Show GEMANA STUiION Smelter Management Refuse Raise to Men MR JONESS STATEMENT 1MR He Will Fill all Contracts and Will Handle Ores as Usual Tho Furnace Fur-nace Shift at 3 in the Afternoon Failed to Respond At 11 Last Night the Shift Duo at that Hour Was Partly Filled A Meeting of Smeltermen to be Held at Murray Mur-ray Today All Quiet and Orderly The demands of the striking uinelter men for an advance of 35cents a day having been refused by the management I manage-ment of the Cicrnuinfa those who had I consented to remain at their posts I pomlhur the arrival of the companys ultimatum drew on their coats yesterday yester-day and at I I oclock In the afternoon the two remaining blast furnaces were blown out and the reduction of ores at the plant practically suspended As on the occasion of the walkout nine days bbfore all tills was done without one discordant note An expression nf regret was visible upon the faces of tIme suicllermcn as well as the attaches of the plant but the committee representing repre-senting the 500 persons who had demanded de-manded an Increase was the same quiet and wellbehaved cluster that had walled I upon the management before and In silent resignation withdrew from the scene The decision at which Dls Irlcl Manager Jones of thIs city the operating committee at Denver and the otllcers of the American Smelting auLd Refining company at New York had arrived was conv vjd to the committee commit-tee by Superintendent Tucker It was final The shift that had reported at 7 a m continued its work without faltering and not until the clock struck i i and the whistle sounded for another shift did those employed upon It draw on their jackets and move cheerlessly along ihe paths that led to their homes To the 3 oclock whistle there was no response The snulter management had prepared pre-pared for this however and the two re malnlntr furnaces that have been in commission pending the companys ultimatum ul-timatum wore allowed to die Superintendent Superin-tendent Tucker at once dispatched the news to Manager Jones who had remained re-mained In the cIty during the developments develop-ments at the smelter and when The Tribune reporter requested a statement state-ment from him lie following was handed out FROM MANAGER JONES Thu shutting down of the CJcrmanla plant is largely due to the fact that the men took tin whole matter In their own hands and gave us less than one hour to decide whether we would Increase I their wages or not At the und of that time they all walked out leaving the blast furnaces that were then in llrst class condition to be frozeji up or for us to clean as best we could In reply to further inquiries Manager Mana-ger Jones said thai of course the blowing I blow-ing out the two remaining blast furnaces fur-naces suspended operations at the smelter although the Bruckner furnaces fur-naces were Jn motion at that hour Asked for a statement on the effect that the shutting down of the smelter would have upon the mines Manager Jones said it could not interfere In anyway any-way whatever at this time with those that were shipping under contract This includes all of the prominent mines of course and the less productive ones will continue to dispose of their output on the open market UNEASINESS SUBSIDES Around town the news of the Gcr manias shutdown was not taken so resignedly On the contrary intense uneasiness was expressed by not a few and upon the stock market where conditions con-ditions change not infrequently with the weight of a straw the impulse oC the average man was lo reduce If not to rid himself entirely of his holdings The situation became leas threatening threaten-ing as the afternoon wore on and lie assurance was given out that the producers pro-ducers would continue to deliver their ores under contract however and before be-fore night came the scare had greatly j diminished Indeed the alarm according ac-cording lo the oraCles was entirely un provokid The producers are nearly all shipping under contract and while the German has been retired temporarily the output will be taken wire of at furnaces fur-naces of the American Smelting and Kellnlng company In Montana In Colorado Colo-rado at Omaha and at Argentine Nan While the forwarding of these ores may Inconvenience I the management at llrsl this said Mr Jones will have soon been overcome Those mines that have been sending their product to the open market will continue to do so and the local management will give them the same allentiou as hi the past Manager Jones when communicated with last night said he has received no Intimation I other than Unit at the Mh Mlngo operations were progressing without interruption He had no fear of any dlwcurd there and was not inclined in-clined lu regard the trouble at the GermanJa asone that would continue fyr any length of time Upon Um Question of reopening the matter for arbitration Manager Jones Pleaded that he had nothing to say lhe management felt that ll was without authority lo go behind the companys ultimatum THE OUTLOOK By mining men who have carefully studied the situation it Is nol believed that the strike will be a protracted one or that It will foment complications S that must result In serious Injury to the main Industry The shippers after dis missing helm own Interests with Mr Jones left his presence assured that theIr output would bo taken care of as In the past Upon the longevity uf the strike the local managementof the smellcvb would not express itself for publication and the public which recognizes thai so much Is dependent upon n harmonious relation between the employer and his employees Is left largely to conjecture tho scare con cerning the fate of the output has about abated |