Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-07
SALT LAKE MEN
FOR GOLDF|ELD
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o,s Hundred and Twenty Sc
cured to Take Place OF
Strikers.
QUICK WORK.
co,es His Recruiting Office in
The Atlas Block in
Two Hours.
!, c.mst OF Men Seeking Work Early
manned TO Disappointment--Ar-
sumcut OF Empty Stomach.

. Two hours this morning George b.
.,,s,,eld. vice president OF the Gold
Ia consolidated Mining company, Sc
M ,,,d every man he wanted to work in
M coldneId mines. and closed his re-
81 sitting offices at room al Atlas block
W ons hundred miners Were adver-
# III FOR. ono hundred and twenty were
~ accepted.
ia 4, noon a long line of workingmen
Isl ,s,e still in front of the office door. To
81 ,A.,e the representatives of Mr.. Wing
III s.a announced: 1--WE want no more
III IAN Those who have been accepted
III IN, report here at o'clock this after
Fl ar We will then announce when we
81 an going to ship
* Tho announcement closed a chapter
81 ,hat will probably assume more tnan
81 Ie,al significance In the final wriune
n "a the history OF the present Industrial
q connection at Goldfeld.
With these 100 miners imported into
q tha mines, there viii be a correspond
) iHe number of organized miners, fight
4 lne under the banners of the Western
y federation displaced, and the element
AZ an empty flour barrel will begin to
esure more materially in adjudicating
4 conditions.
STRONG ARGUMENT.
81 guess the argument of an empty
4 stomach is pretty strong" said the
\ secretary in charge of the Office when
No closed his books. ''Upions are all
risht when there is more work than
men but when conditions are reversed
guess people prefer work to starva-
lion. and that's what II looks like here
today"
The official was shown a copy of
mink dodger circulated among the un-
employed IN Commercial street saloons.
at the Salvation Army headquarters
and In the various employment agencies
today. II is an appeal from the Indus
trlal Workers. of the World for all
working men to stay away from Gold
field, and SHOUTED in large type, Don't
Be Traitor to Your Glass. An Injury
to One is an Injury to All"
PINK CIRCULAR.
We are used to these circulars" de-
elared the secretary. "They have come
a; us so frequently with them that
We are not much disturbed at the idea
Of still one more coming out. The In
dustrial Workers sure have made us
trouble enough at Goldfield, and 1t is
mighty fortunate that we have troops
there TO prevent more of It." When
organization goes to the extent of say
Ing to these hungry men who have lined
up here that they can't work where
work is offered. then It's time those who
fgle so little for their rights that they
Will accept the conditions. go jump In a
well and get low down in the water.
More interests than our own are in
v0lved In this move to allow the indi-
'ldual his right TO work.
TEXT OF CIRCULAR.
The dodger circulated against the
Goldhed men today is signed by Joseph
J. Ettor, national organizer. l. w. w,
ahd u endorsed by Charles MacKinnon.
PRESIDENT Goldheld Miners union 22O
W f, NJ
i Is dated, Salt Lake City, Jan. G.
ivy, and reads:
Fellow Workers: Know We that
mere is strike on at Goldfleld, New?
George w. Wingfield. vice president
Of The Goldtield Consolidated Mining
company, with offices at 2li Atlas
DUCK is hiring miners to scab on the
miners Of Goldfield.
our brothers are striking against
q reduction OF wages of 81 and so per
dsy. The US troops are in Goidfield
70 ihIlmidate the miners and you. il
you 60
Don be Scab."
stay away from Goldfield. Don't
I've traitor to your class. be men
N'rlhy OF the name! An injury to one
n n. ah injury to all. Signed. Joseph j.
i in'or Natl. Organizer l. w. w. Au-
uvilzea by Chas. MacKinnon. Presi-
qsn, ,ioldield Miners union go, w.
ONE IN GREEN.
another dodger In green put out by
WV same source, announces a lecture
w. Present problems by Mr.. Ettor.
starvation, Why" It asks as a head
Jug ana then says. THE granaries
ant JUL the lands fertile, the factories
@uu Work SHOPS are Just as good as two
alun,ns ago, the working mems Drawn
vp nrhln ns strong and sound ms ever.
,shpF lNot NJ ldleness? Jos j. Ettor will
"l You why"
An GOLDFIELD.
,ralurlny's issue OF the Goldaeld
NV contains a summary Of conditions
,Heit which the 800 men leaving here
T,Hhi WIZ have To meet. II says:
q ne backbone OF the strike In Gold
,,,'u Is about broken, and from this on
y Hll be all one way.
,WWNeis of the Western Fedora ton
~ I. Nlners are breaking away in num-
~ ana mines are gradually resum-
IDS Saturday morning the Combi-
sssuon Fraction, after an ldleness of
wv weeks, resumed with three shifts.
FstoI} Of the men being former Western
a iteration men whu had seeded from
Nc Organization.
Ike Mohawk proper also resumed
D,h ms morning with former mem-
,o OF the federation ana with Inn
IN l'ons from California and Utah.
, Np Becker leases on the At
n,n us" resumed. With entirely new
,eo, drought INTO camp by the man
M IL lhty hlf among The best miners
20 lhc coast
~ Won Polena ease on the Florence
ans among those 20 start up. WORKING a
III, NVUlplrment ~ mon. many Of the
Ilon men. -
GARD SYSTEM REMAINS.
~, ,ho men are going 10 work under
VA ara tyAlom, and under tho new
owners. ''P''' 'S "'e nuns
,rhl on can say that not single man
M nriunss tp the Western Fedora,
~ % Miners can SO 90 work upon any
-nt properties Of the association,
'0' hfst renouncing his allegiance