St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-20
MINNEAPOLIS,
The UNRULY MINERS.
Trouble in the Northern
Mines Caused by Rus
SLAMS and Poles.
A PittSburg Mining Man Says
They Are a Very Bad
Lot.
The Local Kindergarten SyS-
tenn is Given an Orator.
zeal Boost.
Patrick Mulligan Tries TO
Jump From a Third Story
Window.

j. Prendergrast Adams, representa-
tive of the Carnegie Steel works. of
PittSburg, Paw in the city Yesterday,
en- route for Cleveland. Mr.. Adams
has, during the past three or four
months, been actively engaged inspect
ing the newly developed iron fields in
St. Louis and Itasca counties, in the i'll
tercst of Cleveland ore buyers and the
Carnegie Steel works. The interest
which Mr.. Adams represented on his
visit to the northern section of the state
are very large, and exert national in
tluence i'll the iron trade. Every phase
of the mineral resources of Minnesota
has been studied by him. and no one
phase more than that involved in the
mining and shipping of iron ore. Dur
ing Mr.. Adams investigation of the
subject, special attention was paid to
the labor question, and that gentleman
is convinced that until a systematic eff
fort is made to Introduce into the mines
of the Northwest more intelligent and
more AmercaniZed class of labor, tie
output of the big mines on the Vermhl-
ion range and the as yet undevelOpcd
Messaba range. will be uncertain and
attended with more or less loss
to the mine owners. The latter Will
be caused by the custom which has OF
late been emphasized of the ignorant
Austrian, Polish and Finnish miners,
striking on the slightest prOyocatiOn.
Mr. Adams is aware of the fact that no
small amount of ST. Paul and Minneapolis
capital has of late been invested i'll the min
eral fields embraced in that rich section OF
Nfn hO
opinion of the wisdom of such investments
was given to reporter yesterday, with that
fact apparently well III mind. He believes
that tie grade assigned to the ores of the
MeSSaba by too sanguine Investors and by
mjudicious bit well-meant advertising, IS
altoget her too nigh. That medium grade
of Bessemer ore has been found in wonder
fully large uuartities on either end OF the
central Lart OF the Messaba range cannot be
doubted Millions of tons of merchantaDle
Or stock ore have already been uncovered,
and tie indications that the deposits are
comparatively incxhaustable are good. In
respect Of working the mines, that charac-
terIstic of them which really attaches the
greatest desirable quality to the ore IS the
cheapnesS of mining
Mr. Adams was shown the telegrams from
Tower which appeared in yesterday morn
ing'S papers, relating to the capture OF the
Minnesota mine by the striking Austrian and
Finnish miners. Later Geographic intelli-
Gence shown Mr.. Adams, stated posse OF
forty deputy shertfS. in command of Sheriff
ShAryy of St Louis county, supplemented
with Company II of the state militia, had
been assigned to quiet the disturbance The
deputy sheriffs are already on the ground.
The militia, it is thought, will arrive i'll town
this morning.
'The Dispatch" said Mr.. Adams. ''only
accentuates my statement that an absolute
change must take place ii the custom
of engaging ignorant foreign labor
to develop the great mining properties
c,f NNr4 hon. Mir1s1o a nc p PnilS
Firms will not affiliate with the better class
of miners. They are undesirable associates
for thrifty. cleany and sober miners: My
experience with them in the coal helds or
Pennsylvania has taught me to regard them
as an irriiant and disrupting element i'll
mining camps in which they are the major
ity They have ar extravagant idea of their
personal or individual rights, caused BY the
absurd inducements held out TO them by I'M
scrupulous immigration agents. The vic
tins themselves of despotism, they become
when translated to this country petty tyrantS,
dictatorial and selfish. They will brook no
Interference and will resent any organized
effort to discipline them. l was aware be.
fore leaving the Northwest of the purpose of
the management of The Minnesota mine to
reduce the wages of the miners ID per cent,
and expressed the opinion that the reduction
would be opposed by the AustranS, and that
it would only furnish them with preteXt OF
INDUCING themselves iii a strike. The str1k-
ing Minnesota miners not only refuse to sub
nit to a reduction of wages, but have asked
for an increase OF 20 per cent and free oil fof
their mining lamps. The absurdity Of their
demands in view of the proposed reduction
of expenses, will be at once observed. The
Austrians do not hope for an increase OF
pay and in The end will submit to the pro-
posed reduction. They merely desire some
excu-e for gratifying an inherent aud cult
waited love of revolution.
THE AustrianS at work in the mines of
Northern Minnesota have had more than one
experience with officers of the law and sol
the larger number of them came
from the coal fields of Pennsylvania
where conflicts between them, others of
their race and the authorities have been, dur
ing the past ten years, too frequent. The
presence of an armed force at the Minnesota
mine, and possibly some decisive action on
its part, will be necessary to induce them to
return 10 their WORK. The wisdom OF Sus-
tanning well organized company of state
militia at Tower, another at Ely and the
strengthening OF Company y, of Duluth,
will make itself more appreciably felt with
the development of these pits on the Messaba.
] have understood that the purpose to erect
ali aTmory in Duluth and to encourage the
growth of COmDa A. is in allegiance, owing
TO the reception the movement experienced
at the hands of the city council. l think be-
fore the summer is over, the necessity of an
increased militia force, will make itself gem
orally felt. Eastern capitalists will demand
protection from the state before investing of
their means to any great extent in the Won
derful mining fields of Northern Minnesota.
Il would like to say That my remarks in re-
gard to foreign labor employed in the mines,
do not refer 10 the Swedes and Norwegians,
who really form most admirable labor ele
ment, not only in the development of the
II IL,