Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-02-12 | Page 2 | Another Walkout in Arizona Camp

ANOTHER WALKOUT IN ARIZONA CAMP Nine Hundred Copper Miners Quit Because Be-cause Two Union Men Are Discharged. CLIFTOX, Ariz.j Feb. 11. Nine huu-drcd huu-drcd employees ot the Detroit L'opper company at .More in1 i walked out today whe-u two union meu were discharged ;is a result, it was said-, of a complaint hy two non-union men, who asserted thev had been threatened with violence if they attempted to , enter the mines again without union cards. j "A delegation from the union workmen work-men called upon the superintendent and demanded the reinstatement of the discharged dis-charged men. The demand was refused and immediately the entire union force was called out. As a result of the walkout the smelter, smel-ter, mills and mine of the Detroit company com-pany are idle. About 10U men engaged in operating the concentrator and lcaclier of the Shannon Copper com-panv. com-panv. near Clifton, walked out yesterday yester-day on a similar rievam-e, and, while the mines and smelter &f the company still are operating, the concentrator and leacher must resume soon, it is said, or ' it will be necessary to close down the remainder of the plant. There was no disorder in the district following the walkout. j