May 19, 1941 (4 pages)

SSE, <« aati — om The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month Nevada City Nugget . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, The Nugget. your neighbors, read — mail <3 Vol. 15, No. 40. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Cone MONDAY, MAY 19, 1941. Thinking Out Loud . By H. M. L. The writer of this column had a talk with an old miner yesterday, a miner who had saved his money, exercised prudence in investments and is now fairly wellto-do, He comes of the old solid Cornish stock and of; course was natively endowed with more than average intelligence. -:.His. father came from Cornwall. and worked’ in the mines hereabouts when shifts were 10 hours long; pay was $2.50 a day, and the hazards of mining were ‘something “enormously greater than they are today. This: man had followed . in his father’s footsteps and remembers when as a youth, he worked nine hours a day and was paid $3.00, or 33 cents an hour. He is wise to the ways of the’ world and of men and here is what:he said regarding mine strikes and strikers: “A man works’ underground one year, two years, maybe three. The work is monotonous. Often it is hard and grinding. All manual * labor is likely to. be. that way. But underground a man has no diversion that he might have on the surface. He doesn’t see anything outside the radius of his lamp. In time a lot of men became grumpy. They find fault with their wives, their shift boss, their, tools and their pay. When.I was shift boss and a man got so he could only snarl rather than speak, I would say to him, ‘Well, Jim, this mine hasn’t changed, and the people in it are just the same as they always have been, But there’s something eating you, You had better quit. Go home and take a rest. Get some daylight, fresh air. When you are ready, come back and go at it again! ‘I never had any 'trouble with men. They just get sick and tired of their job and need a rest. “Nowadays, there are a lot of men underground who welcome a strike. I-doubt if they are really interested in getting more money. More money does mighty few of them any good. But what does do them good, is staying on top of the ground and chewing the fat, and getting all their troubles off their, chest. A strike is something like a show. It’s a diversion. If a man has money enough to eat, he’ll want,to strike as long as his money lasts, When he cash gives out, he has had a good rest, his peeve is gone, and he wants to get back to work again. The trouble is, of course, the striker does not want anyone else to work while. he is laying off. This works an injustice upon the man who really needs and wants to work to support his family. The majority of strikers, I have noticed are generally single men. I think a lot of employers will find out in due time, especially in ‘the mining game, that it is cheaper to give their men, who have worked for them a year, a vacation with pay, than it is to stand a strike. “When a man is down in the dumps, finding fault with everything in the world but himself, and one of these. slick professional labor agitators comes along and fills him full of hop, he doesn’t reason things out well. He doesn’t realize for instance that the stranger is interested primarily in getting a little chunk of his pay check. He will find out in nine times out of ten, that after the organizer has got everybody organized that he can reach, ‘and piled up a kitty of two or three thousand dollars, for which he makes no accounting, he will be off to more green pastures and another cleanup, and will leave a local group holding the sack and trying to carry on.” And here’s a talk from a man (Continued on Page Two) 285 of (EDITORIAL) fr wag a husky dog £ A Ss want to get back to work. ‘Don’t Let The Tail Wag The Dog For sometime in the local labor disturbance, miscalled a strike, it has been apparent that the majority of the miners employed in the four picketed mines want to get back to work. But they would not cross the picket lines because of the fearsome threats of future punishment made by the outside labor organizer who runs the show, But this morning fifty miners got tired of seeing a spindling tail and through the picket lines they went. Tonight its a cinch that even more men will defy the medicine man’s incantations and: hoarse exhortations to stand firm. The truth is the strike is not a strike at all. [t is just. what Olney Donnelly, head of the Mine Workers Protective League, says it is. It’s a lockout, in which a rapidly dwindling minority, attempts to bar the gates.of four mining companies, to a big majority of the miners who The boiler makers in San Francisco are going inists: picket lines to their jobs in the shipbuilding plants. another case of a stumpy tail, consisting of 1800 machinists, wagging a large muscular dog of 20,000 ship workers. {It just isn’t done any more. The majority still rules in the U.S. A. )) through the machHere was} = JERS 9 7) 3 MILLION PAY VARDS LEFT IN MEGA GRAVEL By MIRIAM CRANDALL Operations started at the Omega hydraulic mine, eighteen miles north east of Nevada City, on