California Mining Journal (PH 16-11)(July 1937) (30 pages)

THE @00 PAWL” MILL @ Reading the front page of Sunday morning’s S. F. Examiner gives a law-abiding citizen very little encouragement: Wholesale execution of Russian officials who dare to call their scul their own; Spain, tattered and torn by revolution incited by the same Russian Reds and participated in by other nations; Many labor centers about the U. S. in the clutches of the same red and destructive labor element; Kidnaped Mrs. Parsons feared murdered; officials unable to compete with the criminals; Chief Quinn of S. F. police “shifts” instead of “fires” police implicated in constant racketeering; After 14 years L. A. police do a Rip Van Winkle and think they have something on the murder of Wm. Desmond Taylor. In Philadelphia two children find twelve bodies in pine boxes in a ‘Naturopathic Hospital,” that the dumbell authorities knew nothing about, As long as crooked citizens get on juries and others are always afraid to assist in the enforcement of the law, while politicians play with the lawless, and crooks rather than honest police are desired, these conditions will continue. It remains for the better element of citizenry to break it up. Officialdom won’t do it. @ Jim Stewart Sez: “During the last legislative session there was introduced a bill to raise the pay of the legislators to $250 per month. Our own Jesse Mayo rose to remark that he did not think they were worth it. He seems to have hit the nail on the head when the present bribery scandal brings out that Assemblymen were quoted in lots of five, hides, hoofs and horns, for $1,400 per lot, all neatly tied together like a bunch of turnips.” Is there any wonder why the lawless labor element think they can get over their stuff? And we'll bet dollars to doughnuts that with all the commotion the Sacramento D. A. is stirring up, there will be no convictions. The hand of graft reaches too far. @ Again Sen. Jerry Seawell jumps the gun and is away ahead of the Insurance Commissioner. Early in the month Jerry announces that “effective June Ist, there will be a decrease in the compensation insurance silicosis surcharge for mining.” Later Commissioner Carpenter announces that there will be a hearing to consider a decrease. What we'd like to know is: “Who’s running the Insurance Department of the State of California?” @ The Legislature has closed and maybe Busines&S can now draw a long breath. It ought to be the other way: Business should feel safe when the law-makers are in session, Business should be able to go to the Legislature with its troubles and have them righted; but sad to say, this is not the case. Every time the boys gather under the capital dome, Business gets chills and retires into seclusion, afraid to call its soul its own. It even duplicates the act of the ostrich burying its head in the sand, thus becoming a right smart mark for every rattle-weeded ism and crooked lobby. The day of safe, sane and conservative CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL Published Monthly at Auburn, California Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Auburn, California Under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 The Only California Mining Publication of “General Circulation” as Prescribed by Postal Regulations J. P. Hauy, Editor and Owner BUSINESS SHOULD HELP Miners all over California’s mining region have come to the conclusion that if they are to have a job it will be up to them to protect that job. In order to let the agitators know that they are determined in their intention they have organized local unions, or protective organizations for no other purpose than to deal in a just manner with their employers and to exclude that radical unionism that would eventually destroy their jobs. This movement protects ithe mining industry and insures to the mining communities that they will continue to have payrolls, their life blood. The business men, depending upon these payrolls should now realize that they too should do their part to stamp out destructive radicalism. They should refuse to contribute money to any such group’s actiywho wants to keep his job and should let it be known that radicalism in their it be known that radicalism in their communities is not wanted. The Journal has always held that it is really up to the workers and the business men to encourage the mining payroll, When conditions get too tough the operators can move out or refuse to start, but the business man who has an established business and the worker who has his family and home to support must protect them by keeping the radicals out. GOLD AS A STANDARD When we went off the gold standard it now appears that this meant nothing to the value of the rare metal, other than increasing it and making it more of an international standard. Governments haye taken over its control as a further protection to gold and the credit it regulates. ‘This control over night has slipped up on the “highgrader” who now is in the clutches of federal law. Uncle Sam has built inland a gold depository that will be