The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-23
PRICF ASK aUFsTIoNs.
Denies That Miners Are Satisfied
With Condition.


TO The Salt Lake Herald:
Sir-I noticed in the Eastern Utah
Advocate of Nov. is an article by Cen
eral Manager Williams. I'm which he Is
quoted as saying that the miners OF
. Utah are satisfied with their condition,
and the men would be working If it
were not for the organizers. or. using
his own words, agitators; and that the
men were forced out at Somerset after
they were organized. I would like TO
ask Mr. Williams why the men sent
i've kilograms for an organizer to
come TO Somerset If they were salts
fed with their condition? Now. i
would like to know who asked Mr..
Williams to make that statement? Did
the coal miners. or did the Utah Fuel
company Mr.. Williams says the men
are satisfied. He is the general man
ager Of the company Seven hundred
men say they are not satisfied. They
are the miners. Now who is the public
going to believe-the one man or the
200 that have laid down their tools to
better their condition? I also notice
that ne says the men have good, COM
Portable houses at 50 Ter month. How
long would it take a man to buy one
Of them at IS per month? IF he works
for the company four years he has
paid for the house, and yet the COM
pany still owns it. If he worked for
the company eight years he would
have paid for two houses, yet only
have one to live in. So the public can
see how big-hearted the Utah Fuel
company is, with its So per month
houses. Mr.. Williams also makes the
statement that they are furnished with
good water by the company. Well, II
that is the case, why did the company
post notices for the people to boil the
water at Sunnyside before using it, as
it carried typhoid germs in it? Now.
this water they are saying so much
about comes out Of No. 1 mine. sup
pose what makes it so good is the
amount of filth it runs through before
the people get to drink it. I would
Ike to ask the gentleman when he be-
came so well acquainted with the mer-
it's of water. Now he claims there are
about 100 men working at Sunnyside.
Well, why burn wood IN the coke
ovens? That is enough in itself. All
we ask of the Utah Fuel company is
to give the public a true statement.
There are about twenty-five men
working at Sunnyside and about ten
at Castle Gate. If the miners at SEQ
field and Clear Creek are satisfied with
their conditions, why did a mob stop
myself and DemOlley from going into
SCOheld on the 10th? Mr.. DemOlley
and myself had tickets for ScOfield and
got on the train at Cotton to go there
About one mile out of Scdaeld the train
was stopped and a mob came aboard
and told US we could not go into the
town. When I asked them why, they
said because they did not want us
there They said they were a commit
tee from the miners, sent to tell US
that the men were satisfied with their
condition. Now. on that committee
were one lawyer. one saloon man. one
outside boss. one superintendent. one
brakeman. one truckman and one rope
rider. The miners Of Scofeld are to be
congratulated on the committee they
sent. I hope these men did not go back
thinking that we believed them to be
a committee from the miners.
The guns they carried told us who
sent them. I suppose they were paid
for their services. That helps some.
WILLIAM PRICE.
HnInpr Utah. Nov n.