March 9, of this year; just after the completion of the Upper Narrows debris dam at Smartville, California. It isestimated that there are 30,000,000 yards of pay gravel and, according to old records ,the gravel runs thirteen cents a yard at the old price. With work on, a three shift basis, four monitors are being used and a crew of thirty two men is employed. A program of added improvements to the present working facilities of the mine is underway. The Omega property, one of Nevada County’s largest hydraulic mines in the early days is under option to purchase by K. P. Nutting, Salinas, California; J. E. Little, Whittier, Harry F. Wolfinger, Sumpter, Oregon; Louis L H.arris, 401 Avila Street, San Francisco; and F. H. Hogue, Jr., Kent, Washington. Theodore A. Larsen is’ superintendent at the mine and G. B. Little is assistant superintendent. ‘Nevada County Has Three Men In Aircraft Work — SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.—From Nevada County have gone three men to work in Caifornia aircraft plants to build airplanes for the American defense program. These include men from the following cities: Two from Nevada City and one from Grass Valley. With aircraft payrolls more than \doubled since last fall, and with 90,000 men now at work on warplanes, California’s: relief load has dropped to less than half its size since last year, On April 1, 1941 the state case load was 42,625 which was 44 per cent of the 96,143 case load for the same date last year, The fall in unemployment figures is already being reflected in lower state budgets and taxes for relief, These figures of employment in aircraft work do not. include several thousand workers in aircraft supplies and materials industries throughout the state; nor do they include the upsurge of employment in secondary consumers’ lines, such as food, clothing and retail businesses which are directly influenced by defense reemployment. Visiting Here— Charles Misner of Sacramento, ing here for several days. former resident of this city, is visitNATIVE-SONS TRUSTEE EBEN K. SMART Eben K. Smart, grand trustee of the Native Sons of the Golden West, will again be a candidate for trustee at the Native Sons convention, which opens today at Lake Tahoe. Smart, a Grass Valley man, represents Many parlors of the Native Sons, including Nevada City, as. trustee. Nevada Cityans Attend Conclave At Lake Tahoe Dr. C. W.Chapman and Clarence Martz of Hydraulic Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West,. are in Lake Tahoe as delegates from the local lodge at the state convention of Native Sons. The convention, which opened today, will continue through Thursday. The two local men are boosters for the reelection of Eben Smart of Grass Valley as grand trustee. Smart, drivers license inspector for the California Highway Patrol ,represents several Northern California counties, including Nevada County. His friends believe eventually Smart will be elected president of the Grand Parlor of Native Sons. Goes To Oregon— Charles Everheart of the.:Tahoe Forest staff, left Friday for Oregon, where he will join his wife, who has been at the bedside of her sick mother for the past couple of weeks. The Everhearts will return to their home here in about a week. BRIDGE OPEN The Gault Bridge has been opened for travel. Work of widening the south approach will continue and the placing of asphalt on the bridge is expected to be started this week. Olney F. Donnelly States: C Continuation of Strike Voted By 100 Men At Four Mines * “Situation No More or Less Than Minority Lockout” FIFTY MINERS WENT TO WORK AT THE IDAHO-MARYLAND MINE TO-. DAY, IGNORING THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR STRIKE, THE CONTINUATION OF WHICH WAS VOTED AT A GENERAL MEETING OF IDAHOMARYLAND, NEW BRUNSWICK, SCOTIA AND BULLION MINE EMPLOYEES SAT-URDAY AFTERNOON. NO MEN WENT TO WORK AT THE SCOTIA, HOWEVER, AND ONLY THREE AT THE NEW BR CLOSED. UNSWICK. THE BULLION MINE HAS BEEN ONLY 450 OF THE 1100 MEN OUT OF WORK VOTED AT SATURDAY’S ELECTION. TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE VOTED TO CONT AND 165 VOTED TO RETURN TO WORK. epee gee Additional men were expected to pass the AFL picket line for the night shift. An announcement was made by the Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation, which operates the IdahoMaryland and New Brunswick, the jobs will continue open to the men as long as the company can find use for them. MINERS LOSE CLOSE GAME TO CHICOANS down to defeat, 5 to 2, at the hands. of the Chico Colts yesterday in Grass Valley but the large crowd of spectators from Nevada City and Grass . * His efforts to settle the dispute apparently of no avail, Federal ‘Conciliator Amar F. Hoskins has left for San FranPresident Olney Donnelly of the Protective League said the situation speaks plainly for itself. “It is nothing more or less than a lockout by the AFL,” The Grass Valley Miners went/ Donnelly stated. “Eleven hundred men are being kept from going to work by a small minority of 285. It is certainly too bad such a small group can threaten to ruin our commuities.” Valley