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Show No Union illmen feed Ask for Work There Will Be ITo Place for Them nt Mills of Portland Gold Min- ing Company, COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. June 21. Irving Howbert, a director of tho Portland Gold Mining company. Btatcd today that the Portland reduction re-duction mill at Colorado City would bo closed down the last of the week because of a shortage of ore occasioned by the cessation of operations at the mine ten days ago. The mill will be closod three weeks. It Is generally believed that no union mlllmcn will do employed when It reopens, re-opens, as thc Smoltunnon's union Is affiliated affili-ated with the Western Federation of Miners, against which organization tho directors declared thomeelvcs yesterday. The Portland Is the only unionized mill nt Colorado City nt this time, tho other having operated with non-union men since tho strlko Inst fall. |