The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-06
FOREIGN ELEMENT
NOTIFIED TO QUIT
American Smelling and Rein
ing Company Makes Far
Reaching Move.
STRIKERS ARE WITHOUT
ANY OFFICIAL HEAD
Aside From Corporations Move,
Strike Embraces No New
Features.

No more foreigners Will he employed
at the United States smelter at Muir"
ray, according TO the placards that were
posted about the main entrance Of the
smelter yesterday forenoon by the
American Smelling and Refining COM
pany. The notices read to the effect
that all Greeks. Austrians and Italians
Thursday at noon, and that after they
have received their checks they are to
consider themselves discharged from
further duty for an indefinite period.
All white men who We're compelled to
stay out on account of the attitude of
the strikers. can also secure their pay
checks Thursday afternoon, but can, II
they wish, leave the one day that they
have worked In the month of May
on the books Of the company, and re-
ccive their regular May check When the
smeter has resumed business. Superln
tendent Norton could give no ipforma-
tion yesterday AS to when the smelter
would again be i'll operation, other than
that the officials at Salt Lake would do
all the talking.
The blast furnaces. which have been
burning since the walk out, died out
yesterday afternoon. The "frceziDg'
of these furnaces Will be a great loss
TO the smelter, as it means that before
operations can be resumed all the
furnaces will have to be barred ont.
which will take about week or longer.
The strikers. since being warned by
Marshal Mauss to stop firing off guns,
and on Tuesday only a few shots were
heard. That the strikers are going
about armed. was demonstrated vester~
day, when two Greeks were seen to
draw forth two ugly looking knives and
two ,4S revolvers. 4 good escriptiou
was furnished Marshal Mauss, but he
was unable to find the Greeks who had
the weapons.
Thus far no arrest has been made,
and the strikers have conducted them
selves in au orderly manner. No VIC
lcnce abs been attempted toward any
Of the smelter foremcn. and none of the
company property has been destroyed.
Situation Is Peculiar.
The strike, taken as whole. is
peculiar one, and, as stated in yester-
days Tribune, the strikers have no
official head, and thus far have made
no effort to elect a head. The
strikers belong to no union whatever,
anu H'tuiuS III buN "dN VI dD OlSdUlEd-
tion to look after their interests is
known of, That the strike has been
success thus far, has been demonstrated
ever since Saturday evening. the night
the meu walked out. Not many men
have remained any length Of time at
their work in the smclter
Mayor Charles Brown of Murray has
had no meetings with any of the strill-
ing men thus far Last year when the
walk out took place he was instrumental
in getting them to go back TO their
work
Now that something definite has been
decided upon 1T is expected that Muir
ray City will soon be clear of it's for
cign population. However, many Of the
foreigners own homes and property in
Murray, and there are also seven
Italian stores there doing business all
the time. The question of riddins Mur.
ray City of its foreign element was
threshed out once before in Murray dur.
ing the reign of Joseph Stratton as
Mayor. At this time public mass
meeting was called and speeches were
made by several influential citizens, but
the project did not come out as was eJ
pected, and the foreigners were allowej
to remain.