Show LABOR TROUBLE NOW CENTERS ff1 AROUND ONE POINT s Fuel Company Will Not Recognize rl Re-cognize the Union 1 ALL ELSE IS CONCEDED i1L I H Conforonci Between Givirnir Wells Cuneo and Kramer Guards Will Be Kept in Eield and legislature Will Be Called in Five Days If Trouble Continues 5 ii Unless conditions in the coal strike In Utah show a decided improvement within five days Got Wells will insne a call for the assembling of the Legislature t Legis-lature in special session for the purpose pur-pose of providing money for the I maintenance of the Jationa1 Guard of iL the State in the field That was his j statement last night after long discussions dis-cussions with the mine operators the f board of governors of the Commercial i club and the State OIIiCC1S HEARD COMPANY SIDE 8 In the morning a thorough Investigation l < 3 Investiga-tion of the Utah Fuel companys side of the strike was made by the Governor In his office There were present Gov Jleber M Wells Secretary of State James T 3Iaminond Col Edwin F Ilolmes president of the Commercial club of Salt Lake City George W r Kramer vicepresident of the Utah y Fuel company V V L Williams general J manager of the Utah Fuel company ij 1 i Joseph II Young general superintendent I superin-tendent of the Rio Grande company 4 Charles y Burton A Jutant GEneral l I X G IT Gomcr Thomas Utah Coal Mine Inspector Dr Gnteeppl Cuneo i f Italian Consul for Colorado and Utah RESULT OF THE CONFERENCE Practically the only result of the session 2 ses-sion as the definite knowledge of how the company stands what It has already al-ready done and what it proposes to do Papers were produced by the coal men m showing what they had allowed In the t vi way of concessions to the miners and r the list of grievances presented to the 3 officials was read 1 WILL NOT RECOGNIZE UNION The Utah Fuel companys position is 4 told bv Mr Kramer in a nutshell Ho i said 1 saidWo Wo have granted all the grievances tS1 the miners presented to us but we will 1 not recognize the union J i WILL FURNISH COAL r if > i ffij j Mr Kramer assured the Governor i i f I that he would produce sufficient coal to d supply the Utah demands saying he I t Jtji would send none out of the State and 4 If necessary would cut off the supply sent to the Southern Pacific That U tf road is supposed to get 2000 tons a day m KiJ J but has been cut down already to 500 i f tons With the present conditions and i i he says they are growing better Sir I I Kramer Is sure the mines can turn out I coal for the State I enough 01 iy I J dl I I BACKS THE GOVERNOR < The board of governors of the Commercial l Com-mercial club met at 4 oclock and held i 1 H a twohours conference They adopted i ii a set of strong resolutions commending I ihe chief executive of the Stale for his I I course so far expressing their complete t I 1 confidence in his ability to rope with J the situation nnd pledipng their sump I j f I port In the future Gov Wells ex 1i i f pre 5ed great gratitude for time action Lt 1 I I which shows how his course is regarded i THE GOVERNOR TALKS I r I hope I shall not be obliged to calla 1 d call-a session of the Legislature said hue J I II last night but If things do not clear i 11 up In live days time 1 shall do so Jt j l 1 t will provide money for tho support of I i the soldiers In the field Their pay will iI 11 < Continued t on Page 3 1 1 i 11 IJr 11 UTAH LABOR TROUBLE Continued From Pace 1 probably be fixed at 150 a tiny We have canvassed the situation very minutely today and It is now a fight fllmply on the recognition or the union by the Fuel company and they absolutely I abso-lutely refuse to do that LEADING MEN IN COUNCIL What Transpired Between Gov Wells and Mr Kramer Gov Wells opened the conference In the morning by a statement of his position po-sition and the question Have your miners other grievances than the recognition recog-nition of the unions addressing his rEmarks to the officials of the Utah Fuel company KRAMER TELLS OF TROUBLE 4Ir Kramer produced copies of notices posted at the different mines which gave notice of a raise in wages paid the miners to take effect on November 1st and then explained why some received more wages per ton than others He saidNow Now Governor In regard to meeting representatives of our employees On November 11th at Sunnyslde before organization had got In there there were about 200 out of 850 of our employees em-ployees who laid down their tools In obedience to the call of Mr Mitchell on November Dth That was the only mine the only place in Utah that men stopped work in obedience to that call About 200 In Sunnyslde did lay down their tools On the evening of the 8th of November n meeting was called at which nearly all of the employees were present and they voted to go back to work to pay no attention to this call After the vote was taken home 200 stampeded and drove everybody out of the hall They went down to a point about two miles below the hall and held a meeting at w iich they appointed a committee to present grievances to the company We got there on the 9th of November and had a talk with a number of the boys We labored very hard to get this committee to present their grievances I stayed there until the 11 Ih On the night of the llth we got a liNt of twelve grievances from that committee This committee did not represent all of the miners employed there but only a fraction of them about 200 THUS FAR BUT NO FARTHER The company replied to the grievance griev-ance committee that nil the first eleven counts would be granted practically as demanded but that the last one would not be granted under any conditions This was the one requiring recognition of the union