Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-14
LEADVILLE STRIKE
 ORDER TO GO INTO EFFECT THIS MORNING
Citizens Committee Organ ized in Colorado Mining Center and Important De- velopments Are Expected.
(By Review Leased Wire.)

| DENVER, July 13.-The department of labor, to whom Leadville mine owners made a conditional proffer of strike there, commencing tomorrow, does not care to accept the offer on the terms the mine owners made, Werner z. Reed, federal mediator in the proposed strike tonight, telegraph ed John R. Lawson, labor leader, now in Leadville, with a request that he transmit the message immediately to the miners.
 The mine owners offer, MT. Reed said, was virtually "on such of our mines as pay profit, you get the profit; on such of our mines as lose, you stand the loss"
 The only basis on which the depart ment of labor would take over the mines was one of military necessity, the mediator said, and that did not in- clude profits.
 Offers To Cooperate.
 MT. Reed also telegraphed the fol- lowing to the secretary of the Lead vile miners union.
 Please advise the meeting now in session that in accordance with the matters I have already told you of will be glad to personally pay the expenses of Charles H. Mover and John R. Lawson to go at once to Washington to present the cause in which you are interested. You need immediate audiences. I repeat my request to your members and associ- ates to delay the strike for ten days"
 The telegram received by Mr. Reed and Judge Geo. w. Musser, the other mediator, from Secretary Wilson of the department of labor follows:
 Your telegrams received Govern ment does not expect to take over mines at Leadville unless it develops that the product is necessary for the national defense and cannot be obtain ed at reasonable prices from private producers. If it is compelled to take over the mines in order to obtain the product it will do so with the excep- l lions Of operating the same at cost | and without profit or loss to any one"
 LEADVILLE. Colo, July 13.-Unless | he influence of Charles H. Mover and | John R. Lawson, prominent labor men | IS expressed at a mass meeting of or yanized and unorganized miners here tonight, can avert it, or some other event prevents, Leadville's zinc and | other mines will be the scene of strike commencing tomorrow morning. Three thousand men are involved.
 Federal mediators who have been rying for the last few days to avert he shut down of the mines whose out, put is an important factor in the man. fracture of munitions, virtually have abandoned hope of preventing strike.
 The situation here is tense. Senti- nent among citizens of the town, in- ,luding older miners who have spent 'ears and acquired property here. is bitterly opposed to strike. There lave been many rumors afioat of this ,r that untoward event about to oc- ,ur. many of which mention that arge number of the prospective strik- ITS are Austrians. There are some evidences that not all the facts in con lection with certain events have been permitted to become public. A "cit- zens' committee" has been organized lere.
 Washington Silent.
 There is believed to be little likeli- lood that the tentative proposal of nine owners here that their proper ies be taken over by the government will be accepted. Whether all the nine owners, some of whom live else where, have agreed to this proposal is lot known here. Their agreement was me of the conditions on which it was made. Nothing has reached here from concerning the govern nent's attitude on the question.
 MT. Mover, who is president of the Union of Mine. Mill and Shelter Workers, which has between 100 and 900 members here, said that 'ody would welcome the "comman- Ieering of the mines by the United 'tates.'
 Asks More Pay.
 Although the union men in the dis rict number less than a third of hose employed. it is said that many nen not members of the organization will strike with it. This applies par icularly to the younger miners.
 A formal statement of the miners, ssued with their strike call, said they we're not actuated by unpatriotic mo ives but must have more than min mum wage of s3.50 day to live on n view of the present high prices of They are asking an in .rease of S1 a day. The average yags now is $4,1S a day. Within the ast six months two increases total ing fifty cents, have been granted in he minimum wage.
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