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Show VTV' Grass Valley Miners Reject Offer Made By Mine Operators GRASS VALLEY, Cal.. June 25 A I 1 proposal made today by the gold mine) operators offering the striking miners' a wage increase of ten per cent pay-j pay-j ment of half the wages for time lost I during the strike, and the establish j ment of a free market was rejected by the men. They demand a straight' j increase of fifty cents a day. The mines are filling with water, 1 since the pump men were called off !a few days ago, and serious damage will be done unless the work of un-watering un-watering is begun soon. Much of the I machinery in the lower workings has 1 been removed by the companies. More than a thousand men are affected by the strike, many of whom already have sought work elsewhere. rr |