I went to the mill at 7.35 this morning and worked in the barrel room from 8.00 o'clock until 4.00 P. M., getting the lime ready for charging the barrels. During the afternoon Mr. MacDonald visited the barrel room, and while here told me to call at his residence this evening. While Mr. MacDonald was in the barrel room, I was busy helping charge one of the barrels and took out a sample of the ore.
After Mr. MacDonald had left, head barrel man Duckett told me that whenever Mr. MacDonald or any of the foremen were present, the sample of ore must be taken out a little at a time from each hopper. The way the sample is usually taken is all at one time, and from only one hopper. I then made the remark that when the foremen were present everything had to be done a certain way, and it didn't make much difference when the foremen were not present. Duckett said we had to be a little more particular when the manager or foremen were around. All of the men in the chlorinating department seemed to be doing a good shift's work.
I left the mill at 4.10 P. M. and went to town with John Edwards, Jim Edwards and Horace Mann, and John Edwards told me he would have to think a long while before he went on a strike at the mill, as he was in the strike two years ago at the National Mill, and that all. those who made the trouble and did the agitating were single men who when they lost their positions could leave town and go elsewhere, leaving the married men and those who had homes to get along as best they could. He further said he believed there were a good many others who looked at the situation m the same way as he did, and that it would take some strong talk and urging to get a majority of the men at the Union Plant to go out on a strike.
At 7.15 to-night I called on Mr. MacDonald at his residence, and he said he was anxious to know if anything was being done by the union men here towards giving assistance to the striking mill men, as he expected something would