Show THE MINERS COMPLAINT I Mr Isaac II Bromley assistant to I President Adams of tho Union Pacific Railway has boon in Wyoming investigating I investi-gating tho recent outrages on the Chinese i i at Rock Springs and other matters The i I r minors and others who waited upon him j j F declined to answer all questions concerning 1 concern-ing tho massacre of the ChinamQn saying I I i say-ing they should Bay nothing about that I I I matter until called upon in court But they presented u condition of things at i the mines that is wrong and should he j corrected They said that the best rooms i in the mines were given to the Chinese j I certainly a species of favoritism but fur therinquiry developed the fact that the Chinese got tho best rooms by paying the I F pit bosses forthem If such is the case then the pit bosses who are white men I Bhouldbe bhuped and upon them should fall the odium favoritism and not upon I I p the Chinese But upon further hives I Lt = iii4 I z J X 1 > 1 f t 3i O tigation it turned out that the sale I I of this kind was whore two gangs i of Chinese had made an exchange i I the i of rooms one party paying I other 100 for the others room i There was one complaint which if true II I I concerns the company very much we refer to the charge that the weighing of i the coal is done with false scales If this i is true it must be inferred that tho scales I are BO arranged as to give an underweight under-weight on the miners work That is a just grievance and so serious is the charge that it behooves the company to investigate it thoroughly The whole management of the mines of the Union Pacific Railway Company seems to bo loose and dishonest as presented by tho miners and whether correctly presented or not there is enough in the charge to justify a thorough investigation All these complaints of tho coal miners seem to arise from the wrong doing of white men who are immediately in charge of tho mines and not from the Chinese at all although it was upon them that was visited the wrath of the miners One great cause of all these troubles is that the general officers of the roads know too little of the actual workings of their roads and other things connected therewith and rely almost solely upon tho reports of their subordinates for all their information If complaints by employes are made the general officers ask their subordinates what the trouble Is and it is but natural that those subordinates should lay all the blame on the employes Many subordinates subor-dinates who have charge of largo numbers num-bers of workingmen have not the faculty of winning the good will of the men although al-though they may be good business men and perfectly honest and capable and faithful to tho duties imposed upon them The first requisite for a pit boss or a section sec-tion boss is the faculty of getting along with the men under him Of course men will work under men who have not this faculty but they will always be inclined I to join any movoment of discontent not because they have any objection to their employers in general or the way in which they are treated by them but because they have a special dislike for their immediate im-mediate bosses Many labor troublos would be avoided if the general officersof railroads and other huge concerns would go among their employes and see how things are going on and not depend upon reports for all their knowledge of their business affairs |