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JIM MINERS PROTEST li.IllDtclarr* HnipluTmrnt Krntn far 4ri- l* ■onn Mlnlrad l.oralH orknifn.(OilbyotETwenty-three Joplin miners, who recently if ft this city for Miami,1 dalA I#., v iieie they ■‘tieetfd to cb-!th*tain employment In a mine of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, have notified the local |f* miners’ union that 'onditloni in *1 Arizona are misrepresented by era-ploymcnt agents of the company in ioa Joplin and that in no case were the j onpromises made by ths agents kept J** The men, who have presented a M , sworn affidavit or wording condl- , rti tions, especially their own, in *hc Arizona, are: Herbert ft. Miller, Homer W. Hart, Frank Fisher, P. the Hill. Enlck Gilliland, J. W. Flynn, pet A. Goodman, F. I). McCaffatn. »•« Harry Coons, Homer I* House. W. ,s H. Page, Lawrence Floyd, Oswalt, ' Willard Evens, J. W. Ellington, da‘r Bert J. Jackson, Edward J. J. Jackron, J. F. Posey, ft. L. Sher- 000 wood. Otto M. West, It. Corr, lt;j.t Charles Jaggers and John H tali Brooks. They left Joplin January - ter 25. Thlt;The men swear that the agent ,w' told them there were no labor troubles in the camp to which he w‘(( was sending them, and that the wa camp is full of idle men and dom- ,Wfl inated by gun-men. The affidavit l states the mine is old. filthy and un- swi sanitary, full of smoke and gas and t tali poorly timbered. They say con- w’h Viumption Is prolific and oftenproves fatal. Only one man la almL.. |lowed to a machine, the miners' .state, whereas they were promised ‘ , that the company maintained two (h„men to r. machine who make three jUI| rounds a week. These men claim jigg* they were required to make four- j in 1 teen rounds a week. They say board and room costs 160 a month, while the agent here told them they could get it for $40 or $50 a month.As proof of the miners’ statement that the camps are over-ciowded. T. C. Tadlock. prosecuting «#'„ attorney, today received a letter from Frank Brown, acting director of employment, United States employment service at Phoenix, which was forwarded here by William H. Lewis, rtate commissioner of em- .w*3 p!o ujent, of Jefferson City. The letter states that the Arizona camps frol have over 2,000 idle men. hundreds of them English speaking American citizens.•dellsalteoriJoptrmgoliwhieye:.000parpanonrailfbatt'brld
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Mon, Feb 04, 1918
Page 5
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