Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-11-20

their work, upon the product OF which
labor the progress and prosperity Of
all other industries depends to d great
er or less degree!
Travelling south to Gallup, we find
that the Gallup and Weaver mines
have 426 miners digging coal, beside
probably $50 company men at work.
These men are all making big wages,
are thoroughly well contented, have
no intention OF striking. and express
themselves as having no use for agi.
tators and not willing to listen to
them.
The management here is In very
close touch with the employees, to
whom they show every consideration
looking to their welfare. and the men
appreciate the good treatment they
receive and reciprocate the kindly
feeling Of their employers.
AT Clarkville In the Gallup district
95 miners and about SO company men
are employed, and these men, too, are
well contened, and there are no indi-
cations Of strike. The foregoing
mines are all non-union mines. At the
Caledonian company mines 60 miners
and ten company men are employed; /;
ard ne tho nlocL nJa aynonA NINA tav,
men are employed. The men at these
mines belong TO the union and may
do the bidding Of the agitators. bul
that Is problematical.
, Tfxssifny furthef south, At Garth
age. the minas are working ! fun
force. about 10 men being employed
many OF whom are native New Mexi
cans. and who are not likely to strike
The leading English-speaking miner,
are union men, but as most Of them
have good contracts, they believe !,
must be the other fellows OK that is
gored, and 1t is not probable they will
strike.
Beyond to the northeast, at Eapitan
the miners are working with a full
force Of about ITO men underground
only eight men quit work at the cal
for a strike, and the others are max
ing good pay and are quite willing K
continue doing So There is very lit
tie probability of the strike affecting
this camp.
/ At Monero, in Rio Arriba county
about 20 men are employed by The
Rio Arriba Coal company and the
George w. Kutz company mines
These men all belol the union
and claim they have oeea expected
from the strike order.
At Dawson. Col II, about
22O miners are at @4s-. besides about
160 company men on the outside and
at the coke ovens. These men are
making good pay and do not care tG
hunt for another job with little likeli
hsod Of finding as good places.
| AT Van Houten the camp was con
taminated with Colorado agitators and
about so per cent d the $50 men EN-
ployed quit work. bu, others are nov
filling the places left vacant. At BIoss
burg, In the Dutchman mine, condi
/ tions we're similar. 70 the status ol
affairs at Van Houten and about sc
men quit work, causing a suspension
! for short time, but new men are nov
lbeihg employed to I'll the strikers
places. III
One OF the principal arguments used
by the agitator to induce the miners
TO quit work Isl that all the men n
the other camps have quit work. and
that those TO whom he addresses him
self are the only men at work, and
that they will be called 'scabs."
This argument he uses on every oc
casion, no matter how false II may be
and he takes every opportunity tc
give It publicity in the newspapers
Ninety per cent OF the miners Of New
Mexico. and more, have continued "a
/ work, despite the call for ! strike. and
desire to keep on working.
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