Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-17
LABORERS FALL
INTO CLEVER TRAP
Non-Union Shopmen Are Lured
Away to Strange Cities by
Advertisements.
ONE PRINCIPAL IS ARRESTED
Detectives Gain His Confession That
Union, Paid Him Tive Dollars
Day 20 Get Men Out

Lurcd from their homes hy promise
of good pay and steady work. mono
than 100 men from Salt Lake city and
Denver have arrived ln This city dur
ing the past two days n response to
fake advertisements sent broadcast hy
railroad union men, says the Los Au-
gcles Times.
The analr was taken up with the
ThioI Detective Service company Sat
urday u Los Angeles. and a. hurried
Investigation showed that many nom
union workers have boon vicumIzad By
their schcming enemies In Salt Lake
City
After having spent their earnings
for railroad fare these men ar. now
penuiless Ia "a strange city, and VIII
mo- prospect OF work. Tho Officers oi
the detective agency have already
made one arrest IN Denver lu a similar
case. and 81 IS believed that the friend
of tho accused man there ar further
carrying out his plans.
ADVERTISED WIDELY
Manager Frank r.. clayton of the
Los Angeles branch OF the agency To-
ccived letter from headquarters "a
few days ago notifying him that the
takers had turned their attention toe
ward that city and San Francisco.
The following advertisement ape
poarsd iu salt Lake city and DENY or
papers. Wanted-Nou-uuion maeh.n-
lists. boiermakers. blacks mlths .0a1-
motive pipe men, hAndymcn and help
ers Of railroad experience. Apply ln
person 70 rooms No. 300 and 80 Yves.
Bank building, san Francisco, aud
rooms No. IA and 10, Hotel Orange
Los Angeles.
The proprietor Of the Hotel orange
at Sixth and Spring streets, iu Los
Angeles has received many letters
during the past few days from mon
who state that they are coming M am
swer to the advertisement. and scores
have applied in person, having made
the trip from salt Lake City.
TRICK OF UNIONS.
eve have found this TO DE new
and novel trick OF the labor union
ties" said Manager Clayton saturday
The employees of the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad in salt Lake city
and Denver have been on . srik since
last March. Recently the officials and
tho men reached a settlement But
Iltlt Ntlt many NON Aill.lI IIl'Il MI %
had taken the place of these workers
and who would either Doe retained on
would stay i'm the city subject % call
from the railroad If there was ana
| further trouble.
Advertisements printed in the Den
yer papers FOR non-uniOu men tool
more than 200 OF them % Kansas city
| IL was then learned that the whole
affair was a trick OF the union To get
| these men out OF tho city
knowing that our company fire.
uueutly supplied non-uuiOu workers 10
/ case OF strikes, the takers used our
namo as bait 10 lure the men away.
I'VE found that the fake employ
ment bureau was being operated by a
man named Thomas ~. Hin. He wal
| arrested as he was leaving a union
meeting and confessed that the unions
| paid him S. q day 20 get these non
| union men out Of the way.
He is now under indictment on ,
| charge of using the malls 10 dofraud
/ IL is evidently his friends or co-work
/ ers who have printed other advertise
/ ments and caused many men % com,
| 20 Los Angeles I'm answer TO thes
| fakes