The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-11
EFFORT TO BREAK COAL
STRIKE BY USE OF MONEY
Presidents of Two Local Unions Alleged to Have
Been Offered So, 500 Each and FOremanships
Other Companies Protest Against Being Put the Same Class
With the Coxes and MarkIes

awanna Valley hotel at Scranton.
Early and miner named O'Hara, who
was also president OF a local union.
were each offered $2,5O0 TO get ten men
10 pass a resolution ordering the men
from the two locals they represented
follows:
He met Grimes in the hotel through
another person In the course OF con
versatiOn, Grimes asked him how he
stood IN politics. Early replied that he
had not made up his mind, and Grimes
said that being president OF a local
union he had q good deal OF influence
among his friends in DunmOre. and
that If he worked for William ConneU
for congress he would give him 81 GOO
This was on Sept. %. After Grimes
made the 81, 900 proposition, Early con
tinued, Grimes said
How about the strike-dOn't YOU
think the men are Weakening To
which Early replied that he did think
they were Wavering just a little.
Grimes then told him that he knew q
break was coming in the ranks of the
men, and that they would be defeated
Grimes recognized that the men had
grievances and that they had put up a
good fight, and as long as they were
going to be defeated by the operators
Early ought to get something out OF it.
Grimes then made this propositions
A Bride Offered.
If Early could get ten men to have
a resolution passed by his local, Grimes
would give nine of them 500 each, the
tenth man $500 and Early s., 800, and all
expenses necessary TO carry out the
scheme. He further said that Early
need not apply for work for three
months and that he then would be Civ
en- a fOreman'S position During the
three months his 2wTanEpe wore r0 ma
paid; there would be no trouble in get
ting a mine foreman certificate, as the
companies controlled the boards that
issued them
Later on during the conversation.
Grimes amended his proposition by Of
fering to give two Of the ten men $500
each, and at the same time offered
Early SO for current expenses. Early
refused the money and told Grimes he
would see him later on. Early reported
the matter to District President Mich
oils Of the miners union, and il was
decided to see how far the bribery
scheme would be carried
Another meeting was arranged and
as Mr. Grimes had spoken of having ap-
preached 2. F. O'Hara. the latter Went
along. The same proposition was made
to O'Hara. The same night there was
to be a joint meeting of all the locals in
the vicinity of Dunmore. and Grimes
NcAi-NCA LAACAAA ~ pass IL --Ae--
night. but the two residents could not
see their way clear to do it. Grimes
then proposed that they size I'D the men
in the meeting. get thirty of them inter
ested, and If the resolution was passed
the thirty would each receive $500
Early went on to say that the min
listers OF the vicinity were to be ap-
preached. but that they were not to get
as much as the miners for breaking the
strike. President Nichols. he said.
then gave out a public statement i'm
which he intimated bribery was being
resOrted to in order to break the strike
and the whole thing fell through
Grimes wanted Early TO help him out
of the fix. but Early would have moth
ing to do with him. The story held the
attention of the commissioners and
spectators, and after Early had con
Guided none Of the lawyers would cross
fava Tr0TT,n him