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Show THAT TINTIC TROUBLE- A Committee From the Miners' I nlnn Present Pre-sent a ntatemeut of Their (Irlevaness. At a meeting of the miners' union held in Eureka on March ;lo, the following motion was adopted for the appointment appoint-ment of a committee of three to wait on the officer of the Bullion Buck and Eureka Hill mines, and present to them a statement of the grievances of tho miners employed by those companies. In obedience to tho motion, Messrs. John Duggan and John Martin arrived in the city yesterday and presented the statement which appears below. Manager Man-ager John (J. Packard of 'the Eureka Hill company was first waited on by Messrs. Duggan and Martin, Mar-tin, who were treated with the greatest courtesy, Mr. Packard assuring assur-ing them that he. was unaware of tho fact that his employees had anything to complain of, he also promised them that their wrongs should be adjusted and that their tuture liberties shoul d not be invaded. When Captain John Mc rystal was made cognizant of the trouble with the iniueri he immediately dosed down the Hed Bird boarding house and gave his men carte blanche to board w here they pleased. From James A. Cunningham and William Mel ntyre thu Mammoth directors, dir-ectors, the committee wre led to believe be-lieve that those geutlemen conceded tho reasonableness of their demands and would grant them just as soon as the facts could be established. Manager Hyde of the Bullion-Beck is in San Francisco, but Bishop Preston who is a director of the company was waited on. Ho listened to their complaints com-plaints and asked if their allegations could be established? When intornied that they could be, he said that while he personally could take no official actioti, he would promise that thu matter mat-ter should be fully investigated and if they had been treated unfairly in any way, that everything should be made satisfactory. Kspreeeutatlon nf Facte. To the officer of the Eureka 1 1 ill and Bullion Beck and Champion mining companies: Gentlemen We, respectfully respect-fully represent that for years past the officers in charge of your mines here have kept stores and boarding houses, and have compelled your employees woi king under them to board or trade witli tliem, or both, to their great injury, by being compelled to pay exorbitant prices for board and merchandise, and in tho case of boarders to take whatever is placed before them at table under threat of discharge from your employment. employ-ment. It has not iinfrequently happened hap-pened that some of tiie food placed on the tallies would subject any person offering the like at public sale to prosecution prose-cution and tine for selling an article injurious in-jurious to the public health. It is further charged as a matter of almost daily occurence that men have, particularly partic-ularly in the morning, to leave the table actually hungry, not only because of tho quality of thu food, but also through neglect of waiters and the persons in charge. In one place in particular. articles that were unsaleable in the store were sent to the boarding house, being considered good enough for the employees. It is admitted, however, that other employes, although paying no more for board are treated like gentlemen. The rates charged for board are: At tho lied Bird boarding house owned by John Mel'hrystal, seven i$7.00 dollars per week, and at the Bullion Beck and Champion boarding house run by Hyde Smith, six itii.00) dollars per" week. The lied Bird furnishes rough board Ininks for about thirty men, but nothing more. The Bullion Beck and Champion Cham-pion boarding house furnishes rooms and bunks for about the same number. The latter are new and clean while the lied Bird sleeping house is until for any thing except stabling cattle or horses. The Ur!vanrni. Tlie-e grievances the emploves have pa-tleiitiy. pa-tleiitiy. Init very unwillingly borne, thu far. '1 hey now present them tor your leHiiectfut consiier;it on. Mid alMo the foUowim; reaa-ius why they should te promptly remedied: rii'si Tiie riL-lit nf every person to spend his earnings In the maimer most profitable to loin. .ecouil That having in recent years contributed con-tributed whenev er calle I upon by you, money I to l-e ii-ed n proeuriiik' ie'iMati"n favorable j toihe mining uidnntry. we are m turn di-serv-1 li tr of a f ivor at your hauils. '1 tdrd - That waiving the fnreLOine reason and ap'iealir.K directly to your personal Interests Inter-ests a-. PieOuerH men. we fiirtiier claim that cnnieuieii m.-n are mor.' prolitatdn to you than those u ho are ilisci.n tented, and that hunicrvj ne n neitiier are nor can Iw, au Kood Warners KS those Well fed. fourth '1 Mat owiiiif to the unhealthy nature of our labor bein even in the best vvo-kiiivr p:accs. continually breathing unwholesome air. mel -ii audition, m very many places, smoke, as and ' mineral dent 'he imuscs ot premature old aw ' and di'crepitmle. we hhouid have the fond hleh nedeslr- and winch we tlnd to au'ree with ii best. To et this it is nec. s-.arv that we should b:' eailrely free to board where we please. . Kifih That tlio-e who have families here be fe-iired in their i .rht to trade where they en do so lo the best ailviintag to themselves. The pri ll.-jr en.ii.ve.i ,,y Hyde and Smith, and John Crystal. of keep'-Intr keep'-Intr out o' trie wa.:i-s (h s i wo.'ldnu' uniier them, whatever tUy may .,w,, ni the s ores oueht to t,e suillcvi.t adva ita ro lt ihtm in fair competition di prices, w.in. ut th power of c icrclou w hich they h .vo unscrupulously employed 11 is further re )tiost.H that all money earned by your employes be paid them m cash or check on haul, without the lniereocutloii of your oihcers here. TiusiliiK that the justice and reasonableness of our ceniancs will mi et with your anpmval und th it prompt measures wilt be taneii by youfurlhe reinov:il or the trrtevaur-es complained com-plained of, we rem on with much respect. T ie M tier.' Kit, on of Kuioka. Attested by shu! of un on. John ( Hi. i n.h u rresMent. John T. Haukinoton, Recording Sec. |