The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-25

an .fpullt' i'lBtI 80
Mason helpers .'....'.->. ->.'....'s.-.. 20
Surface laborers NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 30
Employees of mechanical department
working on outside jobs in smoky loca-
be entitled to full shift pay OF nine hours
for eight hours work,
The schedule was posted at the smell
ter and on the streets Of Bingham
Junction by Assistant Manager Rhodes,
following the final conference between
the company and the men.
When Strike Begun.
The strike occurred Monday, May l3,
following the shutdown by the company
OF the copper plant for repairs, be-
cause of complaints of the men against
the smoke. The men employed in the
copper plant also demanded higher
adopted by the company on Friday Of
the preceding week that increased the
pay of the men in the lead plant. The
company refused to accede to the de-
mauds of the copper workmen for an
increase in wages and shut down the
copper plant for repairs and to get rid
of the smoke of which the workmen
complained. In sympathy with the cop
per men the lead plant struck, causing
the shutdown of the entire plant,
The strike was the most peaccable in
the history of labor troubles In this
section, with the single exception of
the murder of the Greek workman, Ko-
wallis.
Murdered Mans Funeral
The funeral of Anastasious Kovallis.
the Greek workman who was murdered
from ambush by the mob Of striking
Greeks and AUstrians in the smclter
grounds at Bingham Junction Monday
night. was held Thursday, and was
an imposing spectacle, attracting CON
siderable attention. The services were
held at the Greek church on the west
side, the building being packed The
priest of the church conducted the serv-
ices with the ritualistic ceremonies,
which were impressive
The body was inferred in Mt Olivet
cemetery. The funeral procession
formed at the church and included the
Twenty-ninth infantry band from the
fort. and a large number of mourners
carrying a diversified and profuse as
sortment of floral tributes. The bear
crs Of the tributes and the pallbearers
walked beside the funeral car bare
headed. Following were several hun
dred Greeks in columns of fours, the
rear of the procession being brought
up with thirty-two carriages When
State street was reached the process.
sion filled the carriages and several
special street cars, which carried them
TO the cemetery. The body was com
mtted 10 the grave with tho burial
rites of the Greek church.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Sharp said Thurs
day night that the twelve suspects of
the murder of Kovallis now in custody
likely will be indicted today. The
charges against most of them will be
inciting riot, in all probability, One
at least, and maybe more, will be held
to answer TO a graver charge, probably
murder, il is said, The prosecuting
witnesses likely will be Greeks from
Bingham Junction who were fellow
workmen and friends of Koyallis The
cases against the suspects will come be-
fore the District court.
through another rigid sweating
Thursday but Deputy Sheriff Sharp said
Thursday night that little information
beyond what was obtained Wednesday
was developed Thursday. Tho suspects
are sullen. can not talk English and
probably are glad Of it.
Deputy Sheriff Steele, with a force
of three or four regular deputies under
him, and about twenty special deputies.
watched the situation Mt Bingham June
tion again Thursday, but nothing de-
veloped to need their services, How
ever, the presence of n heavily armed
force Of officers has a restraining effect
upon the lawlessly inclined and what
might have happened had the officers
not been present can only be guessed
Tho officers kept up the search for other
members of the mob in addition TO their
/ other duties at the Junction, but no
more arrests were made. It is the hope
OF tho otticers, however, to land moro