Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-28
Ninchesters Are Brought Into
Play and Considerable EX-
element EusueS.
DISSERTATION OF THE FLAG.
,leetlng Shows Strikers Stronger Than
Company Had Anticipated
Their Organization.
tgnocInl 10 the "Nows|


Clear creek Nov. 2S--At the present
time the struggle centers right IN TINS
camp, ON Friday the agitators sue
ceeded in getting through the INES
with the result the meeting on private
property followed. since then the
Films have been "labored' with ana
numerous cases OF Sub rosa lntlmlda-
tlono followed with the result that few
foreigners are working today. Inc
deputy sherlrs under Messrs. Dowse'
tho salt Lake detective, and Smoot
former death watch over Peter Nor
Jensen. are concentrating their etorls
IN the direction OF keeping all aBitators
an Inc company property Yesterday
throe films from Scoheld succeeded IN
slipplpg through the lines, but were
found i'm the boarding house awaiting
the return OF some Of their teloN
oountrymen from their work III the
mine, They we're routed out IN snort
order and marched down the track IN
front of the Winchester ot-three suaIus'
AS they passed along the gulch lhe
strikers came out Of their caplns nest
ling ON the hill side and shook thelf
fists at the officers.
nrig, Gen. Cannon and his stan came
mn from scoacld on a special yesterday
afternoon and looked into the situation,
later going on to Winter Quarters.
Here were 70 be seen seven carloads
of tools OF strikers that had been
brought out of the nine The sulk-
ers. however, decline TO carry them
away. Although they have been dis
charged because they declined to report
for work they are leaving their TOOLS
under the impression that the union
will win out and they viii then subse-
quently return TO work
Yesterday notices We're posted at
Clear Creek ordering strikers to vacate
the company's houses. This order goes
into effect In some case five days hence,
In others 10 days and still others 80
days. In the face of these notices the
National Guard Is practically resigned
to staying on duty for at least month
TO come.
II Is when the men are compelled to
vacate that the trouble is scheduled 10
commence, The strikers afiirm that
the union viii provide them WIN tents
and In addition viii pay each idle man
$40 a month. TO offset any such move
the coal company announces that the
erty, neither will the store sell them
anything and also that none of its coal
will bo used for fuel to ward off the
rigors Of winter.
Clear Creek as we'll as the other coal
camps, Is being made a very uncom-
Portable place Tor agitators and disturb
ers of the peace generally Arrests are
OF daily occurrence.
County Atty, William III. Frye ar.
rived here last night from Price. and
Is taking hand In the interest of law
and order. In course OF conversation
with the News" he states that MS
soon as he returns he proposes fling Il
number of complaints under the new
law recently passed by the state Legls-
lature relative TO the desecration OF the
flag.
He states that he Is IN possession of
nearly 100 names Of foreigners who were
I'm the parade at Castle Gate n week
ago, and who marched with the emblem
reversed. lie aflirms that he VIII push
prosecutions TO the limit.
THE SECRET MEETING
At the secret meeting held by the
strikers on private land north Of the
city yesterday Il developed that the
strength OF the strikers was greatl
than was estimated by the company
In all s27 men were enrolled, each pay
ing sl.2b and receiving card In ex'
change.
OFFICERS WERE ELECTED.
Immediately after the meeting the or
ganizers made their escape from thu