The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-09
Twenty Men Walk Out at Sierra
Nevada Mill Friday
Morning.
DISAFFECTION SPREADING
TO OTHER MILLS OF CITY
General Strike Would Affect
Over One Hundred Men,
aud Eight Mills.

The sa9ecton that resulted in the
strike of the millmen and carpenters
at the Taylor Armstrong and Salt Lake
mills here a few days ago, is rapidly
spreading and threatens to encompass
the whole of Salt Lake. II reached the
Sierra Nevada mill Friday morning and
every union man walked out, about
twenty in number, leaving only few
non-union workmen employed. The mill
ran the rest of the day shorthanded.
Three mills, the Taylor Armstrong,
salt Lake and Sierra Nevada, and about
fifty men are now involved in the mill
men g strike and the trouble threat
ems 10 visit every other mill in Salt
Lake. In this case the total Of work
men involved will reach more than 100,
while the number Of mills affected will
total eight. The other mills that will
he affected in the event of strike Of
all tbe millmen, are Granite. CONNER
cial, Central, Davis & Ridges, and
Great Western
| The strike at the Sierra Nevada Fri
day morning occurred at $50 o'clock.
II is told that nou-uuIon workman
who had been employed at the Salt
Lake mill, appeared at the Sierra Ne
vada and asked for employment. He
was given Job, to which the fore
man. a union man, objected, asserting
! that II the nonunion man was employed
/ he would quit The nonunionist was
retained and the foreman. followed hv
/ all the other employees, laid down their
tools and walked out
Until Friday nn trouble mad been ex-
perienced al the Sierra Nevada or at
| any of the other mills not affected be-
! IF ha hnT
| men employed are members of the un-
ion, and If was hoped that the trouble
ar the Taylor ARMSTRONG and Salt Lake
mills would be settled before the strike
spread. The hope failed For long
time, II is said, only union men have
! been employed at the Sierra Nevada
! aud other mills not already involved
in the strike. When the non-union man
was taken on hy the Sierra Nevada
Friday morning the union workmen inl-
mediately quit.
Serious Charge Made,
The rather serious charge is made bv
some Of the striking workmen at tb5
Salt Lake and Taylor Armstrong mills
| that the non-union man, who is said
to have been employed at the Salt Lake
mill formerly, was sent 20 the Sierra
Nevada by the mill owners who knew
| only union men We're employed there TO
the management and probably produce
a strike. II was further said by soma
Of the strikers Friday night that D
non-upion man had been sent to each
of the other mills, where only union
workmen are employed. that are not
yet involved in the strike but are like
" to be If the nonuulon workmen sent
there are taken on and kept.
The millmen held an important meet
ing Friday night bearing on the strike,
but little information as TO the proba-
bilties Of walkouts at the other MILLS
was given out. President Spalding OF
the District Council of the millmen de-
clined TO issue statement Friday night
on the situation and outlook further
than 30 say that there was little en-
couragement to be drawn from pre-.
vaiing conditions. From other souces
it has been CLEANED that a wholesale
strike on the part of the men employed
in the mills of Salt Lake is not highly
imminent President Spalding will is
strikers today.
The controversy is not over wages.
The strikers claim that IN fact if their
demand is granted by the mill owners
their wages Will suffer a slight falling
OF. The demand Of the strikers is that
the mill owners employ only union men.
Mill Owners Side.
representative of the mill owners
Friday said that no official notification
was given them by the strikers as TO
what their grievance is. 'After ar
ranging a conference with us. the work
men simply walked oct, - said the rep
resentatiye of the owners. .'That con-
ference was never held, although We
were, and are, willing 10 meet with the
strikers We really are not authorta
tivelv informed as to why the men are
on strike and if they do not send
deputation TO us in n day or so we
will make public our side Of the affair.
So far, the strikers have willfully mis-
represented their side of the case.
The mill owners further contend that
the clause in the mon s working rules.
going into effect June l. upon which
the strikers based their grievance. pro-
vided that the union millmen should
give three days notice of their griev-
ancc before striking, They say the
men violated the clause by not giving
notice of their intention to strike, stat
ing their grievance, before they walked
out. Tho strikers said they had been
working with non-union men for some
time aud had frequently compliance
to the owners of this condition and stat
cd their intention of going out if the
difficulty was not remcdied. They con-
tend that the clause was not violated
by their striking June ! instead OF
waiting three days longer.