Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-02
WILL BOYCOTT
COAL COMPANY.
Labor Unions are Called On to
Assist the Strikers,
WILL ACCEDE TO REQUEST.
Eleven Of the Local Labor Unions
Have Withdrawn Their Patronage
from r, v. Coal Company.

The strike situation has taken on an
other phase to the extent that there
seems to be under the present law no
hope Of the trouble being settled by
arbitration just as long rs the men re-
fuse 10 resume work. The strikers have
decided to fight out the Issue 10 a nm
ish and are seeking the aid of the labor
unions In this State to assist them In
making things as unpleasant as posi-
bile for the Pleasant Valley Coal COM
pany. Accordingly boycott has been
Proclaimed upon the company, ana, fur-
ther, an effort will be made by the men
TO Induce the miners now working at
Castle Gate and Sunnyside to walk out
In sympathy Up to the present, how
ever, news from the two camps named
Is not indicative of any strike happen
ing at those two camps in the immedi-
ate future. ~
The state board Of arbitration held
senli-official meeting with the strikers
committee yesterday afternoon during
the course Of which the men were urged
to return to work and the hope held out
that then the Pleasant Valley coal COM
pany would agree TO put the matter on
an arbitration basis. This advice was
not taken kindly to by the committee,
and one Of their number, j. j. Rooney,
was dispatched to Schofield to confer
with the strikers in regard to any fu'
ture action.
In the meantime, late last evening,
the remaining members Of the commit
tee held consultation with the repre-
sehtatiyes of the local trades unions
with the result that they promised to
take up the matter, The meeting was
held at the hall of the Federation of
Labor and was a representative one to
the extent that eleven trades We're rep
resented at the council. Before the
meeting adjourned a resolution was
passed unanimously expressing full
sympathy with the strikers and wish
ing them every success In the fight
which they had undertaken. In addi-
ton 10 this resolution the meeting un-
dertook TO enter sensational motion
to the effect that a, boycott be declared
upon the coal OF the Pleasant Valley
coal company. All present pledged
their unions to use no more coal coming
from the mines Of the company until
the trouble between the employers and
tIUploytS nbu DttH dffltuDly duluSltu.
Later In the evening Messrs. Hoye
and George, OF the strikers committee.
appeared before the Federation OF La
Dor, and upon the solicitation Of that
body. set their case before those as
sembled, The outcome Of this meeting
was that II was decided to hold mass
meeting Of the trades in the hall on
Monday evening at 8 O'clock. when the
alleged wrongs Of the miners would be
fully ventilated and those present
would take action In the matter OF as
slsting the miners by their Influence. II
is Openly asserted today that every la
Dor organization In the State will next
week fall into line IN this matter. and
II Is said that when the trades come out
openly as being in active sympathy
with the striking miners that the men
at Castle Gate and Sunnyside will !
throw down their tools and walk out |
as protest against the attitude Of the |
company in regard to the strike.
The miners committee Is said 10 |
hold that the law In regard to arbl.
tration which is IN existence In this |
State does not answer the purpose for |
which 1t was designated, accordingly |
they will today draw up and frame
bill which will be presented to :he Leg
stature for immediate action.