Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-06-26 | Page 9 | Poses as Miner; Works as Sleuth

POSES AS MINER WORKS AS SLEUTH A W Johnson Exposed and Ex Expelled Expelled pelted From Bingham West Western Western ern em Federation Local Special to The Tho Bingham Juno 26 For 76 75 cents a 0 aday aday day A W Johnson it was public publicly ly charged tonight obligated himself to the Pinkerton Detective agency to report all meetings of ot the local lodge No 67 Western Federation of Miners to the tho office His Identity was disclosed and his work exposed in inan Inan inan an open session on of the union tonight When confronted with the charge he admitted that it was true and that the agency had Instructed him to join the union and report all their proceedings He also said sald that he was as sent cent hero to report the condition ot of o the Boston Consolidated Con Mine Une and to see If Ie any an of the shift bosses were taking money from tho the for their positions i His admissions lons aroused a storm oC ot indignation among the tho members of ot the union and he was wa roasted to n a light lightbrown lightbrown lightbrown brown by all aU concerned Johnson joined the union November 27 and at that time was wall tool nipper at ot atthe atthe the Boston Consolidated mine but lately had quit the mining industry and had been selling papers Tho The union obtained the information three days ago alo that satisfied them that Johnson was In the employ of the When hon confronted with the tho charges tonight ho admitted all alland alland alland and begged the members to be bo lenient with him Ho He appeared very much dis die disturbed and said paid that he ho realize the tho nature of ot his hid hi obligation He lIe stated that If tho the organization would give him tho the chance he would leave town He lie was expelled from the union tonight which will probably be the only action taken in the matter motter Johnson also stated that there were two other men in the mining camps doing the same work for the agency one of ot whom Is Anthon Drosda of ot Salt Lake