Montana labor news., 1935-10-17
]. C.. Whitley Praised
Tewksbury Wants Miners to Per-
feet Union With Mexico.
Southern Pacific Sanatorium
Tuscon, Arizona
October 9Th, 1885

Editor Montana Labor News,
Butte, Montana.
Dear Sir
IT'S once again that l write you to
show my heart felt appreciation for
your interest in things that concern I'M
ion labor and labor in general | am
not a subscriber to your paper but I
get it from friends after they read it,
and it is one thing | always anxiously
await. Circumstances do not permit me
to subscribe to your paper directly
But even though | am in the midst OF
my fight for life and health, I have
never been sick enough to forget my
duty to my fellowmen.
In your issue Of September 18th and
under the heading: Mexican Miners
Seek Contact with U. S. Unions; Unity
Grows" you sent my mind racing to
our efforts Of one year ago. 1t was
during the month OF September hat
u. c. Pop" Whiteley Of Butte plant
ed the first seeds Of this getting to-
gether of two great unions = namely
the international Union of Mine, Mil
and Smelter Workers of the A. F. Of
L. and the Miners and Metallurgical
Workers Union OF Mexico and the
IC. r. o. M. | have never ceased hop
Iping that this would happen. l have
never quit writing to persons OF great
Influence so as this dream of ours woult
be realized and at last it seems as il
it will come true. The efforts Of ]
IC. pop WHITLEY and myself are or
the verge of coming to happen.
Some |. u. M. M. & S. w. men woulC
consider the merging of the American
Mines Unions with the Mexican Mine.
Unions unwise and unimportant. Fol
the benefit OF such persons l will ex.
plain the advantages for both partie.
concerned. In the same words that
explained it to Ricardo Bspinoza Ram.
ierez. Sec. Gen. of the Confederation
of Mexican Workers. &C. R. O. M
I shall try to make myself clear.
/. It is we'll known that a man whC
has been a union man will. wherever
he goes. keep on being one. One o
the hardest obstacles in the way o
union labor. in the entire west. ha.
been the unorganized Mexican Work
ers. Therefore when a Mexican see.
that his own countrymen, in his owi
country. are back Of an -organizatioi
they will back it to the greatest ex
tent of their strength and I will tel
YOU a real mexican union man know.
no limit. He gives his very life for
cause. But on the other hand, the hardes
Job | have ever had was to try anC
convince an un%unionized Mexican
Here in this state (Arizona) | hav,
been at a meeting and after talking
for over two hours have been able t.
get 10 out of 800. Many times thii
happened in New Mexico, Texas, Utah
Nevada and California. Colorado, Ida.
no, Montana and the Dakotas are get.
ting there share Of this kind Of un.
~unionized cheap labor. 1t is the solemn
duty OF these states to see that th'
II. u. NJ. M. & S. Workers takes il
the M. K M. U. OF Mexico.
2. Now in the question of tariffs OF
metal wouldn't it be wiser to have thu
three principal countries in North Am
erica in a position where they can unite
for protective tariffs. Look what Mex.
leo did during the last silver climb
They could have easily flooded the
American market through various chan
nels and kept the American small pro.
Queer at the larger companies mercy.
3. The Big Three producing com.
@panies of Mexico are Anaconda, Ken.
necott and American Smelling. That il
nv main reason for trying to unite tn,
Mex. with the Amer. Labor Unions
Remember your own strike against tn,
Anaconda. From where were they full
filling their foreign contracts? VIII
from Cananea in Sonora Mexico ant
lust look how long the strike lasted
p.zL4 - A.oco,d, doae NOT noe,