Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-19
A STRIKE AT CONGRESS.
Timers Quit Work on Account of the Alleged Refusal of Com pany to Recognize the
 Union.

On Monday night all the miners employed in the Congress mine ex- cept a very few refused to work any longer for the company. There has been a tension existing between the company and the men for some time owing to the fact that a miners union has recently been organized there A number of men who had joined the union were discharged though other reasons than that had been assigned for the action. On Monday a con- mittee from the union waited on Su- perintendent Staunton and presented an ultimatum to him from the union as follows:
 First The right to organize for mutual protection aad benefit and to further their interests by all legal and honorable means.
 Second-The reinstatement of such members as have been discharged on account of their utilization with the union.
 Third-That permission be granted to regularly appointed officers of the union 10 solicit membership on the company's ground among employees when not engaged at their work.
 Mir. StauntOn's repl ' was that un- der no circumstances would he recog- nize or treat with the union but would treat with the men as individuals only.
 This brought the climax as a strike was at once ordered, and as stated all but a few quit their jobs.
 It is understood that the miners have no specific grievances against the company which need fighting at the present time, their hours of labor and wages being satisfactory, but they demand the privilege of organi- zing a union, so that they will re- ceive recognition in union camps.
 The situation is very similar to that at the Commonwealth mine at Pearce a few months ago, and it is said that the Congress company is just as determined against the union as was the Commonwealth company.
 At the present time there is no one connected prominently with the Con gress mine in Prescott, so that it was impossible to obtain any official ln- formation as to the intentions of the company. That the strike was not looked upon as having any alarming aspect, was demonstrated by the de parture of Mr. Murphy yesterday for the east after being fully advised of the situation. E. B. Gage and Ar thur Gage are both in Tombstone and so far as heard from have not hired any special trains to hasten their ar rival at Congress, and the man in su- preme command there is W. F. Stanton, superintendent of the mine.
 4 gentleman who came up from Congress yesterday and who is friendly to the company as well as to the miners, hence is in a position to express an unbiased and unpreju- diced opinion. said he looked for an indefinite closing down of the prop erty. The company he believes will not recede from its position, while on the other hand the miners have gone 50 far now that they cannot recede.
 Superintendent Stanton, it is stated, was about to sever his connections with the company also and go to Tombstone, in fact had expected to do so within a very short time. The strike will probably not change his plans in this respect. This gentle man expressed the opinion that the company will not at present attempt to fill the places of the strikers, but will simply permit things to take their course for the present, wIeE very many of the miner wi: leave the camp.