were treated to a good. game. cisco. The AFL unionists announce they are ready to negoThe game was ‘nip and tuck until! tiate with the mining operators at any time for a settlement and Conciliator Hoskins reportedly has consented to act as a the final frame, when the Colts} pushed over their three winning tal-! lies. The miners new shortstop, Gene} McNulty of Roseville, made his de-. but in a Miners uniform a successful} one, gathering two hits. Mourfield also hit safely twice for the Grass Valley nine. The score: Reo B11) (0,0 ESSA Narre ee Aenean ets 5 15-3 OTARS-V ANOY eae ae 2-04 <2 Batteries: Curcio, Gillick and Boone; Campbell and Mourfield. Attorney General Gives Opinion Regarding Small Claims Fees In an opinion asked by District Attorney Vernon Stoll of Nevada County, Attorney General Earl Warren ruled last week that justices of the peace may not retain fees collected in small claims court actions. District Attorney Stoll asked for the opinion as the result of criticism of Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse of Grass Valley Township by a certified accountant, which recently submitted his report to the county grand jury. The report cited 257 instances in which Justice Morehouse retained small claims court fees. District Attorney Stoll reported to the attorney general a local ordinance provided for the: retention of fees by the justice of the peace in civil actions but Warren ruled all such fees are the property of the county. Mrs. Bolton Recovering From Illness Attack Mrs. Harry Bolton is recovering at the Miners Hospital from an attack of illness, which seized her while at work in the Bolton Store Friday afternoon. Mrs. Bolton was taken to the hospital by the Holmes ambulance service. Attends Convention— . Deputy Sheriff Fred Williford attended the Lions Club district convention in Carson City during the weekend. cos mediator. President Ellis and Secretary Sofge Of Local Chamber Attend Meeting The Sacramento Valley council of the California State chamber of commerce adopted a resolution by unanimous vote Friday in Sacramento declaring opposition to a proposed plan to elect state senators on! a population basis. Edwin J. Regan, district attorney of Trinity county, who presented the resolution, said abolition of the pre-. sent geographical apportionment of the senate would result in virtual disenfranchisement of 51 rural and semi-rural counties, Regan said. -Another resolution favored establishment of a University of Califor-. nid range experiment station in the Sacramento valley and proposed an army engineering study of seepage’ along the Sacramento river and its. tributaries, President Guerdon Ellis and Secretary H. F. Sofge.of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce were present at the meeting. Empire-Star Employees Receive Month’s Pay When Called Into Service Empire Star Mines Company, Ltd., Grass Valley, California, has announced that it will advance one month’s pay to all its employes who are called for service in the United States army . The company. recently sent checks to 19 men serving at San Luis Obispo and other centers, According to an official of the company, Empire Star reserved jobs for all its workers who entered the army during the first. World War, and expects to do the same in the present crisis. ‘Major Chapman, confined to the ‘Miners Hospital, is reported to be improving from a serious ilness attack. * The position of operators remains the same however. They have anuounced they are bound by the contract with the Mine Workers Protective League and legally cannot deal with the AML faction. The names of those who passed the picket lines to work today were noted by the strikers. Tstate that the names will be sent to all AFL locals in the country in an effort to prevent them from getting union jobs elsewhere, Of the number passing through the, picket lines at the Idaho-Maryland this morning, thirty were reported to be men who had previously gone to work since the strike was called on May Ist. Although the gateways to the Idaho-Maryland were lined with pickets this morning, there was no demonstration as the men drove into the mine to work. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and a crew of California Highway Patrolmen were on hand to keep traffic moving, The.vote to continue the strike followed a four and one half hour meeting at the Veterans Memorial Building in Grass Valley Saturda afternoon, ; Conciliator Hoskins gave a report on his negotiations for a settlement of the dispute. The-meeting was conducted by AFL Organizer Charles F. Daley, who said he was going to leave the issue entirely up to the men. He urged unity, however, of the entire group of mén, no matter — how the vote went. : The strike contimuation decision. was a signal for further exodus of _ miners from the county. Many had announced: if the difficulties had not been settled by. today, they were leaving for other camps to seek work. Before the month is. out, it is expected approximately 75 will have left the county for the Hawaiian Ielands, to work on the Pearl (Continued on Page Four)

SSE, <« aati — om The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month Nevada City Nugget . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, The Nugget. your neighbors, read — mail <3 Vol. 15, No. 40. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Cone MONDAY, MAY 19, 1941. Thinking Out Loud . By H. M. L. The writer of this column had a talk with an old miner yesterday, a miner who had saved his money, exercised prudence in investments and is now fairly wellto-do, He comes of the old solid Cornish stock and of; course was natively endowed with more than average intelligence. -:.His. father came from Cornwall. and worked’ in the mines hereabouts when shifts were 10 hours long; pay was $2.50 a day, and the hazards of mining were ‘something “enormously greater than they are today. This: man had followed . in his father’s footsteps and remembers when as a youth, he worked nine hours a day and was paid $3.00, or 33 cents an hour. He is wise to the ways of the’ world and of men and here is what:he said regarding mine strikes and strikers: “A man works’ underground one year, two years, maybe three. The work is monotonous. Often it is hard and grinding. All manual * labor is likely to. be. that way. But underground a man has no diversion that he might have on the surface. He doesn’t see anything outside the radius of his lamp. In time a lot of men became grumpy. They find fault with their wives, their shift boss, their, tools and their pay. When.I was shift boss and a man got so he could only snarl rather than speak, I would say to him, ‘Well, Jim, this mine hasn’t changed, and the people in it are just the same as they always have been, But there’s something eating you, You had better quit. Go home and take a rest. Get some daylight, fresh air. When you are ready, come back and go at it again! ‘I never had any 'trouble with men. They just get sick and tired of their job and need a rest. “Nowadays, there are a lot of men underground who welcome a strike. I-doubt if they are really interested in getting more money. More money does mighty few of them any good. But what does do them good, is staying on top of the ground and chewing the fat, and getting all their troubles off their, chest. A strike is something like a show. It’s a diversion. If a man has money enough to eat, he’ll want,to strike as long as his money lasts, When he cash gives out, he has had a good rest, his peeve is gone, and he wants to get back to work again. The trouble is, of course, the striker does not want anyone else to work while. he is laying off. This works an injustice upon the man who really needs and wants to work to support his family. The majority of strikers, I have noticed are generally single men. I think a lot of employers will find out in due time, especially in ‘the mining game, that it is cheaper to give their men, who have worked for them a year, a vacation with pay, than it is to stand a strike. “When a man is down in the dumps, finding fault with everything in the world but himself, and one of these. slick professional labor agitators comes along and fills him full of hop, he doesn’t reason things out well. He doesn’t realize for instance that the stranger is interested primarily in getting a little chunk of his pay check. He will find out in nine times out of ten, that after the organizer has got everybody organized that he can reach, ‘and piled up a kitty of two or three thousand dollars, for which he makes no accounting, he will be off to more green pastures and another cleanup, and will leave a local group holding the sack and trying to carry on.” And here’s a talk from a man (Continued on Page Two) 285 of (EDITORIAL) fr wag a husky dog £ A Ss want to get back to work. ‘Don’t Let The Tail Wag The Dog For sometime in the local labor disturbance, miscalled a strike, it has been apparent that the majority of the miners employed in the four picketed mines want to get back to work. But they would not cross the picket lines because of the fearsome threats of future punishment made by the outside labor organizer who runs the show, But this morning fifty miners got tired of seeing a spindling tail and through the picket lines they went. Tonight its a cinch that even more men will defy the medicine man’s incantations and: hoarse exhortations to stand firm. The truth is the strike is not a strike at all. [t is just. what Olney Donnelly, head of the Mine Workers Protective League, says it is. It’s a lockout, in which a rapidly dwindling minority, attempts to bar the gates.of four mining companies, to a big majority of the miners who The boiler makers in San Francisco are going inists: picket lines to their jobs in the shipbuilding plants. another case of a stumpy tail, consisting of 1800 machinists, wagging a large muscular dog of 20,000 ship workers. {It just isn’t done any more. The majority still rules in the U.S. A. )) through the machHere was} = JERS 9 7) 3 MILLION PAY VARDS LEFT IN MEGA GRAVEL By MIRIAM CRANDALL Operations started at the Omega hydraulic mine, eighteen miles north east of Nevada City, on March 