Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-04-20 | Page 4 | Could It be Worse?

COULD IT BE nl WORSE Looking over the situation in even oven a Western West West- em ern man may he be pardoned if It he echoes tho the inquiry of ot Eastern papers Would union non-union labor be worse than Is the sort Hort of organized labor that has lias been dominating I the situation in Nevada What hat benefit con cnn such a out long conflict as that at aL Goldfield be bo to the cause of or the wage earner carner It certainly Is injurious t lo to the employing Interest It Is destructive of or good hood order In the town And It would be madness to claim It was doing organized or other labor an any good There are two kinds of or labor union in that troubled state slate They are bitter bitterly at war with each other an and nothIng nothing noth noth- ing in industrial pro progress can n be he accomplished until their strife Is settled It gives no promise of settlement The Themen Themen Themen men have havo not been allowed to work worl The They have drawn no wages for Cor months The mines havo have been idle al although although although al- al though the rich pro ro is waiting In sight for transporting to mills mitis and smelters and thence to tho the markets of the world where mono money would willingly be paid for it Organized labor is is a great g and glorious thing It Itis Itis is if based on a high ideal and its tend tendency nc Is to tho the betterment betterment betterment bet bet- of wago wage earners to the ho Improving of their condition con con- and to an equitable a adjustment of oC cs contentions con con- with ith their employers when shen these O arise limit But such organization as that at Goldfield which prevents work worl and arid precipitates crime which halts halls a states state's ad advancement ad- ad which paralyzes business and brings s no good to lo any Ono Onti riu is a curse curc to its its' members and to to- tho the whole country Nothing could bo be more harmful to workingmen working working- men than the time reign of or those disturbers at Goldfield for tor forthe the past few Ce months