Show I i jj THE SMELTER SMELT R STRIKE l J Utah IS 1 getting a great object lesson on the trust question The smelter r F combine since its organization has J been bean raising charges for ore are treatment i until today In some cases those f i charges are said to be what they 1 were before the combine was effected lj Small operators have been be n compelled I i to s shut hut down their mines minee entirely ly the i I larger mines have had to submit to a ai i heavy loss in income the mining stock stockS S j I i holders large and small are all paying I j tribute to the monopoly J i Now come of the smelter smelter i ter trust and ask for an advance of 35 11 I cents per day Practically I of these thase men get for a days work It is hard work some of it so un tin unhealthful 2 healthful that few of the men are phy ph I 1 i stonily able to make a full month I time A case in point shows shaws that ono one employee made 38 in a month work working ii 1 ing to his physical limit and owed the j f company campany store 40 at the end of the I H 11 j month He Is sober industrious and j has been trying to support a family by f his hs toll With hundreds of f fellow em era employees i ploy he believed he was entitled to toj toP toa j P a small a pitifully small share of af the thet t 0 trusts exorbitant advance on smelting i J charges With 1 all aU his fellow employees r I he learned from the trust managers yesterday that these extra profits are jf j meant only for the honorable gentle gentlemen 5 i men who own awn the watered stock of af the I i 1 trust They have hidden behind an am ex cx exI I 1 I committee in Denver Duver a thou thousand thousand thousand sand miles m es away from the scenes of af afI i I distress and misery misers at Murray and i their executive declines to consider even a division of the i i trusts tr large profits with the men who I care for far the furnaces furies S haul b u the slag and andI do the manual lator of the business J I t I In its local columns The Herald pro produces produces I duces figures showing the trusts ad advances adI I 3 vances In charges for ore treatment In the face of those figures no man but buta a trust employee on salary would von ven venture J n ture tare to o say the smelters are paying decent or giving the tho miners miner of j Utah honest service at fair rates g 1 So far tar the strikers have shown a ai i disposition to be patient abide the law lawand j J 4 and refrain from violence The Herald li urges the continuance of such a course Violence or anything approaching It II would result In certain loss of public sympathy and would properly be dis din disastrous disi to every eve Individual responsible i for disorder It I t could co ul gain nothing and 4 would be a misfortune to the community community community I at large as well as to t the men inca I themselves ves 1 Concerning the final outcome of the k strike nothing can be predicted d If It 4 the mine operators of the state united J to bring the smelter leUer 8 trust to terms it j would not take long to break the mo ma monopoly monopoly so far as it affects Utah Uta In Inthe Inthe Inthe the absence of any such organization of men inca who could afford to fight the theT T I trust on its own awn ground the people of ot I 1 Utah including the striking employees em pl can depend upon nothing but such ch gen generosity genI I as may be expected ex ted tram from a trust trustin t in jn complete command of the situation T ti As a horrible example the trust is isa Isa 1 a howling success Do the people of i Utah like the lesson les o it offers |