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Show HURST PAGE 24 DE: EH.: make them put them up on top, or make mechanics out of them, or mechanic helpers, or all these other things, and they keep them a going. I don't know of any of them that have been laid off because of it. Well, I was thinking more of the independent miner. If they did have the chance to really tell them how long they could work, or how much-- Well, it would go rought if they come along and says, "You've worked too much. " But I understand--I might be wrong here, too-- that if somebody was mining their own property, why the agencies wouldn't have any control over them, telling them when they could work, how long they could work. It's their property, and they can work it when they want and as long as they want. DE: Unless they could put pressure on the mill who's buying the ore? EH: Yeah, they might do that. But again, as far as I'm concerned, it's getting back to this government power. We want it, we believe in heing free. Once you take a guy's freedom away, you take their incentive away. And once you take their incentive away, why, and that's what a lot of this stuff does, I mean, you get in a high if you get good wages, why, you get in high tax bracket. And then if y ou work too many hours, then they're going to shut you off mining. So they got you coming and going in some respects. |
