Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-18

u up and got a badly lacerated hand
| re started down Main street looking
! Tor drug store TO have the wound
! dressed, leaving behind him a well de-
! hned tran OF blood. The sleuths fol-
/ lowed this. expecting 20 find "A dyna-
inter The man. however proved his
IDENTITY and whereabouts al the time
OF The explosion and was allowed TO 20
| a peculiar coincidence Is the fact that
the explosion came on the fourth ami
Nersary or the great san Francisco dis
aster and but four months after for
ner attempt 20 dynamite the founda-
tons OF the hotel had been made.
These in conjunction with the presence
or the comet have been much COM
mented upon
The erection OF the Hotel Utah. ever
since the structural ironwOrkers have
been az work. starting Nov I Of last
year, has been accompanied by labor
trouble The Jones company Of San
FRANCISCO obtained the sub-contract
from the American Bridge company
u started in on the work with an
open shop. which Il has maintained
ever since and which is now In force
on the work. Strenuous efforts we're
made on the part Of the union men TO
force the company TO. use only union
men on the work. But they were un-
successful
WORKMAN ASSAULTED
Late in November. Dick Jones. man
1 ager OF the Jones company. was as
saulted on his way home and his cheek
laid open with a knife. He will take
the scar TO his grave on Dec. 10
the first attempt was made 10 blow up
the motel structure. Two bombs were
planted. Of much less power than that
used this morning They did compare
lively little harm. as their use was not
Intelligent and they expended much OF
their force upon the dirt.
Two men were arrested for the crime.
Frank Wilson and ed Delaney. Both
OF these men had worked Tor the Jones
company. and one OF them Wilson,
according 10 testimony, had told Jones
that he had been offered money by
the union iron workers 10 blow up the
works. Wilson also came 20 the Drs-
eret News. after the explosion. and Of
Tered O. turn up" tho men who did the
work for a money consideration. Judge
Bowman, after a long drawn out trial.
during which Wilson defended himself
in such way a. 10 obtain the courts
sympathy. sentenced Delaney 20 six
months in the county Jail and freed
Wilson Delaney is still in the county
jail. serving his sentence Wilson, as
far as known. has left the city.
The Jones company had a suh-con-
tract 10 erect the steel on the Kearus
building. Jack Munsey. business agent
~ the structural Irouworke-S union.
had a consultation with Tom Kcarns.
and # eventually solved itself into the
main contractors taking the work from
the Jones company and giving II to a
contractor who employed union men
But lately the contract FOR tine Hotel
Utah has been taken from the Jones
Company. the American Bridge com
psny assuming the constructive work |
Under the superfntendency 81 J. G..
wilkins But the Job is stin run on |
the open shop nlan
The American Bridge company, which |
has large proportion of the structural /
iron work ~ the country. has had trou- /
bic with the union for years II per \
sists IN holding 10 the open shop idea. /
employing every man who n capable. /
whether ne is member n union 1r I
not All over the country there has /
been more mr. lc7s trouble and the fgdt I
"a not ended get
ONLY WORK OF TIRE KIND
The two dynamlting outrares which /
have occurred in Salt Lake within four 4
months are the first which the city has /
experienced. There have been explo- 4
sives used In the mining camps which 4
are contiguous 20 the city during labor /
troubles. but none of them have ever .
been OF a serious nature The attempt /
at blowing up the hotel is the sole topic /
OF conversation about the city today /
and Is variously characterized as "A /
"dastardly outrage" an attempt which |
should almost Justify lynching." and |
AN employment Of explosive force
which can have not justihcation"
There Is universal condemnation Of |
the deed. And there Is also a general
feeling that the union men have had
something to do, passlvely or actively.
with this second attempt to interrupt !
a non-unlon work. The union work
men have little 10 say about the mat
ter and the men at work on the hotel
are equally reticent But /
there Is strong undercurront OF !
feeling and the prospects are that
there viii be encounters In the near
future between the two factions which
may result seriously
WHAT MUNsEY SAYS.
Il know nothing about IT," said
Jack Munsey, business agent oS the
structural ironworkers' union this
II am positive that none OF
our men had anything to do with il
and ! deplore II as much as anybody
Else We do not believe in using force !
and condemn an attempts OF this sort
/ believe that YOU win find eventual
Iy that the union will be fully exon
Grated"
The fact that one Of the night
had a narrow escape from
death has made feeling run high and
should the culWits be captured the
public viii insist that they be given
punishment Waterman
Osborne was firing a boiler when the
explosion occurred and was thrown
10 the ground by the force. He was
not injured. however The other
Waterman, F. W. Newton. was IN one
~ the offices az the time and was
showered with glass from one OF The
windows. Neither noticed anybody 81
suspicious nature about the build
ing at any time during the night
There Is no law in the state which
,an be used To punish the miscroantg !