The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-01-10
FROM THE WHITE PINE NEWS OF JANUARY s.

For several weeks past there has been
trouble here between the manager and en-
| ployees Of the New York & Nevada Copper
| Company due to a cut in the wages which
that company had been paying to its employees.
But little attention had been paid to the
trouble by the uninterested until the past
week, all believing that the discomfort would
be amicably and speedily settled and opera
| ton resumed without serious injury to em.
| ployer or empioye. This it seems was not
to be. Things were each day assuming a
more critical and serious aspect. No acts OF
| violence had been committed, and withal the
Union men had, on a whole, been able to con-
troll the actions of some conspirators among
| them.
Then, too, there are many here, both union
| and non-union men, who believed that the
| actions of Superintendent Traylor were not
| ordered or endorsed by the company; that he
was actuated by purely personal motives, and
was trying to usurp the authority given him.
| That he had been acting under instructions
from beginning, will be seen from the follow
luR lttLcT ScuS W US uiToCb Hcdthludt tCAo
New YORK, Dec. "a, 1902.
To the Editor of the White Pine News:
SIR
In view of the recent labor disturbances at
our mines at Copper Flat, we deem it advis-
able to ask that you notify your readers and
the public at large, that Mr.. John A. Traylor
is the authorized representative of the New
York & Nevada Copper Company, being in
full charge of their interests in White Pine
county.
1t is not our representatives. intention to be
unjust to the employees, but we wish to have it
understood that in the interests of our stock
holders at large, we must and propose to
have the right of managing our mines and OPP
Grating them as we see fit, and we will contin-
ne to keep them closed as long as we are re-
fused such rights by the miners or employees.
In the interest of White Pine county and
the town of Ely. we regret that we are COM
PEELED to take this course, but we certainly be-
lieve it to be to the interest of the business
community at large to understand that the
labor trouble existing there must be settled
before we shall again resume operations, and
that Mr.. John A. Traylor's actions in carry
ing out our instructions are fully ratified and
endorsed by the directors and officers of this
company Yours respectfully,
New YORK & NEVADA COPPER Co.,
MILFORD MARTIN, President.
We publish the two following letters by re-
quest, and also in order that our readers may
be better able to judge Of both sides for them
selves:
ELY, NEVADA, Dec. II, 1902.
Mr.. MARTIN,
Pres. New York & Nevada Copper Co.
Dear SIR
1t becomes my painful duty TO inform you
that Mr.. John Traylor, who is in charge of
your property at this place. has reduced the
wages of miners from the schedule you granted
them last summer, namely: Three dollars and
fifty cents and eight hours, to three dollars
and ten hours, thereby causing a suspension
of work on the Copper Flat mine. Mr.. Tray
lor has also reduced the wages of the men
working on the foundation of your mill and
smelter at the Keystone from three dollars
and nine hours to two dollars and seventy-fve
cents and ten hours, which act has caused
work to be stopped at the Keystone. The
members Of Robinson Miners Union No.175
are of the opinion that Mr.. Traylor is doing
this IN his own responsibility and have IN
structed me to notify you of his actions. Also,
as you understand, in a mining camp there
are men whom no organization can be re-
sponsible for, and as Mr.. Traylor has brought
himself into bad repute with the miners,
owing to his actions. we. the members of Rob-
inson Miners Union, have placed three guards