The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-16
Result of Big Strike In the Colorado
SHELTERS.
WORKS ARE UNDER GUARD
NO SIGNS OF ANY DEMONSTRA.
TIN AS YET.
Unless Differences Are Settled, 3d.
600 Men Will Be Out of Employ
ment In That State Within Next
Three Disqualification of Labor
May Act.

Denver, Colo, June 15.-The strike
situation can hardly be said to hav,
experienced any change since yester-
day. such developments as have &C.
CURED being really of a character tc
be anticipated. The executive commit
tee of the state federation of labor to-
day sent a letter to ]. B. Grant, chair
| man of the operating committee of the
American Smelling & Refining COM
pany, asking for a conference for the
purpose of arranging a settlement of
| the trouble between the company and
| its employees. Mr.. Grant replied that
While the committee stood ready at all
| times to discuss any matter of mutual
| interest with the employees of the
company, he could not see what good
could come of a conference with the
federation officials, who have no knowl-
edge of the smelling business.
President David G. Coates, of the
state federation of labor, after receiv-
ing Mr.. Grants reply. said the board
would devote its energies to an en-
deavor to bring about a conference be-
tween the employees and the trust Of
ficials and he expressed the belief that
such a conference would eventually lead
to an amicable adjustment of the diff
ferenceS.
]. B. Grant said today that the Amer
lean company stood ready to start all
its plants at once on the eight-hour
basis and pay the scale now in force
at the Hanauer smelter in Utah. or the
Argo smelter in Denver. He declared
that this was in strict accordance with
the company's original proposition to
the men and that the company stood
ready to abide by it at any time
Warning to Agitators.
President Coates, of the state fedora
ton of labor, today assured the man
ager of the Argo smelter in this city
that any efforts by agitators to create
discomfort among the employees of
that institution, was without the ap-
prevail of the federation. He said that
as long as the eight-hour law was
observed, and the men were satisfied
with the wages, the federation had no
fault to find. Later he sent letter
to the smelter warning the employees
against being Influenced by agitators
from the outside.
B. p. Smith. financial secretary of
the Shelter Mems union, today stated
that the employees of the smelters
would never again consent to the old
twelve-hour basis of labor, whether
the law was sustained by the courts
or not. He declared that the work in
the smelters had been increased until
men could not stand the strain of the
long hours, and that the present strug-
gle would have come any way If the
law had not been passed.
Thirty thousand men in Colorado VIII
be out of work within the next three |
DAYS unless steps are taken to end the |
strike of the smelter employees. The |
Omaha & Grant and the Globe, in Den |
yer: the Bimetallic and the Arkansas |
Valley, at Leadville; the Ellers and the |
Qrn
closed.
SHELTERS Still Running.
The Argo smelter in Denver has COM
piled with the eight-hour law and Is |
still running. The Guggenheim smefter
at Pueblo also is running. The closed /
works are under guard, but nowhere (
have the men made any demonstration.
At Central City the men employed in
the stamp mills were expected to
strike TODAY.
These mines have already closed: The
Amethyst, Bachelor,
Bachelor No. and Last Chance mines,
in the Creole district; the Calliope and
Hagerty, at Ouray; the Caribbean and
near Ophir: the Iron Mask
and Black Iron, at Red Cliffe; the
smuggler, at Aspen The Porter Fuel
at Durango has closed, throw
ng 80 men out of work.
From all parts of the state come re-
ports that mines are reducing forces
At Leadville, 900 men have been dis
charged and in view of the orders to
ship no more ore to the closed smelters,
title except development work is going
IN. The loss in wages to the men at
Durango by the twelve days closing
# the smelter is $4,000.
Should the mines close all over the
itate, 5000 railroad men will be thrown
tut of employment. Four mines of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company, three
rear Canyon City and one in Pttkin
have been shut down on ac-
cunt of wage differences.