Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-06-18

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strike, which being unanimously in
the affirmative, Board Member
Hutchinson and Organizer Cora, at
the time acting secretary of the
union, announced that henceforth
this would be all official strike of
jackson Miners Union No. lis OF
the W. f.. of NJ, to enforce the de-.
mands of the men under the law, and
pledged to the fullest extent possible,
the moral and financial support of the
Western Federation of Miners the
following notices being posted to this
effect.
Notice.
"Io Whom 1t May Concern:
"Having refused to grant the under
ground men the eighC-hour day, in
compliance with the state law Of
California and having refused to
IN eet and discuss the differences be.
tween their employees and themselves,
we, the members of Jacks Miners
Unionn No lis of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners, as a part of said en-
ployes, do hereby call an official
strike against the Kennedy Mining
Company, the Zeila Mining Company
and the Argonaut Mining Company,
operating in Amador county, Cali
fornia, and call upon all men to
desist from work in any capacity for
the above companies until such as
the eight-hour day Is granted them.
'This strike is called after repeat
ed attempts on the part of the men
involved to bring about a peaceable
adjustment of the difficulty between
their employers and themselves and
the refusal OF the companies to treat
with them 10 any manner, and de-
handing both ways and lunch on the
mems time, in contravention of the
law, forces the resorting to drastic
measures on the part of the men in
volved, for the protection of their
rights and the enforcement of the
law. By order of
jackson Miners Union No. 1l5.
Iom Cora,
Acting Secretary
"Joe Il. Hutchinson,
Executive Board Mem Der, W. f. M.
Following the posting of this notice
everything seemed to be in our favor
and the men pledged themselves.
with the exception of the stool
pigeons of the companies who we're
prior to this time officers and mem
bers of this union. These men con-
tinuously plugged against this move
ment and the attempt to organize the
Latin-speaking men, and a a last re-
sort, went scabbing, thereby causing
stampede which ultimately broke
the back bone of the strike. 10 these
men, native and adopted English
speaking sons of the state, can be
given the credit of downing the great
est opportunity of any body of men
rightfu1ly theirs under the laws of
the state. In this connection you
must remember that the operators
we're at the mercy of the men, I'M
organized though they were, as was
plainly shown by the uperintendents
coming to town and begging the men
to go to work. ard by invoking the
coercion of commercial parasites and
that of the civil authority. That
they were wrong and defeated, there
is 10 question, as the day we sue
ceeded in pulling the men from the
Kennedy boarding honse, the super
intendent of the Kennedy Company
frankly admitted that we had them
defeated. There we're, however, few
men working, and Tuesday morning
the men demanded that we go en-
masse at the two principal points for
the purpose of peacefully persuading
these men to desist from work. In
this instance. as III previous ones. the
sheriff and his Office force were pre-
seut, presumably anticipating trou
BILE, but PROFESSIONALLY for the pur
pose of blocking any effort that tend
ed to close the mines down tight.
The attitude of the civil authority
and that of the business element of
the town encouraged the weakened
so-called sovereign citizens, some OF
them carrying paid up card at that,
to start the stampede back to work.
and leave the men at the mercy and
dictation of the operators. and they
we're closely followed by a good many
of the Italians; only about four