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Show MIDVALE PLANT REOPENS AS ORE SHIPMENTS STAR! Workers Thursday continued to enter U. S. Mines at Bingham ana I Lark. Deputy sheriffs said that Thursday was peaceful with "as tnany workers reporting at the mines as any day this week." Ore shipments from the mines caused the flotation plant of United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company com-pany at Midvale to resume operations oper-ations Tuesday, with 75 men called ations Tuesday, with 75 men called to work. When the plant Is working full force the normal crew is about 600 men. In a statement made by a U. S. official Thursday it was reported that 150 men are at work in the Bingham mine. 1250 tons of ore were shipped during the week. "The company have hired only men who were employed at the mlne3 prior to the strike. We "have not imported any outside labor whatsoever." whatso-ever." It was said that the company is going to pay the men December 23 for wages due for labor to December Dec-ember 20, to give the men money for Christmas purchases. Union activities in Bingham dining din-ing the week included the following follow-ing Incidents: L Announcements of increased union strength. 2. Women joined picket lines to boo strikebreakers. 3. Lon Richards, Lehi, was reported re-ported to have been chased from Lark to Lehi by three cars of pickets pick-ets late Monday. Men in one of the automobiles Were said to have wrecked his car, when Tie fled J rom it into his home. 4. Four men returning from work at Bingham Tuesday -protested to city officers at Midvale that they were being followed by strikers and asked for protection. They returned re-turned to Bingham to stay overnight, fearing molestation at the Point of the Mountain. Men were Reuben Dean, Max Batchelor and James Adamson of Lehi and Neldon Dean of American Fork. o. Pat Doyle, union leader, appeared ap-peared before Judge S. J. Kenner Thursday morning and filed a complaint com-plaint of assault with a deadly weapon wea-pon against Reuben Dean of Lehi, Doyle claimed Dean menaced pickets pick-ets with a shotgun. Park City Votes Hope for settlement of the Park City strike troubles were heJd held Thutsday by Reid Robinson, Butte, Montana, president of the International Interna-tional union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. following ' announcements an-nouncements of agreement between operators and union representatives reached in a conferences in the office of-fice of Governor Blood late Wednesday. Wed-nesday. O . , |