and In rejecting it Mr Kramer said Twelfth In answer to Xo 12 I the company believes that it has always treated its employees with liberality consideration and Justice to all parties and In that spirit It now offers employment employ-ment and gives its confidence to those who go to work immediately but it does not feel that it would be justice to recognise any particular organization organiza-tion j therefore must refuse to comply with this demand OOIIN MITCHELLS WORK The committee agreed to all of the companies anskers except the last nnd four or five days afterward the organizers came to the camps and perfected per-fected the temporary organizations continued Mr Kramer The order for the strike came from John Mitchell and required nonunion men as well as those who had cards to go out This call asks them to quit work until such a time as the coal companies com-panies for which you have been workIng work-Ing will concede to operate by and through a scale agreed upon in joint conference of representatives of both sides That means Mr Mitchell and ourselves that we have got to buy our labor from this union or we cannot do business Jt Is not a question oC taking up grievances with our employees They cannot take them up with ua Mr Kelllher when he made that statement state-ment knew that he was telling a falsehood false-hood for it is Impossible for us to meet any representatives that are affiliated with this union and you can readily see that It would be impossible for us to meet striking employees because they could not be governed by their own decision de-cision In the matter CANNOT DEAL WITH UNIONS 1 Now Governor that is our position We cannot under any circumstances deal with the ofilcers of this union Tho time has come that we have got to calla call-a halt In recognizing the union One thing more 1 want to say and Ihat Is I that at Sunnyside 351 men are at work loyal to tire company mul would not and did not lay down their tools on November 9th We have some 200 at Winter Quarters and about the same number at Clear Creek These men to a man will leave our employ the moment we take up this question of the union and this company proposes pro-poses to stand by the 7EO lojal men tin3 til It hns exhausted every resource at its command CAN SUPPLY Tri COAL Tn reply to the Governors question Mr Kramer said that under protection he could keep the mines running and thus supply Utah with whatever coal was necessary He said he had cut tire Southern Pacifics supply to 500 tons a day and here he mode the following statement Thin great Wawitch range we look upon as a vast storehouse of coal that fan furnish the people of the West It Is one of the principal Industries of your State and yet does it supply the people of west of Otrden and on the Pacific Pa-cific coii t Including the entire tonnage ton-nage shipped by the Union Pacific Coal company the JCemmercr Coal company the Diamond Coal company the Central Coal and Coke company and the 1 Utah Fuel l company less than I i per cent comes from this State For thirteen years the highest rate per ton on commercial coal from Ogden to San Francisco has been 55 per ton which we have considered too high SHOULD SHIP TO THE COAST For seven years it was 4 per lOll On October let the Southern Pacific Railroad company raised it to G2o when we managed to get in a few Ions anti on the 2nd of November it Ktlll further raised to 58 per ton and tliLMe I is no coal going into San Francisco Fran-cisco Here is one of the principal industries in-dustries of your State You should have 10000 miners Only S inn cent of the coal going into San Francisco comes from the Wasatch range Some of it comes from Wales some from Japan some from the North known as the Wellington coal The price of the freight on your coal today is 10 nrore fiom Ogden to San Francisco than coal is sold for in Sun Francisco fifE CASTLE GATE MINE I Gov Wells asked If it was intended that the Castle Gate mine would be reopened re-opened he having heard that It was operated at a loss Mr Kramer said it would be run at least two years yet and that he had authorized the opening open-ing of another Speaking of the Italians he paid The Castle Gate nine is what we might call an Italian mine because of the large number of Italians there tot to-t number of the other miners At Castle Gate there are nG l Italians lOS Englishspeaking Austrians 10 This is not true however at the other mines Al Sunnyside there are 350 English 2iC Italians 222 Austrians at Clear Creek 12S Finns 172 Italians U3 i Eng lish speaking at Winter Quarters 1SI English speaking 126 Finns 71 Italians and a few others All 1 know of the Italians is from what Mr Williams has told me AGENTS OUT AFTER MEN Mr Kramer said ho had agents out trying to get men for the mines and that they were meeting with success and in reply to Gov YVclls question regarding the feasibllify of withdrawing withdraw-ing the troops he said TROOPS STILL NEEDED flI believe that any intimation that the troops would be withdrawn will Just hold the situation where it is until the troops wero out of the I way and then trouble would ensue There is danger to men who really want to keep on working We are trying to put a different class of men In the mines and have agents seeking them Not oil the men will leave the mines however COMER THOMAS SPEAKS MIno Inspector Corner Thomas said the mines were especially well ventilated venti-lated and that tthe system was perfect Mr Kramer produced a circular which was printed In Italian and which held them a week until until Demolll got hold of them It was a short one telling tho men about the eighthour law and urging them lo stay In the mines i |