The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-06
SITUATION
IS LITTLE CHANGED
Report Is Current That Utah
Copper Is Soon to Re-
sumo Operations.
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT
1t IS Believed That Attempt to
Resume Will Cause
Strife.
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT

A rumor spread wide YESTERDAY that
mining operations at Bingham are To
be resumed tomorrow morning. Al
though reports TO this effect are said
to come from apparently authentic
sources, officials OF the operating COM
panies here declined to make any def.
mite assertions. An officer OF the Utah
Copper company said that it was not
held advisable to let the strikers know
what movo the operators contemplated.
Although yesterday passed quietly in
the mining camp, there are many indi-
cations that peaceable settlement Of
the strike is yet far remote. The pro-
posed conference of committees rop-
resenting the Salt Lake and the Bing-
ham Commercial clubs, with view of
bringing about conference between
the contendinG factions, did not come
to pass yesterday. In fact, all efforts
Thus far made to pave the way for
settlement by mutual understanding or
arbitration have failed
On tho other hand, the firm asser.
tions of operators and physical appear
aDces at the camp indicate an early at
tempt to reopen the mines, 1t is be.
lived this will be done gradually, set
ting small number of men at work
Mt first, and increasing the force until
n full working army is secured, it
was reported Yesterday that from 400
TO 500 strikebreakers were in Bingham
ready TO 60 TO work upon assurances
OF protection.
Coincident with this report, il was
learned that two passenger cars,
equipped with sleeping cots. have been
stationed in the yards of the Bingham
& Garfield Railroad company AT the
camp, while six box cars, similarly
equipped, with the addition of Kitchens
are In the yards at Magma It was not
these cars were to be for the uso of
strikebrea5ers or deputies.
Meyer Now In Denver.
Charles II. Moyer, president of the
Western Federation OF Miners, is in
Denver and no word had been received
from him last night. A. T. Wilde, busi.
ness representative Of the Associated
Union Of Steam Shovelmen; T. G. Mich
olson, business representative OF the
international Association Of Machin.
lists; J. G. Lownev and Yanco Terzich
executive board members Of the miners
federation, and other leaders of the
striking workers, had no new informa.
ton to give out,
Sheriff Sharp's force of deputies still
keep to their posts at Bingham, well
armed and well supplied with ammuni.
ton. 1t is believed. considering the
restlessness OF tho strikers and their
repeated assertions to fight for their
demands TO the bitter end, that any at.
tempt Monday to resume operations
will arouse strife. Fifty more deputies
were sent to Bingham yesterday. j.
y. Shilling. superintendent Of the Utah
Copper, rode out from Salt Lake with
them.
1t ia reported that Greeks at Bing.
ham continue to hold up automobiles
and conveyances passing up and down
the canyon. Heretofore il has been be
lieved that they have been on the look.
out for any strike breaker that might
be entering the camp in small numbers
Y Yesterday il was declared that the
holding mp of automobiles and convey.
ances by Greeks was part of an effort
TO find j.. G.. Sleliris, the employment
agent who resigned his position with
the Utah Copper company. after he had
been charged by the Greek miners with
sublectinG them to peonage system.