Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-30 | Page 1 | Cards Issued to Miners

CARDS ISSUED TO MINERS. Cripple Creek Mine Workers Number Largest in History of District. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., July 29. Four thousand three hundred and nineteen nine-teen cards have been Issued to miners of the Cripple Creek district by the Mine Owners' association and 300- applications ap-plications are still on tile. Of the total number Issued today more than 2100 have been In exchange for cards sur-lendered sur-lendered by former members of the Western Federation of Miners who have renounced allegiance to the organisation. organ-isation. Never have more than 1500 miners been employed In the Cripple Creek mines at one time, and then only when all the larger mines were working work-ing a night shift, and nt no time has the Federation membership been much in excess of 3000.