The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-23
MINERS OFFER TERMS
Black Diamond Men Preparing
to Resume Work.
A SLIDING SCALE ACCEPTED.
FRANKLIN saloon-Keepers Refuse ia
Close on Pay Day-A Move to
Be Made 1T Gilman.

Inc miners strike Ii in fair way 10 settle
ment. 80 far as the Black Diamond mine Is con-
cerheo. committee of three representatives
IRON each camp in the county met with the
miners COMMITTEES of the Western Central Labor
Union, at Labor Union hall yesterday afternoon,
Cornwall at Black Diamond few DAYS ago.
IL was agreed that the men would resume
worA AZ the wages prevailing before the strike,
Wnicn are TO be the minimum wages under the
saoing scale to be adopted If the price OF coal
rises 70 ~ q ton in San Francisco wages are TO
Dc advanced Is per cent. and an ad-
vance OF per cent in wages il to be
given for every dollar of increase in
the price OF coal No coal ID to be sold to the
oregon Improvement Company during the
present dispute. The company is to have the
ngnt 10 employ or discharge any man, giving
sumcient cause in writing, in case of discharge.
All disputes which may hereafter arise between
py arbitration. The question of the duration OF
tne contract is to be discussed at another meet
ing TINS morning, but member of the commit
zee said the miners were willing TO sign 1t for
TWO, three or hve years, a. the company might
desire.
The committee will return TO Black Diamond
THIS evening and submit these terms to the
miners and to Morgan Morsans, the superin-
tenoent, for adoption. One committeeman
SAID: "The terms we propose are practically the
ssme as Mr.. Cornwall offered, so that there IL
little doubt of their being accepted. The Cedar
hlver and Fire Clay Company have not made
any o1er to resume work; we, therefore, make
TINS agreement apply only to the Black
Diamond"
Robert Thorburn, one of the Franklin mem
bers, said of the situation at that place: "Ev-
erything remains peaceful, although the negroes
seem to be trying to stir upa fight They con-
stantly insult the whites and call them all sorts
OF vile names, but the white men keep their
tempers even under such strong provocation.
The negroes frequently 60 down to the saloon
on the fats to drink, but they never say any
thing to the white men there. The guards con-
tinue their insoleut conduct. miner was
waiting in the store for his mail the
other day when one of these thugs
ordered him out He said he was
waiting for his mail, but the thug drove him
out by force. Mr. Corey's statement that ali the
white miners except thirty-five or forty have
left the camp 10 not true there are about $50
white miners there still-as many as there were
when he brought the negroes in. He said he
was not going to reduce wages, but he has
reduced them 10 to 50 per cent, and is working
the negroes ten and twelve hours day"
The owners of one of the saloons at Franklin
refused to obey the order of Sheriff Woolery that
they should close yesterday, as il was pay day
at the mine and some of the negroes might get
drunk and cause trouble with the whites.
Deputy-SheriH Stretch sent the following dis
patch to the sheriff yesterday:
McNulty d Mclean positively refuse to close
up King closed and was anxious that the other
saloons be made to do the same.
Sheriff Woolery was very angry when he re-
received the dispatch, and says that when the
county commissioners return from Vashon
island, where they are appraising school and
lieu lands, he will recommend to them the re-
voking of McNulty & McLean's license
McNulty & Mclean run q saloon on the fats,
where the white miners mostly reside. j. H.
King runs the saloon on the hill, which 10
owned by the Oregon Improvement Company.
thing was quiet there yesterday.
Assessor Frank Paul has decided that the 700
colored miners at Franklin, even though they
are recent arrivals, must pay poll tax like all the
other residents of the county, and yesterday
Deputy Assessors w. H. Hazard, of Seattle, and
Thomas Thomas, of Black Diamond, were dis
patched to the mines. They have orders to col
lect - from every person over q years Of age
found in camp, and inasmuch Al Monday was
pay day ali are supposed to have the requisite
amount
It's understood that an attempt will be made
to resume work at Gilman this morning. con-
tract has been prepared for submission to the
miners similar to the Newcastle contract, and
ii 10 reported that some of the old men have
agreed 10 go to work and that others will 70 in
from outside. wire fence has been built
around the companys property and established
as q dead line. Ejectment suits have also been
begun against four of the miners who rent
houses from the cOmneDy