Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-20
MUCH DEPENDS ON GOVERNOR
Executive Hurries to Scene, Hoping
to Bring Peace.
TRY TO ENFORCE ARBITRATION
Influence Of Meyer Over Strikers is
Questioned.
STATE BOARD IS NOW ENR0UTE
litia Until All Other Means of
Settlement Have Been
Exhausted.

BINGHAM, Utah. Sept. 1s.-An army O.
miners. fortified and determined, held un
disputed possession OF the copper, lead
and silver mines Of Bingham when tht
second day Of the miners strike for a
further 25-cent increase in pay and recog'
milton of their union dawned
While the army, thousands strong and
speaking many tongues, dug breastworks
strengthened its picket lines and worked
out rough form of military discipline
there was activity in the offices Of the
mining companies and the headquarters
OF the county and s&te officials.
The developments 6t the immediate fu-
ture seemed to depend almost entirely
upon the success Of Governor Spry, who
has been asked to urge the strikers to
surrender the mines. give up their arms
and wait in patience the success or fall
ure Of the mine managers efforts to fig
ure out means by which their demands
can be granted.
Charles H. Moyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, was said
to have an appointment with Governor
Spry to go over the situation. His in
fluence with the miners has been. oues-
toned since his failure to secure post
ponement Of tile strike.
UItimatum from Sheriff.
Just before President Meyer took the
train this morning for Salt Lake to meet
the governor he was notified officially by
Deputy Sheriff Steel that IL the miners
were not down from their mountain fort
ress by noon an attack would be made
by the deputies.
There was much promiscuous firing
from the pits opposite the Utah copper
mine this morning.. About 1000 men were
entrenched there. George w. .Dwyer,
superintendent of the Titan Copper mine
and some of the boekkecpers went to the
mine and have not been molested. None
Of the property OF the mining companies
is damaged and the Utah-Apex company
is working as usual under an agreement
with the union.
Deputy sheriffs are being sent In as
fast as they can be recruited. 1t was
thought that the sheriff's force would
number $50 men by noon, and it was
planned to make a flank attack on the
rifle pits as soon rs a sufficient force
could be mustered and drive the strikers
down the mountain into the canyon.
Governor viii Go to Bingham.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 49,
That the militia should not be called out
until all other means of settling the
Bingham strike had been exhausted, and
that the board of Cancellation and arbi-
tration, headed by the governor, should
leave at once for Bingham to confer
with the strike leaders, was the decision
of the governor's conference today.
Noon found the governor with the state
board of conciliation and arbitration
breaking speed records toward the min
ing camp, anxious to restore reason ana
calnness before the growing passions OF
the 5000 striking miners and the force OF
25O deputy sheriffs led to loss Of life
or destruction Of property.
Word had come from Bingham that the
chief deputy in charge mad threatened
to storm the miners stronghold on the
mountain side at noon. 1t was the de-
sire of the state officials to gain the
scene and try argument and persuasion
before a battle could be precipitated.
The mornings news indicated that the
strikers were not bloodthirsty, but were
enjoying their temporary ascendeney
over their temporary bosses by shooting
recklessly and pushing intimidation to
the limit of forbearance.
There were stories of attempted muir
ders, the sequestration of sixty-five cases
of dynamite taken from storehouses at
the mines, of an order for the arrest OF
President Meyer, that the armed miners
had been directed by their leaders to
shoot deputies to kill, and others equally
sensational. Some of these reports are
known to be false and the others do not