The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-19
Bullets Greet Officers Who Enter the Mine
 Works
DEPUTIES UNABLE TO
 HANDLE SITUATION
Twenty Million Pounds of Copper Produced Monthly at Great Mines. The Men Demanded Increase
 of Fifty Cents Per Day

Bingham, Utah, September 1S.-Bullets greeted S5 deputy sheriffs who attemptei to draw the fires under boilers at the big copper mines here today From behind breastworks they had thrown up since morning, striking miners who quit work today because the Utah Copper company and several other concerns refused them an increase in wages, fired upon the of- flcers and drove them from the nina works. No one was injured.
 Earlier in the day however, while armed strike piclSets stood guard at the ap- breaches of the various properties firing shots into the air, one of their number was wounded by Theodore Schweit2er, deputy The deputy had ordered the picket to cease firing. Upon his refusal schWeitzer shot the miner in the wrist
 Only One Mine in Operation
 Only one of the great copper mines here. that of the Etah Apex Mining company. continued operations today. The com pany signed contract with the miners a few days ago.
 The Great Utah Copper, one of the most productive copper mines of the world. the Utah Consolidated, United States. Bingham -Newhaven. Ohio copper. Bing- ham mines, and q score of lesser mines. the Bingham and Garfield railway and the ore traffic on the copper belt branch of the Rio Grande railway were closed tightly. Fonr thousand men. mostly for eigners, were idle and almost every idle man more a weapon Of some sort. They gathered in sullly little groups discussing their grievances.
 After conference with mine officials late today. Sheriff Sharpe Of salt Lake county, wired Governor Spry that his force of deputies could not handle the situation. The governor abandoned d speaking tour and hurried 10 Salt Lake City to make personal investigation of the situation. All saloons have been closed by the order of Sheriff sharpe.
 Raise Not Satisfactory
 The Bingham miners made an informal demand. several weeks ago for d flat in- z Use q VI ses in ail depa-trr nls of gp ger, a da} oa september :, the Itch Copper company announced 6 horizontal increase of , cents n day for all labor and the other employers adopted the same scale. This was not satisfactory to me- iOrity ofsthe men and agitation for the full 90 cent raise continued.
 Ten days ago a strike vote carried over
 
 of the Western Federation of Miners came here and urged diplomacy be ex- hausted before the declaration of a strike. However the Greeks. Austrlans. Italians. Japanese and Bulgarians, who largely out numbered the American miners. were iu- sstent upon a walk out. Tine Tinns and the Americans in the union are said to have stood with Mir. Mover. but when they found themselves outnumbered 10 to 1. they joined the majority in voting for the strike.
 President Mover said today
 While personally 1 have done what 1 could to prevent this strike nov that t has come, 1 regard the demands of the men as fair and just and the Western Federation of Miners will back them com pletely. The men are working too long hours. The high price of copper cer- tainly iustifies the raise"
 Gemmell's Attitude
 Manager Jackling of the Great Utah Copper has been visiting his properties in Arizona and New Mexico and in his absence his assistant. K. C. Gemmell, spoke for the company.
 We do not treat with the officers of the union regarding any matters connect ed with the mines" he said. We do not recognize the federation We are al- ways willing 10 confer with our empoyas of properly appointed committees"
 Twenty million pounds of copper is pio- dueed monthly in the camps of Bingham. The Utah Copper alone. handling low grade porphYry rock i'm immense quanti- ties. furnishes about l2.Qo000 pounds.
 Should the strike be of long duration several thousand other men would as thrown out of employment oy the shto- ting down of the reducing mills and snsA- ter nenr here