Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-18 | Page 14 | The Gimlet Makes Another Scurrilous Attack on Union Labor in Carring Campaign of Hostility toward Working

i it The Gimlet Makes Another Scurrilous 5 Attack on Union Labor in Carrying $ g Campaign of Hostility Toward Workji g With a persistency worthy a better cause, the Morning Gimlet, sometimes called the llerald-Republican, continues to attack organised labor In this state. Tile labor leaders are at a loss to Know what the motive is behind the bitter hostility hos-tility displayed by tho fJimlet toward union labor, but that the. animus is present pres-ent is constantly Indicated by the relentless relent-less hammering which the Gimlot slves labor. Sometimes tho Gimlet makes these attacks adroitly, with a sly cunning that io characteristic of certain animals, and sometimes the ussaulls nre made openly, but not often, for the Gimlet well knows that it will come out at the small cnd of the horn, in a clash. The most recent and really one of Iho most flagrant altncks on organised labor appeared In the Gimlet Fobniury 12. The attack Is ilaKrant because, were the Gimlet Gim-let favored with any mutcrla) numher of readers which, happily, it fs not a. fals and exceedingly harm fill impression would come into circulation. The item which appeared in the Gimlet's iasue oT , February Feb-ruary 12 reads: "HOMESTAKE MIXERS AT NJ'ORK'.'J "Miners of tho Ilonn-slake mine at Lead. S. D.. who have been on tilt ike. have returned to work under the company's com-pany's terms. The mine and inillr- are again working nt almost normal capacity. But on account of the maintaining of idle plants having "been hea.vy. It Is not expected ex-pected that the. February dividend will ho dechrred. If presc.nl conditions continue there should bo a disbursement hi March." .Vow. If there Is one light, in the world tbo organized miners are bitterly engaged In it is the sirugglo agninsi the Houie-stako. Houie-stako. The company has announced its delermIna.llon repeatedly lo the effect i that il will not surrender Ul Miners' union Is waging s what the ni'ii assert Is .1 than fair, and in waging th 5j union has caused to he pel m mining enmps warnings to. main away from l.e id. U In a brief note from J." j-m, secrctarv of Eureka Minon Sh lill, addressed to The Trf S3 spondonl at Eureka, nppeai-8 KJ. "We want this to appear; A misrepresentation of facts t r& to go to lb-- scene of the trq K understanding that all troy yi settled. Please insert soinu sis' paper that will go in as n7 organized labor of this di: Tbo envelope in which t gi-Mr. gi-Mr. .Morton came alt-o con i5 urn in from lh- Krcrctary-tm Mi1 Western Federation of Mil j Denver. February 12. Thot jj lows: jt? "Dcni r. Colo., F 1g ".I. M. Morton. Kurcka. I wj Is not currer t, as tin troull !, in .South Dakota. Keep n W going to South Dakota. ', "ERNES! Sl sy, "Secretary-Treasurer! jt' The question naturally :14p of these facts and the pubjBSi Gimlet of the scurrilous jtglh dueed herewith, why Is iSfe desperately eager to brcntyWj Lead? Is il because sonuwg eral bunch owns some of Ct niimestnke. or is It doticBQi Gimlet's frenzied hatred ofMi Anvwny. the strike at tS mliio is still on. and thn puK to bf that the "March dlsbuVR be Identical with the Kcbrfflfi which latter lo not, nor yet lgj