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EFMINERS REPORT FOR WORK TODAYMen Who Have Been Out of Employment Ten Days ses Tire of Idleness.MI -TO START AT “DAVEY’IDWorkmen Circulate Petitions Asking Owners to Resume Operations.More than 700 miners who have been out of employment since the strike started ten days ago, report-j ed for work at the various mines in j the Webb City-Carterville district ■ this morning. All the minres who in reported have signed an agreement to return to work at wages paid at the time the strike commenced, and uk, at all the mines they were told to re-me i turn Monday morning.At the American-Davey mines at ide Cartervllle, the company was ready nf | to resume operations today. The • number of men who reported was l,er sufficient to open all the plants of , a8 the company, but the fact that a large number— of them did not of j bring work clothes, and no lunches,I caused none to go Into the ground.May Start I p Mondayni- i ii i v _ ______II. I. Young, manager of the ila- j mines, told the miners that they ! might come to work Monday morn-I lng, and that if the mines were not in opened at that time the mines would be closed for thirty days.At the Hurry Up mine north of a I Webb City, and at the Electrical j mine, in the tame district, a large j number of men reported for duty, j j None of the mines will resume op- i ,1(5 i erations until Monday, but it is said i j that many will be reopened at that Ql~ time, the number including all the j plants of the Carmean Squires Mining Company.Petition Operators.Petitions, asking tne operators to reopen their mincg at wages paid prior to the shut down, were circu-ed i lated in Cartervllle, W’ebb City and Joplin Wednesday afternoon. In Cartervllle one petition bearing 156 names was torn to bits by F. Miles, i*id to be a member of the Metal Miners Union, when It was presented to him by John Mericle. Mericle is said to have knocked Miles down. Miles was arrested and reprimanded by F. L. Gass, justice of the peace before whom he was taken on a peace disturbance charge.Mericle Is ground-boss at the Orange mine at Cartervllle. The satisfied miners at this plant are said to have started the petitions, which were intended as part of a strike breaking effort. More than 700 names have been obtained.Hoarding Houses tflosed.The fact that several large boarding bouses in WTebb City have closed since the strike commenced, and also the fact that practically all the grocers have installed a strictly cash system of trade, is Bald to have influenced many miners In wanting j intlt; to return to work. noiS. E. Graves, national president of wei the American Metal Miners’ Union I tha left this morning for Granby where j bee be will attempt to organize a local i had chapter of the union today. From j tici Granby he expects to go to Com- j tern merce and Miami, Okla., and for-iadn ward work of the crgan’zation tnere. j 7 According to Mr. Graves the union j prei which had Its inception at Webb City j Mill now is establishing locals in the 1 Can Butte. Mont., and Lead. S. D . field*. | and Miners Meet In Webb City. | v A meeting of nearly 500 miner* jn j who want to go back to work is be-fingj lng held this afternoon at the circus I grounds near the Frisco station in Webb City. The men gathered at Al- Asm len and Daugherty streets and ! N marched down Daugherty street to Cha the Frisco station, taking in recruits J W'ae at every block. IIt Is said that a meeting will be I com held at the circus grounds this even- j Bee] lng and that some of the operators repr will meet with the men. ! datlt;■—— --------- i wee“biIbee
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Jul 08, 1915
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