Show CHARLES H MOYER IS TOURING STATE President of Western Federa Federation Federation Federation tion of Miners Will Speak in Various Towns HOMESTAKE MINE STRIKE ONLY TROUBLE ORGANIZATION HAS ON HAND AT PRESENT 2 t ci cis f s I r rCHARLES S t CHARLES H MOYER MOVER President Charles H Moyer Mayer of the Western Federation of ot Miners is i tour four tourin tourIng Ing in the mining camps of ot Utah in an effort to stimulate the organization and anda acquaint quaint a the miners affiliated with the federation in this state of the lockout situation in the Black Hills the only place where the federation has baa any trouble tr ble on an hand Moyer arrived in Salt Lake early ea ly yes yesterday yesterday yesterday morning from Denver I enver and is registered at the hotel He will leave today taday for tar Eureka where he will hold two meetings Monday and will address the miners of both bath the day and night shifts shUts Tuesday he will be beat Mammoth at Thursday at Park City Saturday at BIngham and will close clase his tour of f the state at Mon Monday Monday Monday day April 25 when he will return to Denver and report the result of his trip to the executive board We are well organized in Utah said Mr Moyer Mayer but we are keeping three organizers in the field There Is no truth in the report that we have bave been contemplating withdrawing our organ organizers organIzers from Utah We Ve are constantly gaining ground in the tb state The work of organizing in Utah is in charge of Howard a member r of the executive board No Trouble In Utah I The Western Vestern Federation of at Miners has no trouble on an or pending in Utah or for far that tha matter in any other ither section cf the country outside of camps in the Black Blac Hills South Dakota I was at Deadwood S D two weeks ago and found the situation there hopeful so far as the organized miners are con can concerned concerned We still have a fair show of winning against the Homestake com cam company campany company pany at Lead and against the smaller companies In Terry Deadwood Galena and other camps Last November the Homestake locked out about miners Since I that time they have managed to put about 1200 men to work wark About of af that number re former farmer federation men menThe menThe menThe The others are strikebreakers from Missouri South Carolina and elsewhere The Homestake is running about half capacity The output of af the tho mine is practically normal for tor the tho reason that the ore is being gouged out aut and milled At Terry the mines are practically at a standstill as a result of or the lock lockout lockout out aut of federation men The normal working complement of ot miners at Ter Terry Terry Terry ry is about There are loss than men working in the camp The same Is true proportionately in the smaller camps Sentiment Is 14 about equally divided among the business men In the Black Hills as to the labor situation The Western Westeri Federation has no trouble whatever at Butte The trouble with the tho engineers has been beeh satisfactorily adjusted and everything is running smoothly In the Montana camps My principal Idea in visiting the Utah unions at this time is to acquaint the themen themen themen men with the situation in the Black Hills Many of them may have re received received received wrong impressions of affairs there ther |