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Show Jiattle Certain if They Defy Ultimatum of Sheriff Sharp I Illets fly ill iii but 1 dono harm JjwLident Moyer Sends 3rsonal Messenger to iSpuade Men to Aban-')n Aban-')n Utah Copper Com-Sftny's Com-Sftny's Property, but fleets With a Rebuff; bvernor Holds Con-pXrence Con-pXrence This Morning. $f OOPS MAY GO TO 5?NGHAM AT ONCE 4jKjlroad Employees Are arooned on Top rSwlges of Mine; at !Kght Strikers Build iSBireat Fires and Hold demonstration ; One lJmri Reported Shot. ilsW) 800 fore'Sn sh'&ors, ijjfjMn armed with rifles and re-rm. re-rm. vIvei's' strongly m-CjfBpVed m-CjfBpVed ui the precipitous raoim-Itfoww raoim-Itfoww ledges across the canyon, Jfc the Utah Copper mine, ruk-Jthe ruk-Jthe mine workings with a hail -fead at evcrj attempt of rnil-employees rnil-employees or deputy slieriFi's Hjitcr the grounds, the strike ua jfttion at Bingham has reached ;itritial crisis. iSpff's Ultimatum. foiSBy lt noon according to an aw tfjatum delivered to the strik-night strik-night by Chiei! Criminal -jtty Axel Stccle who i-s COin-nBS COin-nBS the sheriff's forces, the strikers will evacuate ?iK8troDghold and give np their SSB0"1 r'rics 1,1 ls expected 'P A250 dePulie, all armed with Uj0 Sesters will be mustered, in j$Wrm at thal; 1,om'-SjW 1,om'-SjW Rebuffed. :h,tiMM.Btrencla'd ndntJrE nrc oacuvy-y oacuvy-y K"r Position of vnntago contrary j&jK orders of the striko loaders, it tfB!"14, Ya"C0 ri1cr'5ch' a director rtjjKSvMteru F,cvatiou of Miners, SlMr "? m"ntai gifle to the strik- "SE" last nif,ljt ani as 1,10 sPe- State Federation, vainly nvceil irto&m laK may be dcclarod today reSm?n 0 Ildlitia ordered to Bing- tot&mT y 5pochl1 tnii" frn the c&m? part ot thn stat0 aild is cx "l'8 immediately into eon- AflmLTn Blm'lti JoeI,h C- Sharj), ?9K , -J Tral Wc,3vood command-TW command-TW w National Guard and the miue reflSSKl Preent Moyer aud Yanco J Sg.ttvt bc01 iited to attend tho et HK Tbey wiU bc a8ked frunk' jminoy consider th'o Btriklnc for- 1 SwKvaTBnabl to thu counsel of lmS! U'r8 0d tllc a"6n'cr and K!?,Pn)ont8 t0lla-v will hiuco (ho tfiLiarir,K n,artal law. !Ujlam,th) bel,cf Ia Prevalent tliat iafd TR m? elt'ncnL J"nonff tho atrlkora iS$M?E?TMtat,0n" of President royur rSSSW? dcrB Uiat lhc tle3,re o rtiflSW- Blooafli.efl and l,tiavy dnatrue- Jm? fVly 18 thouislit to bc lnevlta- ble unless the strllto is nettled within the next ten days. The first bloodshed was reported yesterday yes-terday morning on tho groundB of tho tJt?ih Copper company. Doputy Sheriff Theodore Schweitzer attempted to eject a striker from the ground. He refused to go. whereupon the officer neliJd him and hurled him bodily down tho embankment. em-bankment. A companion of tho striker took shelter behind the embankment and fired three times at .Schweitzer, who returned re-turned the lire, wounding Wh assailant. It it; believed. No trace of tho supposed, wounded niun could be found later and he Is believed to have been curried away by his friends. Three Men Marooned. Thres employees of Uie "Bingham & Gartield railroad, owned by tho Utah Copper company, who attempted to go to work in the mine yards Inst ulght, are marooned in thn top ledges of the mine, unable to descend becauso of the murderous lire of tho strikers intrenched in-trenched across the canyon. These men aro Jack Kennedy, night superintendent; Alex Furlong, night power boss, and Charles O'Kcefe. Early this morning ' they had not come down from tho work-1 work-1 Ings and grave fears for their, safety were entertained. Under Heavy Fire. Accompanied by Deputy Sheriffs "r. L. Hampton and W. O. Sutherland, a party of railroad employees, Including the three beleaguered men, entorcd the Utah Copper Cop-per grounds at their usual hour of going go-ing to work tonight. Thair first appearance appear-ance on the side of the mountain brought forth a rain of bullets from the opposite wall of tho canyon. The deputicu were under orderu from Chief Doputy Steele not to reply to tho fire. To proceed was alniOBt certain death. The officers and all the men except Kennody, O'Koefe and Furlong fled under tire to tho shelter of the canyon bottom. The latter sought safety In the protected ledges and remained re-mained throughout the ulght. Two attempts at-tempts on tho part of deputies and railroad rail-road men to rescue them failed, so heavy was the fire of the strikers," Hundreds of bullote dropped Into the mine worlc-; worlc-; ings during the fusillades. 