Show I IT SEEMS a small thing that has caused the strike of the miners at the Rock Springs coal mines of tho Union Pacific The company com-pany pays by the ton for mining the coal and has been deducting onefourth of the gross for slack I is now proposed to do S the weighing after the coal has been screened tho men object thisand 1200 of I then have quit work The whole proposition proposi-tion seems so trifling and ridiculous that one is surprised that a strike could grow out of tho master surprised that the miners min-ers would make the fight on such insignificant insignifi-cant ground and that the company should persist We cannot but believe there is something at the back of this disagreement which does not appear The company may I not be eager to work the mines for a time Sand S-and has taken this method of bringing about a lockout The strike is to be regretted re-gretted solely on account the miners who have not been so well paid that they can afford af-ford t lie idle for even a few days The public is not likely to suffer because no scarcity of coal will result oven if the Rock Springs mines shall be permanently closed I |