Show TROUBLE AT THE ALLIANCE Machine Men Draw Their Time I and Leave Work I MEETING OF THE MINERS Adjourned Heeling Will Be Held in the Park Tomorrow Superintendent Norman Gives the Herald Correspondent His Version Ver-sion of the Mutter and There is Little Doubt But the Trouble Will He Settled in n Way That AVill Prove Satisfactory to All Concerned Con-cerned in the Controversy Special to The Herald PARK CITY Nov 21 Dodgers announcing I an-nouncing a meeting of all underground miners on last evening at Dudlers I hal was convened by a committee composed of men late in the employ of the Alliance Miming company The committee a a grievance in that through the management the company asked that in the future all machine men Burleigh would in the future I be required to Work ten hours vice eight hours as a shift These men I have in the past been paid 3 per day Under the new schedule adopted they would be compensated for the increase I in-crease of hrs 25 cents making for ten hours work 325 per day The men fifteen in number de murreid to any such change dn view of I the fact that machine men in every mine in the camp required but eight hours for a shift and were paid for from 3 to 350 per day for such work The fifteen men affected in the order drew their time and were replaced on Monday morning by men who were willing to work under the new schedule The change occurred on the 16th inst The meeting was called for the purpose pur-pose of taking steps towards organizing organiz-ing a Miners union Names were enrolled en-rolled and the meeting through the chairman James Caine names a committee com-mittee of three men from each mine to canvass and solicit in their respective respec-tive mine the cooperation of every miner desirous of joining the untom The committee to report the results of their labor at a hal to be designated desig-nated 1 next Saturday night 23rd inst Some of the speakers inclined to be acrimonious and their remarks were not relevant as to the sense of the meeting Hasty or illconsidereid actions in such matters will inevitalbly be fraught with grave results The Herald correspondent will report re-port impartially the progress of this lamentable contention 11 Norman Speaks I called upon Mr Norman of the Alliance TO get his version of the affair af-fair He spoke very frankly and to the point I turns out to toe a misunderstanding mis-understanding He said In justification of my request to the machine men last Thursday to I work ten hours for 325 I have to say that the arrangement was only to be temporary The company is running two drifts with a short complement of machines We are desirous of pushing push-ing work on both drifts hence the request re-quest that the men work the extra time pending the arrival of the machinery ma-chinery ordered and the necessity for forced work will be obviated when the new hoist is ready The men took umbrage at this refused re-fused to work the extra two hours and drew their time No tenhour changes are contemplated nor have they been All such work will be paid for at the rate of 3 for eight hours work I merely goes to show how prone men are at times to jump at conclusions PeraonaJ Pat Lynch who met with the acc dent at the Ontario mill yesterday afternoon af-ternoon is resting easy today Frank ODonnell employed at the Silver King was brought down to the Park City hotel this afternoon suffering suffer-ing from an acute attack of pneumonia pneu-monia Mayor Henry Newell came up from the metropolis yesterday Mines The Woodside has three shifts of men working on its shaft The work will be pushed to the depth of 1200 feet by the direction of Mr Thomas Kearns I |