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Show They Object to Coercion and Will Not be Compelled to Eoard Anywhere, r A STRIKE APPEAES IMMINENT!. Trouble Has Eeen Brewing for Some Time and Great Indignation is Exp r.se d. Special toThs Times, Ei.'kkka, Utah, April 3. The minerl of Tintic are on the warpath and propose pro-pose to make a tout of their strength in tryinji to correct what they believe t. be an invasion of their pur.sonal liber lies, 'J hi' trouble ban been fomenting for some lime. Their grievance is the compulsion which tha mining companies exercise)' over them in insisting what they' shall board at the boarding homo which they either run or control. The conllict was precipitated a few days ago when a number of men were discharged from the l'.eck for a refusal to comply with the established law of tho com' pany. Tho Heck lias been boarding their men for :! a month, while the 'oilier' companies huve been charging $1 a day straight. This price did uot seem adequate to the company in order to run a gojd houe, and tha men were nottlied that altar April 1st the price would be rained to the sain. a that obtained by other mines. This the miners determined to resist. .Hid they thought the present a propitious time to demand that the compulsion should be done away with, and they I f permitted to board where they pleased. On April 1st a number of the miners quit the boarding house and they were immediately given their time and in. formed that their sorvices wero na longer wauted. A miners' union has been organized, here for more than six mouths aud ha now gathered together a membership) of nearly 10ml members who are employed em-ployed on all of the mines tbronghoul the Tintie district and they are all united in declaring that they will stand toimhar and bring the matter to a conclusion, con-clusion, believing that the sentiment of the people will uphold thorn in them in their demand that after earning their money they be permitted to spend it where they choose. A meeting of the miners' union was held which was largely attended by miners from all over the district and at which it was resolved that those who bad been discharged should be sustained sus-tained in the position they had taken. The miners now say they will not board at any company boarding bouse unless tney want to; "whether they have decided de-cided to strike in caso the managers of the cmnoanies refuse to accede to their demands is not known, but everything; looks as if a general strike is imminent. In caso it occurs it will lake in all the) mines from Silver City to Kureka. On the streets everything is quiet but the greatest determination isexpressed. The sympathies of the people are witU the miners. Whet tha OUcwlf lay. At the offices of the several ruining1 companies in this city, it was learned', that the news was uot unexpected, foo' they had been advised that It was liable to occur at any moment. In one of thf offices the information was obtained that the miners' union at Eureka., had been conferring with those at Vir-' gitiia City aud J5utte, on the plan of tha organizations there and as to how similar simi-lar affairs ought to be managed in order either to avoid a conllict or to win if it should be forced upon them. It was also learned that a committee from th minors' union at Kurcka waited on the lleck company about the middle of Mnrch and n-ked that the employes be uot compolled tii, board at any designated placed this the company promised to consider. At the same time the committee aaidt they were coing to m ike a similar re-, quest of the hureka Hill, the Mammoth-add Mammoth-add the Centennial Kureka companies, but a visit to those offices showed tha no such committee had waited on them. At the Million-Beck, as Mr. Hyde is in San Fraucisco, no one was authorized author-ized to say what action the company would take in case such a demand shonldbe made. One of the officers of the Mammoth was seen but he said that without havJ ing a consultatation with tho others ho. was not prepared to say just what hi; company would do. W. W. Chisholm, manager of the Ccntennial-Eureka did not think tho same arguments could be used with hi company as would apply to the others,-, as the mine was some 'disUtictti from town. His company run, a boarding house at which, all employees, both married and single, j were askod to .stop; if they did not their i services were not wanted. In case tha; miners' union or anybody else de manded that this rule should be rescinded, re-scinded, his company would resist it tooth and toe nail to the bittr end. Under no circumstances would it ba acceded to. Manager John Q. Packard could not be seen to learn what position the Eureka Eu-reka Hill company would assume ia the matter. |