The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-26
IT'S A SERIOUS STRIKE
The Situation at Wardner Is Not
at All Encouraging.
BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM
Mr. Sweeney Is to Have a Conferences
With the Miners and Much Is Hoped.
Armed Men Stationed at the
Ore Dump.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Wardner. Idaho, April 25.-The strike
is on, so 1t was declared yesterday by
order Of the Miners union. AS the
result all the men of the Last Chance
quit work last evening and the mine is
shut down. The union makes de-
1nand for $3.50 for both muckers, and
miners. 1t was expected that the own
ers would accede to this. but to-day
it is reported that Sweeney, who has
lately arrived declared that he would
pay s3 and $3.50. and would never
grant the unions demand. This comes
as a great disappointment to the many
who We're confident that the Last
Chance would sympathize with the
union. Mr.. Sweeney is to meet the
miners and will confer with them.
Much is said to hang upon the issue
of this meeting and it is still hoped
that a peaceable settlement may be
made. The Bunker Hill has discharged
| all men suspected of belonging to the
union. Some We're non-unonists. but
have since joined. declaring that there
was nothing else left them. More than
140 union men have quit work upon
this mine, but $50 are still tallying
there, and many of the towns people
hope that these non-unionists will keep
it in operation until the trouble is
over The Bunker Hill also offers s3
and $3.50 to muckers and miners. re-
spectively, but will not recognize the
union at all Their men have been
stopped upon the way to work, and
very few of the tmid ones turned back
| by the union men. Most ON them, how
| ever. go armed and say The whole
will hp
! men say that help is expected from
up the canyon, and many hint that in
| case of refusal upon the part of the
mine owners they will surely resort to
| force. The sansune ones still hope
| that trouble may be averted.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan have
| stationed armed men upon the ore
dump, at the mouths of the tunnels and
at the mill to guard the property in
! case Of violence. The leaders of the
union e'e making every effof- to make
| Wardner union camp, and 1T has
| been heard said that they will do SO
or ruin the town. Whether they mean
| business disaster ora destruction of
| property is hard to say, but the gem
| eral fear is of repetition Of the try
! ing times during the previous strike,
and perhaps worse on account of the
scarcity of troops. The outcome of
the next few hours is of the greatest
moment.
| BY Associated Press.
Wardner Idaho, April 25.-The labor
! strike continues with no evidence of
| weakness on either side. The miners
| have decided to concentrate their fight
| on the Bunker Hill and Sullivan, which
| employees about 400 men. Twenty nom
| union men yielded to the pleas of the
strikers and came out from that mine
| to-day. After long meeting this aft
| ernoon. union miners to the number of
400 marched in a body to the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan and tried to induce
the night shift to come out. With a.
few exceptions they were unsuccess-
full. During the day Charles Sweeney
of the Last Chance met the central
! committee, composed of delegates from
the Burke. Gem, Mullan and Wardner
unions, and offered to pay union wages
of $3.50 per day to miners and SO per
day to other men working underground.
The central committee accepted the
proposition, but the Wardner union re-
jected it and the Last Chance remains
| closed.