Show STATEMENT OF BUSINESS MEN Review of the Situation at Goldfield and Causes Lead Leading Leading Leading ing to Present Difficulty HALT WAS FINALLY CALLED LAWLESS ELEMENT MUST LEAVE THE DISTRICT Goldfield Nov farch March IS The follow ollow following following ing statement was made public today The Goldfield Business BusIness Men llen and Mine Owners association desires to make an announcement of the present labor dif difference difference difference ference in For the thc past three years the camp has haJi had a series of labor troubles that have hae had their origin in the existence of an organization known as the tile Industrial Workers of o the World This TIlls body of or men have not only done these things but have maintained a 11 reign of terror in the camp so far as laboring men and business are concerned Prominent men from other states have been warned that they the could not enter the camp and when wilen some Bome have hac ventured to disobey these mandates mandaro the they have been assaulted and forced to leave the district Laboring men Inca who hae have offended in any way have been beaten up and maltreated and sent out of the district without food or shel shelter shelter shelter ter Strike Followed Strike Last December r a general strike was inaugurated which was settled amicably early ear in hi January Business at once re revived ived and 1 a genuine boom oom In building and mining commenced Within several days a general strike was inaugurated and our prosperity again was threatened This time is was a fight between the In Industrial Industrial Workers of or the World orld and the American Federation of Labor The fhe for former former mer iner served notice upon the th miners that unless some sonIc of the agitators agitator be discharged the miners would be bf immediately burned burne out The restaurant ant keeper who had dared to serve ene meals meal to carpenters under the theban theban I ban of the Industrial Workers of theYo the World Yo rid was shot allot dead in cold blood in his own house The Th business men and mine owners then determined that this condi condition conditIon tion of or affairs must be e ended A mass mas meeting was called and the tile GoldfiEld bus business busIness iness Incas men and mine owners association was formed Union of Citizens It lt is not never neer was and does docs not pro propose propose pose to be a citizens alliance or a mine owners and operators association of the tho pattern of the Cripple Crip le Creek district mino owners and operators association It is simply simp a union of the business men and mine owners of Goldfield to preserve the camp and protect life and property There Is to be 00 no change in hours or wages The settlement of wages wa cs made in January is satisfactory to all ali concerned But Bul law lawlessness lawI I and oppression must cease The Industrial Workers Yorkers of the World orld as the tho representatives reprEsentative of lawlessness must leave the district That is the tho only onlO Issue and andall andall all ail that Is involved Labor unions are not notto notto notto to be warred against or to be encouraged encouragEd encouraged aged All AH that Is demanded is that they must be labor unions not under the con control control control of or associated with Ith the Industrial Workers of the World orld EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE |