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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subjects: Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th centry
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-12-21


    • Low lead prices may tie up mines

    • 1918

    • Low lead prices may tie up mines.
      Coeur d'Alenes face problem of reducing wages of mine workers. If lead prices come down immediately, following the removal of government restrictions, a serious situation is threatened in the Coeur d'Alenes....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-12-21
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-03


    • With miners' strike over, horizon is not so dark as has been painted

    • 1919

    • With miners' strike over, horizon is not so dark as has been painted.
      Helena, Mont., March 1.-Now that the strike of Butte miners is a thing of the past, by the middle of March it should be known whether unemployment in Montana is to assume an...
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-04


    • Mine closing is not expected

    • 1919

    • Mine closing is not expected.
      Many Coeur d'Alene operators to makes most of the situation. Work with small force. Returned soldiers likely to be provided with employment. There will be no general suspension of operations in the Coeur d'Alene...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-13


    • Many miners are leaving Butte

    • 1919

    • Many miners are leaving Butte.
      Hundred a day for last 10 days is report of railroad men. Butte, Mont., Jan. 13.-More than a hundred miners have left Butte every day for the Pacific coast and other sections of the country during the past week or...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-20


    • Will keep mines going till forced to suspend

    • 1919

    • Will keep mines going till forced to suspend.
      Coeur d'Alene operators striving to prevent discharge of men. The producing lead and zinc mines of the Wallace, Kellogg and Wardner district of the Coeur d'Alenes will continue to operate at full...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-22


    • Idaho alumni employed

    • 1919

    • Idaho alumni employed.
      Many with Anaconda copper mining company. Occupy executive and other responsible places in Idaho. Many graduates of the Idaho school of mines are filling important positions in the smelting works of the Anaconda Copper...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-22
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-22


    • Idaho alumni employed

    • 1919

    • Idaho alumni employed.
      Many with Anaconda copper mining company. Occupy executive and other responsible places in Idaho. Many graduates of the Idaho school of mines are filling important positions in the smelting works of the Anaconda Copper...
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-30


    • No suspension of Bunker Hill

    • 1919

    • No suspension of Bunker Hill.
      Company will stand by community that stood by it, says Bradley. Conditions are poor. Their improvement expected as they move toward pre-war level. A year or more may elapse before mining and other conditions return...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-02


    • United copper manager cuts wages of employees

    • 1919

    • United copper manager cuts wages of employees.
      Reduction from war standard is necessary, says Conrad Wolfle. Conrad Wolfle, president of the United Copper Mining company, is the first manager of one of the big mining companies, so far as...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-17


    • Butte miners returning to work

    • 1919

    • Butte miners returning to work.
      Dinner bucket parade again started-expect all mines to reopen. Butte, Mont., Feb. 17.-"The dinner bucket parade of miners, which procession halted here on Feb. 7, when members of the Butte Metal Miners union...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-18


    • Butte whistles as mines resume; thousands back

    • 1919

    • Butte whistles as mines resume; thousands back.
      Eleven thousand miners will be back on job tonight. Butte, Mont., Feb. 18.-Choruses of whistles, shrill, depp and medium, loudly proclaimed to the citizens of Butte this morning that normal times...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-03-03


    • Will cut wages in Coeur d'Alene mining district

    • 1919

    • Will cut wages in Coeur d'Alene mining district.
      Big operators meet to agree on action-seek to lower living cost. That a sharp reduction of wages in the Coeur d'Alene mining district is to be announced in the next few days was reported today...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-03-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-03-15


    • Cut in mine pay comes tomorrow; all satisfied

    • 1919

    • Cut in mine pay comes tomorrow; all satisfied.
      Employees realize trouble operators are having-latter going easy. The cut of $1 per day for miners in the Coeur d'Alene district will take effect Sunday. Miners' wages have been $5.25 per day.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-03-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-03-28


    • Hecla mine takes on men for three shifts

    • 1919

    • Hecla mine takes on men for three shifts.
      The Hecla mine at Burke, Idaho, has increased its force to 500 men, permitting the operation of the mine on a three-shift basis, according to reports from Wallace. A number of returned soldiers, members...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-03-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-04-14


    • Hercules mill will open work

    • 1919

    • Hercules mill will open work.
      One shift to be used for a while, Wallace report says. The Hercules mill at Wallace will resume operations this week after having been shut down since the holidays, according to a Wallace report which states but one...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-04-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-04-19


    • Wage boost is rumored by Coeur d'Alene men

    • 1919

    • Wage boost is rumored by Coeur d'Alene men.
      Talk Butte scale-men are hard to get now, is report current. Rumors are current on the streets of Wallace that a raise in wages is contemplated for the purpose of attracting experienced miners to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-04-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1935-01-02


    • Colorado mines using more men.

    • 1935

    • Colorado mines using more men. - Ten thousand men found employment in the metal mining industry in Colorado in 1934, compared to 4000 in 1932, according to an Associated Press report from John T. Joyce, Colorado Commissioner of mines.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1935-01-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1935-01-12


    • Sunshine will hire at wallace office.

    • 1935

    • Sunshine will hire at wallace office. - Miners seeking work at the Sunshine mine hereafter will report at the Mines Employment office, Wallace, according to reports from the property today. Heretofore the company has hired its men at the mine, but...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1935-01-12

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