Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-25
SETTLEMENT OF LEADVILLE MINE
 STRIKE IN SIGHT
Operators and Employees Both Ready to Accept Decision Reached by M e d iato s Named by Governors.
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 LEADVILLE, Colo, July 24.-Oper- ators in the Leadville district, after an all-day session here, practically reach ed an agreement to accept the good offices of Governor Gunter's two ap- pointees, Platt Rogers and Harvey Riddle, as intervenors in the present strike situation and to abide by the decision reported by these two investi- gators as final.
 The only restriction said to have been nhde by the operators in the meeting was that there would be no formal recognition of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Shelter Work CTS of America, or of Charles Mover as the representative of the men in this camp.
 Officers of the Cloud City union, af- fiLated with the International Union of Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers. said tonight they could not make any announcement as to the attitude of their union regarding the acceptance of the mediators appointed by Govern or Gunter until it had been formally presented to the union and had been considered by the members in meet ing. They said, however, that the in- ternatfonal union, the state fedora tion of labor and the American redeT- ation of Labor had agreed to leave the settlement of the strike to the loca! union, offering it their support in every way possible.
 Ask Wage Raise Only
 Regarding the position taken by the operators that they would not official ly recognize the international union or Charles Mover as its president in deal ing with the Leadville miners, Albert Carpenter, president of the local min CTS union, said:
 We have not asked for a recogni- tion of our union in the demands made upon the operators. We waived that point and that should not be a stumb- ling block in the way of an agreement being reached between the operators and miners. Our committee told the federal mediators at Denver that we only waived the recognition of our own union but of any union. What we want is an increase in pay and that was what we struck for and there were no other conditions except that the in- crease should be retroactive from June IS, when the demand was made"
 Following the regular weekly meet ing of the Cloud City miners union last night, President Carpenter issued statement today categorically an- swering charges which had been made against the local union and the strik- CTS here.
 Conference Is Sought
 After reviewing the history of the pre-strike period and the efforts to bring about a meeting between the operators and miners at Denver, the statement denied that the present sit uation in the Leadville district was brought about by imported ag1tators" and said that the men in charge of the strike had homes and families here A hO ot1SCAhCht qutolAOhCu tht iOSiC Ol the state industrial commission find ings in this district and called atten- tion to the fact that the commission admitted there had been an enormous increase in living conditions and a de- cline in the purchasing power of the employees wages here.
 Regarding the charge that the en- ployes had used "pernicious influence in calling out of the pump men," the statement declared that the pump men were vitally interested in the question and had asked to be treated as the oth- CT miners on strike.
 The statement contended that the men could not continue at the present wage scale; held that the increase of $1 per day as demanded was not un- reasonable and concluded with a re- quest fo ra meeting between the oper- ators and miners to discuss their diff ferences.