Show WAGES AND SALT betteis butte is w watching the salt question with intense anxiety and as the subject act is la of 0 great importance to many ogden people we a ahall continue to publish an in full the ne news 9 from butto butte upon tins this matter on thursday t the ie daily inter under the head of wages and salt contained the following aa as a double leaded editorial the inter notes with p pleasure basure the concurrence of it its esteemed the miner with the views expressed in in this journal yesterday concerning the misinformation under tinder v aich mr 11 R wolcott of denier denver labors labo rsm Min regard to the salt and labor questions in butte the intermountain mou in 18 ie not aware of any ci ci cum stances m winch aich justify a reduction of wages in in this camp what the people here need is is cheaper salt the mining companies are maling making no effort to reduce wages and are not likely to mabe make any wo we dont know of a mining superintend ent in in this camp who would not consider it a crime crime to reduce wages under unter existing circumstances they all as faras far as we know entertain the same opinion on thia this point and are entitled tle to the bant O 0 amount of credit for their resolution to maintain wages at their present standard they all know how dangerous is is a miners miners occupation and how high the cost of living is is ill in butte they have nearly all we believe bo worked for miners wages themselves and in in the true sense of the term they aro are as much laboring men now as they ever N were ere between these superintendents and the me men under their direction there is a bond of sym sv m path yand and mutual regard born of con betant dissociation and of tho the common dangers they daily face an and d hence we w do not believe these superintend ente to bo be in favor f iv or of any reduction of wages w ages nor or is is there any danger of any attempted reduction eo so long as a simple simple concession by a railroad company in the matter of tho the salt barff will re move love any possible objection to the maintenance of the present rate ol 01 pay business interests of v be seriously impaired by a reduction of wages it would malo make a difference in in tho the cash receipts of our merchants of over t per month or per year the minera miners would have to economize and stint themselves of many of the feces of life they would bo be first to feel tho the ill effects of the chango change hen then the merchants and then the railroad w would uld suffer thui the railroad v hoso whoso policy brought about the reduction would ultimately be the heaviest loser from its own ow n acts can gen ceal manager potter eco see tho the point every consideration of local F self fin interest ter c bt is opposed appo wd to a reduction 0 of f wages there is not an enterprise nor a roan man in in this camp that w would not t suffer from a reduction on tins this subject thero is a plain identity of in interest between the miners union and the rest of tho the community including even the mining companies for fora a man who cheerfully and contentedly labors for ato 3 50 per day will w ill break twice tw no aa as much rock as ono one whose spirits are dampened by a doubt of hie his ability to his grocers bill on the first of the month As tho the intermountain inter mountain views tins this wages question wo we are all in the same boat and must row with perfect unity and accord to reach a safe safo landing place if we w e w would not bo be ew swamped at present the union pacific salt rate is 9 the rock which threatens to td cause a leak ea k in in the craft and we liopo hope that the union pacific tall talk about the real object of the present agitation being a reduction of wages will not bo be allowed to obscure the v ision vision of the lie labor ng men or conceal the real danger before the them in the expression of these views the inter mountain ia pleased to endorsement of its the miner the unanimity of the press and people cannot fail fall to give weight I 1 to the lie present demand upon the union pacific for cheaper salt S mavor mayor of kew new york j aimis is a growing figure in politics |