Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-08-01

OuIOa ~ ~ ~ ~ s4t
train stopped there was o general rush
for the engine. Tom Clark quietly
jumped of on the east side and was In.
stantly surrounded by ct least q thousand
friends aud curiosity seekers. After o
few words with those around him he
went into the depot. The excitement Of
the day was over and Tom Clark had
run his train into Virginia. No one OPP
posed his doing so, as the reporter who
was on the train can vouch.
cLARx's STORY.
The reporter interviewed Clark. and
from him learned that for nearly ten
years and ever since the road started he
has been an engineer In the employ Of
the company. For six years be has run
the Reno, the engine be was on today.
He 10 not q resident Of either Storey,
Lyon or 0rmsby county. but lives In
Reno. During all these years he has
been In the constant employ Of the com.
pany. has had his pay regularly and
better wsges than are paid on any other
road in the Union. Moreover the road
10 the best to run over. since the work Ii
nearly all day work. There has been no
attempt made to reduce wages on the
road and he is
sATrsYfEp WITH WHAT H rs orrrtSo.
And there IL no reason why be should
join the Union. he had repeatedly and
from the first told them 30. In fact,
they had some time before told him In q
bullying kind Of . way that be would be
the next to put up his hand and all that.
He did not intend to join the Union.
nor leave his engine either. He thought
there must'bs something wrong when q
man IL not to be allowed to follow an
occupation In which he gives perfect
satisfaction to his employers and he
himself il perfectly satisfied with his
work and his wages. The railroad had
told him that Il would back him and keep
him in his place, and that II he did not
want to Join the Union he need not.
YrRrSoroS's STORY.
Mr.. Yerington has sought, he says, no
quarrel with the Union-it has rather
been forced upon him. He has not
sought to cut down wages, and there
has never been any difficulty. on that
score that has not boon settled at once
aud satisfactorily to both employees and
employer. When these two through
trains were put on there was O petition
from some Of the employees representing
that the run was too long. etc.. for q
days work, and he met the COMMITTEES
and gave them just what they asked oil
him, and did II willin9ly-there wal no
compulsion; tho men simply asked II
and he had given It without grumbling.
Now this Union was
ATTEMPTING TO Run HIS ROAD ron HIN.
A thing he wonld not submit to under
any circumstances an long as there was
any law in the land to protect the com.
pany in their privileges aud their EN-.
ployes in their rights. What right had
they to dictate to the company whom
they should employ to run their enginesf
The next thing would DO interference
with higher officers till they might M
we'll take the road aud run II. He pur-
posed to resist the first encroachment.
and should protect Tom Clark in his
right to run his engine. Furthermore,
he had given six other conductors notice
that they could not serve two MASTERS
they must either withdraw from the SER
vice Of the Unions or the road.
WHAT THE uSIoys CLAIM.
A member OF the Mechanics Union
was asked to make a statement OF bis
side Of the question and did 10. ~ fol.
lows: "well. you see. we claim that II
IL simply q question Of wages. About
Ave months ago the railroad company
cut down the wages Of the engineers.
They formed q combination to resist the
reduction. aud refused to take the re.
duced amounts. An interview was held
with Mr.. Yerington by q committee
from the Ormsby County Mechanics
Union, protesting against the reduction.
They informed him that they were iden.
tilted with the Mechanics Union Of Sto-
rey county. The immediate result was
that the
WAGES wEnE o sAcx
To the old rate. Both parties INDUCED
In considerable talk. and Mr.. Y~eripgton
swore that he would discharge every
Union man on the road. In pursuance
of this plan he did discharge two Union
men for no reason other than they had
been prominent In helping to organize
the Ormsby County Union and In com.
polling him to pay fair wages. Several
ot.thsse engineers had Joined our organ.
ization at its beginning, and believing
that Mr.. Yerington intended to carry
out his threat
TO pIscHAnoE EVERY UNION MAN.
Called on our Union for protection.
This, they said. could only be provided
by compelling every engineer 10 join.
BY that means every man would be
placed upon an equality. and Q man
would not be hired or discharged for
considerations outside Of his mechanical
ability. 1t was q matter Of self.proteo-
ton, for II superintendent Yeripgton
Il Qhu tho Ii8ut W uhSShoABo eNh
and hire non.Union men the Superin-
tendsnts Of the mines had the same
right. In this matter We took into con.
sideration the
PRECEDENT EsrApLnurD BY II MINERS
UNIONS
OF Virginia. Gold Hill and Silver City,
who had decreed that no man should
work underground as q miner after Sep
TENDER 10. 1877. unless he could show
that he was o member Of n OF the
Unions. II Ia q parallel case, and the
rule wal adopted for the same reason by
rs as by the Miners Unions. We never
expected to have any trouble and didn't
want any. The rule adopted by the
Miners Unions has been in operation
for nearly two years, and has proved
satisfactory to oil parties. II II had not
been made the mines today would be