Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-09-12
RANDsBURG STRIKE.
What a Correspondent Says of
the Conditions There.

| THE union has scored one on the
Yellow Aster. They have been max
ing preparations for a week to start
up the mine; started up the boarding
house, etc. Yesterday morning all
the Yellow Aster teams and the bus
went over to the depot to meet a
special carload of eighteen men that
was coming in. Finally the process
sion came over, Burcham in the lead
and feline grin on his face, but he
grinned differently before the day
was over. They took the men first
up to the 'dobe restaurant for their
breakfast, and Charley Crusoe, Bar
ton and Ed Hammond stood outside
as guards armed with shotguns.
They had breakfast and then as some
of them were standing outside of the
'dobe, Brook and some of the union
men called to them to come over to
| the Union hall to have talk with
them. They were mostly young boys
and pretty decent looking young fell
lows. Some of them went over, but
before anything could be said, a
fellow who seemed to be the agent
rushed over and brought them back.
Nothing more was said until five of
the fellows went over to the Union
hall and asked Fred Jones and Gion.
doni where they could get some to-
bacco. They sent them up to Grants
to get chance to talk to them, and
after they had started followed be-
hind. The men went into the store,
and over rushed Mike Dolan without
even waiting for his hat and started
in to explain to them the situation
here. The boys passed around cigars
to the crowd and by that time Jones
and Giondoni arrived, and they all
talked
The fellows seemed very much sur
prised and said that everything had
been misrepresented to them when
they came. They said they had a
good job where they were, but they
were told that there were not more
than six white men in the camp; that
they were all dagoes and foreigners,
and would not work, and said they
had no inten ton of coming to take
other men S places. Fred Jones then
told them that they could come up to
the Union boarding house if they
wished and just then, in the midst of
it, in rushes Burcham and said to
Mike, you let the boys alone now
Mike said, I'm not hurting them,
and went on talking livelier than ever.
Burcham was just white with rage,
but said to the boys, you had better
come down and have lunch now,
and the fellows started out with him
but quit him at the post Office and
would go no farther. They went up
to the Union boarding house and had
their dinner, and then telegraphed
back to Joplin for no one else to come
and wrote letters explaining things
/ 10 fol l.,
piece and sent it to the Joplin paper.
These five fellows said they would 90
to Los Angeles last night, so the
Union gave them great send off.
They sent committee to the train
to see them off and paid their way to
Los Angeles, and just as the bus was
leaving all the union men collected
and cheered and hollered. Some of
the men stayed, as they said they
thought the company could hold them
on the contract that was made, but
Sheriff Kelly who came in told them
there was no law that could hold
them here, so guess they will all 90
away. Eleven of them went to the
works this morning, but some of them
came down the hill again; so the
union is all ri gnt and | think the Vel
low Aster is going to have a harder
time than they bargained for to get
enough men in here. | suppose you
saw by the Miner the notices they
put up about applica tions for work,
so we are just waiting to see who will
turn Scab and 90 to work "