Show WAGES MUST FOLLOW METALS WITH COPPER selling selling below alf it teen cents lead at close to six and a half cents and zinc at a little under seven cents it must be apparent even to the miner that production costs must come down or employment largely cease it is a matter ot of inexorable economics dictated by the very human tact fact that producers will not function at a loss after a world wide orgy ol of high wages hig high h costs high railroad rates high mon men ey and high extravagance the rapidly deflating balloon is descending to earth all things considered metals are selling at figures proportionately far below those prevailing in prewar pro pre war days and readjustment of a drastic drasal e nature Is unavoidable necessarily Necess arlI Y wages will be the last item of costs to come down but come down they must and there seems every reason to believe that the process will ua be in fit full swing during tho the coming coining winter it is to be hoped that when the time comes labor in the mining districts of the northwest will do its own thinking and refuse to be led away into economic unsoundness unsound nesa by loud agitators the undivided efforts of all classes of society will bo be needed to keep tho the boat on oil an even keel and labors part will in great measure be the determining factor like youth economics in must list be served and the day of service Is at hand northwest mining tru truth t it |