safer in case of invasion. Foreign governments are doing likewise and now Japan seeks control of her, gold production and shipments by an act of her parliament. There is no doubt that gold today is more of a standard than ever and will be for time to come. The gold producer should have no fears on this point. government apparently has passed out of existence. Who will be the Moses to lead us out of the Wilderness? INSURANCE RATE MAKERS There’s something decidedly wrong with the method of making rates for compensation insurance in California. They are figured not by an official body but by what members of which are pleased to call a “quasi-official” body. And when you look further into the situation you will find out that the “quasi-official” body is nothing more than a representative of each insurance company writing compensation in the state. They are the same group that some time ago made the statement that it was “unethical to ask for a lower rate.” Can you imagine a group of boys who can figure fast who are out to make profits for their respective companies shedding any tears over the high compensation rates? The Insurance Commissioner’s department should be able to figure its own rates. He should give the Bureau its rates; they should not come from insurance company representatives. The Bureau should be in the same position as the insured; they should have only the right to object to the Commissioner’s rates. Let’s have an Insurance Department that is competent to make its own rates. And let’s have Compensation Insurance from which there is derived no profit, the real intent of the Workmen’s Compensation Act: protection for the worker and the employer, at cost. THAT SILLY SILICOSIS The big silicosis scare is evidently over. Over a year ago the California Rating Investigation Bureau demanded a silicosis surcharge of $11.25 over and above the base rate of $11.00 for underground mining compensation insurance: total $22.25 per $100 payroll. Then after the howl that went up all over the state, they agreed to cut the surcharge by 30%, the reduction to be made in their overhead. The miners registered further objections and called for investigations and hearings, following which the demanded surcharge was cut over 500%, being placed at $2.24. Now the Bureau has evidently “got religion” and is asking the Insurance Commissioner to cut the $2.24 by 75%. There’s no doubt about it: the Bureau either tried to commit highway robbery, the mining industry being the viclms, or they have demonstrated their outstanding ignorance of their business.

THE @00 PAWL” MILL @ Reading the front page of Sunday morning’s S. F. Examiner gives a law-abiding citizen very little encouragement: Wholesale execution of Russian officials who dare to call their scul their own; Spain, tattered and torn by revolution incited by the same Russian Reds and participated in by other nations; Many labor centers about the U. S. in the clutches of the same red and destructive labor element; Kidnaped Mrs. Parsons feared murdered; officials unable to compete with the criminals; Chief Quinn of S. F. police “shifts” instead of “fires” police implicated in constant racketeering; After 14 years L. A. police do a Rip Van Winkle and think they have something on the murder of Wm. Desmond Taylor. In Philadelphia two children find twelve bodies in pine boxes in a ‘Naturopathic Hospital,” that the dumbell authorities knew nothing about, As long as crooked citizens get on juries and others are always afraid to assist in the enforcement of the law, while politicians play with the lawless, and crooks rather than honest police are desired, these conditions will continue. It remains for the better element of citizenry to break it up. Officialdom won’t do it. @ Jim Stewart Sez: “During the last legislative session there was introduced a bill to raise the pay of the legislators to $250 per month. Our own Jesse Mayo rose to remark that he did not think they were worth it. He seems to have hit the nail on the head when the present bribery scandal brings out that Assemblymen were quoted in lots of five, hides, hoofs and horns, for $1,400 per lot, all neatly tied together like a bunch of turnips.” Is there any wonder why the lawless labor element think they can get over their stuff? And we'll bet dollars to doughnuts that with all the commotion the Sacramento D. A. is stirring up, there will be no convictions. The hand of graft reaches too far. @ Again Sen. Jerry Seawell jumps the gun and is away ahead of the Insurance Commissioner. Early in the month Jerry announces that “effective June Ist, there will be a decrease in the compensation insurance silicosis surcharge for mining.” Later Commissioner Carpenter announces that there will be a hearing to consider a decrease. What we'd like to know is: “Who’s running the Insurance Department of the State of California?” @ The Legislature has closed and maybe Busines&S can now draw a long breath. It ought to be the other way: Business should feel safe when the law-makers are in session, Business should be able to go to the