The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-29
WILL ASK AID OF
MORMON CHURCH.
Murray Residents Think it Can
Solve Labor Problem.
COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED
ARGUMENTS MADE FOR AND
AGAINST FOREIGNERS.

BY Unanimous vote of those. pres
ent at mass meeting held last even
ing in the Murray opera house. it was
decided to have committee confer
with the Immigration bureau of the
Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day
Saints i'm an effort to bring i'm white
Immigrants TO supersede the, Greeks
and Austrians now employed at the
smelters.
The meeting. which was attended by
over 200 persons, was called TO order
by Mayor j. II. Stratton, w A. Will
Umsen being appointed secretary. The
chairman stated the purpose Of the
meeting to devise some peaceable
means OF Kidding the town of the I'M
desirable foreign element He stated
that letter had been received from
the authorities of the Mormon church
Offering assistance by encouraging 9TH
or immigrants to come to Utah and
thus displacing Greeks and Austrians.
lie stated that the employers at the
shelters had expressed a willingness
10 hire other men than Greeks and Aus
TRANS if these others were imported
James w. Cahoon, formerly a mem
Der of the state legislature, and J. II.
Halliday advocated the raising of
funds and advertising for men to take
the places Of the aliens now at the
shelters.
Charter Opposes Importations.
"a. w. Charter. of the State Fedora
ton of Labor, then made a lengthy adj
dress in which he objected to other for
eiEners being imported to supplant
those already in this country. He said
III part
1t does not seem to me feasible to
bring in more aliens merely 10 have
them take the place of others who have
come before them. That viii not rem
edy the evil that is hanging over us
foreigners superseding Americans i'm
shelters. / would advocate the closing
OF the doors against foreign labor by
legislative enactment
There is a man in Salt Lake City who
last Sunday got SO apiece from a hun
dred Greeks who came into the city
nom San Francisco. merely to give
them jobs Another man, Leonidas
Skliris, the Greek labor agent, is work
ing similar graft. He practically
makes slaves OF the uneducated Greeks
who come TO this state. He gets them
work and has them discharged at will
And II is not foreigners alone who
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American bosses in some of the smelt-
ers who make a man pay from SO Il
- before they will give him lob
Americans will not stand for this rob-
berry, but untutOred Greeks do. There
are a few Greeks, however. who are al
present out of employment simply be-
cause they viii not allow crashing
foremen TO hold them Up. know that
often when man has no money to Of
fer boss for a position in the shelter
the boss will take the fellows watch
The Greek. being unlearned and with
out friends. either has TO dig up in or
der to get a job, or else starve.
Calls Merchants Responsible.
s. The local merchants are partially
RS ponsible for the great influx of
Greeks, by encouraging them for the
reason they pay cash. But the trades
men have suffered in the end. for the
creeks are starting stores and gettins
All this cash trade, forcing the Older
dealers to fall back on the credit bust.
ness with the natives. At the rate
Greeks are coming into this state. be-
fore long all of us American working.
men viii be looking for jobs elsew here
Skliris has made his boast that another
year will see the number of Greeks in
Utah increased from the present tota
of l2O0 to 5000 Greeks are beinl
shipped right along from San Francis
co and Chicago to Utah. There is Z
man in Chicago VINO makes it a bust
ness to advertise that laborers ar,
needed in Utah and ships Greeks to thi.
state.
AS to the assault upon Murra,
oman some time ago, l would not ac
cUse a foreigner of it Until / knew foI
certain that he did the deed For il
may be that an American is RESPONSE
bic for the crime, When a man be-
comes So low that he will force a la.
bcrer 10 pay him money for d job tina
should be offered free, he viii do mos
anything. The Greeks themselves ar,
not wholly responsible for the troubl,
with which we are contending. 1t /.
the grafters, who are often nativ,
Americans
Mr.. Charter then introduced DR.. p
g. p. Atlas of salt Lake. He spok,
but briefly. as the crowd. which ha,
commenced to struggle out durin:
Charters speech, began leaving in larg
numbers. He stated that the Greek.
and Austrians should not be accuse,
of committing crimes without there be
ing some sure proof against them. II,
stated that in many instances hi
CCuntrymen, the Greeks had beer
treated unjustly. He averred that tn,
Gteeks do not willfully take Jobs away
from Americans by agreeing to worl
at lower wages.
Says Treatment Is Just.
Chairman Stratton then arose anc
remarked holly that the Greeks haC
not been treated unjustIy in MURRAY
He said that for some time the Greel
fruit stand had been allowed to run on
sunday, while the American store wa.
closed. This, he stated, would no long
or be tolerated
We want the foreigners to buils
themselves homes here" he continued
amid loud applause and not live sis
or more in a ten by-twelve room tina
Teeks so with filth an ordinary pensOI
cannot stay in it five minutes. ON
fight is not against the smelter own
ers. but is for a better class OF labor
There are lots of Greeks in this coun
try who are good at heart They onl,
need educating to make them uprigh
citizens. But there is class of for
eigners in this community that it costs