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


dAnes The three and half day had posted notices
determined that this should
not happen, they directed their energies to bring
ing the lower paid mines up to the higher paid
standard This stubborny resisted by the COM A
panies that trying to rob the miners OF one F. @
When the power drills were introduced w Isl
of the changed The did not object IA EY
installation of the machines, but skill Wy 81
of the big sluggers. No consideration was shown IS
to them; they put to running cars, shovelng
ore, roustabouts at fifty cents day
less than the miners had been receiving This would make CORE
miners thirty dollars month less for miners who could
not handle the big drills could be summed up as less food less
ments everything life worth living The situation
discussed all its different phases at all the meetings Of the union
esy crushing all of them beneath its cruel heel The people of these
dreadful mining in fever of revolt There was no method
of appeal strike their only weapon
On April 30 1899 big demonstration held at Wadner All
ing had been sounded The fuses were pounds
dynamite exploded The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill blown
ripped and smashed of twisted STEEL iron and pned mber
The miners had released their penup There have
regretted the destruction of that which workers had
built but the conant Of the entire population for the
relieved.
supernnden who had found words of
for the desprng miners became vube in their
but they raised maudn because mill had been destroyed
Mckinley soldiers dispatched Immediately
the Occur dlene mining district Armed force imposed
peaceful people inquiry investigation part
the the the president the United States the
first request of the mining companies When the soldiers arrived
without and held for months prison without charge be-
dAene there the function of the courts yet
hundreds of punished with months of in the
treatment imposed their brothers the lead mines of Idaho
raised
other places to the suffering children
shown that the mining responsible for the damage
Indignant resolutions condemnng the utrages flooded Congress
At Salt Lake City found the shadow the Occur dAen
Twelve hundred members prison nine of them indicted fo
murder and children living under the dark of
Every brought the question home himself If this dreadful
thing happened in 1eadve in the Occur dAnes how before
happening the where live? Must and
conditions under which live and work always be subject the will
and whim of the boss?
only my was to organize to
multiply strength AS long scattered and nted
could be victmized
At this convention had suggestion to offer changing
design of the lapel button that The emblem
then machne-dri unsuitable because it did
not include all the workers the industry and these
changed and later changed again. the symbol of three
sgnfyng education organization and independence with
the W. was elected the executive board of the W.
quarters in Butte, Montana.
approaching Butte desoation of the country
There no verdure Of kind had all been killed by the
and smoke of the piles Of burning The gases
the sulphur that was allowed to burn out of the before
the sme 1t poisonous that killed shrubs
and flowers but cats and dogs could not live
rotted the fiber.
The city with the copper the mines of ButtA
The people of this mining breathd
and thoroughly saturated with The
suffering from ranking
water The old iron and tin gathered and dumped
into pool where the water from the
copper the eating out the iron converting
into copper.
The toll of death in Butte abnormal The
the members of Butte Miners Union
sands of dollars The funeral benefits fghtfuy
city Of the dead mostly miners almost living
population even in this city Human life the cheapest
by-product of this great copper camp
The mines had been discovered by pospectors who had de
from Utah Marcus DAILY and W. A. Clark
had bene in Tnc and Oph Canyon They
Clark had brother Buksin Clark Ophir while was
there.
The main building Of Butte Big Ship it had
keel founded copper.
offices the sixth floor where schemes
Guch the home of the "Paddycom lateies" "bg
wheelers" direct from the old
In the neat instaEment Haywood rites of
Union of the w. F. of M, the biggest America;
has mission un executive member into the strike Of the
Coew dAenes Idaho; the rule of sodery present
Borah prosecutors the miners imprisoned in "bulpens."