Legislature with its troubles and have them righted; but sad to say, this is not the case. Every time the boys gather under the capital dome, Business gets chills and retires into seclusion, afraid to call its soul its own. It even duplicates the act of the ostrich burying its head in the sand, thus becoming a right smart mark for every rattle-weeded ism and crooked lobby. The day of safe, sane and conservative CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL Published Monthly at Auburn, California Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Auburn, California Under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 The Only California Mining Publication of “General Circulation” as Prescribed by Postal Regulations J. P. Hauy, Editor and Owner BUSINESS SHOULD HELP Miners all over California’s mining region have come to the conclusion that if they are to have a job it will be up to them to protect that job. In order to let the agitators know that they are determined in their intention they have organized local unions, or protective organizations for no other purpose than to deal in a just manner with their employers and to exclude that radical unionism that would eventually destroy their jobs. This movement protects ithe mining industry and insures to the mining communities that they will continue to have payrolls, their life blood. The business men, depending upon these payrolls should now realize that they too should do their part to stamp out destructive radicalism. They should refuse to contribute money to any such group’s actiywho wants to keep his job and should

let it be known that radicalism in their it be known that radicalism in their communities is not wanted. The Journal has always held that it is really up to the workers and the business men to encourage the mining payroll, When conditions get too tough the operators can move out or refuse to start, but the business man who has an established business and the worker who has his family and home to support must protect them by keeping the radicals out. GOLD AS A STANDARD When we went off the gold standard it now appears that this meant nothing to the value of the rare metal, other than increasing it and making it more of an international standard. Governments haye taken over its control as a further protection to gold and the credit it regulates. ‘This control over night has slipped up on the “highgrader” who now is in the clutches of federal law. Uncle Sam has built inland a gold depository that will be safer in case of invasion. Foreign governments are doing likewise and now Japan seeks control of her, gold production and shipments by an act of her parliament. There is no doubt that gold today is more of a standard than ever and will be for time to come. The gold producer should have no fears on this point. government apparently has passed out of existence. Who will be the Moses to lead us out of the Wilderness? INSURANCE RATE MAKERS There’s something decidedly wrong with the method of making rates for compensation insurance in California. They are figured not by an official body but by what members of which are pleased to call a “quasi-official” body. And when you look further into the situation you will find out that the “quasi-official” body is nothing more than a representative of each insurance company writing compensation in the state. They are the same group that some time ago made the statement that it was “unethical to ask for a lower rate.” Can you imagine a group of boys who can figure fast who are out to make profits for their respective companies shedding any tears over the high compensation rates? The Insurance Commissioner’s department should be able to figure its own rates. He should give the Bureau its rates; they should not come from insurance company representatives. The Bureau should be in the same position as the insured; they should have only the right to object to the Commissioner’s rates. Let’s have an Insurance Department that is competent to make its own rates. And let’s have Compensation Insurance from which there is derived no profit, the real intent of the Workmen’s Compensation Act: protection for the worker and the employer, at cost. THAT SILLY SILICOSIS The big silicosis scare is evidently over. Over a year ago the California Rating Investigation Bureau demanded a silicosis surcharge of $11.25 over and above the base rate of $11.00 for underground mining compensation insurance: total $22.25 per $100 payroll. Then after the howl that went up all over the state, they agreed to cut the surcharge by 30%, the reduction to be made in their overhead. The miners registered further objections and called for investigations and hearings, following which the demanded surcharge was cut over 500%, being placed at $2.24. Now the Bureau has evidently “got religion” and is asking the Insurance Commissioner to cut the $2.24 by 75%. There’s no doubt about it: the Bureau either tried to commit highway robbery, the mining industry being the viclms, or they have demonstrated their outstanding ignorance of their business.