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Show SILVER III HAS Always Paid Higher Wage Scale Than Other Mines in Utah. TROUBLE AT PARK NOT CHARGEABLE TO THE KING What Senator Kearns and President Pres-ident Keith Have to Say About Matter. In its report of the wage question that lias heon agitating some of the mine-workers at Park City for several days, a local newspaper has attempted to'eouvej- the idea that the Silver King has been unfair, in that it has declined to -join with other companies in a readjustment. re-adjustment. It is a well known fact that the mon employed at. the Silver King mine have always been paid a higher wago scale than have those in other mines in the Park, and although several of tho other companies have raised the wages of their mon twice within the Inst few years, they do not yet pay the Silver King scale in some instances. "The trouble at Park City cannot possibly be. fairlv charged to tho policy of the Silvor King company," said former Senator Kearns yesterda. "Thus far no committee of our employees em-ployees have called on the officers of the" company with a request for a readjustment. re-adjustment. We shall be pleased nt any time to take up the question of a new scale with a committee- of our regular employees, and. as in the past, there will be nothing but the friendliest friend-liest spirit shown by the company. "What Silver King employees should strive for and insist on is a uniform scale for the entire camp, to applj' to both millB and to the mines. Anything short of this will breed strife and work injustice to the operators and to the employees. During the past ten years the Silver King has maintained the highest scale in tho State. Even this was effective through the Jong stretch of hard times. We have paid io our men, in excess of tho wages paid by other companies in the camp for the sumo kinds of work, more than a quarter of a million of dollars. dol-lars. We have alwa3's mado it a point to give the "preference to employees em-ployees with families, and have always paid our men top notch prices, the highest in the State. "Silver King has never required its laborers to work under ground for less than miners' wnges. It has been a fixed policy to give all of its laborers a chance to become skilled workmen. Many of the best miners in the State owe their success today to the policy in force at the Silver King." When his attention was called to tho assertion that the Silver King was not dealing fairly in the matter of a wage scale for tho mine workers of Park City. Prosidont David Keith said: "It is such a well known fact that Silver King has nlwnyB paid tho highest scale in the camp and in the State, as well, that T do not believe any minor will indorse any sentiment calculated to lead tho public, to beliovo that wo are in any sense unfair. Thoro should bo a concerted movement on the pnrt of 'the. mine and mill workers of Park City to secure n uniform scale. When this is done Silver King will pay the scale, whatover it may be agreed upon. Men doing particular work should be paid a particular scale, and this scale should apply to the entire en-tire camp." |
