pay

ROSSLAND EVENING RECORD, FEBRUARY 16, i900.

THE ROSSLAND..RECORD.

WILLIAM K. ESLING.
‘Tax Ovpest DAILY IN THE INTERIOR,
PUBLISHBD DAILY HXONPT SUNDAY.

Orfice: BAsRMENT PosToFFice BLOCK.
TEL. 93, FO, BOX 538,

swant to |:make. money as fast as
they:can, and are anxidus. to work
Sundays. sind week-days alike with
that object,

The Kaslo merchants do not pro-

SUMBORIPTION RATES:

ily, per pronth by mail. 3 50
Bally half ye: . 800
Daily, ver vor 500
Daily) per year, +8 00

Subs riptions invariably in.advanc

$i

pose: thatthe Jaw should be: re-
pealed; they simply propose that
eight hours shall:be the legal stand-
}ard day's work, but that mine-owner
‘{and miner shall be allowed to con-

Advertising rates will bo runde known upon.
- application.

The Racoxw reaches the people.

tract for a longer working day or
for overtime, if they wish. Thus
*/ individual freedom of centract would
not be impaired, longer shifts than

agp=

eight hours could be worked where
\{ the conditions required.or: the par-

TIME OF ARRIVAL AND CLOSING
OF MAILS.

CLOSE | i DESTINATIONS. { DUE

Revelstoke and all points!
least and west. faclyding Vat"
jcouver. Victori:

ikamicen, Cariboo,
re iKlond, ea he
est

Nakusp, |
mn 11 ane. |

Pat Mo: nday, Wed-
acadsy sara vat on|
jand connections .

n, Kaslo, and -Ymir,
asta "Kootenay lake, Rast
enay and Crow wis Nest!
aes Pte Ba connection:

Spokane, Northport. and!
all Pat in United States,

the Boundary district
Jitta perpen any district rig pam
Famp McKinney.

rad

Aistata Chitia and Japan—See special notices.
rs for- Registration must be posted half an

ant previous to the time for closing the mai
The postoffice is open from 8 a. m., sii in, oe
daily, xcept Sunday).

1900 PEBRUARY 1900
s[(Mi Til] wit Fis.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1900.

TO ADVERTISERS.

New reading matter makes your
advertisement attractive. .We will
giedly change your ‘‘ad” every issue,
if copy is presented before 10 a. m.

A CASE WELL PUT.

No stronger Presentation of the
arguments against the ‘eight-hour
law has been made than is contain-
ed in the petition of the Kaslo board
of trade for its id: which”

-| the monster and throttled it.

:| ties concerned desired it,.and at the
same time eight hours would be the

'to.work upto. ;  -

tention: ‘to one evil wit
[should be no dallying: This is the
practice of intimiyation and boycot-
[ting by the Miners’ union, and par-
ticularly by men who have come
from across the line. These are the
first beginnings of.a reign. of terror
such as existed in the. Coeur
d’Alenes from 1892. until. the blow-
ing up of the Bunker Hill &. Sulli-
van mill in April, 1899. They-trans-
form the Miners’ union from a law
ful ization .into, .a iP
aimed at liberty and public.order.
. They place .it outside the pale of the
jlaw and might call: for the same
‘drastic measures..to-uproot the con-
‘piracy as were: found y in
the Coeur:'d’Alenes.: ‘No ‘object,
however laudable in ilself, can ex-
cuse resort to such means for’ its
attainment. The whole force of the
aw must be exerted to bring to jus-
tice men who would make any sec-
tion of British Columbia such a by-
word as the Coeur d’Alenes had been
foryears till Gov. Steunenberg seized
Since
that time the camp hasbeen blessed
with the confidence of ‘capital, not
known since 1892, and _with unex.
ampled prosperity.

The worst feature of such organi-
zations as the Miners’ union, as it
existed in the Coeur d’Alenes, and

laws are seeking to extend its pow-

look for recreution; they simply |

recognized system which all aimed

<The Kaslo board of rade calls 4 at. |:
which there |.

as ‘some of the Coeur d'Alene out-,|”

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Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
Robert E. Strong, Manager.

ROSS THOMPSON........

I have the following blocks i in the ‘following companies for, :ale
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: Silverine, R.E. Lee, Bodie, Eureka, North Star and Zila M

‘Lots int the Original Townsite

Reddin. Jack 0., Agents, Rossi

ni, B.¢

$750,000 of the, other.man’s cop-!
ers. Haying, it. is stated, mada
many friends both on the bench and
jury, he. proceeded: to attack. the
d Copper company, and
he is now at them with ‘hammer and
pen. May this boy wonder, still 30
years ofage, never grow, older, is
the earnest Sish of Marcus Daly and |
his: associates.” :

FOR RENT,

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-OMee' and’ rooms on second floor’ Burns’
Block,

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Dwelling house, plastere
furnished throughout, good locality.

