Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-08-19
MINERS REFUSE
ARBITRATION
Operators Make ConceS=
SiOns in It's Seal
But Are Met With Pointed Refusal.
Nothing But Miners Scale
Acceptable.

At the meeting of the committees
of miners and operators held last
week each of the committees offered
suggestions as to a scale of wages
upon which a compromise might be
reached and the differences between
the two organizations overcome. The
committees then agreed to submit
these suggestions to their respective
organizations for action upon the
same. 1t was then decided to meet
this afternoon and report the result
on these propositions. At 2:30 this
afternoon these committees again met
to report. The committee of miners,
consisting of S. ID. Murrry, president
of the McCabe union, b. NJ. Crawford,
president of the Poland union, and H.
Burns, secretary treasurer of the Yav-
apai county union, reported to the
meeting that they had submitted the
scale as suggested by the operators
and also the one which they them
selves had suggested, and the union
had unanimously voted them both
down and decided to stand ON their
scale as now adopted by the union.
The operators reported that they had
submitted the matter to the mine
operators association and that body
had revised their scale and submitted
the following communication to the
meeting:
Prescott, Ariz., Aug. ID, 1903.
Mr.. W. A. Kent, assistant treasurer
Oriental Mining Co., Providence,
Ariz.
Dear Sir: At the conference held
at the Burke Hotel, Prescott, Ariz.,
August 10, 1903, at two p. M, citi-
zens committee consisting of Messrs.
Burke, Hope, Hill, Richards, Bur
mister, GoIdwater and Wilson, the ex-
ecutive committee representing the
Mine Operators Association: Messrs. |
Middleton, Pickerell, Monroe and the
undersigned; and a committee repre-
senting the miners unions: Messrs.
Burns, Murray, Crawford and Dem
cray; were present. Quite an extend
ed discussion was had of the various
differences existing between the
miners and operators in this county.
As result, meeting was held in
the rooms of the association at eight
p. m, and it was unanimously agreed
to make the following announcement.
1t is to be hoped the scale of wages
as shown iu the enclosed which was
duely considered and unanimously ac-
cepted, will meet with your hearty
We trust that the conclu-
sion reached on the part of the asso-
citation in attendance at the meeting
will prove in every way satisfactory
1t having been positively proclaim
ed by the representatives of the
miners unions in attendance at the
that the various unions
in the county had no desire to tres
pass on the rights of the employer in
the slightest and that the unions de-
most emphatically the spirit
of interference complained of, and
that no demands we're being made or
would be made on the mine operators
to employ only union men, also that
they recognize the right of the en-
ployer to hire union or non union
men at his pleasure, as we'll as the
right to discharge men without inter
ference by the unions, claiming that
all they asked was that no unwarrant-
ed discrimination be shown against
union meu.
1t was thought best, on the part of
your committee, after presenting some
facts in this connection, in the face
IF these statements to drop the matter
and accept the representions made as
evidence of future intentions and pro-
seed accordingly, even though there
is abundance of evidence showing that
such had not been the disposition
(by some of the unions at
east). Very sincerely yours,
F. NJ. Murphy, President.