Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1903-07-20 | Page 1 | Imported Laborers Would Not Work for the Smelting Company

IMPORTED LABORERS f WOULD NOT I WORK FOR THE SMELTING COMPANY Denver Colo Cob July 19 Between sixty and nd seventy m mm men n from Joplin Webb I City and St Joseph Mo Io arrived here today toda under agreement to work in the I Globe smelter of the American Smelt Smelting SmeltIng ing lug and Refining company Upon ar arrival arrival arrival rival a s portion of o the men refused to work ork In the smelter claiming that the situation here had been heeD misrepresent misrepresented ml ent ed to them Local strike leaders leaden took charge of them and a anti arranged to fur furnish nish them theta work on a new Irrigation n canal being bein built near Golden They claim claUn that tbt all but about a dosen dozen of the Missourians refused to work at the smelter but General Manager Guiter Guiterman Guiterman Guiterman man is quoted a aus as saying that more moie than half of ot those brought in went to work ork He denies den that there was any misrepresentation declaring that their dissatisfaction was wag brought by inter interference Interference interference ference of or the strikers after their ar arrival arrival arrival rival It is said AkI that one ODe of the men attempted to e escape from the tram train at Brush Col and was wounded in the leg by a local officer He was left at Brush Bush and his name could not be learned from his companions