| Show 1 A WORD TO WORKING MEN In a recent interview a it contractor in San Francisco Francisco Franciseo Fran Fran- cisco said But But for the unreasonable demands of labor unionism there would be empo employment ment for er e every idle laborer labore and arid mechanic in spite of the money money stringency l Lumber cement lime and other building building build build- build I ing jug materials were never cheaper than they arc are no now I and there was never a better opportunity for the employment em em- llo ment of in the work of reconstructing Sau San Francisco than now flOW Under stich circumstances one would be justified in denouncing as a vagrant the theman theman I Iman who refuses work for fOl fair man es to work a a. compensation I The Tue above abu to few to laboring labor labor- prompts us sa say a ing men inch labor union men and others who belong to tono I no ilo union Before there were labor unions men worked for fOI the best wa wages es the could get sometimes for less than their ser services ces were worth but the they kept J at work The flie best workers of course obtained the steadiest work and when there was a chance for promotion they ther were the ones to rece receive e it Their I thought was to do llo the best they could coull until they could coull do better and looking over the names of df the rich of the land quite half are of the same ame names as had the men in ih the old lays days who did the best the they i could Had they continued to go on strikes because some incompetent man lost his place they never would have o been promoted 1 Labor unions are arc the best possible arrangements for br working men so long as their object is to work for the best interests of the members Rut ThIt when the they t. t give oft office ce to men who are never neel worth a cent to I work the they become becom a a. double abuse unjust to the I members and to employers Take Goldfield for a I sample Suppose the unions there a year and a half hail ago igo had determined to work ork for the wages ages that have s been higher in Keva Nevada a than thanin n any other state how would things be now 1 T Twice ice or three times as many miners would be at work there now the camp have been the Yer very ver best in Nevada Ne all an the and violence would have been avoided and the miners would have had thousands o of dollars dollars' here the have haye not now hundreds while the opportunities for fur all an of them to have made little stakes out of ol the mines would rould have ha been greater than in all any r otI other cr camp There is a n new w camp in Nevada Q The prospects as a rule have been located by poor men Th There re is not a shafts shaft sixty dy feet d deep cheep ep in the camp The l p permanent value of the camp has not yet ct been established But a dele delegation of men went in there the thc other day daJ called a little i meeting of half hair a dozen men and resolved to fix miners' miners wages at 6 per day ay Now one of two things will happen The locators will either cither stop work or will win hire hire- men at fair wages and nud fight it out on that line In either event these men Inca who have ha sought to est establish blish an arbitrary and exorbitant rate there will be he out and injured They will either stop the w Hk o of the camp or the work will rill go on and they ther will be shut out We Ve Ve suspect too that were their hands examined they would show no marks to prove pro that they y eyer ever were honest and earnest miners Now No the unions should oust all aU such fellows from office And honest and earnest miners should see 1 that no more men like them thel ever again get office in their unions What a man would d have of worth he must get himself If a poor man he ha has to make a beginning a out of the sweat of his face and the theman i man Dlan an who ho by himself or through a union spends half his time in trying to fo get et better hettel terms or 01 in striking will will eventual if he perseveres perse haY have to be buried at public expense I |
