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Show DALY-JUDGE COMPffl ! LAYS DFF5Q MINERS Reduction in Force Result of Order by Deputy Labor Commissioner. Tho Daly-Judge Mining company will not close its concentrating plant at Tark City, the company does not contemplate I closing the mine, nor will the working 1 force be materially reduced beyond what 1 it Is at present, according to General Manager Georpo W. Lambourne, when I asked yesterday repard ing the rumor to j the effect that the mine and mill might ; he closed. Fifty men were laid off yes- tcrday morning who had been working in , the mine, due to A. Toon', deputv state labor commissioner, informing General Gen-eral Superintendent O. X. Friendly tliat j ti io concentrating mill was working overtime, over-time, which was at;ain:st the laws of the I state of L'tah. Mr. Toone informed On-1 On-1 oral .Superintendent Friendly that action would be bgtni ag;liist tiie. Daly-Judge Mining company unless the company , .stnped tho men In tne fiiant -working j more than eight hours. The Impossibility Impossi-bility of treating the ore being Kent up by the additional lifty miners caused i tliom to be laid off. j ln discussing tlip situation yesterday ! Mr. Lamboumo Bald tliat between sev-j sev-j enty-five rn 1 llTi inn were daily poek-i poek-i lug emplonu.nt at the mine and mill. It was prai.'tlcally inposihle for tiie com- ; i pany to give employment to all of these, I the manager added. During t be pa-st week as many as thirty individual applications appli-cations to General Pup- rlntundent j h'rlcndly luad oen made by miner's wives', who pleaded that their huvband? be given employment, saving that the families were m indlcent clrcurr.st.'tuc-s-. To care fur as ninny of tiee men .is possible pos-sible the company had Increased the underground un-derground for- and it then be'-Miim necessary nec-essary to handle tiie increased tonnaco in tiie concent rating mill. To do this and Klve Ptniloymcnt to between 2'. and "J 7 0 miners it v,a neceBsary to run the con-I con-I cent rati nt: piati t two hours overt I np. Nu miner, however, hp.s lieen employt-d fr more thon risht hours, and thr- men In tho mill wfre place 1 on an eight-hour scale and paid for the overtime. The force In the mtU whh c,a mossed esterday mornlrtr. and without exception excep-tion the men fa id f.nt tln-y vvern plad to have, an opportunity to work overtime and ffirn th cvtrr, niorn. In oi--'ii-Inc th matter Mr. Ijarnuourne said Jas-trrday Jas-trrday : 1 In orrirr to comply with the Mf.te lawn. a Interpreted hv Toonf, it be-: be-: unit no1-ry for t hft rom pun v to I lay ofT fifty men, v. hp h las been don. T can't pec that we have t'ur- thered the rauF I labor or any other 1 CA if hv binir forced to la' off r.e ' nin in tl.ee iT'tn-al nnd tr!n- tim-n. I Th.e I-nly-J . l.as aboI'Hiy no I t'-nth-n of c.or-.i-iT down rl: corii-fn-j tr.itr r n r ti..- nibi-v Tt Is nr'v n 1 .-uArion of living off fUy additional tr'r.cr. tin or pr-o-luction ..f whh n f.ft- m.-'n could orilv I,. t'lkr-n carr of bv o-r-i.itii.K tho cor-.'ntiutor ov.t-i ov.t-i timr-. ! Whn f 1 1 : 1 whv the mil! w.is not run two i-in ft-. Mr. limhonrno MM ti at h'ir. a pr.'"-l'jrr wa j.ra. tically 1 n- psj ) at this tin: r.f "!.- . .1 r, !:..- l t . slii.it-:il.-- of prr. It i- un'!(-rMiKd In rni mz clr.- tl.at m.-.r of the 1--11 Vf-r prop-r!is prop-r!is ar.' r-th-.vJ;ltl..- nK,iit co:-. t : .;. ;t . t or -liitl-'ii-t wi at S r.-r;t!i an ounce and h-ad at .".T.'. p.-r hundred. |