Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1922-09-27
BURLESQUE WAS
MEETING Miners
At BALL PARK
Of All Ridiculous Gatherings
Mike O'NeilI Contingent Is
Given Full Credit

RurlesQue in the extreme was the
meeting held yesterday afternoon at
o'clock at the ball grounds, in
which an alleged coterie of miners
decided to air their grievances. Just
n show what the contingent was
,omDosed of it might be wei to men,
finn the fact that the presiding Off.
cer Nike O'Neill, is at present Ian.
puisb.ug In the county Jail upon the
charge Of drunkenness and disorderly
conduct. having engaged in a brawl
with another party in resort in
the lower end of town. J. D. Rawls,
alias Burns, the head spokesman Of
the meeting, was also arrested upon
a similar charge, and will appear in
court late this afternoon with O'Neill
to answer to the charges that are
pending against them.
The mass meeting was real com,
ical 10 a technical sense. Hundreds
OF people were present to watch the
activities of the wobb,ies The real
citizen miner, business and profes-
slOnal mau-was present, but it was
$50 o'clock before anyone had te-
mer.ty 10 call the meeting to order,
although the proceedings were sched-
uled 20 begin at 5. Finally Rawls,
alias Burns the man in Jail, succeed
ed in inducing Mike O'Neill, also IN
JAIL to cal. the meeting TO order.
promising that he would offer up a
few remarks in due course OF events.
He lived up to his reputation by
starting In roasting the mine oper-
ators. finally exonerating them from
all blame, and casting odium upon
the business men of the community
by charging them with being the
"yultures Of Main street preying
upon the pay checks Of the miners. "
There was great difficulty in secur.
Ing some one to act as secretary, but
Charles Lawrence Camp (Peekaboo)
Of West Virginia volunteered his
services, To Camp must be given
the credit for smoking out the names
OF the 'eaders of the wobbly meet.
ing and after much hard effort he
mad written down the names of the
leaders Camp is quite versatile, and
mad 1t not been for his activities it
Is doubtful if anyone yet would have
known Just what the leaders OF the
movement were driving at
It was finally ascertained that the
WoDoLes want an eight-hour day from
collar to collar, 500 a day for their
!aoor and two men on a machine
camp questioned the propriety of
Engaging two men on a stopping drill
ana Il was finally decided that the
woman proposition should only re-
A'e to standard machines Camp
a'So suggested that six men should be
employed on each pick.
During the proceedings Chief Of
foAce 0. H, Smith interceded by
announcing that the meeting was
VaAed by 'wobblies, but he was de-
'"eu by a handful of wobblies. The
'"dhse coincidence in connection
WIN the meeting lay in the fact that
1O' one American addressed the
~ee'lng and not one person in the
1'semblage ever heard a miner speak
III favor of walkout.
PREVIOUS to the adjournment Of
VIC meeting a committee OF five was
1pponted to confer with tho mine
spV'a'ors relative to securing the
SeIahds suggested, as follows: John
u''en OF the Halifax, Gus Johnson
~ Tue MacNamara. Abe JutIlla of
", % Victor, Frank Shaffer, unem.
noyea' nyea' and the chairman. Mike
veil who confessed he had not
,,ed gO,Aed for two months owing to
Ls' LAHeSs' but whom nobody seems TO
NV NV other than that he came to
ts toHOpah from Virginia City, where
s,, o. assisted in conducting an alleged
strike recently.