Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-09-14
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
THE MASON CITY ssSTRIKE."

-.-E.,,., ...-., Mason Cry, August 29th, 1860.
Messrs. LoveU r& Payne s.l OH u
,r a- GENTLEMEN--Y our prop
osition to employ twenty men has in
duced US to hold consulttiaon to con-
slider our own interest in the matter
We cannot depart from our, established
rules without bringing certain ruin upon
ourselves a.l.
We think our past services have not
been duly remembered, or you would
have invited all your miners to partici-
pate in what work you wanted done
But we will not here review the past. If
we committed any error on our side, Ell
ther toward you or toward ourselves, our
object is to amend it. fa.,..s a.l -~s -
We therefore propose to furnish you
with just what coal you. want for ship
ment and home consumption, and in re-
turn we want cash payment-thus Civ
ing you coal fresh from the bank at the
least expense, and us the benefit of our
money-leaving you always to consult
your own interest as to whether you will
stock coal or not. , g.. -.....r-..
We also wish to state that we would
prefer to have these propositions embod-
led in contract and carried out in good
faith. Yours, respectfully,
The MINERS OF MASON
To the Miners of Mason: ~. ..,....
The interest of the Com
pany would be best promoted, by laying
by for at least two months longer. Now
if the Miners will, in part, bear the bur-
den of these two months, it is likely we
can give work to those of you who have
families to support. After the two
months have expired, we will then prob
ably be prepared to make different ar
rangements. It is not likely that for
these two months the work will be reg
ular and steady, especially at the com
mencemept, as we have neither boats nor
barges ready to receive the Coal, It is
to our interest as much as the Miners ,
whilst we are at work, to turn out all the
Coal we can. ........ ....f ..,.,......
Our proposition, therefore, is, to pay
you the usual price for mining, and
those whose work in the month amounts
to over $40, to pay them $40 cash, and
the balance in goods; those whose work
in the month amounts to less than $40,
S5 in cash, and the remainder in goods;
and to those who can wait until the
Coal is shipped and sold; all cash. The
payday viii be the old pay day of Low
ell & Payne's IT the work to commence
on next Monday. We reserve to our
selves the privilege of discharging such
Miners as we wish to-, ..ss-rs... So
CALAWAY MINING. COMPANY, .s.-,
q By R. c. M. LOWELL, Ag't.
We are requested by many friends
from Hartford, Syracuse, Minersville
and Coalport, to call public attention to
the foregoing correspondence, and ask,
is it fair, manly, or honest, that we should
submit to system that is prohibited by
the laws of all intelligent nations, as un-
just and oppressive to the operative, and
highly Injurious and prejudicial to the
interest of the merchant, the farmer and
the tradesman? We feel that all are
more or less interested in our success;
and, as that depends, in a great measure,
on the support you may give. us, we ap-
peal to your benevolence in our behalf.
Many of our friends have already done
right gallantly in, our behalf, and are
determined to share the last dollar with
us, rather than see us finch, from
our position, and we are resolved, come
veal or come woe, to be paid in cash
for our labor. ,.
The truck system which has been
forced upon US for the last six years,
contrary to our agreements and the
promises of our employers, to pay us in
cash, and which they failed to do, time
and again, until our necessities compelled
us to draw our wages in goods, has left
us in very unenviable position, to make
a protracted stand against our oppres-
sors; but, though our pockets are light,
our hearts are light also, and with your
assistance we shall be able to abolish
this oppressive system, which fetters the
merchant, paralyzes industry, robs the
workman of the profits of his labor, and
impedes the march of progress, to swell
the profits Of employers and capitalists.
By order of a Delegate meeting, held at Nason
City, Sept. sth, Thomas Rees in the Chair. <-.-
Subscriptions received by Thomas
O'Brien, Robt. French, and Cuthbert
Hutchinson, Miners, Mason City, Va;
or BY. -..s>r... .l..
Thomas Smith, Daniel Smith. ". Fl.
Remington, II. Cohen, and H. HI. Swal
low, Merchants, Pomeroy, Ohio.