The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-22

G0IdfieId Miners in Mass Meet
ing RatIfy the Agreement
With the Operators.
MEN RESUME WORK TODAY
TERMS UNDER WHICH SETTLE
MENT WAS MADE.
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Goldfield, New. April 21.-By an over
whelming vote the miners of Goldfield in
open meeting today ratified the terms
agreed upon by the joint meeting of the
executive committees the deadlock, re-
markable in many ways, is over, and for
two years to come there will be no trou-
bic between the mine owners and the min
ers in this district.
Some of the mines will be ready for the
IL o'clock shift tonight and twentyfour
hours later every mine, lease and pros
pect will be working TO capacity.
me ratification, coming so suddenly
after the articles were agreed upon, was
not generally expected until Tuesday
evening. but, fearing some hitch in the
proceedings, which had for week pro-
crossed so favorably, an open meeting
was called late last evening to be held
at the ball grounds at p. m. today.
Radicals Outvoted.
That settled the strike. With a cheer
! the radicals were Overwhelmingly out
voted and Goldfield is itself again, big
ger and better and richer than ever, with
an assurance of industrial peace until
1903
There was nothing to interfere with the
program of the meeting and the only
thing which in any way marred the en-
tire accord with which the miners met
was an action by few radicals after
the meeting was over, when St John pre-
scented resolution to boycott all stores
having American Federation of Labor
employees About a third or those who
had remained voted for the passage of
this resolution, but it is nothing more
than that presented by the agitators some
days ago and has no important bearing
on the situation.
Goldfield is crazy tonight: there is a
veritable love feast, and brokers, re-
gardless of the day. are frantically rush
ing for stock at figures which put in
the shade the maximum prices of yester-
day.
Terms of Agreement.
The terms of the agreement which
means so much to this district after u
siege of many weeks are as follows:
In order to establish a definite under
standing between the Western Federation
OF Miners local union No. 90 and the
mine owners and operators of the Gold
| field mining district, it is agreed that
mining and milling operations will be re-
sumed and continued under the following
terms:
Il. The wage scale in effect in the dis
trict March ]. 1907. shall remain in force.
and eight hours shall constitute a days
work FOR al men unees the jurisdicton'of
the Miners union.
go The Miners union shall have juris-
diction over all men regularly employed
| in and around the mines, mills and smelt-
ers including timber trainers. engineers,
blacksmiths and macninists. and except
/ ing superintendent and managers. The
Miners union shall not have jurisdiction
over carpenters employed In the con-
/ structiOn of head frames, ore houses and
buildings about the mines. mills and
smelters.
''3 No strike or boycott shall be Of
/ ficially declared by the Miners union IN
| less by two-thirds vote of that organi-
cation in favor thereof, and no lockout
shall be enforced by the mine owners and
| operators unless by like vote.
-. No town labor controversy shall in
Jerfere with the operation of the mines
or the employment of miners.
IS. The terms shall remain In force for
period of two years.
Meeting of the Miners.
The men listened to the reading of the
agreement with little show of interest. as
most of. them had been acquainted with
the terms before they came to the ball
grounds and there was nothing in the for
| NAL agreement to surprise them.
When the crucial moment arrived at to-
DAVIS meeting Daniel Roudebush put the
question to the assembly as to whether
/ or not the agreement should be ratified.
In doing SO he asked those IN favor Of
ratification to step TO one side. Instantly
the solid mass of nearly fifteen hundred
/ men moved to the side designated, leav-
| ing about fifty who opposed the ratifi-
/ cation.
Men Who Settled Trouble.
| Full credit is due many men for their
mart in the settlement of the difficulty,
about peace
/ But first and foremost among these
| must be mentioned George Wingfield.
whose untiring efforts whose counsel and
| Judgment have meant so much in the
| crises The executive committee of the
! Business Mems and Mine Owners asso-
citation, composed of W. \. Stanton,
| James y. Davis J. W. Finch, w. c. Stone
| and c. H. Kiedel, have proven their worth
| in their untiring efforts since the trouble
started. and the miners committee, COM
| posed of President Harry Brown, Messrs.
sexton and Stone, and ex-officio Acting
President Mahoney. VINO have worked con-
stantly for the good of the men, in di-
| rect opposition to the wishes of St. John
and his rabble are entitled to more than
! generous praise
! United States Senator Nixon has been
/ = most potential factor in terminating the
| trouble. and there are thousand others
whose work has counted more than those
who have not been here through the siege
will ever know.
( The personnel of the miners committed
! alone which has been entirely changed
| since the early meetings, means that the
/ men have withdrawn from the /. w. w.
and that anarchy will never again get
! a foothold in the greatest gold camp of
/ the world.