The morning call., 1894-09-20
AND PUT HIM ABOARD A TRAIN.

GRASS VALLEY, Cal, Sept. 19.-Four
hundred members of the Miners Union
proceeded TO the Osborn Hill mines this
morning and ordered Superintendent
Adolph Schnabel to leave town imme-
diately He consented, and committee
escorted him to Buena Vista. four miles
from town, where he took the outgoing
train this afternoon.
All the n0n-union men. mum beriug forty,
were brought to the surface and consented
10 Join the union.
The machinery is running without in
teTruption.
The Miners Union is adopting peaceable
means. The Osborn Hill Company has
heightened days labor, and in various
ways violated the rules in vogue here for
many years.
Miners have been compelled to board at
the company's clearinghouse and even
sleep there in hunks. Even men of large
families. living here for years. have been
compelled to leave their homes to keep
their jobs. The action of the Miners
Union is generally approved.
OAKLAND, Sept. 19.-The position of
the Osborn Hill Mining Company, as out
lined by its president. w. c. Ralston,
Ralston is a son-in-law of George W.
Grayson, and was seen at the home of the
latter in Oakland last night.
Mr.. Ralston says that the men in his
mine have been working nine and half
hours per day for So. whereas other mines
not far from Grass Valley have been
working theiI men ten hours for 50 80 per
day. All his company demanded was that
hall hon
Superintendent Schnabel has not vet
reached this city, and Mr.. Ralston does
not know the full particulars, but he
thinks the miners were very iujudicious in
driving MI Schnabel out of town, and
says that in doing SO they have made
themselves accountable to the law
Mr. Ralston said: "All know ia this.
The difference that has come up between
us and the Miners Union has been on the
number of hours that should constitute
the days shift We claim that a DAVIS
shift constitutes ten hours work, which is
the prevailing custom in all mines in Cali
fornis and of the Pacific Coast 1t has
been the custom in Grass Valley to work
only nine and half hours.
''In other words. we ask the men to go
10 work at O'Clock in the morning, quit
u L
at 6 O'Clock. That is the only complaint. I
believe, that the Miners Union have re-
gardiDg labor. as we only work the night
shift niue hours. Our men are paid regu-
laTy every month.
Regarding the complaint made against
the clearinghouse l would state that as
our mine Is three miles away from the
town Of Grass Valley, and at a consider
oh ala oh
that we were benefiting our men by hay.
Ing a place for them to live near their
work. We do not now compel the men to
board at the clearinghouse. In the last
year and half our company has expended
for labor and material over $4,000.
I'VE have just completed a 20-stamp
quartzmill and expect to mine for many
years to come. The company has no de-
e sire to ask anything of the men which is
not reasonable and just and we do not see
why the miners should not be willing to
put In ten hours as days shift in Grass
Valley when they do so in all other mining
camps. In Placer County and in Ell Do
RADIO County not only do the miners work
under ground ten hours. but they also only
receive 81 so per day. The Superintendent
of the mine will be in San Francisco to-
MolIO" GlUIHluSs when we Will have a
meeting of the board of directors and de-
termine what course to pursue. 1t is not
the desire of the company to have apy
conflict with the Miners Union of Grass
Valley and l shall go to that city to-mor-
row evening TO meet the executive COM
mlttee OF the union and see if it is posi-
bic to settle the matter to the satisfaction
of all hands.
'The Lodges in the Grass Valley mining
district are very small and it requires a
great many men to keep a twenty-stamp
mill running, and half a day to the man
makes great deal of difference at the
end Of the month. Ali that we ask is that
we shall he treated just as the other min.
ing companies are. We ask no greater
privileges, are not trying to reduce wages.
and we pay all our bills promptly and
treat our men as we'll as we know how
and as well as any other company treats
them"