The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-05
STRIKE SITUATION
SHOWS No CHANGE
Men Simply Wandering About:
and Big Plant Is Virtually
Closed.
MACHINISTS THE ONLY
MEN NOW AT WORK
Nothing New" Is General
Manager BidwelI's State
ment of Conditions.

The strike situation ut Murray is now
at standstill. Practically nothing of
Importance was done yesterday on the
part of the striking men, No audience
was asked of Superintendent Norton,
and If one had been asked for, it is
doubtful if the request would have
been granted, AS Mr.. Norton has placed
the whole matter in the hauds of the
officials ut Salt Lake. From appear
anccs. it looks as if il would now be
Il question OF seeing which side could
stay out the longest, The Foreigners
are determined To stay out rs long as
possible, or until their salary has been
increased To The amount they now, de-
mand, A strange thing about the strike
! is the fact that the strikers have no
! official head. ono 10 take care of their
| interests. AS yet, no one has been
| elected from their number to act i'll the
capacity of spokesman. the striking men
doing all their talking among them
selves, and when they have anything of
any Importance to divulge to the smell
ter people, they select committc of
four or SIX from among their number
to do the talking.
NdCulIlSLS aU WOCh,
At an early hour Tuesday morning
number of deputies from the sheriff 3
office were on band. and together with
Marshal Mauss and his deputies sta
toned themselves at tho main gate, \
large crowd Of strikers, numbering
about 600, were also there, but when
they saw the large force Of men un-
der Marshal Mauss they quoted down
somewhat. The machinisis went TO
work as usual, ana there was no demon
stration at the gate. other than
chine men. Marshall Mauss will be on
hand every morning from now on to
sec that no harm is done 10 those who
enter.
II appears that the machinste arc
the only ones in Murray that have taken
thc trouble TO go to work, the other men
valping their backbones more than the
regular day ; wages, The work that
has been carried on at the smelter since
the strike has been done under dif.
ficuity, and everything is now at a com.
plcte standstill. The furnaces are still
burning, but cannot last but Il few
hours longer. A few men arc still about |
the plant seeing that no ono cutters TO
purlon any of the compouy's property. |
The laboratory men have discontinued |
their duties, as there is nothing for them
assistants are al the plant during the |
day and most of the time until late at |
night.
Noise in Abundance.
Monday evening WAS uoisy one at |
Murray, and very little sleep was had
by large number, on account Of the
din kept up by the strikers, who. to
celebrate the spirit Of tho occasion, :
Kept firing off large firecracllers, re-
Yolrcrs, sbotguDs. and, in fact. any
thing that WAS capable Of making a
noise of any importance. Marshal
Mauss and his deputies were on the
alert, however, and were successful in
routing out large number of the strik-
crs, aud warned them to cease the fir
ing Of guns The noise died ont about
ties Wbittlc and Caldwell patroled
the streets all night TO see that no dis
turbances took place, Yesterday after
noon the strikers were Informed that
II they discharged any firearms Tues
day evening that those who did the fir
ing would be routed out and taken TO
the county Jail for safo keeping.
Deputies from the sheriff s office
viii be on hand again this morning, but
they are confident that no trouble will
occur Meanwhile tho striking men
mako State street their principal gath
ering ground, and pedestrians who at
tempt to walk down the street have n
elbow their way through the crowds of
men or else take TO the road
When asked concerning the situation
at Murray. Tuesday night. J. NJ Bid
we'll, general manager Of the American
Smelling & Refining company. said
here was absolutely nothing new and
that no settlement was yet in sight.