Show SEVEN TROUGHS STRIKE Operator 1 Fh 1 Labor Clo l The rhe owners of ot n tho ho Seven Troughs N Nt mining district are aio ex ec experiencing x their first strike troubles A report received rc by hy a II well ell known Stilt Salt akur who vIto Is 1 1 Interested In the district conveyed cd tho thu Information that n every OVer mine In III the tho District hu hit iud 1 been closed a as aM a II t result of o a n strIke order Jer or Issued III ue the thc Vernon Venion Miners litters who a n i demand tot for un In iii Increase crease of o it 50 cents a n lay day In III wages Tho The operators OPera refused ed the Iv V demand demund hence hits tho hn men laid down lOWit their tools und and I According to one operator no tto effort to 0 adjust the thu trouble will bo bl b mad nl dl un an anUI UI II n ti with the tho high if of tho tI of can ho be hold and the companies c nI Cpu can bo ho that the of at settlement wilt cilI hold good for Cor a term of at years It Jt Its itIs Is III s further stated that thit unless s ti 1 satis satisfactory factory settlement l lIt Is reached within ft ti v J nonunion miners will willbe wIllbe be c Imported and Soen Troughs will n It nonunion district I Tin Tho membership of ot the union embraces all 1111 members In tile the Seven Sem Troughs district numbering about 00 O Heretofore till all miners tiers working under notice underground ground roun 1 were paid 40 and surface mm SI 1 for Cor on an day the tho workmen n eating their lunches on Oil company time The now new Scala provides for fol a II hat flat rate rata of or Jr 5 rot for all nil men underground un Lind 1450 for tor men Although It has bus hn been generally for fOE weeks weel that tho miners Intended to strike today loOny toe for an Increase no nil operator was officially by I the union as far Car as aa can cun be b learned Tim Thit operators inflict absolutely lately to tn pay pa ay a ii lint Hut rate rute of 5 a day 1111 for tor till nil und work Immediately following the Inauguration Inauguration of lit if the tho strike armed guards dc tic lUU ilK as deputy were placed In charge chale of at thu I hu he l mine thu tho of thu tho Seven SOen Troughs Min Mill Mining Milling ing company is IHa n a great amount of It the high grado picture oro ore stored m so mho tho ho e on an the tho property and unel exposed In III a 1 number of oC places in the tho workings th alao of which runs ex extremely o e high and tha armed guards lava hay bean been Instructed not WIt to permit hermit anyone on tho the promises premIses As s tho ho other rich Ilch and eH arc 11 not Cn accessible no guards have hite thus Ihu tar far been placed upon them bent II VU bait hn been known for somo some time tI nil hat l was brewing In the Sown So district dl Well Veli Informed olin min mining log ing men have htwe said that thIs was the Ito principal reason some somo of oC the well de tic developed properties known to 10 hare hu quantities of ot rich ore arc made mado no attempt to 11 commence shipping It Is III sold further that fear of or log ing Is II it 1 more Important consideration tion with tho the operators than Is tIme the matter of at wages While the tile rank and tile of o thu the miners of tho the district are lire of ot the th better belter b Lter class U it Is asserted that n a number of ot professional went to t Seven SOlton Troughs from when whon the tho lie strike wow was on In the south southern ern em camp CO III II havo hao awaiting th the opportunity to 10 get work In lii till tIer like thu tho lUll and Seven Troughs These properties will remain down It U is wild until they oiin elUI hu ho under restrictions that will fn hlo thu the stockholder to tn gut get H I the benefit of ot the ilch ore |