The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-08
WORK At CLEAR CREEK
Company Says Strike is Ended
There.
HELP FOR THE STRIKERS
LABOR FEDERATION WILL
MAKE A DONATION.

! At the Pleasant Valley coal Offices
/ in this city it was stated yesterday
that work had been resumed in the
mine at Clear Creek, and that there
/ the strike was over. One gang of men
/ had returned to work. it was stated
work had been resumed yesterday
morning, and today it was thought
that all the men in the camp would
/ be back at work. The cOmpany's Of
/ fceTs here gave no credence whatever
] TO the story coming from Castle Gate
I to the effect that 200 of the miners
/ there had Joined the strike.
/ At a late hour last night Lewis
/ George of the salt Lake committee, re-
| Ceived a dispatch from Helper. 1t
/ said: Mass meeting held at Helper
tonight. By unanimous vote it was
/ decided to strike"
In explanation of this the miners now
in this city state that it was impossible
! to hold a meeting in Castle Gate, as
! the company would permit no meeting
I to be held in any hall il that place,
( and the storm was so fierce that il was
+ impossible to hold satisfactory meet
/ ing out of doors For this reason a
meeting was held at Helper, three
miles distant 1t was the opinion of
the men here that this meeting includ-
ed practically all the Castle Gate
/ miners.
L[G4P AAN--A y SAlCA llLAO4s
The Utah Federation Of Labor and
I the Building Trades Council of this
city have volunteered to help the strik-
ing ScOfield miners in 2 material way.
and will make a donation for that pur-
pose. This was the Information that
came from the representatives Of the
strikers in this city last evening. Al
ready, il seems, many of the miners
are feeling the grip of want, and this
last move on the part of the local labor
organizations would seem TO have for
its purpose the enabling of the strikers
to hold out. It was also intimated by
= Mr.. George and Mr.. Rooney that as
SistanCe might come from organiza-
tons outside the state. There are
twelve local labor organizations rep
resented in the Federation of Labor
Each of these has at least five dele
gates in the federation and some of
them have seven. All tOld. there are
said to be 600 men in the federation
There are also twelve organizations
represented in the Building Trades
Council, with about 600 men The two
organizations combined are in a posi-
tiCn to give the miners much assist
ance if they are inclined that way.
. This offer of assistance was the most
significant happening connected with
the strike at this end Of the line yes
terday. The committee of the miners
received q letter from the men at cas-
tie Gate which. although containing
nothing new. gave a graphic descrip-
ton of the reception of the SCOheld
and Clear Greek delegation at that
I place, as viewed from the standpoint
of the men. The letter was signed by
J. c. Bell, F. B. Walker, A. Sindin and
L. Douglas. members of the executive
committee Of the strikers.
Trip to Castle Gate.
The letter told of the trip Of thirty
miles through the snOwstorm, in the
night, and the arrival at Castle Gate
and then says:
we had no place to lay our weary
heads and limbs, for the company had
already issued an order to close uD all
public houses in which we might be
accommodated, and as all the dwell
ings and boarding houses are builJ on
the company's property, the people OF
necessity had to abide by the order
We. therefore. had to parade the coun-
tv road all night in the snow, for this
was the only unforbidden ground upon
which we could put a foot
Met in the Road
As to the first meeting the letter says
we called a mass meeting that We
had to hold out in the snow. We coulc
not get the K. of p. hall, Gs it Is bulF
on the cOmpany's property. Inc law
protecting and governing the same
. that no meetings or gatherings ina
are Injurious or detrimental to the com
pany shall at any time be held there
Thus the X. of P. cannot rent the hal
to anyone only as the company says
I'VE were therefore compelled to hoiC
our meeting in the road and IN TN
snow. There were 200 of the Castle
Gate men who came to the meeting be
ing led in the procession by the super
intendent of the mine, bosses ana :
squad of deputy marshals numbering
vr-n1r1d not lister
to our grieV ances, but the superlnJeh
dent of the mines made motion 10 re
main at work and not come out IN sym
pathy with the strikers, which wa
seconded by the mine boss and VCtet
down by the deputies and not a few o
the cOmpany's pets that came down Z
the meeting with guns on their shOul
ders to drive US out Of the town
THE ScOfeId miners are treated NOR
like dogs than men here at the preSen
| time. They are even forbidden to eros
: 1 the track to the depot in order tina
they might send word to their felloW
in Scofield and elsewhere. They vii
/ not even allow us to go near the com
pany'S store in order to buy OverShOe
to keep our sore feet dry and warm"
William Davis and Andrew Smith
! two miners, came TO Salt Lake iron
Castle Gate yesterday. They statet
that James Smith made several at
tempts to reach the Western UnioI
Telegraph office to send a message, bu
was prevented from doing 50 by th'
guards.
The committee here also received Z
letter from one Of the miners at Cleat
Creek saying that the meeting held
J there at which the strike was declared
of was held in the company store, il
I was attended by ten or twelve miners
I the mine bosses and the company store
i clerks. The committee consider this az
taking snap judgment while the body
% Of the strikers We're in Castle Gate.
h AT CASTLEGATE.