The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-28
UNIONS ORGANIZED
BY THE MINE WORKERS
Men Met on the Hillside and Avoided
TTouble-Three Arrests
Yesterday.
Especial to The HeraId)

Winter Quarters. Utah, Nov. 81
The organization Of the striking min
ers Of Clear Creek and Winter Quar-
tiers was effected today for the first
time Heretofore the men have been
without any definite understanding
among themselves. Representatives OF
the United Mine Workers have been
here and induced the diggers to leave
work, but no union was in existence
80 these two camps until today. Ac
cOrdIng TO the spokesman for the min
ers more than six hundred men were
initiated in an open air meeting, held
on the side of the hill a mile below
SCOfeld today. The leaders declare
that they have assurances from those
now working 20 justify the statement
that the miners at Clear Creek and
Winter Quarters will be compelled 70
close down within four days. The Op-
orators, dispute this emphatically. IT is
claimed by the mine superintendent
that the working force at Winter Quar-
ters today was twenty more than yes
terday
The operators representatives here
state that the situation is greatly i'm
proved since the arrival of troops and
that the normal output viii be reached
within a few days. Here, as at Clear
Creek, notice has been served on the
strikers that they shall consider them
selves discharged and notifying them
70 vacate the property of the company.
Open Air Meeting.
Long before daylight the strikers
commenced moving toward the place OF
meeting. They left their homes at
Clear Creek by twos and threes and by
the time the sun rose they were strung
r-alOng the railroad on the road TO SEQ
field. BY decree Of the town board at
Scofeid an meetings within the cOrpor-
ate limits have been prohibited and the
rendezvous was out in the open air.
BY 8 O'Clock fully five hundred men
bad gathered, including the strikers
from both Winter Quarters and Clear
Greek. 1t was a perfectly orderly
crowd and they were not molested.
Sheriff Wilcox. accompanied by a file
of soldiers. went to the scene and took
three prisoners without trouble. Joe
Barbelio- a business man Of Castle
Gate and organizer for the Unite Mine
Workers, set the initiating machinery
in motion and enrolled the men in two
unions, one for each of the nearby
camps. Addresses were made by Bar
boliO and William r. Lewis, a local
American miner.
The tenor of the speeches was mild.
The men were asked to remain at the
mines. but in no way to aEgravate the
situation by acts Of violence. They were
urged to remain sober and to keep the
peace. The following officers, for Win
Ter quarters, f0tOuElQ UlllOns were erect
ed; President Matt Pakha: vice
president. William LarinClli; secretary.
w. 3. Lewp, recording secretary,
Thomas Caisley.
At the conclusion Of the meeting the
men dispersed quietly. most of them
going home. Tomorrow another meet
ing VIII be held, when the union lead
ers expect to enroll additional mem
bcrs.
Militia Has Little to Do.
The military is having little to do.
no disturbances have been reported to-
day. With the exception of loaded
rifles and strict patrol duty. the men
might be on a peaceful cOmping ex-
petition. Winter Quarters is guarded
by one company of militia, two are at
Clear Creek and two at Scofield where
General Cannon makes his headquar-
tiers
There was said to be a project to
capture BarOIiO after tOday's meeting