. Mining and Scientific Press . ns of em-ployees. Demands called for a minimum wage scale of$7 per day For sis hours work, and the release of allindustrial and political prisoners, and other featureswhich manifestly were not within the power of the min-ing companies to meet. No doubt the I. W. W organiza-at that time considered thai there was a reasonablygood chance throughout the United States of creatingsufficient discontenl to cause the initiation of revolu-tionary acts. / row think that tht relations tut in in managers and< havt improved or otherwist duringiii,,/r personal experience in
. Mining and Scientific Press . ns of em-ployees. Demands called for a minimum wage scale of$7 per day For sis hours work, and the release of allindustrial and political prisoners, and other featureswhich manifestly were not within the power of the min-ing companies to meet. No doubt the I. W. W organiza-at that time considered thai there was a reasonablygood chance throughout the United States of creatingsufficient discontenl to cause the initiation of revolu-tionary acts. / row think that tht relations tut in in managers and< havt improved or otherwist duringiii,,/r personal experience in tin West?I think they have improved. Of course, the tendency September 10, 192] MINING AND SCIENTIFIC Vlnt within the past few yean there has been a much bettersideration given !•> the welfare of employees, impiment of their working and Living conditions, provision. TIM IM\ <m \|-r Qtation, and the i j of tluir griev -. and suggestions Nearlj all of the Larger oompanics, where the management doi •, nol come in directtact with the employees, have well recognized meansof giving tin in representation. Jlavi yon noticed a d In thi composition o) tki irni n regard to changes of nationality or rt Siilit I came here in L913 there have I ? appreciable ages hi the relative cumbers employed of differentand in the a\ i mploj ees Most nf these changes an such as would naturally have l»»-«-tiexpected as a result of the War, In March 1913, of allemployees in the Butte minis, approximately 35$ werenative-born and 65$ foreign-born, as compared withnative-born and 675? foreign born in the fall of theyear 1918. In 1913 the percentage of foreign born employees who had become naturalized was about 54%, ascompared with only 37$ in the fall of L918. The proof employees in L913 under 30 years of age wasabout as compared with a Little Less than 30$
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