Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 1 | Big Strike at Silver King is Thing of Past

BIG STRIKE IT SILVER 1G IS THINGOF PAST More Than Two Hundred Former Employees Make Application to Return to Work. WORK ON PROPERTY ALREADY RESUMED Expected That Mine Will Be Running With Full Force Within a 1 Few Days. Special to The Tribune. PAUK CITY. Nov. 9. Thfl strike at the properly of the Silver Kins Coalition Mines tontpany's properly etnlil today. Of "J 1 former employees who applied for work tudn y. Hit were signed up. Work In the mine was bpim tonight, ii many ox pert miners, machine men and the old eiiKineeifi are amun the men who have returned to work. Tho ypirit of the striko died at a mr-etinK f six 1 y-five held In the union hall ton ii; lit. when forty-live of the number presrntA'oted to return to work. With tho sen era I movement of men to tho mini iig properly lo apply for work thin morning, the f relink' of ploom t iiat has lnirisr o er Park Cuy sim-c t lie walkout walk-out lifted notieeahly. Glad That It?s Over. The men ihcmsrtves are triad that the thing in over and many foel that the situation might have been aoided entirely had the conservatives conserva-tives at-srted thrtnj-plves at the time n f t ne walkou i a? did t iu1 rad if -a In. ! As It whs, the division came In the meeting meet-ing of Monday night, when aigumenls be- j (ween the two factions became so ".striking" ".strik-ing" that rlnuMde scats were In demand for a few minutes. The fact that snow began to 1'all here today probably hastened liie determination determina-tion of many of the married men to return re-turn to work. It is expected that by Wednesday night the limit tot by the company for preference to old employees in hiring men, most of the 370 men who walked out will be back In the ranks of the company's workers. Superintendent ' James Humes said tonight that, with the j men back, the mine would probably be : running as usual within a few days. While nothing is being given out by the j manacement of the company, it is known ; that t he action of the men In returning to work is appreciated. Their conduct Is regarded as an evidence of good faith on the part of the majority. Free From Violence. Throughout, the strike has been characterized char-acterized by freedom from violence, or improper demonstration. With no exception ex-ception worthy of mention, the men have conducted themselves In the most orderly! manner during the entire' time that they i have been out of work. j The majority of the ma tried men remained re-mained at home most of t tic; time, mak- j Ing it Impossible to get a representative majority of the men at anv of the meet-j Ings. The result was that the vote, al- ways carried at these meetings favoring! the continuance of the strike, was never j an expression of the will of a majority of the strikers, but rather of the minority, minor-ity, who were determined to continue the demands made upon the company for abolishment of the proposed workmen's compensation insurance plan. The de- j moral izal ion of even this faction came tonight, to-night, however, when more than two-thirds two-thirds of those present voted to return to work.