The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-10
LOWER WAGES,
NON-UNION
men IN MINES
GoldfieId Merchants Notified to
Cut Prices 20 Per Cent in
Reasonable Time.
UlTIMATUM OF MINE
OWNERS ASSOCIATION
U. S. TROOPS TO BE SCATTERED
THROUGH CAMP TO GUARD
MINING PROPERTIES.

Goldheld, New. Dec. Slate this af-
ternoOn the Goldfield Mine Owners as
ISOLATION issued its ultimatum to the
miners i'm Goldfield in the shape of a
set of resolutions adopted at the meet
ing which had been in progress all day.
These resolutions embody the new scale
of wages to be in vogue from this time
on, showing a lowering of the scale of
about 20 per cent.
The resolutions adopted are as fol-
lows:
Resolved. That the mines of this dis
trfct reopen upon a wage scale to be
agreed upon at this meeting.
Resolved, That the following rate of
wages be adopted as the scale to be
paid i'm the Goldfeld mining district, by
all operators, members of this associa-
ton:
Miners. "a. from s.: machine men,
81, from So; chuck tenders. s3.75, from
s.; muckers. 1915, from 50; car men,.
1915, from So; top car men, 1915, from
So; pumpmen, 81. from IS; timber men,
$3.50. from IS; carpenters, So, from 81;
machinists, s.. from Sc; engineers Qi-
censedD, S., from Sc: electricians, s.,
from 81; blacksmiths. $3.50, from Sc; tool
sharpeners, 50, from So; blacksmith
helpers, "a, from So: surface laborers,
$3.50, from $3.50; amalgamators, $3.50,
from So; vannermen, 81, from IS; labor
ers, $3.50, from s..
Federation Men Barred.
Resolved, That no member of this
association employ in OF around his
mine or around his mill any member of
Goldfeld local union No. 22O of the
Western Federation of Miners or of any
union connected with or affiliated with
said Western Federation of Miners. and
that all men hereafter employed by any
member of this association in or around
his mine or mill be required. as a con-
dition of his employment, to sign a
written contract which contains an
agreement that the miner is not now
and viii not be during the time he is
working a member of the GOldfield
Miners union No. 220 of the Western
Federation of Miners or of a union in
Goldfield or elsewhere that is directly or
indirectly affiliated with or has any
connection of any kind, nature or de-
scription with said Western Federation
of Miners.
Resolved. That the mines of the
Goldfield mining district resume opera
lions at a. m. on Thursday. December
p 1907. with men who agree to the
foregoing conditions and that all old
employees of the members of this asso-
citation be given the preference at all
mines. providing such employees present
their applications either at the Office of
this association or of the mines for
merly employing them before Z a. m.
of Thursday. December L. 1907. and
that the offices of this association and
said mines be open for the purpose of
receiving said applications from a. m.
10 s p. m. of each day until said time.
Notice to Business Men.
Resolved, That it is the sense Of this
association that the cost of living in the
Goldfield mining district be reduced at
least 20 per cent from what it now is,
and unless this be done within a rea-
sonable time this association will con-
struct and operate a general merchan-
disc store or stores and boarding houses
that will guarantee TO the men en-
ployed in and around the mines and
mills a reduction to this or greater
amount"
THE Goldfield mine operators asso-
citation also announced that if there is
not a sufficient number Of men willing
10 go to work upon the terms of the
resolutions before December u, ii will
employ men from such sources as it
may be able 10 secure Jheil.
The executive committee of the Gold
field Miners union has been in session
nearly ali day, but no statement has
heen issued in answer to the one sent
out by the mine owners, the contents of
which had been anticipated by the mi
nerS.
II Is the belief of members of the
union expressed today that no attempt
will be made by the owners to do more
than clear the mines of the water that
has accumulated in them during the
present week. Whether an attempt will
be made to prevent this much being
done is something that cannot be de
termined tonight, but the men say posi-
lively that no violence will be resorted
10 and no disturbance made on Thurs
day morning, when the mines are to be
reOpened.
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