The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-21
Few Men at Work at Cas-
lie Gate But Many
at SuBlyS!d0.
Some Of the Miners Have Been
Making Very High
Wages.

l)RICE. Utah, Nov. 20.-The impress
l sion is general tonish, through
out the county that She backbone
of the coal miners strike fin the four
camps of the Utah Fuel company i=
broken. At Su0uyside today about ~.
men worked. nos counting eleven min
ers who were given permission 500 lay
off, the output Of the two mines being
500 tons. This is the largest output
since the strike was declared q week
ago today. ct which time the men Cult
work
AT Castle Gate there were few men
at work. as compared with yesterday.
due, no doubt 90 the big rally of yh-
Italian miners yesterday evening. when
they marched 90 Helper and We're adj
dressed by DemCIG. the italian organ
izer. and also by Price who Is one os
the EDelsh-speakng agitators from
Colorado.
Leaders Were Absent.
Today the Castle Gate men wore
without any imported leaders. depend
ing entirely upon local talent for what
little enthusiasm was manifested. De-
molli and Price left Hci)er this morn
ing for Winter Quarters. and hac
hoped to get the men started out
there, but when they reached Scodeld,
two miles this side of the camp proper
they were met at the depot by a com
mittee of the Citizens alliance and
persuaded TO return from whence they
came. The last heard of the agitatOrs
they were back as far as Cotton, but
it is possible they may attempt 20 get
i'm by horseback or otherwise tonight.
The force of Office clerks at castle
Gate is busy making up the payroIs
Tor the time the strikers worked, and
tomorrow they are to be given their
s-- do a hr.rr~
$4,000 TO liquidate. and this viii be
handed them during the afternoon All
former employees not reporting for
work tomorrow are to consider them
selves discharged.
Did Not Parade.
The Castle Gate miners did not parade
through the camp today. due, no doubt,
However. they formed. as IT were. in
squads and sought out the road house
below town. Their general demeanOr was
that Of disappointment When the sgi-
tatOrs first came along from Colorado
they promised the strikers all the money
/ they wanted from their Colorado sympa-
J thizers and now that this Is not forth
coming they seem 20 have lost conf
deuce in the numerous and sundry prom
/ Uses made them and which have not up
! TO this time been fulfilled. They were
told at Castle Gate each striker would get
! $50 "a month as long as he was out.
Judge S. J. Hardness. chairman Of the
board of county commissioners, and who
has lived at Winter Quarters and Clear
Creek for twenty-three years, is here to-
night He is personally acquainted with
almost every miner in the two camps,
and says the company has nothing to fear
I in the nature of a strike The men are
/ all COntented and prosperous and viii not
/ for a moment listen TO anything but
work at the present scale.
Are Well Paid.
At sunnyside last month there were
twenty diggers who made more money
] than their foreman, who works on a good
salary. while five dtggers drew down
{ larger checks than did the mine superin-
tendents and Jew of the diggers but
who made mere than 500 for twenty-siN
I days work of eight hours. About the
same conditions prevailed at the other
[ three camps of the county.
/ Three of the six men sent 20 the cuula-s
! Jail yesterday from Castle Gate for MUM
/ idatiOn paid their fines today and were
released; the other are serving out their
/ sentences. Their arrest appears TO have
/ had a wholesome effect in the camp as
there have been no further acts or iu-
timidatOn. either there OF at SunnysidC
! Quiet prevails in both camps.