The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-27
A VERY WORDY WAR.
Gilman Men Still COntending
Over the Late Strike.
ALL IS QUIET AT FRANKLIN.
Henry Willard to be Here Today-Notes
From transportation Companies
by Land and Water.

The mine at Gilman operated by the Seattle
Coal and Iron Company is being worked sue
oessfuly IL is turning out full output daily,
loading its ships. and proceeding IN the transac-
tion OF business. But the men are disputing
among themselves az to whether or not the
strike Is over.
AT a meeting held at Gilman October II, a
, number Of the miners held meeting and voted
TO declare the strike off, This was met by de-
NAL from Messrs. Doran, Hunt and Drylie who
< alleged that they were k. of l. committee
End that the meeting was the work Of superin-
fendent Parker and a number OF blecklegs.
This statement was denied in letter to the
. Posi- IsTELLIGEEcER from the chairman and
s9>srrs5iy OF the meeting.
Yegserddw the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES received
two letters, which are given subioinet. 1t APP
pears from the letters that the workingmen of
Gilman desire to be permitted to pursue their
industries without further trouble, and that
strike or no strike the mines business Is NOV
ing smoothly.
The first letter Is from W. l. Newton and reads
as follows:
GILMAN, Oct 26, 1891.
To THE EDTToR: II you will allow me space
I'm the columns OF your valuable paper viii
give you the news OF this place in regard 10 the
mining trouble and the long fought strike,
which came to an END on the llth OF this
month.
There were a great many OF the former en-
piayeg of the Seattle Coal and Iron Company
WHO owned property ~ JilfDau ana nal respect
able families, and seeing the situation they de-
sired public meeting called so they could de-
termine by secret ballot whether they would
declare tbs strike of or not. There were issued
notices calling a public meeting, ana at said
meeting there appeared the lettering element of
Gilman and by using boisterous language and
questioning the right of certain persons TO vote
at said meeting, the better element became dis
gusted and left the meeting. SO there was no
vote taken Ct this meeting
This party composed OF good, Law abiding citi-
yaffe ~ gQffz 90 xpnTa of
posted calling meeting on October II, and at
this meeting there was but one dissenting vote.
Messrs. Doran Hunt and Drylie, Tnotice. have
written a communication To the PosI- iETELLI-
eEEcRR stating they had not declared the strike
offand would noe as long as they saw any chance
of beating the Seattle Coal and Iron COMPANY
These men know they ere beat. but they are
chronic kickers. They do not know, for the
want OF good Judgment, when they whipped.
have been known as "a labor agitator for the
last six years that have been on the Pacific
coast. and have been baoklistcd by all corpora
tions and could not get any employment After
careful examination, being a miner OF twenty
years experience, | find that the employees of
the Seattle Coal and Iron Company were making
exorbitant demands, which, at the old prices.
would allow the men to make s. and S. per day.
Mr.. Parker, the present superintendent, offered
John Bullock 30 cents extra on the day to see
how much coal he could dig, and the result Of
;. the test was that John made about 81 per day
Then the Seattle Coal and Iron Company came
down with crash claiming that ala that organ
tzed labor asked was So per day and dispute
1.-THE people of Gilman have witnessed horrible
xcenes such az the destruction OF property and
the filling OF wells. and spearing horses. This
eeiement has retarded this town in its infancy
(which, at one time, promised to be second 10 no
thinning town in the country, III not allowed to be
Arctarded BY this aggressive element. 1t is to be
regretted that we have elements in our midst
that ignore the principles of free government
The Seattle Coal ana Iron Company - working
Its mines with a force Of about 20 men, making
large shipments every day. ana the miners are
6making from " to - per day. Yours truly,
W. l.. NEWTON.
: The other letter is from Michael Hunt, one OF
the men who claim to constitute the Knights of
Labor committee:
To THE EDITOR; In your issue of October q
there Is an article signed by Messrs Roehcr and
punahey saying the statement made by the X
OF l. committee, ON October 10, untrue and
that the majority voting at the meeting on Octo-
Der IL were not blacklegs
In the first place the strike was not declared
on for the meeting was Illegal. TIE men who
struck LETT the strike and moved with their
families TO British Columbia and the North
west territory. and were away three or four
months and then Mr. Parker sends for them
inst there is work for them. and he gets them
here, but they cannot get started to work until
they declare the strike of. Then those parties
called a meeting and TO make IL look like a
meeting, they get about dozen men who are
blhcklegging at the mines To come to the meet
ing and. OF course, there was no opposition and
they did what Parker bid them do, declared tho
strike OF; but there is between forty and fftv
men here yet who say the strike Is not off and
viii not DO until the majority OF them declare
s IL eff
Ne know that those men who were ut the
meeting on October II were striking miners NJ
the Beginning of the strike, but, as stated
above they quit the strike three and four
months ago. some of them going b!ackleggipc
and others leaving the country ] defy contra
dicfion to the above statement from Messrs
koeher and Dunahey, who two of the men
that engaged with Parker last June To build the
6ssd line here. but they got afraid and backed
out The above Is true statement of the situa.
fion at Gilman. Yours respectfully,