The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
MINERS STRIKE
At PARK CITY
Unjust Discrimination Charged
by Joint Management of
Three Companies.
RELIEF FUND IS VOTED
DALY-WEST, ONTARIO AND DAILY
ARE INVOLVED.
Especial to The Herald.)


p,rLx CITY Sent. 25.-Three hundred and
fiPtv men. or about all the men employed
nv the DaIy-Nest in Park City. are out
of work today as the result of a vote
taken last evening at a special meet
ing of the local branch OF the Western
Federation of Miners, and a well organ
lied strike is in progress
The final act IN calling OF the strike
occurred this morning, when commit
tee consisting of John Ede1strom, James
Rearns, Tom Sloan, Frank Ffneer and
J. ID. McPhee. went to the works of the
Daly-West and notified all the workmen
that strike had been formally declared
and requested that none OF the members
of the union so to work, and the miners
to man went out.
The strike, according to the secretary
of the union, Joseph Langford, comes as
the result of a multiplicity of causes.
the principal one of which Is unjust dis
elimination by the company and It's
bosses against members Of the Western
Federation of Miners. According TO the
union officials for some time there has
been a concerted action on the part or
the management with a view of disinte-
grating the local here. Further, Sec
rotary Langford says that In the matter
of the discharge Of William Treyenna,
shift boss, the above cause for the strike
has been openly acknowledged. It is
charged that Trevenna was shift boss
and that he was requested to let ms
membership in the union go This he
refused to do and as result ne was
discharged and a man named jenkins
given his place.
A committee of the union from Park
City made a trip to Salt Lake yester-
day and interviewed Manager Ernest
Bamberger on the matter with view or
obtaining an adjustment of difficulties,
but they were not successful. Accord
ing to the members of the committee, the
manager refused to consult with W. Z.
McLelland, one of the members of the
committee, on the ground that he had
been one OF the strikers in the Ontario
tunnel. He did, however, discuss all the
grievances with James McNielas and
John Conway. and refused to grant the
demands made by the union
On the whole. the strike is a contest
for the recognition of the union. As things
now stand the walking delegate is not
allowed on the Bamberger holdings and
the drain tunnel is being worked with
non-union men. This, with the Trevenna
matter has brought about the trouble
and it is likely that IL will be some time
before settlement is reached.
Fully 500 attended a mass meeting In
the Dewey theatre this evening, at which
the strike was generally discussed ".
r. Quinn. president of the miners union,
and Joseph P Langford, secretary, pre-
sided over the meeting. Mr.. LangfOrd
made an extended address, in which he
outlined the grievances of the miners
against the DAILY, Daly-West and On
tario management. He said that the
management of the three properties had
been guilty of unjust discrimination
against union men. S Thomas, a new
conner in Park City. translated the sub
stance of the address into German.
French, Italian and Austrian. for the
benefit of the miners of those nation
alities
Tom Sloan, James McNielas. F. Dillon.
Fred Getsch and John EdeTstrom were
appointed general strike committee. aft
or which $1,000 was voted as an imme-
date relief fund. The miners said they
had plenty more money available. II
needed.
There was some talk of extending the
strike to other miners. but this propo-
sitiOn provoked such vigorous and imme-
date opposition that it was dropped.