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Show EXIT GREEKS; B few Developments at Mayor Proposes to Supplant One Set of Aliens With , B Another. Oonfesses That Ho Has Conspired HU ' With Mormon Immigration Of- fleers to This End. Conspiracy on tho part of Mormon church officials to colonize Murray with foreign contract laborers camo to light last ovanlng. By this conspiracy It will Hh ( be sought to Import men from northern I Europe to take the places of tho foreigners 1 now working In that suburb. Tho prcs-etit prcs-etit anU-forelgn agitation In Murray gave h the opportunity which was promptly taken H advantage of. At last evening's mass H ! meeting a strange plan was proposed by V, Mayor Stratton. I Lot the Cat Out. j If the plan goes through that suburb A ( -will, through the connlvanco of tho Mor- B' mon church, bo overrun by a new class H of foreign labor In place of the ono now B living there. Mayor Stratton of Murray B let the cat out of tho bag la.t evening H when he acknowledged to the mass mcct- H Ing that a conspiracy has for somo time H been on, by whoso terms tho Immigration H 1 bureau of the church of tho Latter Day Hl Saints will Import from Europe aliens to ' B work In the smelters. H "As fast as these men como In," said H the Mayor naively, "I think we can got the smelters to "discharge the Greeks and 1 Austrlans. Thus we will supplant them " 1 Unfortunatelv for Mayor Stratton's 1 Idea, however, the United States Commls- J Eibner of Labor In Washington, Wllllnm ' Sargent, Is likely to take a hand In future B 1 proceedings. Inasmuch as the scheme has B Seen given out In advance, the labor laws B ot America are likely to be enforced In B tll,s Instance. A. W. Charters, oiate or- B ganlzer for the Western Federation of B Minors, served notice on Murray's Mayor B 1 laat evening that he would sco to It that the statutes are compiled with. B Worked Very Quietly. B I Things took a strange turn In Murray B 1 during the ten days just past. Soon after H ' the outrage on Mrs Gustavo Schwan two B , weeks ago, a number of Murray's busi- B I ness mcn and worklnymen, aroused at Bb what had happened, talked of ridding tho Bft community of undesirable inhabitants. Bft Then, by somo means not yet understood BA by a" of Murray's citizens, the project Btt wa9 suddenly changed. The labor prob- Bfl) Iem became the issue. When last Tues- HH dny's mass meeting convened In Murray BMr tnls wns 11,0 asPcct- But plans were not Bl ready yet and the meeting was adjourned BH by tnc Mayor of Murray to reconvene last BN evening. BH By tliat tlnie tllc conspiracy was well Bl on Those who had come to listen to B plans to better the condition of their city Hl found that they were there to ratify a conspiracy by which the influence of tho j incoming Gentiles ami -younger Mormons H in Salt Lake county may be lessened ma- H terlally by the importation of fresh con- B! verts, whose Ignorance of the English Bi language will make them all the more 1 pliant In the hands of their apostles, blsh- 1 ops and stake presidents. B More than this, the attendants at the 1 meeting learned that the foreign labor 1 problem wasn't to be eliminated at all. 1 Ono race of aliens was to bo supplanted , by another. And tho most unique phase H or the entire plan was the frankness with Hj which one of Its originators told his hcar- B efc that it contemplated breaking the H Uws of the nation. Hl Mayor Tells of Plan. H ' Mayor Stratton didn't acknowledge this H 1 in so many words lie was even careful k enough not to specify any portion of Eu- H . rope from which the newcomers are to be Bi drawn. He simply said that he was sure H the Immigration bureau of the church H : would supply men from another part of Bl Europe and that these foreigners will BI come to make homes. 1 In part the Mayor said: H "My stand on this matter Is that If 1 these people come to our country to make j homes, we have no fault to find so long 1 as they arc law-abiding. But so long as Blf they persist In sUylng aliens, if wo can B by any means supply labor that will be- idea is to supplant them by such men. "With that end In view, I havo investigated investi-gated Quietly to seo of we can not supplant sup-plant these foreigners we now have by those who will live as we do. I have had a party investigating this for me. Ho Bays this con. bo done, he thinks, through tho Immigration bureau of the Mormon church. If a commltteo be appointed to .confer wjth that bureau, I bellevo this thing can be adjusted. T will say that many neoplw talk of driving out these foreigners. They cannot be driven out But If we had the labor here at tho present pres-ent time to supplant them, tho smelter peoolc would be willing to employ It. They want the aamo men year after year." Talks for Labor. This was practically the one speech of tho meeting save that of Charters, who, as a representative of organized labor, told the people that their one salvation lay in getting rid of the padrones. TheBe, said Charters, now control the Greek laborers, la-borers, somo of whom are fighting them. Tho padrones, Charters went on, arc responsible re-sponsible for Ignorant and vicious laboring labor-ing classes. They want such. Tho federation fed-eration Is now fighting them and will eventually land them where they belong. 1 Charters spoke at length and got close M attention. BWEI Then Dr. P. G. P. Attlas followed, de- Mj fending his countrymen", the Greeks, na B9I a racc'- Ho said that they could not be H held responsible for tho Schwan affair. Hj Ono plan and ono only was before tho Bl meeting at least, so far as Immediate i action was concerned, Mavor Stratton's H audience had thinned out quite a bit when lie told them that It was up to them to 1 name a committee to confer with tho lm- 9 migration bureau of the Mormon church. On motion five mcn wero named by him, f ho being one. This commltteo Is: Mayor B Stratton, John Cahoon. George G ranter, t Lorenzo Williams and Bishop Eugene Miller, Then everyone sought tho cool B sweetness of the outer nlr 1 Comment was rife on Murray's streets B after It was all over. And all concerned H seemed to be disgusted. Tho general B sentiment was that the oblcct for which H the meeting was originally called had B not been attained. John Cahoon had spo- B ken early in the meeting and ho had told Its members how the people of Murray B had tried to get the Mormon church to B help thorn once before and had been I "turned down." Most of tho comment j was to the effect that If similar conse- BftVftV iuences did not como this Umo it would b bo because the church officials saw some I ecclesiastical benefit In sight. Tho Idea H of getting new Mormon converts In fresh from Europe to supplant tho Europeans H already in tho community did not appeal H at all to tho great majority. The influ- M emcc of the church officials against unions and good wages got Its full share of sidewalk side-walk discussion. News in the Deal. Incidentally, the strange attltudo of tho Dcscret News got much comment. But recently that paper camo out defending tho present Crock labor conditions and the padrone system and abusing Charters and Dr. Attlas, who wero fighting these conditions. But later, when this Murray troublo began, the paper suddenly j;ave wide advertisement to the movement to drlvo out foreigners. Last evening everyone every-one realized tho reason for tho advertising the new movement had Kotten in the columns col-umns of the apostolic organ. Charters said last evening: "I shall write to Labor Commissioner Sargent tomorrow. And I shall tell him of this plan I Then, If tho Immigration bureau of the Mormon church wants to Import aliens to work In Utah, let them try it. I don't think they'll over make another attempt." Other union men who were In the hall expressed Indignation that the plan to help their community was changed to one which would do no good, and would only result In an Influx of foreigners who would vote and act Just aa tho Mormon hierarchy told thorn to do, - |