The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-09
THEY AGREE TO WORK
Miners of the Rarus Conclude to Re-
turn to the Diggings.
TWAS SETTLED LAST NIGHT
Mr.. Rowe Informs MIR. Heinze Thal
He Has ResIgned-Not a Large
Force to be Employed
at Present.

miners who are out on strike as a re
suit of the refusal of the management
to reengage Foreman Rowe and Shift
Bosses Williams and Peters, took q
rather serious turn yesterday and there
is possibility that IL may become still
more serious. The time in which the
strikers may return to work without
prejudice has been extended to O'Clock
this morning, and IL they are not pre-
pared to return to work by that time
under new bosses none of them will be
reemployed. and operations viii be re-
sumed with an entire new force of men
as soon as the necessary protection is
secured for them.
Mr.. Heinze originally gave the old
men until noon yesterday to return to
work without prejudice but at their re-
quest the time was extended until Z
o'clock this morning in order to give
them time to take a secret ballot on
the proposition. If they decide to re-
main out, Mr.. HeinZe says, that force
will be employed. If necessary, to start
the mine, and he has the assurance of
the sheriff that the law will be upheld
and that the men who take the strikers
places will be given adequate protec-
ton from any violence that may be at
tempted.
In the light of the exciting events of
yesterday. Mr.. Henze is not certain
that protection of officers of the law
Will not be required when work is re-
sumed at the mine. That work will be
resumed Mr.. Heinze says is certain, re-
CARELESS of any action that may be
taken by the old employees or the ex-
tent of the protection that may be re-
qured.
Yesterdays sensational feature oc-
CURED when Thomas Glbbon, who has
been temporarily appointed foreman of
the mine, and Charles Crandall. one of
the miners who was discharged by
Foreman Rowe. went up to the mine
during the forenoon to look the situa-
ton over. They had no instructions, II
is said, to attempt to resume work, but
merely went up to look the ground
over. About 100 miners were at the
shaft house when they arrived. Mr..
Gibbon was asked IL Ne came up to
take charge of the mine and his reply
In the affirmative seemed greatly to in
cense the men. After some warm words
and few threats, Mr.. Gibbon was
seized and hustled into his buggy and
started back down the hill. He did not
make a vigorous resistance, as he saw
that 1t was useless. and that he would
have gotten very much the worst OF
fight. The men were very much in
censed at Crandali over remarks which
they understood he had made about the
trouble, and he was unceremoniously
headed down the hill and told to reach
the bottom of Ii as soon as he could
A shower of stones followed him to as
great a distance as the men could
throw, but he escaped without injury
Mr. Heinze gave the inside facts
concerning the origin of the trouble to
a standard reporter yesterday after
noon, and also gave a statement of the
facts as they existed at that time
From this statement IL appears that
the trouble originated in Foreman
q rafr an1 90 49, -.
nishmen in the mine after Mr.. Heinze
had instructed him that he wished more
than half of the mine force to be of
other nationalities.
Yesterday afternoon committee
from the men waited on me-" said Mr.,
Heinze, and wanted to know If I
would take back Foreman Rowe and
the two shift bosses, Peters and VIII
liams. / told them that l could not
think of taking any action in that di-
rection because so far as / knew the
foreman and shift bosres had resigned
and | couldn't think of soliciting their |
return, and that / was i'm receipt of no |
application from them for reinstate- |
ment. They gave me to understand |
that IL was their intention TO remain |
out and not allow any one else to go to |
work in the mine. The committee went |
out and returned with the following APP |
plication:
Butte, May 7, 1895.
'F. A. Heinze. Esq, Dear Sir-Hav-
ing been requested by 800 members of /
the Miners union to present our appli-
cation for reinstatement as officers of /
the Rarus mine, we have consented TO
submit to their request. and submit
this for your consideration. Yours very
respectfully,
IF. ]. NJ. Rowe,
~ TT. Williams,
John Peters
las Mr.. Peters and Mr.. Williams
had both stated to n committee in NV
presence that I had said two days be-
fore that I did not intend to ask for
the resignation of Timel<eeper Apple
gate. although had stated before at
meeting of the employees of the Rarus
that / was going TO do So and as this
was practically nothing but charging
me with absolute falsehood. l could not
possibly consider the proposition OF
taking them back and so informed the
men. This morning Thomas Gibbon.
who has been temporarily appoint
ed foreman OF the Rarus. went
mp to the mine. The men who were as
sembled there commenced To browbeat
him and when they found that he was
not armed. they bundled him into his
buggy and drove him off the hill. Mr..
Rowe is responsible for all of the trou-
BILE at the Rarus, and l shall not rein
state him."
rs IL true. as reported. that the trou-
BILE originated through Mr.. Rowe's re-
fusal TO employ any miners that were
not Of his own nationality" inquired
the reporter.
Yes: that is how IL started. More
than 30 per cent. of the men employed
in the mine were Cornish. had given
Mr.. Rowe to unerstand that this sys-
tenn was not at all satisfactory 10 me,
and formally notified him about two
weeks ago. after / found that my sug-
gestions had not been complied with,
that / wanted more than half OF the
miners 10 be Americans and OF other
than Cornish. The truth
OF the matter was that the mine force
al that time was nothing more nor less
than a secret organization.
After / instructed Mr.. Rowe as stat
ID. he discharged o. Mackie. p. Mar
line, c. II. craindall, John Stewart.