1 Build Great Fires. As darkness enmo on the strikers in 1 the mountains built great bontires on top of the ledges and grouped around them, shouting and howling among themselves- In tho town of Bingham the weird racket floated down the canyon for all "the world Ilk the cries of coyotes. Fully 5000 miners In the Bingham district dis-trict aro on strike. Tho greatest copper mine in tho world, that of the Utah Copper company, and overs" other property prop-erty in the district with one oxceptlon is at a standstill. Ore hauling has ceased utterly. If the condition continues tho great smelters" at Garfield and all others of the surrounding dlntrictd handling Bingham ores will be forced to shut down or greatly decrease their opero.tionn. More Deputies Today. The entire camp In in n turmoil and serious troublo iu c-xpected at any hour. Nearly 1B0 deputy uhorlffs wero dispatched' dis-patched' to tho scene in special tralnG from Salt Lake yesterday and lust night and arc patrolling tho town, a.rmod with rifles. All the mines, with tho exception excep-tion of tho Utah Copper, are under guard. At tho latter the strikers are in control of tho situation completely. An additional addition-al hundred special deputies will be mustered mus-tered today by Sheriff Sharp. Mont of tho strikers are foreigners. They aro picketing tho works, armed with shotguns, illlec, revolvers and crowbars. crow-bars. Mayor Closes Saloons. N All saloons In Bingham were closed yesterday noon on order of the mayor. All drug stores have beon forbidden to sell liquor of any kind on penalty of revocation re-vocation of license. Merchants have posted signs on their doors warning the rjubllc that nothing but a cash business will be transacted. Most of tho merchants mer-chants havo refused to send out thoh' delivery wagons for fear of interference by the strikers and genornl business Is facing a serious tieup. Sheriff Joseph C. Shnrp returned to Salt Lake at 0 o'clock last night after a strenuous afternoon at tho scene of trouble. He began at once the mobilization mobiliza-tion of. another hundred special dcputlou. Strikers to Be Disarmed. "I propose to send enough men Into Blngbam today to enforce the state law prohibiting the carrying of flroarms." he said. "Evory utrlkor in camp carrying any kind of a weapon will bo disarmed, pcacably If possible, by muln strength If necessary. "Molestation of peaceful citizens on (j (Continued on Page Two.) BA TTLE A T BINGHAM IS FEARED BEFORE NIGHT (Continued From Page One.) tho highways or in tho town will not be .tolerated, Tho Btrlkers have drawn several sev-eral deadlines throughout tho camp and threaten to kill anyone crossing into the forbidden territory, This will be stopped today." Sharp Will Take Command. Sheriff Sharp will go to Bingham again today after the conference with tho governor gov-ernor this morning. Seize Rio Grande Trestle. Late last night about 200 Austrians from tho Highland Boy mine In Upper Bingham swept down in a compact body and took charge of the Denver & Rio Grando trestle between Upper and Lower Low-er Bingham, firing at every man who attempted at-tempted to cross It. Fred Wilson of- Salt Lako, who operates a pool hall In tho upper town, staggered pnlo with fright Into the police station at Bingham proper prop-er shortly before midnight and told of having been fired upon repeatedly when ho crossed the treatlo. Wilson declared that no less than fifty shots wore fired at him, somo of them kicking up tho dust at his feet and whizzing close to his head. Tho patrolling deputies made no attempt at-tempt to drlvo tho strikers from tho bridge, preferring to wait until daylight. Lon H east on, employed as a night watchman at one of the Highland Boy pumps, went Into Bingham half an hour later with a tale of having boen ejected by forco from his position at the nump by a large band of Austrians, who threatened threat-ened him with doath if ho tried to remain re-main on duty. Tho strikers wore armed. These evidences of activity by tho strikers strik-ers at Highland Boy, where all was quiet throughout tho day, added gravity to a situation already tense to tho breaking point. Bullets Ply All Night. Throughout tho night and until early morning the sound of frequent shooting up and down the canyon -wero heard in Bingham. The deputies, divided Into small squads, patrolled the town all night, keoplng peace In tho city proper by disarming every striker inclined to be troublesome Great numbers of strikers remained in town until a late hour, but for tho most part they were peaceable. Deputies patrolled the line of the Bingham Bing-ham & Garfield railroad through the canyon can-yon all night, driving off "every striker along the road. Many thefts of switch lights were discovered, but no 6crious damage to tho railroad was attempted. The railroad Is operating nothing but passenger