Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-08

lroach makes 1t difficult to reach an
understanding. They take heavily to
beer drinking, and l may find IL ncces-
sary to close the saloons after pay day
this afternoon. The strike is harm
ful both to the town and the COM
pany, and It is to be hoped II will
be settled at an early date. The only
previous strike was settled In day,
hut these people. II seems are pre-
rared to stay out a MONTH
BROKE THROUGH LINES.
Superintendent Norton was found on
the company grounds. alone with the
exception of Chief Bookkeeper l. A.
Cope and Assistant Bookkeeper a. G.
Smith. These two men had broken
through the picket lines, and stated
that they heard the strike leaders tell
ing the men not to modest them, after
starting to surround them, as they
had the brick masons and mechanics.
Mr.. Norton is a thin, wiry man, and
was very much alert to the situation.
you will have to go to the company
offices up town for most of your IN
formation. We are in constant touch
with them, and you ought to be able
to learn there anything there Is IL
give out. l will say, however, that
these men went on strike without Civ
ing me any chance to adjust their
grievance They demanded raise
ana SLEuCh bliIloSl at AlA' obA'iN Ni''i~-
They have not approached me since,
md no committee has been TO see me
today And that Is about all there
is to It. There is strike. and we
are using our best efforts to protect
our property and keep peace. That
is all the force of deputies are here
tor"
An attempt to interview strikers on
the hill was hopeless, for each one be-
came suddenly deaf, dumb, and blind
until his attention was attracted py
some one approaching the bridge, Ihen
the English word "scab" would foat
from his lips with n choice collection
Of approved English curses. They re-
fused to give out the names of any OIL
their leaders, and the leader himself.
when finally located through his efforts
10 give signals when to swoop on peo-
pie approaching the bridge, declared
that he did not know his own name.
from Greek storekecper in Murray
II was learned that he is native or
Honolulu, and that both the Greeks
and the Austrians have placed their
sase In his hands,
FIFTY EMPTY BEER KEGS.
on the hill where tney congregated
were nearly 80 empty beer kegs, which
are the net result of the recent Greek
holidays, and which may have some
hing to do with the strike. Most OF
the strikers live in the western portion
Of Murray, and it is declared that they
send out of the country over 5000 out
IF each $500 earned.
From members of the mechanical
force who were prevented from enter
ing the grounds, it was learned that the
charge wheelers" among the foreign
iaborers receive 50 per day, and that all
the rest receive $1.75. The demands are
for S2.25 per day for charge wheelers,
and 81 per day for all other employees
who are at work in the brick MILL the
cyanide mill, the hat roasters and the
iron mill.
THREE MEN HURT.
In the rioting this morning the in-
jured were two white mechanics, and
l.. L. Lauritzen, Murray manager OF the
Deseret News. Mr.. Lauritzen rode up
TO the strikers on a wheel, and turned
down towards the bridge intending TO
interview Special Deputy Furster. who
was stationed there He was surround
ed and pushed over an embankment, his
wheel being demolished and his hip in
iured from the fall. A mechanic was
jostled into a barbed wire fence. and
was cut across the face, while another
was struck in the back with lump
Of Stag. Two people We're pushed into
the creek but were not hurt beyond re.
ceiving a gratuitous bath.