The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-28
DEPUTIES ARE
IN CONTROL OF
BINGHAM HILLS.
Hold Vantage Points Over
looking Camp and Mine
Workings; New DISPOSE
ton Regarded as Sig
nificant.
SAY GOVERNOR MUST
ARRANGE CONFERENCE
Union Leaders Demand Rec
ognition With Alternative
of Calling General Strike;
Wage Increase at Ely.
SAY GOVERNOR MUST
ARRANGE CONFERENCE

TIVE incidents developed yesterday
ri that give strong reason to be-
leve the Bingham strike was still
far from peaceful settlement.
Two OF these were In Salt Lake. two in
Bingham, and one in Ely, New.
Following a meeting of the leaders
Of unions affected yesterday afternoon,
the declaration WAS made that the
strike would be carried TO all camps IN
which D. G. Jackhng and other Bing
ham operators were interested, unless
Governor William Spry used his inau
ence to bring about conference De
tween union leaders, as representing the
strikers, and Bingham, mine operators.
Youth Is Attacked.
Last night Il. Grow, IS years of age,
living at PSI West Fourth South
street, was beaten by two men on
West Temple between Pierpont avenue
and Third South street. The boy had
a shotgun and was going hunting to-
day. The two rufians, declaring they
were strikers, struck the youth ovor the
head and robbed him of the gun. The
boy notified the police, who, while not
capturing the two men, found reel
cart belonging to the signal corps,
n. G. u, which had been hauled more
than block from the armory. The boy
said it had been stolen by nbout a
dozen men,
Deputies Are Scattered.
at Bingham, a move regarded as sig
niicant was made yesterday, when the
deputy sheriifs, who heretofore have
been quartered In an almost compact
body, were scattered and posted about
the canyons and at points OF vantage
on the hills This followed q visit to
the camp of Sheriff Joseph z. Sharp,
Deputy Sheriff Axel Steele and Deputy
A. A. Butler, the latter two remaining
in the camp after the sheriff return
TO Salt Lake. There was no visible
evidence of any move on the part OF
the strikers. By afternoon, the sheriff g
forces practically controlled the hills
overlooking the mines and the city.
SGT1kGIS WdGCu Noduos
1t was reported that the strikers,
largely Greeks, had scattered out along
the highways to and from Bingham,
and are now holding up automobiles and
vehicles to learn whether the occu-
pants are strikebreakers. Postmaster
G. II. Roberts by personal experience,
bears out this assertion
a report from Ely, New, is to the ef-
feet that despite an announcement by
the Steptoe Valley Smelling Mining
company that it would give its en-
ployees an increase OF from 20 to 90
cents a day, effective October i, the
workmen will not recede from their po-
sition, having determined to be guided
bv the action Of the federation In con-
nection with the Bingham strike.
Leaders Are Determined
So far as the conference Of the union
leaders was concerned, the outcome was
resolve to hold out for the de-
mands Of the strikers. The meeting
was held with A. l.. Wilde, business
representative Of the Associated Union
of Steam Shovelmen, who is acting for
President Charles H, Meyer OF the
Western Federation of Miners. The
substance OF q statement Issued after
the meeting follows:
II Governor Spry refuses to use his
best offices TO call a conference nes
tween representatives of the strikers
in Bingham, who are also union Of
fcials and the rnine operators. the
strike will be carried TO all the camps
I'm which the Jacking crowd IS inter
ested. The first move will be made at
Ely where the men have agreed to
stand by tho Bingham strikers. Then
strikes VIII follow in other camps
Mr Wilde went to Governor Spry's
office Yesterday afternoon to explain to
him the decision OF the union lenders
and see II there were any possibility of
the governor calling such a meeting.
Governor Spry was busy when Mr..
Wilde called at his office Tho chief
executive said he would see Mr.. Wilde
This morning
j. C.. Nicholson, representative or the
Association OF Machinists,
will go tomorrow to Ely to confer with