trains. Orehaulingr ceased yesterday morning soon after the strike was declared. Fourteen cars of ore were shipped to Garfield before noon, but no orcwas mined throughout the day. Strike Near at Apex. The Utah Apex mine is the only one in operation. Under orders from President Moyer the men are holding off from the strike thoro pending the outcome of negotiations ne-gotiations with tho owners. A. conference between the strike leaders arid S. C. Scares, manager of the mine, was held at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, following follow-ing which telegrams wore dispatched to Boston, whero the home offices of the company are located, outlining the situation situa-tion and asking for instructions. The return telegram to Manager Seares read: "Do as our neighbors do." No strike will be declared at the Apex until further communication has been received from Boston. About 300 men are employed at the Apex mine and mill. Heinze Coming1 Today. A conference also was held during the afternoon bctwoen Alfred Frank, manager man-ager of tho Ohio Copper, and the strike leaders. The Ohio Copper men are out. Following tho conference it was announced an-nounced that F. Augustus Heinze, the copper magnate, who is heavily Interested Inter-ested In the Ohio Copper company, would arrive from Butte today for a final conference. con-ference. President Mover declared it possible that a settlement of the strike at the Ohio Copper and the Apex mines would be made today. D. C. Jackllng has full powers to deal with the strikers for the company. Directors Di-rectors of the company In Colorado Springs yesterday gave out a statement to this effect: It is feared that the effects of the Bingham labor trouble will be felt within with-in two or three days by allied Industries, such as mills and smeltors, depending upon Bingham mines for their ores. The Utah Copper company, which is the largest larg-est operator of the camp and the largest individual copper producer in the world, ships Its ores at the rate of 20000 tons dally to its concentrating plants at Garfield, Gar-field, and the copper concentrates produced pro-duced by those mills are shipped to tho Garfield smelter for reduction to matte, then to blister copper. Little Ore at Smelters. It Is known that no large surpluses of ore are on hand at either of the two mills of tho Utah Copper company, honco It Is only a question of a vory fow hours before the plunta must be closed and thousands of more men thrown out of employment. Tho Garfield smelter undoubtedly un-doubtedly has a considerable tonnago of copper concentrates and crudo copper ores on hand, but not enough to admit of full operations for any length of time, oven if there is no effort made to create a sympathetic strike of smelter employees. em-ployees. Another copper smelter dependent almost al-most wholly upon Bingham for ores with which to operate Us reverberatory furnaces fur-naces Is the International Smelting & Refining company's works at Tooele, Utah. To this plant are being shipped the Utah Consolidated and the Blngham-New Blngham-New Haven copper and lead ores via the Ulah Consolidated tramway. Work having hav-ing been discontinued at these two mines, the supply of copper ore at the Tooele plant Is eliminated, and within a fow days tho four reverberatory furnaces will of necessity be closed. Big Ore Supply at Tooele. The International company, however, has fully six to eight month' supply of lead oro on hand, s0 were the copper furnaces fur-naces cooled down, tho two blast furnaces fur-naces operating on lead-silver ora could be continued without interruption, un-leso. un-leso. as slated above, the labor difficulty of0thn stntf t0 the SmeUcr emWe Thv MIdvolo smeller of tho United States Smelting, Bcflnlng & Mining company com-pany la dependent largely upon its own mlno production at Bingham for Its lead and allvttr ores, but there Is a steady tonnage being received from other camps of tho state and surrounding stales. This, In connection with tho surplus ton-nago ton-nago stock-piled, may onablo the company com-pany to maintain uninterrupted operations opera-tions for a considerable period. The United States company, however, unquestionably will hnvo to close Its Huff electrostatic zinc concentrator at Mid-vale Mid-vale unless there is a large supply of tho low-grade 7.lno-lead ores on hand from Bingham, which affords tho sole food for tho plant. At Murray the silver and leud smelter of the American Smelting & Koflning company has a considerable tonnugo of such ores stock-piled and operations thero should bo carried on Indefinitely, as the American company does not draw so much upon Bingham for Its ores