Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-05-16 | Page 7 | Object to Union

OBJECT TO UNION Rock Springs Business Men Request Agitators to Move TRIBUNE SPECIAL Rock Springs Wyo May 15 Union agItators ag-itators have been at work among the Union Paclflc miners here attempting to Induce them to form a union for protection pro-tection against their employers but an yet their efforts do not Beam to have met with any great encouragement The business busi-ness men of the town arc strongly opposed op-posed to the formation of a union fearing fear-ing I that the men will become unreasonable unreason-able and make demands which will inJure In-jure if not ruin Rock Springs So strong IH tho fooling against the agltatora that four of them havo been given quiet but strong tips to get out and have gone The railroad company IH I said to bo watching the situation closely and to be preparing to meet any radical movo with stringent meanures I has been noised abroad among business men that If tho men In tho mines strike every mine at Rock Springs will be closed down permanently nently Tho company has mines at Hanna Spring Valley and Cumberland which can be made to produce more than enough coal to supply the demand should the local mines bo abandoned The company has also acquired eaten slvo holdings north of Salt Wells and Is arranging to open mines there The quality qual-ity of tho coal Is said to be equal to that I mined hero and tho supply Is to all appearances ap-pearances Inexhaustible