The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-12-10
GoLDFlELD OPERATORS WILL
NOT EMPLOY ANY MEMBER
OF WESTERN FEDERATION.
WAGES TO Be CUT
Mine Owners Association Will At
tempt to Resume Operations Tomor.
row Morning With 20 Per Cent Re-
duction in Wages-No Outward
Signs of Disturbance.

Goldfield, Dec. 9.-I.ate this after
noon the Goldfeld Mine Owners as
sociation issued it's ultimatum to th'
miners in Goldfield in the shape of ;
set of resolutions adopted at the meet
ing which was in progress all day
These resolutions embody the new
scale of wages to be in vogue from
this time on, showing a lowering O
the scale of about 20 per cent.
The resolutions adopleu are as fol
lows:
Resolved, That the rate of wages
district reopen upon a wage scale tt
be agreed upon at this time.
Resolved, That thet rate Of wage:
paid in the Goldfield mining district
by all operators, members of this as
sociation, be the same.
Resolved, That no member of this
association employ in or around his
mine or around his mill any member
OF Goldfeld local union No. 22O, Of the
Western Federation of Miners or O.
any union connected with or affiliated
with said Western Federation of Min
ers, and that all men hereafter EN-
ployed by any member Of this associa
tion in or around his mine or mill be
required, as a condition of his EN-
ployment, to sign written contract
which contains an agreement that the
miner is not now and will not be dur
ing the time he is working, a member
of Goldfield Miners union, No. 22O, ot
the Western Federation OF Miners OF
of union in Goldfeld or elsewhere
that is directly or indirectly affiliated
with or has any connection of any
kind, nature or description with said
Western Federation of Miners.
4#s Will Start Thursday.
Resolved, That the mines of the
Goldfield mining district resume oper
ations at a. NJ, on Thursday, De
cember 12, 1907, with men who agree
to the foregoing conditions and that all
old employees Of the members of this
association be given the preference at
all mines, providing such employees
present their applications either at
the office of this association or of the
mines formerly employing them, be
fore a. m. Of Thursday, December r.
1907, end that the Office of this assoi
citation and shall be opened for the
purpose of receiving said applications
from 9 a. m. to p. M, of each day
until said time.
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
this association that the cost of liv.
ing.in the Goldfield mining district be
reduced at least 20 per cent from what
it now is, and unless this be done
within reasonable time, this associa-
tion will construct and operate mer-
chandise stores and boarding houses
that will guarantee to the men en-
ployed in and around the mines and
mills reduction equal to this, or a
greater amount"
The Goldf1eld Mine Operators aNso-
citation also announced that If there is
not sufficient number of men willing
to go to work upon the terms of the
resolution before December 12, it will
emploB men from such sources as it
may be able to secure them.
No Statement From Miners.
The executive committee of the
Goldfield Miners union has been in
session nearly all day, but no state
ment has been issued in answer to
the one sent out by the mine owners,
the contents of which had been antici-
pated by the miners.
1t is the belief of members of the
union, expressed today on the issu-
ance of the owners statement, 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 determined
tonight, but the men say positively
that no violence will be resorted to
and no disturbance made on Thursday
morning, when the mines are to be re-
opened.
Whether the union win undertake to
renew negotiations with thu Mine
Owners association in an attempt to
bring about some sort of a compro.
mise before Thursday, is something
that has not yet been decided by the
executive committee OF the union.
The difference on the surface be.
tween the two organizations until to.
day has been over the acceptance 81
scrip In lien OF coin .Or currency f0y