Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-05-06
PROTEST TROOPS
For COAL FIELDS
STATEWIDE STRIKE is THREA-
TENED If GUARDS ARE SENT
TO CARBON COUNTY
Streetcar Employees Join City and
State Federation In Urging Gov
ernor to Withdraw Soldiers
From Strike Zone

salt Lake.-lntlmati0nS that q gtate-
wide strike of all union workers will
be ordered If the National Guard Is
sent into Carbon county coal district Is
contained in resolution passed by
the State Federation of Labor. The
resolution charges that the troubles
have been precipitated by mine guards.
In a similar resolution passed by
the street car mems union the attitude
Of the mining companies is heartily
condemned as an effort to discredit
the miners by making 1t appear that
troops are necessary. A resolution
taking a similar stand was taken by
the Salt Lake City Federation of La.
Dor, which held that order could cas-.
lily be maintained without the use OF
troops.
The resolutions of the State FEEDER
alton and the Street Car Mems I'm.
ion follow:
Honorable Charles r. Mabey,
Governor of Utah.
Capitol Building, City.
Dear Sir:
lnasmuch as the troubles in Carbon
county have been fomented and pre-.
c1pltated entirely by mine guards and
company hlreings in an effort to dis
credit the union miners who have
been orderly and lawabiding to a fault,
and that this has been done for the
obvious reason of having the National
Guard sent down to do police duty for
the mining companies at the expense
OF the taxpayers of the state, the State
Federation of Labor, therefore pro.
tests the sending of the state troops
into the mining distMct, and that we
Will recommend an attitude of down
tools on the part of the workers of
the state if state troops are sent in
and martial law declared at this time.
Thanking you for anything you may
be IN a position to do to see that the
miners and their families get a square
deal, l remain, very truly yours,
NJ. p. BALES.
President State Federation of Labor.
Labor Temple, City.
one hundred experienced men have
been recruited in Salt Lake to go TO
Carbon county to act as DEPUTY sher
IFS to assist Sheriff Thomas #. Kel.
ter of Carbon county in preserving or.
der and protecting life and property
at the mines.
This action has been taken by the
commissioners of Carbon county at the
suggestion of Governor Charles r
Mabey and Lieutenant Colonel w. G.
Williams, adjutant general of Utah.
Inc governor, in conference with the
commissioners of Carbon county. az.
serted that he would not send the
state troops into the coal fields until
the county had exhausted every re-
source in its efforts to maintain peace
and tranquility.
Il want you commissioners to get
busy, the governor told them. ~
want you to see that those camps are
properly policed and that the lives Of
innocent persons are protected. 70.
lice every camp in the county.
That means that we must get men
from outside of Carbon county. for we
cahnot obtain men and deputize them
IN that section one of the commits
sioners told the governor. Assistance
IN obtaining competent and responsible
men was promised the commissioners
by Lieutenant Colonel w. G. VIII
Hams, VINO promised to place the
commissioners in touch with persons
who could furnish the men needed.
IT was pointed out that the men t.
be deputized for the purpt Sc of polio.
ing the property of the coal mimi 2
companies, but that they will 20 there
for the specific purpose of maintain,
ing erder and preventing bloodshed.