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AyaoaG the beaver officers asd stock
holders of the Colorado ule Marble
company ~ to the hnal outcome of
the strike which has beea go.ns ON
at Marble, Colo. since the begian.ns
Il last ~eek. II was reported las,
"Wednesday night that marble ~ork-
ers of Cleveland. Salt Lake and
Denver had refused to handle ANY OF
the stone from Marble un,il the
strike had been ad lusted The is
not believed 10 be true by the local
marble men
We have received no word from
marble workers here indicating that
material would not be handled In
Denver said Dr. r. A. Hughes YES
teriay OF course the handling OF
the strike Is entirely IN the hands
ot Col. 4 r. Meek. who Is nov in
New York, and Col. j. r. Manning,
the superintendent, and the Denver
men are not likely 10 know the en-
tire situation. From reports that
we have received here in Denver it
seems to be very likely that the
strike will be settled before the end
of the week One IF tho men who
has been working at Marble came to
Inc this morning and told me that
he thought the strikers were willing
To come back to work.
AS for the Cleveland marble
workers refusing to handle the mar
bile which are supplying to the
United States government there in
order to compel us to yield to the
demands of the strikers, that is alb
surd on the face Of it, because we
have already shipped TO Cleveland
all nt the material that we contracted
for. The construction of the build
ing is now in the hands of the gov
eminent.
DR. Hughes said that the men at
the works had been entirely unrea-
sonable in their demands
We pay our men 40 per cent
higher wages than any other marble
workers in the country without ex-
ception We aiso furnish them
houses in which to live. The men
want to unionlze the camp, that S
all there is to it. The matter of the
crane workers who refused to work
overtime unless he was paid one and
half wages for overtime was only
pretense for starting trouble. II we
had paid our men union wages they
would not have received anything
like as much as they We're getting
when they struck. If they 60 back
now they will have TO accept the
union wage"
W j. Fine, local agent for the
company, is at present out of town
on a fishing expedition in Gunnlson
county Before leaving town he APP
peared to entertain little doubt as to
the outcome of the strike.
That the Colorado lule managers
are right in the position they have
taken toward the strikers is the
opinion expressed by l. A. Strauss
general manager of the Crystal Riv-
er Marble company, whose plant
adjourns that of the other company
at Marble.
Il believe in unions said Mr.
Strauss, but ! think that the men
at Marble have carried the thing too
far. Those men were well paid
They are well housed by the COM
pany and they were well treated in
every way That they have been
foolish enough to strike for higher
pay is due to the efforts of some agi-
tator or other. The men don't know
what they want. 1t seems as if
every time any project gels under
way in Colorado which will develop
the resources of the state, it has to
be held up by some kind of trouble.
At Marble the men are getting ust
exactly what they are worth to the
company
DR. Hughes said that the majority
of the strikers were Italians.