The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-08-23
striking Miners Ask for Help.

The miners of Ishpeming and Negau
nee who are out on a strike have APP
pointed a committee to solicit aid
from outside sources in the way of
supplies and provisions The cash
system adopted by the business men
has cut off the the credit of the miners
and many of them are in distress.
Roth sides remain firm. and the men,
as we'll as the mine officials, are very
determined in the stand they have
taken. The next important move to
be made 10y the miners is the calling
out OF engineers in charge of the
pumping engines.
4. BREASTED. operator of the Win
throp mine, has submitted a proposed
new scale of wages 10 his men. 1t is
not positively known that the proposed
scale of the other companies will cor
respond with that submitted by Mr.
BREASTED. IL is generally conceded
that the companies will never grant
the full scale demanded. and are. in
fact very indifferent as to whether the
men return TO work before the close of
navigation. about Novem Der /. as ore
sold for next year will bring so cents
more per ton than II does now and the
delay will be worth at least a cool half
million 90 the companies.
1t Loo1ed Like II was Settled. but
The great miners strike at Ishpem-
ing and Negaunee, after lasting five
weeks, is practically at its end. The
majority OF the men voted for speedy
settlement. They concluded TO return
20 their different working places and
learn the new scale. Many of the men
applied individually at the mine offices
and some Of them were presented with
abe new schedule which shows an adj
vance over former wages from 10 TO %
per cent. about the same as offered by
r.. BREASTED to his men at the Winthrop
mine. The threat by the companies
10 pull the pumps and the adoption Of
the cash system by the merchants
thoroughly disheartcned the men,
The miners at the Champion mine sent
"A petition TO Supt. Fitch asking that
ahey be allowed to return to work.
The business men and the miners gen
orally are jubilant over the near APP
preach of the end.
Tho Companies Schedule Rejected.
There was a big meeting of strikers
Mt Union park where the scale pre-
scented TO their men by the mines was
discussed. The leaders and hot heads
Fought for continuance of the strike,
1no TINS was the decision nnally an
nounced. There was very bitter dis
.,=ussion of the matter. There are
many miners who claim that the vote
TO return TO work received ajority.
hut that the chairman did not decide
10 fairly. They claim the leaders be-
Aievc the cause to be lost, but are max
ing fight, thinking they may get
something out of it personally. They
Ghink they may not be employed when
the mines resume, and for this reason
are seeking TO keep the fight up
Many men left the park in disgust.
The union is certainly much less in
evidence than at any time since its
organization.
Mine Owners will stop Pumps.
The news soon reached the local
headquarters of the mines of the re-
lection of the scale and in less than 20
minutes preparations were going for
ward Ia stop the pumps and let the
mines fill with water. In the case of
the Cleveland, Salisbury and Lake An
gclinc mines, the furnace fires have
heem wholly extinguished. and the
water blown from the boilers. The
owners say the prospects of re-opening
their property are too remote TO talk
Of. Their contracts for the present
season have been broken by the strike.
and ava ample supply of ore for next
season delivery can he mined after