9, of this year; just after the completion of the Upper Narrows debris dam at Smartville, California. It isestimated that there are 30,000,000 yards of pay gravel and, according to old records ,the gravel runs thirteen cents a yard at the old price. With work on, a three shift basis, four monitors are being used and a crew of thirty two men is employed. A program of added improvements to the present working facilities of the mine is underway. The Omega property, one of Nevada County’s largest hydraulic mines in the early days is under option to purchase by K. P. Nutting, Salinas, California; J. E. Little, Whittier, Harry F. Wolfinger, Sumpter, Oregon; Louis L H.arris, 401 Avila Street, San Francisco; and F. H. Hogue, Jr., Kent, Washington. Theodore A. Larsen is’ superintendent at the mine and G. B. Little is assistant superintendent. ‘Nevada County Has Three Men In Aircraft Work — SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.—From Nevada County have gone three men to work in Caifornia aircraft plants to build airplanes for the American defense program. These include men from the following cities: Two from Nevada City and one from Grass Valley. With aircraft payrolls more than \doubled since last fall, and with 90,000 men now at work on warplanes, California’s: relief load has dropped to less than half its size since last year, On April 1, 1941 the state case load was 42,625 which was 44 per cent of the 96,143 case load for the same date last year, The fall in unemployment figures is already being reflected in lower state budgets and taxes for relief, These figures of employment in aircraft work do not. include several thousand workers in aircraft supplies and materials industries throughout the state; nor do they include the upsurge of employment in secondary consumers’ lines, such as food, clothing and retail businesses which are directly influenced by defense reemployment. Visiting Here— Charles Misner of Sacramento, ing here for several days. former resident of this city, is visitNATIVE-SONS TRUSTEE EBEN K. SMART Eben K. Smart, grand trustee of the Native Sons of the Golden West, will again be a candidate for trustee at the Native Sons convention, which opens today at Lake Tahoe. Smart, a Grass Valley man, represents Many parlors of the Native Sons, including

Nevada City, as. trustee. Nevada Cityans Attend Conclave At Lake Tahoe Dr. C. W.Chapman and Clarence Martz of Hydraulic Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West,. are in Lake Tahoe as delegates from the local lodge at the state convention of Native Sons. The convention, which opened today, will continue through Thursday. The two local men are boosters for the reelection of Eben Smart of Grass Valley as grand trustee. Smart, drivers license inspector for the California Highway Patrol ,represents several Northern California counties, including Nevada County. His friends believe eventually Smart will be elected president of the Grand Parlor of Native Sons. Goes To Oregon— Charles Everheart of the.:Tahoe Forest staff, left Friday for Oregon, where he will join his wife, who has been at the bedside of her sick mother for the past couple of weeks. The Everhearts will return to their home here in about a week. BRIDGE OPEN The Gault Bridge has been opened for travel. Work of widening the south approach will continue and the placing of asphalt on the bridge is expected to be started this week. Olney F. Donnelly States: C Continuation of Strike Voted By 100 Men At Four Mines * “Situation No More or Less Than Minority Lockout” FIFTY MINERS WENT TO WORK AT THE IDAHO-MARYLAND MINE TO-. DAY, IGNORING THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR STRIKE, THE CONTINUATION OF WHICH WAS VOTED AT A GENERAL MEETING OF IDAHOMARYLAND, NEW BRUNSWICK, SCOTIA AND BULLION MINE EMPLOYEES SAT-URDAY AFTERNOON. NO MEN WENT TO WORK AT THE SCOTIA, HOWEVER, AND ONLY THREE AT THE NEW BR CLOSED. UNSWICK. THE BULLION MINE HAS BEEN ONLY 450 OF THE 1100 MEN OUT OF WORK VOTED AT SATURDAY’S ELECTION. TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE VOTED TO CONT AND 165 VOTED TO RETURN TO WORK. epee gee Additional men were expected to pass the AFL picket line for the night shift. An announcement was made by the Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation, which operates the IdahoMaryland and New Brunswick, the jobs will continue open to the men as long as the company can find use for them. MINERS LOSE CLOSE GAME TO CHICOANS down to defeat, 5 to 2, at the hands. of the Chico Colts yesterday in Grass Valley but the large crowd of spectators from Nevada City and Grass . * His efforts to settle the dispute apparently of no avail, Federal ‘Conciliator Amar F. Hoskins has left for San FranPresident Olney Donnelly of the Protective League said the situation speaks plainly for itself. “It is nothing more or less than a lockout by the AFL,” The Grass Valley Miners went/ Donnelly stated. “Eleven hundred men are being kept from going to work by a small minority of 285. It is certainly too bad such a small group can threaten to ruin our commuities.” Valley