for tho Murray plant aa in tho caso of Its copper plant at Garfild. . In Bingham and vicinity aro several concentrating plants with no surplus ores on hand, and they, too, as a consequence, may bo closed at any time. Among these. th0 largest Is the mill at Lark of the Ohio Copper company. In Bingham are tho concentrating plants of tho Utah Apex, Blngham-Ncw Haven and others, In all sevoral hundred men being needed In keeping theHc plants In operation. $500,000 Monthly Loss. At Garfield there are approximately 2000 men working In tho concentrating plants and 1200 or more at the smelter. There are 250 men or more likely to be affected at tho International smelter, and thero are about 1100 men employed at each works In Murray and MIdvalc. The Ohio Coppor mill employs about 360 men, while th0 other mills of tho camp In the aggregate employ about 300 or -100. This, therefore, gives approximately 6-100 men employed In plants that nro wholly or to an Important degree dependent de-pendent upon tho mines of Bingham for their employment, and their work In In no way connected with tho hundreds In the employ of tho railroads operating In and out of the camp and vicinity. Tt Is estimated that tho miners of Bingham lose close to 5500,000 monthly by striking; strik-ing; that a like amount Is lost to the buBlnesa men of Bingham, while the monthly loss to the companies owning the properties Is equal to hoth. The Alta district remains Idle as a result of the strlko of miners at the Columbus Consolidated property, who demand de-mand an increase for all men working underground to $3.75 per shift. This F.UUIU man on increase or To conts a shift for muckers, trammers and laborers, la-borers, all now receiving 53 a shift, and an increase in the cose of the timber-men timber-men and machine men who now get from J3.25 to 53.50. Some Are Discharged. The Columbus Consolidated management manage-ment gave thirty of its former employees tholr discharge checks yestorday. while the mlneB genorally of the camp did tho same thing. In the morning about sixteen six-teen miners left tho camp for the valley. val-ley. One development on Wednesday was the demand on the part of tho strikers that, even if their demands for increased pay are complied with, the men who remained at work from tho commencement of the strike must be discharged. dis-charged. This would Include such pumpmen pump-men who remained at work to prevent the flooding of the properties. The strikers of Bingham are demanding demand-ing a flat Increase of 50 cents a day for all classes of mlno and mill labor. No other Issue is Involved. Strlko leaders said last night that the purported 25-cent 25-cent increase posted September 1 affected af-fected only the underground workers. The acale of wages for tho underground under-ground workers at present Is as follows: Machine men, 53 for eight hours; machine ma-chine helpers, 52.75 for eight hours; hand and steel men, 52.50 and 52.75; timber-men timber-men and helpers, 52.60; trimmers, J2.50; horse and mule trammers, 52.75; nippers, 52,50. Scale Above Ground. For the outside workers the scale Is as follows. Machinists on drills, 54.SO for ten hours; first machinists' helpers, ?3.G0; second machinists' helpers, 52.50; drill Bharpeners, 53.50 for nine hours; blacksmiths, black-smiths, 5-1; blacksmiths' helpers, 52.75; steam shovel operators, $100 a month for ten hours; crane men, 5135 a month; steam chovel firemen, 3; carpontcrs, $4,44; carpenters' helpers, 52.50; bank-men, bank-men, 33; powdermen, 53.25; plpemen, ?2.E0; engineers on switch engines, 54.25; firemen on locomotives, $3; hrakemen, 53.50; maohlnlsts and bollermakcrn. 54; helpers, 52.75; compressors, 54.50. Spry Returns Today. Should martial law be declared at Bingham the state militia could muster five companies of Infantry and a battery of field artillery including four guns within with-in several hours of tho order. The field guns are equipped with phrapncl shell to take the place of machine guns, of which there arc none In the armament of the Utah National Guard. The special train bearing Governor William Spry from Richfield is scheduled to roach Salt Lake at 4:30 o'clock this morning. The governor was on official business in tho extreme southwestern part of the state when he was reached by telephone tel-ephone and told of the Bingham strike. Canceling all further engagements the chief oxcoutivo made post haste to the nearest railroad station. He arrived at Richfield late last night and a npeclal train was furnished by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad to bring him Into Salt Lake, r Labor Leader in Command of the Strike at Bingham CHARLES W. MOYER. |
