The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-13
GANG WAYLAYS
AND ASSAULTS
NON-UNIONISTS
Two Strikers LuFed From
Room and BrutaIIy Beaten
in Business District.
WORK OF STRIKERS AND
STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS
ATTACK OCCURS AFTER TRoU-
BILE is SETTLED BY MEET
ING THEIR DEMANDS.


Twenty men, strikers and strike sym
pathizers, made an assault on two
strike breakers after Turing them from
their room in the Savoy hotel last
night. The victims were brutaIly beat
en- and severely injured.
The two victims were Earl S. CARING
and Albert Peck, who came here recent
~ from Kansas City to take the place
of striking iron workers on the Com
mercial club building. IT required three
| hours work on the part OF Police Sur
geOn Steele to attend the injuries OF the
pair after the assault. which took place
at the corner Of West Temple and Sec
Ond South streets. The police are try
| ing now TO learn the identity of the
men who assailed them. They declare
! that at least twenty took part in the
attack.
The attack was made after the strike
! had been settled, the demands Of
the strikers having been granted
Assault Premeditated.
The assault was premeditated, and
I Caring and Peck were called from their
rooms by a most ingenious subterfuge.
Shortly after 10 o'clock a telephone
message, purporting to come from J.
AAlatlLU lA OA Tie AAtlA4iEdt fOlAE steer
company, was sent TO the men at the
/ Savoy The speaker said:
Come down TO my Office in the Dolly
block at once on something of impor-
lance"
! The men believed that transportation
/ had been secured for their return to
Kansas City, and they lost no time in
starting out. They had no sooner
reached. the corner, however, than they
were assailed from all sides. CARING
was attacked first, and when Peck went
to his rescue, he also found himself i'm
the hands of the enemy. The men were
| beaten numerically, and when rem
dered almost senseless their assailauts
disappeared.
Weapons Were Used.
1t is evident that the pair were
/ siugged with weapons as the faces end
/ heads of both were cut, bruised and
mashed until scarcely recognizable.
! According to the victims, the assault
was one of the most cowardly mag
/ Unable. They had left their rooms ia
| the belief that they were soon to meet
their employer, and without any idea
Of the deliberate plot to waylay them.
/ The men had had no warning whatever
/ of the impending attack. They were
/ helpless in the hands Of their assail-
ants, who left them IN a semi-conscious
state in the street and fed for safety.
! The police department assigned a
squad Of men to search for the assail-
ants, but no arrests were made.
1t was remarked that the pIotters
| selected two of the most inoffensive of
the non unionists, and paid no atten-
ton to the leader Of the strike-break-
ers. Daniel Wilcox, who has a reputa-
| ton Of being able TO take care of him-
self
Work to Be Resumed,
Work will be resumed on Monday
morning on the Commercial club build
! ing I'm Cactus Place. The non-union
men will not be there. A force Of union
men will be on the job, and they will
get $3.50 per day. The work will be IN
charge Of z. II. Dundas, a local firm,
and will be rushed TO completion. Thus
has ended the structural iron workers
strike.
Following the trouble on the ground
Friday afternoon, not a non-union man
showed up for work yesterday morning.
A conference was called at II o'clock
[ between W H. Lehman, the general
contractor; L. J. Record, general man
ageT for the Minneapolis Steel COM
pany; J. z, Munsey, business agent for
the Structural Iron Workers. The con-
| ference did not last long. Mr.. Record
said that his company could not afford
| to be delayed in the work longer, and
that it could not meet the demands OF
the strikers and come out whole on the
contract. Mr. Lehman declared that II
the strike continued he would be un-
able 10 turn over the building at the
required time and that, as matters were
| progressing, il looked as if every other
union in no Horr-r7 rr-rrrTT Ha fr4--0r--.z
He offered to relieve Mr.. Record Of the
contract, and the matter was so ar
ranged. He then gave the contract TO
Mr.. DUndas who has all the necessary
material where il can be easily moved
to the grounds, and it was arranged
that work should start Monday morn
ing.
The Minneapolis firm yesterday after
noon made arrangements for shipping
the twenty-five strike-breakers back to
Kansas City.