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GRASS VALLEY UNION MARCH 2, 1872
half-clothed, half-starved, through the streets. Some charitable person took them into
custody, and on some little investigation discovered that both parents were in the Insane
Asylum, and the children sent adrift in the world. These also found a home here. One is
an idiot, two are completely covered with ulcers, and the fourth subject to fits. For such as
these we plead for aid.
Notwithstanding our embarrassed condition, we are obliged to erect a building
for orphan boys, there being no institution for that purpose in the locality, but have
not the means with which to commence with, as the considerable amount required to
satisfy creditors allows of no surplus. Trusting that your honorable body will take into
consideration our urgent necessities, and in your goodness make such an appropriation as
will enable us to extend and continue this noble work of charity.
Respectfully, etc. Sister MARY BAPTIST MOGAN, Sister MARY ALYSUS REICHERT,
Sister MARY GABRIEL MULLIGAN.
Children admitted since the opening of the institution: Whole orphans, 366; half
orphans, 123; destitute, 84; total, 572. In asylum at present: Whole orphans, 46; half
orphans, 33; destitute, 13; total, 92.
Capital and Labor.
The Marysville Appeal of the 29th has the following article:
In Grass Valley the miners have formed a Miners’ League, the ostensible object of which
is mutual protection. In one sense, the institution is a good one. As long as the members
thereof confine their labors to the assistance of each other, all worked smoothly, and the
institution was protective of good. But when they stepped from the plain path of right
and justice, and attempted to dictate to the mine owners what they should employ, what
they should pay, and what methods should be observed in working the mines, they placed
themselves in a false, therefore an untenable position, because they assume that capital
possesses no rights that labor is bound to respect. These men assume the responsibility, not
only of fixing the wages they are to receive for their labor but they also say, “If you do not
hire us at our price you shall employ no one; your mines shall lie idle and the business of the
city be brought to a standstill.”
Such is their attitude, one of defiance to the law and of utter disregard to the rights of
the mine-owners. It follows as a natural result, that if the miners will not pay for working
at these exorbitant rates, the mine-owners must suspend operations, even when they could
work their mine at a profit if allowed to employ cheaper labor, of which there is plenty to
be had. They also say to the miner-owners, “you shall not use Giant Powder in our mines,
although its use may lessen the cost of working one-half, for it is against our rules, and
we will not allow the work to be taken from us.” Their position is that of the master, the
dictator, not that of the equal. They assume to control not only their own affairs, but the
business of their employers. They assume the right to close all business in the community,
to throw hundreds out of employment—for the prosperity of the city is wholly dependent
on the successful working of the mines. That these men have an undoubted right to refuse
to work for less than a certain sum per day, we freely admit. That they have a legal or moral
right to prevent others from working at whatever price may be agreed upon, we deny,
most emphatically. That they have a perfect right to refuse to use Giant Powder, none will
gainsay, but that they have the shadow of a right to prevent the mine-owners from using it,
or from employing those who will use it, no sane man will admit for a moment. ...
END OF A STRIKE.—The underground miners at the Empire mine, on Ophir Hill, struck on
Thursday. They put down their tools and refused to work in the mine because they were told that
Giant Powder had to be used in some places in the mine. They would not use it, and as was their