Show ADOPTS THALS REPORT Utah U Federation of Labor Sides With Miners WHAT THAL HAS TO SAY Makos Ssmo Startling Statements State-ments in His Roport It Is Unanimously Adopted by Corn mitteo of the Federation After aLong a-Long Hot Session At a meeting of the Utah Federation of Labor held last night it was unanimously agreed that it accept and indorse the report of John Thai the representative who had been sent to the coal flcldy of Carbon county to investigate in-vestigate the condition of affair The report of Mr Thai follow CONDITIONS TX CARBOX From my observations and experience 1 in the coal camps of Carbon county I ortn uuy without a particle of exaggeration that conditions for the miners an extremely extreme-ly I bad The law Is used only In the Interests In-terests or the coal company and It Is also violated with impunity by the coal company com-pany and Its hired minions Union men arc Intimidated tightened and maltreated at the point of rllles III the hnndsj 01 company com-pany guardf The right of free speech and peaceable assembly is denied although al-though the strikers are all lawabiding and peaceable They are forbidden to talk to each ether In groups or to hold any meeting on any pretext whatever I know l of several instances whore men have boon threatened with arrest unless they would go to work Union men wuro prevented pre-vented from corniniT Into the towns by armed men Eviction notices were in some Instances handed to tenants t from the end of n rille When home one suggested to V 11 Ward who way serving eviction notices that such service was not legal he replied Damn tho lebnlllr so Jonas Jon-as ve naku It stick EMPTIED A COAL sIrED J know of one instance where tho company com-pany men deliberately emptied a mans coal shed of all lie coal which had bcdri delivered and paid for the day before This was done because tIle min had joined the union In another case a man named Jones paid axes to the county on none property he had leaned from the company and the company compelled him to pay Us taxes also besides his regular rent CASK OL1 JOHN SAMUELS Another example of the conpanys tin scrnpulousneiis occurred when John Sam uels a company detective and Sam Wltchcrly also ZL company hireling went down to the Italian I quarter and tried to get them to arrange a parade for the day when Cunco should arrive This of course would be In violation of the town proclamation procla-mation prohibiting parades andthe Ital ianswould have been arreiued for disturbing disturb-ing the jjpttco Albert A ho of Clear Crouk was tired from his boardinghouse because he Joined the union WAKE UP THE MEN At Clear Creek oveiy mornlntr the company com-pany guards together with a detachment of militia visit houturs and walk In without with-out over knocking and grab the sleeping minor by the t leg and risk him If ho Is goIng go-Ing to work if ho docs not go hv Is I served with an eviction notice A very prominent militia officer said that he had not found one single case of Intbildation which could not bo traced to the coal company SHERIFF GETS PAID The Sheriff la generally reputed to be on the payroll of tho coal company and Is owned body and soul by l that t company Ho does Just what the ftunpany directs and It called upon by a union man for protection protec-tion he tells him to go to hell that 1m has 110 business to strike The law provides that no warrants shall bd lssucd by a Justice of the Pence wI haul h-aul the authorization of the County Attorney Attor-ney but when the case Is I against a striker this law is not considered On the other hand when a striker want a company thug arrested he must go JUly or sixty miles to Price to commit the County Attorney 1 At-torney and is always turned down Tn a speech at Demollis trial the County Attorney called the strikers worthless idlers a7id ungrateful wretches He also referred to the strikers as Italian strikers WHAT KENNEDY SA YET YE-T met Charles Domolll as he arrived in camp and proceeded through the town with him to the place whero the meeting was hold Valeries hall Remained there Allllcseveral apeakets addressed the nu dlcnce Saw nothing that could be eon Mrncd as a breach of the peace The America flags woo displayed on several 1 poles carried by luilles All of them wcr right union up Tho parade then t formed and marched up the principal street as fin felly as a funeral procession They VCMV exhorted by the different sneakers io t keep within the law and advised not to get Imoxicatcd V B KENNEDY Citizen Scotleld DEMOLLlS T1UAI As regards DemolHH diaL trial I 1 1 believe from nil reports to be had that he was railroaded through to Jail At his second trial l which was a onesided farce 1 have an uccumulatlr n of nvldunce which ROCS to prove that the pronlding Judgo was intoxicated in-toxicated Ai This trial ilso the first von Iro of 1itdjYion was exhausted and the Judge mud the statement that the Shier lIT hud a list of jurymen prepared by i tho Citizens Alliance tnt J the evidence was so weak that lie could not bu convicted even by I these STATEMENT OF W P LEWIS T William 1 Lewis Bccrelary of local union nt Scoileld know that the armed men of the Ttah Kuel J company go to find miners and try to compel I hem o got go-t work when they ire trying to gel better bet-ter wastes for their work find tlntt the militia comw and waked up an old mini and liLt family In the night to know 1C hey wore fihootlrfr at thorn nnd they prowl around at night and try to aggravate aggra-vate thy Itulinn stHldcnts of his 1 place to create a disturbance In order to have them arrested nnd that two armed thugs went and tried to mnkr the owneis of tho Isrtll givo t up the keys l to the hull In order to contlscilo our pancru of organization and further that wo havo a grievance We bavi to load 3IJO pounds for a ton the company demanding UO per cent for line coal and they t tend nIl this lump and line In the earn to the dealers nail receive tilt some for It all They further claim that they do not discriminate nicalmsc union men while they 1 have notices posted around town to the effect that any miner Joining the union can consider himeelf r dhi charged and further hero I are times that o miner goes In n place and ha to work two days fixing it up to make it safe to work and for this ho receives no nay JOHN TIIAL THE FEDERATION SUMMARY As regards the nag incident we do here I l > y assert our allegiance totlio Constitution Constitu-tion of the United Statcn of America one do hereby deplore nny act transgressing the Constitution We as union men honor the Hag Wo bcllovo that the presence of this militia I is entlroly uncalled for and that It is a uselesscxpcnuc costing at the loilst lf00 per day Wo call tho attention of the public to the fact that the laws of tho Suite are openly open-ly 1 violated In Carbon county Inasmuch as nlners In order to cairn areasonable wage arc required to labor twelve and fourteen hours Wo fully realize the necessity for an organization or-ganization of the coal miners fron Iho complaints that have cmno to tho Utah Federation of Labor during lie past four ypjns and over from tho I miiKTi of that district l of thc unfair weights of coal and that when they had check welghman at the mlnc who was choren by tmips moct Ings that they wen dominated by foremen fore-men of the company and If anyone mado complaints about tho weights they were i < umimnlly discharged Therefore wo bc hove if they have no organization there Is no possible chance for the minors togct justice from tho company Some statements here have bcm mado showing how safe the mines are Wo call your attention to the difiastrotisexplosion at Scofleld a few years ago Under union regulatIon such diyLsiors could not occur for when reports ale made b Jinhividuch minors to the superintendent of any unsafe un-safe condition he Immediately Invites his discharge but when made by an organt zation they command utlcnlion Signed THE COMMITTEE Ttih Federation oE Labor |