were treated to a good. game. cisco. The AFL unionists announce they are ready to negoThe game was ‘nip and tuck until! tiate with the mining operators at any time for a settlement and Conciliator Hoskins reportedly has consented to act as a the final frame, when the Colts} pushed over their three winning tal-! lies. The miners new shortstop, Gene} McNulty of Roseville, made his de-. but in a Miners uniform a successful} one, gathering two hits. Mourfield also hit safely twice for the Grass Valley nine. The score: Reo B11) (0,0 ESSA Narre ee Aenean ets 5 15-3 OTARS-V ANOY eae ae 2-04 <2 Batteries: Curcio, Gillick and Boone; Campbell and Mourfield. Attorney General Gives Opinion Regarding Small Claims Fees In an opinion asked by District Attorney Vernon Stoll of Nevada County, Attorney General Earl Warren ruled last week that justices of the peace may not retain fees collected in small claims court actions. District Attorney Stoll asked for the opinion as the result of criticism of Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse of Grass Valley Township by a certified accountant, which recently submitted his report to the county grand jury. The report cited 257 instances in which Justice Morehouse retained small claims court fees. District Attorney Stoll reported to the attorney general a local ordinance provided for the: retention of fees by the justice of the peace in civil actions but Warren ruled all such fees are the property of the county. Mrs. Bolton Recovering From Illness Attack Mrs. Harry Bolton is recovering at the Miners Hospital from an attack of illness, which seized her while at work in the Bolton Store Friday afternoon. Mrs. Bolton was taken to the hospital by the Holmes ambulance service. Attends Convention— . Deputy Sheriff Fred Williford attended the Lions Club district convention in Carson City during the weekend. cos mediator. President Ellis and Secretary Sofge Of Local Chamber Attend Meeting The Sacramento Valley council of the California State chamber of commerce adopted a resolution by unanimous vote Friday in Sacramento declaring opposition to a proposed plan to elect state senators on! a population basis. Edwin J. Regan, district attorney of Trinity county, who presented the resolution, said abolition of the pre-. sent geographical apportionment of the senate would result in virtual disenfranchisement of 51 rural and semi-rural counties, Regan said. -Another resolution favored establishment of a University of Califor-. nid range experiment station in the Sacramento valley and proposed an army engineering study of seepage’ along the Sacramento river and its. tributaries, President Guerdon Ellis and Secretary H. F. Sofge.of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce were present at the meeting. Empire-Star Employees Receive Month’s Pay When Called Into Service Empire Star Mines Company, Ltd., Grass Valley, California, has announced that it will advance one month’s pay to all its employes who are called for service in the United States army . The company. recently sent checks to 19 men serving at San Luis Obispo and other centers, According to an official of the company, Empire Star reserved jobs for all its workers who entered the army during the first. World War, and expects to do the same in the present crisis. ‘Major Chapman, confined to the ‘Miners Hospital, is reported to be improving from a serious ilness attack. * The position of operators remains the same however. They have anuounced they are bound by the contract with the Mine Workers Protective League and legally cannot deal with the AML faction. The names of those who passed the picket lines to work today were noted by the strikers. Tstate that the names will be sent to all AFL locals in the country in an effort to prevent them from getting union jobs elsewhere, Of the number passing through the, picket lines at the Idaho-Maryland this morning, thirty were reported to be men who had previously gone to work since the strike was called on May Ist. Although the gateways to the Idaho-Maryland were lined with pickets this morning, there was no demonstration as the men drove into the mine to work. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and a crew of California Highway Patrolmen were on hand to keep traffic moving, The.vote to continue the strike followed a four and one half hour meeting at the Veterans Memorial Building in Grass Valley Saturda afternoon, ; Conciliator Hoskins gave a report on his negotiations for a settlement of the dispute. The-meeting was conducted by AFL Organizer Charles F. Daley, who said he was going to leave the issue entirely up to the men. He urged unity, however, of the entire group of mén, no matter — how the vote went. : The strike contimuation decision. was a signal for further exodus of _ miners from the county. Many had announced: if the difficulties had not been settled by. today, they were leaving for other camps to seek work. Before the month is. out, it is expected approximately 75 will have left the county for the Hawaiian Ielands, to work on the Pearl (Continued on Page Four)