Show INDEPENDENCE MINERS STRIKE RATH RATHER THAN BE S STRIPPED fiND AND SEARCHED Denver Don e Colo Cob Oct Oc 27 A News special from fr m Victor VIetor Colo dole says s s sAl All Al the t miners miner employed at the Inde lade Independence about abut 3 in number have bae quit work The cause cuso for Cor their action acton Is I the personal search plan that was wa begun at atthe atthe atthe the mine Thursday by the detectives who are aro kept in the service serice to watch the miners and discover ore or which they the may have secreted on on their person while hie at work on the ground gound The The miners held a meeting at which the following resolution was wa unanimously adopted Resolved That Tat it i be the sense of this meeting that after this date all al men em employed played at the Independence nce mine shrill shall leave leve the mine In their digging clothes Several weeks ago the managers of va various a rious mines mine in the aso district announced announce that riots th t miners must strip to the tho skin In the presence PIece mner of guards gards before leaving the thenes nes The men at the Independence where the order was first firt put ut in force fore finally reacted reached an agreement with wih Gen General Ge eral erl Manager of the tho Independence Independence dence dance resulting in a a modification of o that rule to t the extent extent that all al miners miner working under ground should wear their under undershirts undershirt undershirts shirts shirt drawers hats hat and boots bot and pass before a detective do dot when going off of shift shIt at atall atall all nI times tie The te resolution now adopted takes te no cognizance of the he former frer agree agreement n e ment et and s shows hois ho n that th thE the Independence Ind men me arc are determined to leave leac the tee te mine in their working clothes no matter what wh the consequences may my be A committee was appointed to watt wait w on General Manager Shipman and present the ultimatum con prent tamed tine in the resolution cn It I was stated at the that num wa meeting meting a a te her ber of at Independence br ce employees who have have quit the te service at different times during the e last four r months n have been blacklisted Vt and athi have rb been b unable eai to secure seure work at any an of the leading mines in the district especially those properties ts I whose owners owner signed alge the agreement with the Independence company on the strip I I ping rA order me mev The J Independence men say they win will have v an understanding In I regard to blacklisting blackl before they return to work I Joseph Ezekiel Ezeke the sampler at the mine asserted assed that the th management had bd recovered pounds of ot ore from front assayers I to whom it i had h been sold ld during the past pt I month on the ground that tho at they were ap a I ore I |