Hotel and Saloon on Second avenue. A
splendid business opportunity...

ue NOTICE.
OTICE is hereb; th

Nev ater and Light Company i
tay of Maven, hos, to. abp

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“" Postofiice Box

one No. 38,

er into British Colum és that the
innocent must share the blame lof
its .crimes. with the guilty. : The
vast majority of its members are
good, law-abiding citizens, but- on

appears in this issue. The injury
which it has wrought to the Slocan
is set forth in such terms'as cantiot
be questioned and the” unsound

of the arguments by which its ad-
vocates bolster it upis shown by
men in a position to know the facts
and'who may be the more relied on
to state the truth without bias,
from the faet that they are ‘not: pat-
ties to the controversy. At the
samé time they have a decided
right to speak, as they are direct
sufferers from the paralysis which
the law has brought ‘on the mioing
industry in Slocan,

The'main objection to the eight-
hour law is its compulsory charac-
ter. This deprives both employér
and employe of that freedom of. con-.
tract which is one of the primary
rights of a British subject. + It
further ignores the varying condi-
tions existing in different mines and
mining districts, which make eight'l
hours long enough for a man to
work
none too'long in another. The ques-
tion as to the effect on the health of
the miner is one on which each in-
dividual is quite competent. to judge
and decide for himself, without the -
intervention of a number of gentle-.
men at Victoria, to most of whom a
metal mine is an unseen curiosity.
The plea that men require the other
two hours for recteation might have

recreation’ existed in the average
mining camp. But when men. are
quartered in a bunk-house away
from any kind. of a town—a con-; 1
dition of affairs inseparable from the
mining industry until it has reached | t
the most advanced stages—the |t
means of recreation are so limited
as not to be worth considering.
Every man familiar with the subject

mountains to make money to be |c
Spent ina town where they can en- | a
joy ‘themselves, or to make a
“stake”-for.a season's prospecting

.| tes either to the planning or “execu-

claimed, ‘Heinze! Heinze! Who is |:
Heinze?” and .@ syndicate of, about a
200 newspapers published: where’
ireulates,: have ree}. .

in one place and ten hours me
who went'to Butte when but amere |
child Of 30, with ni
‘eagle eye and German‘ accent, a
quired some abandoned’ Butte &
Boston copper mines, which the day |°”
following developed , into. copper
bottomed world beaters.

only 30, he purchased-an, abandoned. :
provincial legislature,- and
some force if the opportunities ‘for | tally some cash and:land
He built in Beitish Columbia: wroad |
road to the Canadian _ Pacific, the |
same length as his age, which the

order to maintain their grip on the

but 30, he kicked the Kootenay dust
off his khakis and returned with ad-
knows that miners go into the | ditional wealth to the Mecca of the

ture, electing ‘one W. A. Clarke to
the senate of the United States,

of the. | of: the}
more aggressive and worthle:
characters, who attain the - Ie;
ship.and form an inner. circl
have to share the blame for la less
acts of which they may, persondilly,.
know nothing, or into: which, they |”
are forced by The

A.B: MACKENZIE & Co.

C. E. Benn, M. H. McMahon Butte Potel

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law. defining ‘conspiracy makes ail
members equally guilty-and'as long
as the officers of the union do the
unlawful acts, the officers-of the
law cannot but hold the union. ‘Fe-
sponsible ‘and thus the individual’
members ar€ held liablé to punish-
ment, though they may net-be Ppar-

tion ofa crime,

"A. G. Creelman. *
P. O. Box 315.
CREELMAN & BEAM.

CONTRACTORS &|"™

BUILDERS, ee
Batiotates: fnrnished on all binds of work.

Jobbing promptly attended to
Office and "er a Com! nistcial court,
Aldbambr: tel.” .

George Beam

00} in eonneation
tn? _dMige B. ‘Sanaa. Prop.

MOSBLAMD. B. "O.-: 5

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“Mr. Héinze is’a ‘boy wondar

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Wee: McDONALD;
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ranscontinental ‘trade of the coun-
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“Four j years later, and when Still

opper kings, (Butte), where he
cquired another abandoned legisla-

J.

on their own account. They do not

with his suony boyish ways and

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Estimates furnished for Wiring ‘and Lighting,

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“Tel. No. 8

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A HARMFUL LAW

P
Strong Protest Against the Hight-Hour

Law,

ITS EFFECTS IN SLOCAN

.

Kaslo Board of Trade Tells How it Has Para-
Jyxed the Mining Industry—How to Rem-
edy Ite Hvil Results—Make Bight Hours
Optional, ,

The paralysis in the mining  in-
dustry of the Slocan country which
is the direct result of the eight-
hour law has caused the Kaslo
board of trade, as the only board of
trade in the district, to petition the
legislature for au amendment of the
law, by which no penalty shall at
tach for working more. than eight
hours a day. The petition puts the
case very forcibly and is the more
worthy/of attention as it comes from
neither party ‘to the SPAerOversy:
It is as follows:

“Your petitioners. beg to subrake
for the consideration of your. honor-

| able-body the following facts:

"(1) That the Kaslo board of.
trade is th’ only board of trade
within the limits of Slocan stectoral
riding.

