Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1899-07-08
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note: .T '"" \ / VOL 3. NO. 5. SANDON, B. C, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1899. ,i FIVE CENTS. I. A Large Attendance of Miners and Other Interested Citizens. ��������� Mr. J. J. Walker, editor of the Spokane labor jourml, held a public meet < ing in Spencer's hall, Wednesday cvoiv ing, which was well attended, by an orderly audience, the majority being miners. President SUickham took the chair, but instead of introducing the speaker in" a fow remarks, as is the custom on such occasions, he occupied a full hour in-exposing the harness of the mine owners, the ignorance and ���������weakness of the local press and a full ' outline of his own personal honesty. The Review is no champion of tho mine owners, but when "ir"~maii in Stockham's position insinuates that ��������� their opposition to the eight-hour law is because it prevents them from grinding down the miners, he .imply misrepresents the facts. Some of them, doubtless, nre tjrindcrs, but they all would not be, even- if 'the law gave them every chance to be such. What the most sensible of their number object to is merely, what every statesman in every civilized country admits, that when radical changes aro contemplated in any laws due notice of the contemplated changes should be given that all interests might adapt themselves to the coming changes. Mr. Stockham next took a shy at The lie view, declaring it was week in its position on the eight-hour law, but he took the best of care that, in his spirit of fairness, ho did not invite thc cditoi, who was in tho room, to a position on the platform to discuss thc matter with him. But that would not nave coincided with Mr. Stockham's sense of justice. It is not true, as stated by Stockham, that The lleview opposes the eight-hour law. What it plainly eontcnil_ is" it does not go far enough in ono direction while it de- .. stroys the liberty of the subject in another. There are more farmers and fishermen in this province than there are miners, and when the law was introduced at all, it s…
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183295
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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