The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-05
BIG STRIKE AT DeLAMAR.
But not the Kind of Strike that
Either Miners or Owners
Like.
1t is a Strike Against a Reduction
in Wages.

wages of each miner aud carman would
be reduced fifty cents per day. Since
the present company has been in charge
miners have received $3.50 and carmen
So 90 per day. The cut reduced the
wages to $500 and $3.50 respectively.
This cut directly affected about ninety
men. No cut was made in the wages of
tim bermen, millmen or outside en-
ployes.
The men whose wages were cut
promptly held meetings to consider the
situation appointed committee to con-
/ fer with Captain Plummer, the man
ager, and after ascertaining that the or
der would not be recalled, finally re-
solved to strike. 1t has been reported
that ninety raen attended the meeting
at which the vote was taken and that
the vote stood seventy eight to twelve
in favor of resisting the reduction. All
the men are standing soidly together
in the matter, and quieter or more or
derby strike has never been known
among miners. The committees which
have waited upon Capt Plummer have
been kindly received and the feeling
existing between the parties represent
ing opposing interests has not been dis
turbed by any harsh words or unfriend-
ly acts.
Captain Plummer has assured the
men that the orders emenated from the
headquarters of the company, in Lon
don, and were an imperative command
cred at headquarters, and that the com
pany reasoned that labor was a COM
modify and that, believing they were
paying higher wages than were being
paid elsewhere, it was not probable that
their order would be reconsidered.
The men, on the other hand, argue
that they are only receiving the wages
going in other camps in Montana and
Idaho; that this is an expensive camp
to live in, and that as the mines were
producing more money than any other
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the company had no occasion or reason
fer cutting wages. They believe good
miners everywhere will sustain them in
their actions, and that no others will
step in to fill their places and crowd
them out at wages which once reduced
will ever remain at the lower figure.
The cut effects, in all, about IT'S men,
nearly one half of whom were not in
cluded in the cut but thrown out of en-
ployment by the mill being idle, which
throws mill men, carpenters, black
smiths, tim bermen and outside labor
ers out of employment as well.
The whistles at the mines and mill
have not been blown since 5 O'Clock on
the morning of the second. The neise
of the mill. which has been heard here
almost continuously for the past four
years, is now missed. The town was
never so quiet and orderly before. The
bar-rooms have been almost as quiet as
graveyards, the men evidently having
resolved that good order should be
maintained, and they have announced
that no acts or threats of violence shall
be countenanced by them. On the con-
trary the men will use every means to
prevent any violence being done by the
idle and discordsnt element which al
ways delights in seeing and brewing
trouble.
Quite a number of men have already
left camp, and it is probable that more
of them will engage in prospecting and
placer mining, this being the time of
the year when numbers would have
quit any way, to work on claims or en-
gage in other vocations.
The kindest feeling, as we have said
before, exists between the men and
manager, and Captain Pummer has as
sured the men that, under existing con-
ditions, the strike shall not bar them
from employment when the troubles
have been settled.
LATER---OBITUARY
The back bone of the strike was brok-
en- yesterday morning, when thirteen
men wen went back in the mine. More
followed at noon. This morning larger
number went on, and few more are
holding a meeting at the schoolhouse
to-day to read the obsequies oyer the
remains 1t, the strike, was peace
able infant while it remained in this
gulch of tears, but it was short lived and
it's little transitory existence left but
few to mourn its loss. "Since SO early
it was done for we wonder what it was
begun for" The hobo element which
delights in turmoil and strife, is dis
gusted, but between employer and en-