Arizona republican., 1917-08-03
MIAMI MINERS REFUSE TO
 ACCEPT CONCESSIONS; HUNT
 IS SPURNED BY MANAGERS
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

MIAMI Ariz., Aug a.-Striking miners of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Shelter workers and allied crafts at a great mass meeting here late today voted to refuse conces- sions offered by the mine operators of the Globe Miami district Concessions of the operators were explained to the miners by Judge Mcbride, and former Governor Hunt, federal mediators. An effort to have the vote on the offer of the operators referred to sep arate local unions for a referendum was voted down.
 One thousand men attended the mass meeting, motor trucks bringing miners here from the Globe district
 It was with difficulty that leaders induced the miners to listen to ad- dresses by Mcbride and Hunt, one member moving almost as soon as the meeting was called to order that the offer of the companies be rejected. The motion was given a chorus of seconds and there were wild cries of Question" until leaders restored quiet and called Judge Mcbride to speak.
 He explained the offer of the opera tors to receive the grievance committee of the men at least once Q month and to allow them to inspect the company composits.
 Shortly after the meeting opened a ah that concessions offered by mining companies be relegated to the waste basket and all negotiations be stopped. the strikers standing on their or iginal demands. Chairman J. Tom Lewis was barely able to prevent an immediate vote. Secretary Barnes of the Miami union interviewed and begged that the federal mediator be heard before any action was taken.
 The report under discussion should not be considered as a proposition, as it has been classified in the motion recommending that it be disregarded," Judge Mcbride said. Tt is merely a summary of the results have obtained after conferences with the mine man agers. I have placed it up to you to be acted upon at your discretion
 Judge Mcbride then added that the
 
 business in the presence of former Governor Hunt and he himself had conferred with the three managers of the principal mines and gained their viewpoint, which seemed to be re- fusal to consider any of the demands. He said he then conferred with strike committees of the several unions and learned there were ample grounds for many of their demands.
 The next to be interviewed were the Industrial Workers of the World lead 1 CTS, the judge said. He added that he considered their cause no longer nler 1 ited consideration. When asked if they | could agree to a settlement satisfac- tory to the United Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers, he said the I. w. w. I leaders told him they could not accept any kind of agreement for "one week, one day, one hour, or one minute, be- cause they wanted their strike to be a national movement, the judge said
 and not possessed of the possibility of a local settlement.
 1 In regard to alleged grievances with
 regard to operations of the hospital. the judge said that in investigating charges that men were being dis | charged on the fourteenth day in many cases because the company sought to
 evade the invocation of the employers liability act, he had found that more
 men were discharged on the fifteenth
 day than on the fourteenth; more on
 the sixteenth day than on the four teenth and more on the seventeenth day than on the fourteenth.