The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-10
.FAVORS RECALL
OF U. S. TROOPS
COLONEL COMMANDING AT GOLD.
FIELD SAYS DEPARTMENT
WAS MlSLED.
UNION MINERS BARRED
From Employment in Mines Which
Are to Open Thursday-street
BraWl Takes Place on Main
Street of City.

Goldfeld New. Dec. 9.-The mines
OF. Goldfield are to be re-opened
Thursday next. The wage scale will
be reduced. No members of the
Western Federation OF Labor or
Workers of the World will be given
employment, though there will be no
discrimination against members of the
American Federation or the affiliated
union Such was the decision OF the
executive committee CT the Mine
Owners Association today. The
change from Wednesday TO Thursday,
was made to allow time to get men
from other points here to replace the
strikers. Governor Sparks win come
to Goldfield Thursday. Tho troops
now here will be scattered throughout
the camp and win practically guard
the mines. The card system as used
at CippIe Greek, is to be introduced.
A street brawl took place on Main
Of the Western Federation called one
Of the officers of the troops vile
name. Jack Davis. who was walking
with the officer, grabbed the offender
and held him until an officer arrived,
An attempt to draw weapons was
prevented by by-standers,
Col Reynolds, commanding the fed
eral troops, is said to have recon-
mended the recall of the soldiers.
There seems to be no trouble and he
thinks that the mine owners have mis-
led tho department. The owners per-
SIT that trouble is practically certain
when the attempt is made Thursday
to resume operations with nonunio'l
miners,
During the night the guards EN-
ployed by the owners wero greatly
Increased until each piece of property
looked like q fortress. Pedestrians
passing through the mining camp
were held up by mine guards aud
compelled to account for themselves
before they were allowed to proceed.
This action, was resented in q num-
Der OF instances but did not deter
the guards from carrying out their
instructions.
George Wingfield, a partner of
Senator Dixon in the mine, said
with the protection afforded us by
the federal troops, we propose to op-
erato our mining properties on any
basis we choose. If trouble results it
will not be our fault"
Late this afternoon the Mine
Owners association issued an ulti.
ratum to the miners This fixes the
wages at 30 per cent less than the
prevailing rate. The association also
demands that the cost of living be re-
duced 90 per cent, and declare that
unless this be done within a reason
able time the association Is to con
struct and operate a general mer
chandise store or stores and boarding |
borses which will guarantee the men
employed at and around the mines |
and mills a reduction to this or a
greater amount"
The association also announced /
that II there Is not a sufficient mum |
Der of men willing to 90 to work upon 1
the terms offered before December |
12. it will employ men from such /
sources as Il may be able to secure
them.
The Miners union as yet has made /
no announcement as to the action to
he taken except that violence will not /
be resorted to when the mines open
Thursday.
Believe Settlement Possible.
Conservative men not connected /
with either side believe that a settle
ment may yet be affected. and II not
an attempt will be made TO organize
a new union to be affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. with /
which the mine owners have already !
intImated they will be willing to en-
ter into an agreement.
Troops are tonight patrolling the !,
erornds around the prominent mines
OF the camp. as also are large num-
bers Of deputy constables sworn in
by constable 1nman.