Labor Safety- “unspoken trust”

“unspoken trust in the miners had in the Collective”- Working safety in the Bodie mines.

By 1877, with 190 members the BODIE MINERS’ UNION was organized.

(The BODIE MINERS’ UNION Constitution was written and is very close in similarity to the COMSTOCK MINERS’ UNION .)

To write a “Constitution/By-Laws” for their “Working Safety” was the the “unspoken trust the miners had in the collective.”

Paying Dues and Membership held their “labor safety to a standard for all the workers.” 

The miners’ were there to work. Collectively, they also knew the gold coming out of the mines  was not paying their wages.

Mine accidents, fires, explosions in Bodie, took the lives of many miners. They were buried in Bodie Miners’ Union Cemetery. Their funerals and graves paid for from their dues of the BODIE MINERS’ UNION.

The miners’  wages were being paid by the “ Financier/ or Stock Holders investors” in the different and individual Mining enterprises. (The gold-bearing ore coming out of the Bodie mines was not paying their wages.)

When the Mines were “not producing enough ore,” and the resulting “Bullion” from the Stamp Mills going to the Mint.

The Stock-holders, or the Financial- backers, who were “staking the venture, or was the money source of “working capital” for paying the miners’ wages”— were going to pull-out and sell  their Mining  Stocks. 

When the “stock price went to zero”- and the “labor was not being paid”- the mining in Bodie ceased operation.

The membership of the BODIE MINERS’ UNION, because of its “Collective Unity,” had their “Labor safety and Conditions,” also abandoned Bodie.