The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-11

powder, tools, etc. and a small amount
monthly 20 the hospital fund
These cases tend to show that the
question Of wages IS a broad one, af-
fecteo by several conditions. II there
are amy offsets to the figures The Her
aid correspondent could not find them
from the books, and superintendent
sharp gives The Herald a positive as
surance that these amounts are exact
ly what the company paid the men FOR
the work mentioned. Even at that,
however. the men claim that the ma
lority Of them cannot make more than
a bare living FOR their families. and
this is no doubt what led TO Organizer
Prices reference to the poor house
Union OF Non Union.
AS the thing now stands in these coal
camps it may be said TO be simply
question of whether a union is right
or not, and whether the right shall pre-
vail. The duration of the strike is
prOblematical Both sides remain firm
and both claim to have resources to
carry on the fight indefinitely We
viii never give up. The United Nome
Workers never came into place where
they did not stay and they viii be In
Utah as long as the Utah Fuel COM
pany," say the strikers.
You may say in the most positive
terms says Vice President Kramer Of
the company, that the Utah Fuel COM
pany is in this fight TO stay We VIII
never rscede from our position"
And there you are. IT VIII take time
to determine which side wins the strug
gle. The matter may be precipitated,
of course, at any time. The evictions
may mark the beginning of the end,
and they may not II is impossible at
this time to do more than to speculate
Plenty Of Rumors.
lu considering reports from these
coal camps it should always be borne in
mind that rumOrs fly thick and fast
everywhere. Not only in coal camps do
rumOrs grow as they travel and the
coal camps are not exceptions 20 other
communities iu this particular. For
instance. I'm one of the camps q man
was found unconscious by the railroad
track. Al once the rumOr started from
partisan sources that the man had been
assaulted by strikers Investigation
showed he was drunk and bumped his
head I'm falling. Here at Sunnyside,
where all is quiet at present one hears
rumors of trouble. past and. present,
impossible Of verifcdtion. That indis-
cretions, putting it mildly, have been
committed by both sides cannot be
-cOntradicted. They always occur in
cases of this kind. But aside from that
there are lots of yarns blowing around
mat cannot De SuDSLd UllaLtU "A man
VIII state something positively to you,
but when you ask for proof he departs.
Most Of these stories come from un-
official sources .On both sides and are
evidently told for the purpose Of swing
ing public sentiment one way or an
other. This same public sentiment is
much courted all around What do
they say about il in Salt Lake?" is al
most invariably the first question that
ereets "a salt Laker, and men from
other cities have similar experiences. 1t
would not be a wild guess, probably, to
say that this strike would be settled
10y the public sentiment of Utah. Many
well-informed men in the coal camps
take this view Of it,.
Both Sides Claim Victory.
OF course both sides to the struggle
have some arguments on their side IL
this We're not true the publication of the
facts would suffice to create a public
sentiment that would result in q speedy
settlement. Meanwhile, both sides are
busiIv working away at cross purDOSeS