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Show Frame and Pass the Code. H At the late convention of Federated Miners in H Denver, tho old officers, though now under trial H for wholesale murders, were re-elected president H and secretary; it is said that the headquarters of '. tho organization in Denver are placated with 1 H threats of what the organization intends to do in H certain contingencies, and flnaly tho convention jfl endorsed tho Socialist party and passed a reso- ! H lution declaring that the organization would like- , H wise henceforth bo a political organization and , H flgifl for its rights in tho political fields. This attitude is an improvement on the former methods of the body, for It is equivalent to a defiance of all opposition and serves notice on the sparsely i H settled states in this interior basin that tho or- I ganization proposes to dictate how all work shall , I be performed and If possible it will elect such ' , H state and county officers as will do Its bidding I regardless of tho laws. That is what the people ) I are called upon to face. In his opening address in Boise Counsellor Darrow drew a tearful picture j I of what miners in the west had to Buffer before I this Federation was formed; of the long hours '3 I worked and indifferent wages paid. Inasmuch as there was no truth in what Mr. Darrow said for J since the discovery of the Comstock miners have worked less hours and received better pay than miners ever In the world's history had before--wo can only construe the words of Mr. Darrow to mean that it is the purpose of the organization to keep on reducing the hours and Increasing i wages until everything but absolute confiscation ,. I will be demanded. , -Now the sentiment of the people of this in- iterlor has always been in favor of union labor, that protection may be secured for the unfort tunate in the unions, and that fair wages and reasonable hours might be secured. That is the feeling now, but if this Federation carries out ah it promised in the late Denver convention, then It will be a trust organized not only in restraint of trade but for the purpose of suppressing the execution of necosary laws and with a determination determi-nation to prey upon every form of capital, and to execute its decrees by every hideous form of violence. The states will have to prepare to meet this, or -see one Industry after another stranded and beyond that see their state governments helpless help-less to extend any form of protection to either their people or their property. The first thing, It seems to us, is to pass an arbitration code and to provide the necessary means to enforce it. As it looks to us this is the rnly means to guarantee peace or to save the I value of mining property in the world's mar- I Icets. |