Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-20

the intimation that large pumping plants will be closed in case the en- gineers and pumpmen should leave their posts. Many of these employees are not members of the union and their attitude is problematical.
 DENVER, July 19.-It now seems that 14OO men employed in the mines and smetlers will go on strike Satur- day morning.
 Within 10 days the Leadville smell ter will be compelled to lay of its 1000 employees and within two weeks 39OO mine, mile and shelter men will be idle because of the strike of the miners, according to statement made by Charles H. Mover, president Of the International Union of Mine, Mill x Shelter Workers, tonight.
 At the office of Governor Gunter to- night it was stated preparations to maintain order in the mining camp if necessary are being withheld pending action concerning the federal media tors, Vernon z. Reed and former Chief Justice George w. Musser. Governor Gunter takes the position that the fed eral government has taken jurisdic- tion by appointing mediators and that no state action could be taken until the mediators are discharged.
 The message sent by the mediators to the president follows:
 Continuous sessions and work have made daily reports impossible. A brief resume of our work is that upon our appointment we got into imme- diate communication with the repre- sentatives fthe Leadville Mine Own CTS association and also with the or ganized and unorganized mine work CTS of the Leadville district.
 At the meeting with the committee of the Mine Owners association they announced they had met us because of the high source of our authority but their association had voted not to con- slider any increase in wages, and they would not meet the representatives cf union labor stated that some of the mines in Leadville are being operated at a loss.
 "The representative of the organ ized and unorganized mine workers met us very fairly and practically ac' ceded ro every suggestion that we made to them. Their demand was for S1 per day, based upon the increased cost flying and the lack of auxiliary benefits in the Leadville district.
 "In order to conciliate and to com promise, we asked them to reduce their request to a flat advance of 5C cents per day, which the delegation agreed to recommend to the workers and we thing there is no doubt that they would have compromised on this basis if the Mine Owners association had agreed.
 Two members of the Mine Owners association, in an effort to help u: avert a strike, proposed that your con ciliation committee and two member: of the state industrial commission ac as board of arbitration to decide al ro whether an increase in wages il wages was justified.
 This recommendation was approv ed by the representatives of the Mine workers. These two members of tho Mine Owners association went tC Leadville and had a long conference with the Mine Owners association yesterday but only with the result tha the proposal was flatly declined.
 If we had entered into an arbitra ton board we would, of course, hay, gathered statistics bearing upon al phases of the question, not only il Leadville but in all other metaliferou camps in the state. However. we hav' already assembled a great deal of in formation and comparative data, ant your commission respectfully state that they consider the compromise of fer of 50 cents a day by the min' workers to be entirely fair and yer! well within their actual needs.
 ''We also certify that they and thei representatives have met us in a fair minded attitude at every meeting ant upon every question and suggestion we have proposed to them.
 "The strike is called for Saturda. morning next at o'clock. Your con missioners feel they are powerless t do more. We await your advices an hope if you can make any suggestion that We may have them immediately.