The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-14

ScofeId. Jan 1S.-At meeting of the
miners and operatives of the Winter
Quarters mine belonging to the Pleas
ant Valley Coal company had this
morning in the I o. 0. 2. hall. about
400 men being present. the report of the
committee that had oeen appointed to
present the demands of the men to the
company reported as follows:
To p. II. Vycherly, Chairman and Mem
berS of the Committee.
Answering your communication Of the
7th inst, in which YOU advise us that the
employees Of the Winter Quarters mine
ask TOR the following advance;
First-The company to take the 80 per
cent off and pay > cents per to run of
mine. This would be an advance of 81 per
cent.
Second-Fifty cents. per yard advance
for driving entries. This would be an ad-
vance of . to 80 per cent
ThiTd-TWenty-fiv cents per day al
vance to all persons employed under
ground. This would be an advance Of 8
Fourth-For three check weighmen. one
for No. 4 and two for No l. The com
pany. to deduct from miners 10 pay check
Answer: None of the requests for ad-.
vance in wages can be granted. partly
for the reason that miners and day men
are making as much in eight houTA
Winter Quarters mines as Is being earned
In ten hours at the mines OF our com
petttOTs in Wyoming. but chiefly tor the
reason that Winter Quarters mines are
working on large contracts at very low
prices. and based on the present scale OF
wages. For this last reason we are not
in a position to make any advance in
wages. and would be Obliged to let large
contracts 60 to our competitors, rather
than make any. advance. As to the
fourth request about deducJiDg for check
weighmen. Yes. we viii collect in the
Office to pay check-weighmeu from such
rf-rfra erfa
10 do. We Will not collect from any who
are unwilling or who refuse. or who tail
TO authorize us over their signatures so
CSigned) w. g. SHARP. Manager.
MADE FIERY SPEECHES.
After a number of fiery speeches from
some Of the men present. the report of
the committee was adopted and the
committee discharged with a vote Of
thanks. The crowd was most orderly,
and fOr so large a gathering was ad
mirably handled by the presiding Off
GERS. Only one drunken man disturbed
the meeting in any way and he was
elected from the hall. The question of
striking at once was then taken up,
but the conservative portion of the
men were enough to hold the fiery, hot
headed ones in line, and after consider
able controversy a motion prevailed 70
appoint seven men to again interview
tue COMPANY anu tI4tAtiAAA "a LltNAla AAAN
following terms, and to report to the
men at $50 tonight:
ScoffeId, Utah. Jan -. 1901.
We, the undersigned employees OF the
Pleasant Valley Coal company, IN mss
meeting assembled to demand the iol-
Firsf-we demand an advance of 10
cents per ton for all coal mined.
Second-That an advance Of 10 cents
per day be granted TO all laborers en-
pIoyed ut the Winter Quarters mines
Third-That an advance of % cents per
yard be granted fcf driving entries and
That our committee IS hereby empOw-
cred to state. in case this is not granted,
that the men will not report Tor WOrk,
but Will go or strike
This was adopted unanimously, and
the committee was named as follows.
Pat Rooney, Lewis George, Bert Sin
den. Mr.. Smith, John Samuels. John
Bell. Robert Walker. and an Italian
and a Finn to represent those OF that
nationality. The meeting then adj
journed until this evening.
The feeling is that a strike viii be or
dered tonight but it is doubtful if it
VIII cover one-nalf OF the men at the
meeting. as some of them think the
strike i'll advised at present. as this IS
the only mine affected. and It will be
only necessary for the company to
double the force at their other proper
ties and curtail the output at this
pOint. The men are lily prepared to
stand contest for a. very long time,
as most of the married men have been
here only for d short period and cannot
have much money laid by. 1t viii be
impossible for the merchants to extend
much credit as they have not fully re-
covered from their losses of last May.
The water men that water the mine
and keep the dust down were advised
to continue their work so as not to en-