The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-05-29

command Of Carter; the remainder are
from California and have been 40 days on
the road from Stockton. They have ex.
perienced terrible hardships on the Utah
deserts and show signs Of hunger and
great distress.
Governor Waite has telegraphed to Ore
gon that he will be unable to stump that
state in the interest OF the populist cause,
as had been arranged. The miners
trouble at Cripple Creek will prevent him
leaving homo.
The mine owners have decided not TO
arbitrate the differences with the Cripple
Greek miners, and trouble may begin at
any moment.
The following was handed out for pub
lication to-day by tho mine owners: Presi.
dent Slocum of the Colorado college, and
some other gentlemen interested in the
peaceful solution OF the difficulties be-
tween the Cripple Creek miners union
and the mine owners, had . meeting In
Cripple Creek yesterday. The miners
agreed to hold q meeting and determine
whether or not they would appoint com
mittee 10 meet with the committee OF
mine owners to arbitrate the differences.
After the meeting was held Calderwood,
president Of the miners union, called j. j.
Hagerman up on tho telephone ut 3:i0 p.
m, May q, and informed him the miners
had appointed q committee to confer with
the mine owners and wanted 10 know
when and where o conference could be
held. He was asked where he preferred
TO have it and he said in Cripple Creek.
Hagerman replied that he preferred Di-
vide, to which Calderwood consented.
Wanting to know ut what hour it could
be held, Hagcrman replied: II think wo
can 60 up tomorrow morning and be
there about 10 o'clock"
Tho following conversation then took
place over the telephone and was reported
by stenographer on the spot:
Hagerman-How many of your men
will be there?
Answer-Two.
Hagerman-Have you full power to &C?
Answer-That will depend on certain
things that must be settled before the con-
ference.
Haserman-Would whatever is done
have to be submitted TO the union for
confirmation?
| Answer-Yes.
Hagerman- What are your principal
conditions?
Answer-The first condition is that all
union men must be first employed.
Hagerman-Must all the men employed
be union men?
Answer-Yes, IL there is enough TO 60
around.
| Hagerman- That practically means
that no non-unioR man should pe en-
ployed.
Answer-The men that are employed
must agree to join the union within one
month after they commence work.
Hagerman-If We must agree In advance
TO accept your propositions, what Is the
use Of having q conference?
| Answer-These are the conditions that
We insist upon.
Hagerman-We will never consent to
any arrangement which deprvcs an
! American citizen from earning his living
without joining union.
| Answer-There is no use talking; these
are our conditions, and 1t Is that or moth.
| ing.
Eben Smith and Percy Hagerman were
present and heard one side of the conver.
sation and the other side as repeated at
the time by HaGerman.
DENVER. May 2s.-Information has been
received from Cripple Creek that even if
the strikers had been driven from tho
camp the men who took thoir places in
! the mines would be in imminet danger.
Every mine in the camp over which there
| has been trouble is 'loaded." Large
quantities of dynamite have been stored
in the shafts back of the timbering by the
strikers, and hidden wires were attached
to these charges in such manner that
they could be exploded and every person
| in the mines instantly killed, while the
men who start the battery remain out OF
| 81 ght.
William Howell, member from Colo.
RADIO of the National Mine workers, who
attended the Columbus meeting. returned
to-day. He says there has been n misun.
derstanding OF the whole question among
the Colorado miners and they will at once
have to 90 out all over the state. SO as 10
bring about a settlement as soon as posi-.
bic, or else make basis of settlement.