The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-07
STATEMENT FROM FRANK TERRACE

NEWCASTLE, July 6, 1891.
To THE EDITOR: In Mondays issue OF the
Posr-ISTELLIGENcERa appears a statement by 7.
B. Corey, mining superintendent of the Oregon
Improvement Company, wherein he puts the
whole blame for the present trouble at the
mines on me for going back on my word and in
support of that assertion he states that was
one of a number that had been discharged two
and half years ago. Immediately after left
Newcastle two years ago went on my farm and
remained there up to March last, when again
went 10 work at Newcastle. Therefore, il the
company was in the power Of any body of men
working at Newcastle from the time was dis
charged until was reinstated, know nothing
of il; neither do know of any serious trouble
that was threatened during that time on &C.
count of the men requiring the company to
keep In its employ lunstic, for the good reason
that was absent on my farm. During that
same period he claims that the miners put men
at work without consulting the pit boss.
had nothing to do with either as l was not
working in the mines. Therefore if as T. B.
Corey says, he was at the mercy of the miners on
my account during the last two years he DELHI
erately lies when he charges me with being in
strumental for such a state of affairs that I
could not have possibly brought about even If
had so desired. He says that in January last /
was one OF committee that waited on him to
effect q settlement for the men who had been
discharged two years ago, but he shrewdly re-
trains from stating that he confessed to the
committee that the men discharged two years
ago had been more wronged than wrong. This
he also shortly alter confessed to through the
public pres. over his own signature. In regard
to the 10 per cent reduction he again lies when
ne says that that committee offered on behalf of
the Newcastle miners to submit to
the ID per cent. reduction, but wa told
him that We would not submit to suy re-
duction until the other camps did likewise 7
enk M laftuy fhafh ad a
as one OF the committee, l refused to have anv
thing TO do with 1t, and told him that l wouid
never sign such document. He then CONSENT
ed 10 withdraw the contract Nothing fnrther
was ever done by this COMMITTEES 40 far "a I
know. The men at Newcastle then hacsme
alarmed on account of their knowing what a
character he was, held meeting and decided
that before they would go to the expense of
moving their families to Newcastle thew would
require from Corey security so that he eould
not discriminate against them 10 suit his will
and in return offered him bond for e. on -
insure him against the men taking anv undra
advantage of him. This offer he rejected ua
further says that a committee OF three waited
on him March 30 and told him that he had car
ried out his part OF the contract in good fai,h
but that the men could no longer carry ont thair
part Thisis lie made out OF whole cloth. for the
reason that he had then submitted TO them ths
very contract that he had consented To with
draw at previous date, with the alternative ~
either sign II on or before April or that he
would shut down the mine. At the meeting of
April /. which he admits having attended. I "a.
peated the foregoing statement so far as il re
lates 70 the submission of the contract. and p 3
Wilkes, in the presence of 80 men. verified
the same. As il is well known II VS..
given out that he had resigned from the
service OF the Oregon Improvement Comnsny.
and Was going back East to Braidwood. nh 70
look for another situation, but after events have
proven that II was to come back again well nr.-
pared 10 DO IN Washington what he had done in
Braidwood, H., namely, to make ..childran
weep for bread snd carry death and de,olstion
into the homes OF a peaceful vii age and be.
cause have actively resisted this mans bloody
designs on the people OF Washington. because 7
have to the best of my ability laborei 70 firms.
trate his fenGish attempt TO make babies weep
for bread, he has singled ne out As . tarv., for
the bullets of bis hired murderers and through
his boss killer, N. c. sullivan, issued order. 20
have me shot on sight
The recent actions of T. B. Corey and Tia
oregon Improvement Company have done mora
TO cal the attention OF the people 10 the nsce,-
slIy OF just legislation in eehslf of the miners
than the much-sbussd labor agitstor e,ulo hone
To do in lifetime FR.SE rrn.,~r