The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-11
Union Men Scattering
From the District to
Other Camps.
OPEN MINES TOMORROW
Owners Association Issues An.
nouncement Of Wage Reduction
..-EmpIoy No Federation Men.

GOLDFIELD, Dec. 10.-The city
passed another quiet day, notable only
in the matter of departure from the
camp of a good many miners known
to be affiliated with the Western Fed
GRAFTON and in discussion of mine
owners ultimatum, issued last night
in an announcement of decision to
open their properties on Thursday
with such labor as they can get, and
at reduced wages. Miners departing
from the camp are understood to be
going at the direction of the officers
of the local union, who have told
them to scatter over the country and
get work wherever they can for the
purpose of earning money with which
to aid in the fight here. Many of
the men who are leaving have been
in the public eye here as violent agi-
tators and wherever they may settle
will add nothing to peaceful! condi-
tions. The announcement of the mine
owners association came in publica-
ton of the following resolutions,
adopted after discussion during a
lengthy session:
OWNERS RESOLUTIONS.
district 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 in the Goldfeld mining district
by all operators, members of this as
sociation:
WAGE SCALE ADOPTED.
Miners, $4, from $5 machine men,
81, from So; chuck tenders, SO. 5
from $5; muckers, 1915, from $5;
car men, 1915, from SIS; top car
men, 1915, from S.; pump men, $4
from $5; timber men, $3.50, from So
carpenters, SIS, from 81; machiniSts
$5, from Sc; engineers Clicensed, $5
from So; electricians, s., from 81;
blacksmiths, $3.50, from Sc; tool
sharpeners, IS from Sc; blacksmi,.l
helpers, 81, from So; surface labor
ers, $3.50, from $3.50; amalgama-
tors, $3.50, from SIS; vannermen, $4
from $5; laborers, $3.50, from So.
WESTERN FEDERATION BARRED
Resolved, That no member of this
association employ in or around his
mine or around his mill any mem ber
of Goldfield local union No. 220 OF
the Western Federation of Miners, OF
of any union connected with or affil-
lated with said Western Federation OF
Miners; and that all men hereafter
employed by any member of this as
Sociation in or around his mine OF
mill be required, as a condition OF
his employment, to sign a written
contract which contains an agree
Il
will not be, during the time he is
working member of the Goldfield
Miners union No. 220 of the Western
Federation of Miners, or of union
in Goldfield or elsewhere that is di-
rectly or indirectly affiliated with OIL
has any connection of any kind, ma
ture of description, with said Western
Federation of Miners.
OLD EMPLOYEES TO APPLY
Resolved, That the mines of the
Goldfield mining district resume op'
erations at a. m. 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 pref
erence at all mines, providing such
either at the office of this association
or of the mines formerly employing
them,- before Z a. m. of Thursday
December 12, 1907, and that the Of
fees of this association and said
mines be open for the purpose of re.
ceiving said applications from 9 a. m
to p. m. of each day until said time
REDUCE COST OF LIVING
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
this association that the cost of liv.
ing in the Goldfield mining district
be reduced at least 90 per cent from
what it now is, and unless this be
done within reasonable time this as
sociation will construct and operate
a general merchandise store or stores
and boarding houses that will guar
antee to the men employed in anC
around the mines and mills reduc
tiOn to this or greater amount.
GET MEN OUTSIDE
The Goldfield Mine Operators as
sociation also announced that If there
were not a sufficient number of mer
willing to go to work upon the term!
of the resolutions before December
-, it will employ men from sucf
sources as it may be able to secure
them.
UNION is SILENT.
The executive committee of thu
Goldfield Miners union has been II
session nearly all day, but no state
ment has been issued in answer tt
the one sent out by the mine owners
the contents of which had been an
ticipated by the miners 1t is salt
the union will wait until the arriva
of Governor Sparks, who is coming
on Thursday, and at that time hol'