other industries today notably in the lower classes OF la
hor on the railroads and in such industries sugar growing
formation
For instance: the Oregon Short Line railroad between
Butte and Dubois Idaho hundreds other
ahorer being employed The section receiving
$3.50 per day and overtime for all eight This
wage, be it known, is considerably than that paid the