The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-04


five the greatest single social force of the wo
of America The tremendous power tn
big union was always used to the best advantage
nearly always allowed itself to be divided on cues
tions of strategy tactics and political issues Other
wise it could the directing energy OF the r, @
The Miners Hall was commodous but not nearly xt ~
large enough to the membership Boyce IA ~
Williams and attended meeting OF the union. w 81
spoke, it to compliment the union mgny CN-9N
on the splendid work that it had done
In Butte were Engineers Union and the
smetermen's Union, both parts Of the Western
Federation The men organized in the Engineers Union were
machnss but the engineers who ran the nosg f;t moian
engines works Some of the engines were i t ION
The men who ran these got dollars day and We're at tha I'm
highest paid men in the organization 1t rgIea cene d h
steady arm operate these engines with which tney pueo W M
thirty TO hundred out Of the mines More respnso
I he that speed essential in hosting the men an
the ORE mines there were double ana even p lii t
cages Most of the of Butte very hot but the Iow WI
o of aS. ''s >S'''-'"'~' w
The work in the Butte all underground The veins
worked through deep shafts with tunnels or Levels running %
shafts usually one The ore is worked or p
to the shaft in small cars the surface At present
ore in the open but taken direct to the smee
r. - a;da b the meeting of the executive board that Jo
Williams board member Valley California and hou
go dAlenes to the greetings OF the W. e. M 10
district, which was then under martial law
Voc ~ no or first stop That Rocky Mountains where
Coeu Aenes mining situated is Scared and gasned WI
guches and deep Inc @ d and a rotten mps of
trees that for mining timber railroad ties and wo
GROW in abundance forests have not been depleted e
with the ak devastating fires there are BEAR oeer
game In the cold clear streams mountain trout me zoe
A1ens lake is like transparent in the rough setting OF
mountains 1t is delightful place for summer outing, put
slides the digging the snowbound houses the founderng
and through wasdeep The railroad runs au
chass on
steel up and down canyons where there just enough
the roadbed Before the coming OF the iron morse @ @ % Ind
the only inhabitants
Dutch jake with partner rambling around these mountah
gogng and crevces looking for paydr or
of ore When they they found that their buro had got
rope he was tangled in shrubs and could only move
foot They unange the and found that the don
stamping and anpng ground had uncovered ledge of
lead ore Here they Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine VIII
became the richest producers in the Occur dAenes o
Dutch and in later years he bought pud
in Spokane saloon There he had fine painting
the burro that had him and his partner
AT Burke Mrs Paul Corcoran, and her the ger
of the W. assured her that would do everything n
Pau release from the penitenary Mrs Coeo
young bachaired Irishwoman with two beautiful chd
While martial in the Occur dnes Paul Crcoran
tary Miners Union Number 10 of the W. f. NJ had Dc
tried on charge causing the death of Bartlett
clair on the day the big explosion Paul Corcoran was in no
he was secretary of the union in the
The companies that manipulated the state and defeated
panes that could have federal soldiers and mart
district the companies that employed special pro
and the penitentary at Boise Ida
special prosecutor William A Bora now United Sta
Of Idaho He still responsible mouhpece
the exploiting class
we'll known the of the West have heard
stories miner coming to Burke aw
meal at her place. She caused much amusement a
time when cabbage just in the old
had 1t just what the miners longing for
they asking for Bringing the last plate full she said
"Tak that We baches and I'll bring bale of hay
the marnin'."
that there just encl
for the railroad When the train in could not
The that the had to be
zenith to shine down into the town.
met Patty Burke and few other members OF
union necessity under because of
being under martial law We avoided the hangout Of
get word of to the
bp We wanted them to know that had to the Co
dAene bring them the sympathy and the united support of
organization interests of which they enduring the degra
of imprisonment in the vermnned hole The miners in
bupen gotten scanng and long panks had lifted
the roof and hung sign that they had painted she
The American Basle This got under the hide Of Gene
seemed think that his uptodate bulpen
appreciated I'D
IN the nsalnt Hagwood will tell Of the horrors of
bupems dAlens the u s. tede
troops guanaen imported break the strike the ustng
system blacklist; back his drill IN the at Siv
he off the air drill for the last time.