“(2) That in this riding are lo-
cated the mining camps of Sandon,
Silverton, Slocan City, McGuigan,
Whitewater, Ainsworth, Lardo and
Duncan, the, camps which have
produced nearly all the silver-lead
ore so far mined in the province.

in the Slocan cup, prior to the|
ge of this 1» Was]
$3.50 per day, which was a rate}
fifty cents per day higher than was
aid in the neighboring camps.
“(10) We beg to call special at-
tention to this fact, that the mines
of the Slocan camp are nearly all
worked by means of tunnels. ‘There
are few deep shatts, and as a rule
perfect ventillation,

“(11) We submit that in any
case the eight-hour shift is nu ade-
quate guarantee against injury to
the health ot the men, Eight hours
is entirely too long for men to re-
main in workings where the air is
foul; and the remedy for sucha
state of things where it exists 1s to
be found in the greater rigidity of
inspection, and a more vigorous
enforcement of the law in regard to
ventilation.

‘*(12) In tunnel mines that are

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and Domestic

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well ventillated, it cannot be pre-

a

tended that labor is any moreex-
hausting than maay kinds of out- RI

door employment, while the danger |E
of accident and the exposure to the
extremities of temperature are much
less. Men once accustomed to
mining are unwilling to . take out-
door work. __

‘"(13) Hence whether this enact-
ment is regarded as a privilege ex- 3
tended to miners as a protection, or
ssa restriction intended to limit R
wage-earning power, there is not,
it seems to us, the slightest reason.
why it shouln be applied to miners.
any mone than to men engaged in
the construction of railways, to
lumbermen, carpenters or fisher-

$50. 00

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‘Rossland
Record.

men.

“{14} The mines of the Slocan
camp are nearly all high up in the
i The’ men employed

(3) That the ial “pros-
perity of the whole riding and par-
ticularly of Kaslo, is contingent

upon the steady and vigorous pros- |
;.fin the bunk

ecution ot work.in the mines.
‘(4) That since the date at which

"| the eight-hour law (so called) came
-|into effect, viz., June t, 1899, all

of the large and many of the small
mines of the Slocan riding have
been idle or nearly so.

“(5) That shipment of ores trom
thg ridiggshas fallen from a total of
32,429 tons, worth $2,779,633, in:
the year 1898, to a total of 18,087
tons, worth $1522,642, in the year
1899; and that for the seven months
from June .1 to-December 31, the
shipments have fallen from a total
of 20,660 tons, worth $1,679,,222,
in 1898, toa total of 4,904 tons,
orth: $363,954,: in 1899; and the
number of. men, has been, we believe
for the period in question, less by
one thotsdnd than it would have
been had. the eight-hour law not
come into. force.

“(6) That the effect of this dimin-
ution of output ‘and ‘employment

has “been, and is now, great dis-

tress among the merchants, hotel
men, those: engaged in the building
trades, manufacturing, transporta-
tion, and professional lifes of busi-
ness, all of which suffer in sympa-
thy with the depression of the staple
industry of-the district.

“(7) That the ‘utmost harmony
and good will existed between the
miners and’ their employers up to
the time of the enactment of this
measure; and that complaints as to
the condition of the mines, or as to
the rate of wages, were seldom or
never heard.

‘{8) That the news of the pas-
sage of the measure in question was
received in the Slocan riding with
astonishment. There had never

been any agitation in favor of such |-

a change; no request for it; no
mention of it.

“Memibers of our board, familiar
with the whale history of political

Katie D. Green G. M.
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Property ‘situated fon North Fork Salmon

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FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES, ONLY.

Fifty thousand shares of the Company's Treasury Stuck is new

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22 Columbia Aveuue,
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offered to the public at

and can be had on application to
GEORGE H.

GREEN,

Sec-Treasurer.

di i on the platform and

| through the press in this district

for the past ten years, declare that
they never saw nor heard a sugges-
tion put forward by any one that
such a change should be made.
‘We have moreover been in-
formed that this amendmeut was
b ought before the mining com-
mittee of your honorable house
during the session of 1899, and
that that committee, composed,

presumably, of the members of the;

house best acquainted with the

mining industry, and best qualified

to judge of the expediency of the

proposed amendments, refused to
port in favor of it.

“(g) That jhe rate of wages paid

cannot live in town, or establish
homes, within reach. ‘ihe time
between shifts can only be spent
hauses, where the
means of recreation or enjoyment
are limited.

“No Sundays are kept at the
mines because the men are unwill-
ing te have an idle day, nor would
they be willing to submit at all
to the shortening of the day, except}
for ‘the notion that the owners can
be compelled to pay as much for an
eight as for a ten hour day.

*(15) Your petitioners submit
that whereas the miners were at
first indifferent or opposed to the
measure, they have sitice by the
agitation and by the persistent and
strenuous efforts ofthe Western
Federation of Miners, ‘and to no
small extent by coercion, gathered
into unions, which unions. are now
demanding the retention or en-
forcement of the law, with at the
same time the same.rate of wages
that formerly obtained for the ten
hour day.

‘“‘We submit that the. Western
Federation of Miners is an alien
corporation, — having its head
quarters and the great bulk of its
membership in a foreign country,

‘(Continued on Fourth page.)

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