Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-09
The GINNING TROUBLES.
A Small Attempt to Injure Con-
gresham Cable.
ErJ ing to Held Him Accom- Vt BILE For
the uauag aineat o. SIN athiag
Which ne HAS Nothing 80
DO WITH Whatever

Coal Valley Mining company at Gable |
be cause of d!f FENCES between them, |
selves ard tie CO mpsny, and which have |
row been satisfactorily adjusted. repub-
lican politicians and press have been at
tempting TO shoulder the responsibility
Of ife trouble on TIE shoulders of Uon.
Ben T Gable because ofhis former inter-
ests IN the comp any. Knowing that Mr..
Catle hgd no in ereEts, whatever, in the
niues, and that even if he hsd Re would
not interfere with the policy of those in 1
whose hands the management Of the in>
! dus'Ty has for ycsrs been plsc d, THE
ReUs bus not been disposed TO notice
these groundess attacks on Mr.. Cable,
nut an article in The NJ line Dispatch of
which the following is the opening para>
| srsph seems to warrant few words of
comment:
| Ii is some wha strange that the Rock
| lsfrd ARGUS has never said a word in
deterse of B. T Cables failure to act in
in the strike at Cable, but his allowed
The Union to do all the talking fer the
company and Mi Gable l. would net
IRA ly be expected that the democratic
psrtr would stsrd by its owe congress
man, hui it has failed to do so. thus Civ
ing color to the general belief that ther
is no defense to pc msde.
The D spatch further adds thst during
the last ngressionsl campaign Mr..
Gable visited The mines of the company
with Mr.. Lee. the superintendent, and
said there that lie would rather have the
votes of his workuen than the election to
lcongress. Because Mr.. Gable visited
the mines is no reason that he owned
them, aud lis remark that he
u Guild rather hive the votes of
the Cable miners who had for years been
in the employ OF the company VIII On
mis- fsther and himself had been for 50
mspy Years peIs, than An el' cJi0n TO
congress. WIS nothing to his dis
credit. He rece we'd their 20 es in token of
The fair treatment of the miners under bis
management and he will receive them
again On on th4 same ground, with the
adjed reason that lie has made a good
congressman. Because he was At one
tine AN owner OF the mines, however. is
no reason he should re held accountable
for The acts OF hose who came after him.
As well CT, dis the old street railway com
psules in the tri-cities with the improve
mepts which the syndicate has given us.
or BIZ me the present company for the
isersble service of bygone days That
Sir Cable has no interest in the eff .irs
OF tie Coal Wiley Mining company at
present is shown in the following letter
in response to q Communication from the
miners:
WAsHrxGToS. D. C Jan 49, 1892
John E Frost. L. y. haddick, W c. Miller, Com
GENrLEMEN:-I beg to acknowledge
the receipt OF your lett, of J 4n. 6. which
came 20 me two days sgo. | was not
aware until the day previous thereto that
INV trouble existed between the Coal
ValIev Mining company and its employees,
between whom there has been for so
MANY wears such harmonious relations
ard cordial good feelings.
am nov in sposiuon 10 aid you in
anvwise Ia the adjustment of your griev-
ancee, for | no longer own even q dol
| lars worth Of stock in the company, mol
have any voice in the management OF
its affairs The same applies TO all mem
bers of nv family. who parted with then
Interests NJ The same time that | did with
mine, Jan l, 1885.
For several Years thereafter, although
not a stockholCer, | held the pOsiji L
nominallv, of secretary o. the company
| without, however. exercising any lptia
ence upon ;he management of the com
pany's sff4iTs OF any voice in shaping its
policy.
J | hope sincerity that something may be
done whereby the differences between the
company and lis men may be settled tc
their mutunl satisfaction, and tha5 the
J old era of peace and good will which pre-
y vailed during 4 period Of % years may
again be inaugursted.
Il has been a boast of the Coal Valley
Mining company during all this time, that
il alone. Of all The mining companies Of
the United States, could point to such ar
unhroken record. and could demonstrate
how little dissa .isfaction existed amor g
its men by these long years in which nc
wor of complsint reached the company
and in which DO strike was ever discussed
have taken pains to define my posi-
h ton in the com pany's management thu
frankly 10 you. inasmuch as you ask me
to grant the seven requests preferred by
|, yonr committee, touching upon the price
? to be pad for mining, for the sharpeniug'
o and upon the internal management of the
: mines.
would be very glad to comply witt
z your ques, if felt that l could witt
propriety do so. but in my position OF
7 having no pecuniary interest in the Goa
Valley Mining company's affairs, it woulo
he Quite as if should interfere with Mr.
/, Gilchrist in the operation OF his mines
b or with Mr. Deere In the management 81
a his blow factory.