The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-10
MCDONALD-ELY
MINERS QUIT
MalkOut Due to Manasement'S Re-
Refusal to Grant an Increase
In Their Wages.

Because of the demand of twenty
five miners employed on the McDon
ald-Ely shaft for an increase from
$3.50 per day to 81 per day for shart
sinking. which the company declines
/ to grant. these miners have walked
out, declaring Il strike until the de-
mands are met.
| The management of the property
granted, and that If the miners want
to go back to TO work at the old fig
ure their places are open to them.
The relations between the man
agement and the miners had been
strained because of this point for
some time, and the company refus-
Ing to meet the demands OF the men,
the latter walked out Sunday night.
There is possibility that the
strike may extend to the other
mines, and that from 500 to 700
miners employed between Pilot
Knob and Ely will declare sympa-
thetic strike.
According to the officials of
Miners union No 251. Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners, with headquarters
nj Lane City, this possibility rs re-
mote. and Will not be considered un-
/ 1 hn mi or 1nTc
to replace the striking miners with
non-union men. AT this time there
is no dissatisfaction among the
miners employed in the other mines
of the district, and it is hoped by
them and by the union officials that
peaceable settlement may be
reached
At the McDonald-Ely the scale for
eight hours for all classes of miners
Is $3.50 per day. In the other
mines the miners engaged in sink
ing receive 81 per day of eight hours.
The McDonaldEly is Il dry mine, and
the management declares that II Will
not pay more than the wage now
paid for dry sinking.
The miners have asked for an ad-
vance which will give them the same
wages as paid by the other mines In
this district, and all over he state, .
said Secretary F. J. Cox of Miners
union No. 251. yesterday when asked
for a statement concerning the cause
of the strike.
''All other mines pay 81 for cighr
hours in sinking and timbering,
while other work is paid for at the
rate of $3.50 per day The. local
Miners union is behind the strikers,
and will stand with them in their
demand.
There are between 600 and 700
miners working in the district be-
tween Pilot Knob and Ely, ana,
while all of them are not members of
the union, the majority of nonmem
bers have expressed their desire to
join the organization at their next
pay day.
Many of the miners are Italians.
One-haif of these are members. and
virtually all the others viii have
joined before their next pay day
passes.
THE union is in good financial
condition, and will support the
strikers. or course, if it becomes at
all serious, and too large for the To-
cal to handle. 1t will pass from our
hands 10 the hands OF tho Western
Federation of Miners. who will take
charge of the strike.
We hope, however, that this will
not be necessary. The only thing
that we demand is that the scale be
raised to meet the wages paid by the
other mines. If the mine-owners get I
together and try to ship in nom
union miners to fill the places of the
strikers. of course that will cause
more trouble.
THE union does not insist that
the striking miners be taken back.
we HleTclN lnSlSl OIi lIlO Sta1t. AL
this time | will not express an opin-
ion as to whether or not there will
be general strike.
THE union looks for n friendly
settlement by the McDonaldEly /
granting the demands of the men. "
d. C. Mcdonald, general manager
of the Mechanically, stated that the
demands of the miners would not be
met, and that the men were at lib
erty to walk out il they so desired
He said that If the company desired
to operate the mine they would 90
so
The Miners union will meet to-
night at Lane City. and 1t Is unGer-
stood that the entire strike aitua
ton will be laid before them for dis
eussion,