Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-11-19
UNITED MINE WORKERS OF
AMERICA
Local Union No. 858.
Rearcreek Montana. Nov Ia 1Q2
RESOLUTION:

Bearcreek, Montana, Nov IA, 1881.
RESOLUTION:
The following Resolution was adopt
ed by the Unemployment Committees
of Local Unions No. 1771, 1868, 1928,
4457, and S58, of Sub-District No 8,
of District No. 27, United Mine Work.
ers of America:
WHEREAS, the Association known
as the Taxpayers Association have
publicly declared themselves in favor
of reducing the wages of all Carbon
county officials, school teachers and
workmen on the county roads, and
WHEREAS, the Taxpayers Associa-
tion declared themselves to be able to
cure the present economic ills of our
county by the demands made there
of, to reduce wages to those that are
now receiving yearly 25% of the re-
quired amount to be able to enjoy
that great American standard of liv-
ing, recognized by all of our state and
federal governmental agencies, and
WHEREAS, the Tax Payers Asso-
citation failed to mention or propose
that Just taxation be meted out to
those great corporations that control
the destiny of our people, and also
| failed to mention the unjust rate oil
| interest charged by the bankers
against the farmers, and
| w 11EIEkAo, the L DIX EdyelS AssO-
citation never has to date proposed
ways and means whereby they could
relieve the taxpayers from the bur-
den of unjust taxation On the con-
! trary some of them that are now cry
| ing for reduction of wages have al
| ways aligned themselves to the best
| interest of the great corporations and
Bankers Associations for the purpose
of exploiting both farmers and work
ers, through charging big interest to
| the farmers, and ignoring the appeals
made by the workers and farmers both
| for justice and fairness in the taxa
| tion of wealth in our county and state,
and
WHEREAS If wages We're reduced
| to the extent asked by the Tax Pay
ers Association, it would only reduce
| the purchasing power of our people,
and be a boomerang that would in
| lure instead of helping the taxpayers,
| THEREFORB BE 1T RESOLVED,
That the Unemployment COMMITTEES
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
| lea of Sub District No. 3 protest any
| action of this Tax Payers Associate
/ in their determination to have wages
| reduced of either the county officials,
school teachers, or laborers working
at work designated by the proper
county officers, for the following rea-
sons,
FIRST, We feel that the interest of
the farmers and workers as we'll as
| those taxpayers that are not farming
| or working, will be best preserved by
the idea expressed by many of our gov
| ernmental officials from the present
| secretary of labor, Mr. Doak, down to
! the smallest representative of our
state government, that the reducing of
wages at this time would only delay
e Il
| perity instead of helping,
SECOND, Reduction of wages in any
| degree never helped the people in any
| community it does not matter under
what pretense the reduction came
| about. 1t never helped the farmers,
| the merchants, or any other class, on
| the contrary it brought about in many
instances a collapse in the industry,
| THIRD, 1t may be said that the
workers of Carbon County, those em-
ployed by the county itself have moth
ing to do with any industrial dispute
that may arise between labor and
capitol We say that if we are all liv-
ing under the same rule under the
same laws, the same civic, then the
question must be decided whether one
is an elected official of Carbon Coun-
ty, an appointee under the rule there.
of a farmer, a miner, or a county roaC
, category that he or she are working foi
their daily bread and we believe thai
if wages are reduced to the above
mentioned workers and officers it will
have the same economic result, ant
that is the lower standard of living
and the holding back of that lonl
waiting prosperity,
i FOURTH, Arriving at a conclusion
that it is necessary to lower the meag.
er standard of living to a handful o
men and women, would bring abou
/, the millennium, long waited it leads
us to believe that panacea of our ma
Il tional economic ills could be relieved
with one stroke of the pen, by sayinl
reduce the wages and the farmers anC
workers will be on the high pedestal o
prosperity.
i FIFTH, That philosophy is not ac
cepted by any economist or even b,
some of those that are proposing th
lowering of wages,
SIXTH. Assuming the position o
the Tax Payers Association is correcc
to what benefit would the taxpayer
of Carbon County derive by the con
templated reduction of wages for tn
county officials, etc. to what exten
would that benefit the farmers or tn
semi starved industrial workers, W
say no.
SEVENTH, We are against tn
, proposition presented to the publ
) by the Tax Payers Association, or an
other Association that would try t
), present such philosophy on the groun
that will not help the taxpayers, bu
will hurt them and be economical
unsound and ultimately be helping I
= depress our people instead of bring
ing about more prosperity
!, Signed in behalf of the Unemploy
ment Committee.
JOE BOSONE,
Chairman
JOHN BONE,
Secretary
First Publication Nov 10, 1881
Second Publication Nov rs, 1881.