| Show COMM com I Issues Statement lit II lo so Their Action it I ii a nt at ii The rite committee of ot the striking main maineM ers eM rh LeWIS George V P 1 J 1 antI ant TF HI T P F Ho oe e who havo 1110 ten In this thisel city for tur some dribs days past In the tIme Inter biter Interests Ilter ests el U of ot tho the who have hac walked out outdo l do not place much mch importance Im to time the action cUon taken yesterday a by b time Castle CastleGate Cute late Gate I When Imen een seen they the stated that the majority of or th the miners nt at t tute Castle Gate were ivere foreigners who while titer thy ute could coul not for Cor the major part mart speak peak English were ere under tho time English h speaking miners who wha formed a n small email minority aud and were under the tle domina donnina domination lion tion ton ot of the coal wal company com pan l B y way of oC nn an answer an the th committee has hau Issued the following formal state statement ment In regard to t the th hue action of ot the Castle Gala Outu miners yesterday This committee representing the tho miners ot of Winter Quarters Quarter tJ and Clear reek Creek who constitute a I minority of oC e miners employed by b the lle 1 I U sant Valley aUe Coal Cotil company com pal firmly believe these resolutions do not voice the tine of oC tho thu best element dement unions thu tho miners of ot Can Castle tie Gate This committee inns has hll received reports from Castle Casto Gate Gitte luul re ro recently which show that the r nt at centY those two tao places are in full rul sympathy with wih tin tt It is ins our desire that thai tho the Trades council the tho Federated l Trades arid our ur other In Salt falt Hai pay may a no mo 10 attention to these This committee firmly believes tho the Castlo Gate minors miners are raining mining coal CRI detrimental asto to 11 the Interests of oC their nt at Clear Creek rind and Winter lun because time the miners nt at thi J places arc nfl n it I ma mn of the tw rumors miners nin S of ot the nt and their Interests Valley company should be lIe n an as controlling Wo We our ur right ond just anti and 1 we Wr believe helve the tho Castle CastleGate Gate Gat miners should be he In sympathy with vi mu I It II U I 1 only a short time since tinny they had gi similar to ours and asked of oC us u the stone same sympathy wo we of ot them nW TIne The Building Trades Council Counci of oC Salt Sal LaVe Lale Ial tho the reasons wo save gave ave them Ihor sufficient to warrant the th boy hoy boycotting cotting of ot tinny any company and anci we a representatives of ot tho tine striking miners nr are ready anti and Ind to testify to tho tIne statements wo we made mache mate before leforc the council counci NOT This committee the action tho time strikers have huo taken not nut fur for reasons ue we WI havo heretofore given give I at lt length If I those miners minei could as ns they thuy claim earn from 3 to 35 3 a 0 day clay ut Itt lt Winter culm Quarters why did they leave lelo that laco to 10 go where they tire are not making lal l that much as lB we SC know Mr Ir Sharp himself told 1011 our general COl Im Leo teo that wo thu average dally daily daiY wage being bellg paid laId at nt time the tl mines Involved In II the time trouble This does not hot tako take Into Inlo account cases where fattier father and andson son soil are working on one onu check several rapes caFeS SOl of which arc arn known to us Thin committee knows ot at practical miners of ot years of In Ia mines miles who are runt not lot ruble able Llo to 10 make expenses In the tutu very mines whelo these resolutions re say ammy men etcH cart earn enl from 13 3 to lo 5 a day Members of oC our general committee commie who have lave lund had or thirty OIS of ex ox experience x say euy alY men cannot make that much Wo Vo gave W G O Sharp six days to consider our first proposition that ot of otan an on Increase of or 16 Ii cents per ton lon His Ills answer was wn that the company could coult not nul grunt grant any an advance If I the thc would not grant rant any advance at itt I that tIme why any ono one suppose it I would have hlo granted nn arm 01 after three more moore days time The Tho Clear CICk miners gave tine the company com throe days clays to consider the tho matter m ter of oC arbitration thin tion anti and within twelve lele hours the tine com coin pony tOI pan Ilan submitted a a reply refusing that tit Tito mie Winter Vinter Quarters men ln accepted the 1110 advice of oC the tho Clear Creek miners 1111 and were wore willing whiling wll to 10 submit tho tine case to arbi arbitration and to resume work vork for tor that purpose so us its to enable the State board l to net act but tho the company campa I refused that CRITICISE TIlE THE TI METHODS In Tn regard to the time fair and mi honorable methods wo we should like to 10 call attention ot or tho the of oC these those resolutions enl to 0 the tho quarantine which tho the company established e at ot Castle Castlo eaRlo late Gate not long ngo ogo to keep keel out of oC that place nil cli ni t competition In the matter of or supplies their own prices from Crom 20 per ncr percent I cent to 30 SO per nor POl cent above the already high figures they charged ell This com coma company pany also olHO sent armed guards Into Clear CI lir Creek before the strike won wua WI declared there and nt at the same sal time Issued al an order order for or all al boarders to leave kac the tha boarding house on the first Jay clay when held lucid tho the meeting to consider striking was WIS We se like to know mo what meth methods eth the hue framers of oC the resolutions can cnn think of oC that wo we have havo riot not already trie In our anxiety to 10 settle sete the tine We lImit rat asked for tor an nn advance and gave the company six lx days to consider that They refused It point blank We Wethen WI then asked for tor a R smaller Increase and were answered by the time shipping Into tha ha town of oC a n body hu y of oC armed craned men Tha Tim committee Is Informed that Sheriff Sherif wild stud he Ito would put lilt tine tha crowd crowll o ous oI of us tin Into box cars and ship us ts out of ot finn tho country I He lIe le also 1190 asked ask ell Marshal of oC If ho needed needed nay help Mar Marshal Marshal Price who vIno has hus lived among us lB anti knows us ins UI said he ito till dill not riot need peed any uny help that hint he could handle n a thousand men like us alone Even I ven after aCer our OU see sec second eC ond end demand mand was wnM refund we wu signified our willingness to 10 go to work worl go IO so that th tha the matter mactIer might bo be ndJI and thIs otter offer was refused If I the tue makers mikers ot of th tint oler resolutions can think of oC any Iny other methods we would like to know them However Hoever this committee 1 Im be hieves lees there lh ro Is l better beter material In CasU Cash Gate Oate than Is Inn represented In inn these reso resin Unions We c do tint not nt believe In reports to the effect that 10 these theRe resolutions will wi about holt the tIme termination of ot the strike In our defeat We Wu discredit 11 the tho report that the tine resolutions have caused many of oC tint the strikers to make mako application for Cor work Wo Vo feel Ceel sure Hure that It If anything like that were welo taking laking place we should be bo at once notified we wo havo re elved no word whatever from tho tine gen general len eral committee on the tho ground We fee Cef sate safe o In assuring the tine public that tIne tho strikers are more determined to hold holti holdout holl hollOt out Ot than ever anti that these Inert thelO lions lol will w have imae no Rio 10 effect whatever on the Creek strike at ot Winter Quarters and Clear |
