Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-31
STATEMENT OF
The CONSOLIDATED
MANAGEMENT GIVES HISTORY
OF THE PRESENT LABOR
TROUBLE.

II Inc AullONlub 5tdtcHlCui NOHSSi II
ing the suspension of work on the
Mohawk and Combination was is
sued last evening by the Goldield
Consolidated Mines company:
THAT the public mind may be re
freshed regarding the history of the
different labor troubles in the Gold
field mining district, the following
brief statement of the conditions ex-
listing from December, 1906, to the
present time is herein set forth;
During the fall of 1906, owing to
the increase in the price of fuel and
other household necessities, the min
ers of the Goldfleld mining district
made a demand upon the operators
for an increase of wages from 81 to
IS per day. The operators, realiz-
ing that the cost of living had been
advanced by the increase in cost Of
fuel and other necessary commodi-
ties, in justice to the miners and in
view of the prevailing conditions,
conceded this demand.
THE FIRST AGREEMENT.
"At this time it was agreed as fol-
lows, in regard to change rooms at
the mines:
Change rooms shall be erected
and maintained on all operating
properties, such buildings to be de-
signed for the comfort and health of
the miners going on and off shift,
and shall be located as near as prac-
ticable to the shaft. 1t shall be sup
piled with proper heating apparatus,
and proper precaution shall be taken
taken for the protection of personal
effects.
ANY operator at any time may
require all employees to use such
change room in going on and off
shift, and to change not more than
their outer garments, and he may
place a representative in charge Of
such rooms, whose duty it shall be to
take the tally of employees and re-
port to the management any irregu-
l~arities which may come under his
observation.
The above agreement was signed
by the two committees representing
the operators and the miners union.
TROUBLE WITH CARPENTERS.
The miners had returned to work
barely two months when discomfort
manifested itself in a demand that
all carpenters employed in and
around the mines upon construction
work should be under the jurisdic-
ton of the Western Federation OF
Miners. Without any notice of their
intention, or without any demand
having previously been made upon
hawk mine were called out. In the
negotiations which followed it de-
veloped that the carpenters had a
strong union of their own, with
which many of them had been az
filiated for years, and were absolute.
ly opposed to affiliation with a union
which had been at variance with
theirs. After a shutdown extending
over a period of forty-one days, the
miners and operators finally reached
an agreement whereby the WesterI
Federation of Miners was to have
jurisdiction W. all men regularly
employed in and about the mines
mills and smelters.
"At the time of arriving at this
agreement it was mutually under
stood and agreed that the carpenters
and other artisans not regularly EN-
ployed in and about the mines neet
not be members of the miners union
This understanding was reached at /;
conference between the committees
representing the miners union anC
the mine owners association, a
which G. e. Mahoney, acting presi
dent of the Western Federation o
Miners, was present.
THE CHANGE ROOM.
Sunday, August IS, the MINER
on the Mohawk walked out on ac
count of technical objections to tn,
form of the change room and the re
quirements the company had though
necessary to impose for its own pro
lection. Senator Nixon, president o
: the company, came to Goldfeld ant
Q took part in the conference with tn,
e committee from the miners union
aiming at a reasonable and just dis
eussion of the difficulty. The resul
was the following tentative settle
ment, signed by the committee:
"Goldheld, New, Aug. 20, 1907.
AT a conference between X. i
Vice, G, H. MacKinnon and Rober
Mclean, representing Goldfel,
Union 220, Western Federation q
Miners, with George S. Nixon, presi
dent 0 fthe Goldfield Consolidate
Mines company, and J. w. Finch
general manager, the following wa
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