Showing papers by "Boise State University published in 1977"

A Profusion of Issues: Immigrant Labour, the World War, and the Cominco Strike of 1917

Abstract: \"In the heart of the Rocky Mountains,\" a reporter for Saturday Night wrote in 1926, \"nestles the little town of Trail, the workingman's paradise.\" Pointing out that newspapers had been lauding the famous Henry Ford quote — \"all that the workingman wants is justice\" — the writer offered first class Canadiana instead. \"Why quote Ford? Why not quote S.G. Blaylock, head of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada?\" After all, the magazine continued, since Blaylock headed the largest smelter in the Empire, his \"practical demonstration of the wisdom of a square deal to the workingman\" certainly could apply for all union/management affairs in the Dominion. \"For the benefit of its workers,\" the author recounted in amazement, the Company operated a general store and a dairy \"at a very small profit,\" even though no one was \"obligated to trade at these stores.\" Throughout the town, in fact, \"on the s t r ee t s . . . or in the places of amusement where the men gather, no talk of strikes, no words of discontent or disloyalty to the Company is heard.\" Jobs for unemployed? Some were available, but not many, for \"this paradise, however, like the heavenly one, is hard to enter, vacancies being caused only by promotion or death. Could we not