Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-05-21 | Page 14 | Trouble No Longer Feared at Murray

TROUBLE I LONGER FEAREDJT MURRAY Smelter Official Says That the Strikers Are Now Resum-. Resum-. ing-Work. IndicafionB o serious troublo from the strikers at the Murray smelter hav0 subsided anil no further disordor is looked for. Humors were current in Murrny yesterday yes-terday that the backbone of the strike had been brokon and that many of tho strikers wero returninc to work. 0. "W. Whitlev. irencral manager of tho smelter, smel-ter, said Inst nicrht that sixteen ot" the strikers returned to work yesterdiiy morntne ami that others went back to their labors on the 3 o'clock shift yes-torday yes-torday afternoon. This brines the total to-tal number o men. now employed in the smelter tip to approximately 275, it is claimed. Strike- leaders deny that there have boon any sorious desertioiiH from thoir ranks. About 350 strikers are still out. The authorities have not relaxed the extreme precautions taken to safeguard the smelter, since the outbreak Inst Thursday nicht. Armed deputy sheriffs aro still on the cround night and dny and tho big searchlights continue to sweep the smelter grounds at night, eruardiujr against dynamiters. Although every elYort lias been put forth no headway has beon made towards to-wards the apprehension of I lie dynamiters dyna-miters who tried to wreck the smelter l.iRt Thursday by throwing a stick of explosive at the gus tanks, as published exclusively in The Tribune.