The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-30
MINERS WANT
ARBITRATION
Committee From ScOfield
Visits Salt Lake.
FIVE HUNDRED MEN
ARE NOW ON STRIKE
Meet With State Board of Arbi-
tratiOn Today.

Lewis George and Pat Rooney came
in yesterday as d committee from the
Scofeld strikers to confer with the
state board of arbitration to see what
can be done to induce the z V. Coal
company to arbitrate with the strik-
ers and settle the present difficulty in
that manner. When seen last evening
the committee made the following
statement:
"Our chief purpose in coming to
Salt Lake City is, of course, to see
what the board of arbitration can do
for us, but we also desire to lay the
situation before the people and let
them know the facts Of the case. We
saw Secretary Daveier of the board
today, and he invited Us to meet with
the board tomorrow afternoon at 3
O'Clock, when we Viii lay our case be-
fore the board and ask IT to use its in
Huence to get the company 10 arbitrate
The strikers have asked the company
a number Of times to do this, but so
far il has refused. The general feel
ing among the strikers at present is
that if the company viii consent to do
this they viii go back to work, but we
wish TO positively assert that if the
company should consent to arbitrate
anu NAAtlA A21LL 4AUll1dLE III LdhlDE TIC
men back to work by discharging
some, We viii not call the strike of
They must take US all back or none,
and we ali stand shoulder to shoulder
on this point.
Five Hundred Out.
The men are now more determined
than ever to hold out against the com
pany- There are 500 men out. and we
expect others to join US today. 1t is
understood that Castlegate and Sunny
side VIII join US. but when we left
the camp no positive word had been
received from them. But no matter
whether or not we receive support
from these places, we viii hold out and
in the end succeed in getting what we
ask for.
There are fully thirty guards there,
but there is no use for them. We are
a peaceful community and are one III
shall be destroyed. On the other hand.
we have organized ourselves into a
committee to see that the guards do
no harm while there. In the mean
time everything is at a standstill
Nothing is going on. with the excep-
ton Of parades, meetings, etc, by the
strikers.
Strikers Misrepresented.
I'VE have been misrepresented in
many ways. IN the first place we arc
not a lot of hOboes. as has been stated.
We are respectable miners. It has also
been said that we are irresponsible and
that liquor was the cause of the strike.
These statements are untrue. There
is not a more peaceable community
anywhere; we have no trouble of any
kind. and the guards there are not
needed IN The least.
ION the other hand, the company has
J. Il ,,
US. both before and after the strike
commenced. It declared a, quarantine
against people coming into Clear Creek
on account of the smallpox, when there
was not a case Of smallpox there. This
was simply for the purpose Of keeping
the miners from going out of the town
10 buy provisions The only store there
was a company store, and the men
were forced to trade there. Prices on
goods at ScOfield are way above the
average and at Clear Creek they are
p per cent above the prices at SEQ
field. This was the reason why the
miners of ScOheid went down 10 Clear
Greek and broke up the quarantine.
Again. when the strike was declared
the company turned tie miners out of
its boarding house, both at Scofield
and Clear Greek Last night j. &. Bell,
one of the leaders of the strikers, re-
ceived word through the town mar
SlGt lnaL ne NOutu nave 10 move OUT
of his house Immediately or that Il
would be pulled down. This order
came from the company. The house
does not belong to the company. but
is built on company ground This is
one Of the harshest measures used by
the company TO show US what II can
do If we persist in bucking against 1t,
but il viii find the miners viii not
resent its action in an unlawful way.
though all OF these things viii be
treasured against 1t.
while in town today we met Rep