Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-25 | Page 9 | Stephens is Silent

Stephens Is Silent. Governor William D. Stephens today flatly refused to comment on the report of Densmore. When asked whether ho would Instruct Attorney General Webb to conduct an investigation of the charges, the governor through his private secretary, secre-tary, Martin Madsen, said he had no comment com-ment whatsoever to make. Neither would the governor intimate what action he proposed to take .with regard to a commutation com-mutation of sentence for Mconey. The International association of machinists, machin-ists, San Francisco local No. US, today voted on the proposition to strike in behalf be-half of, Mooney.- The vote was secret, but E. D. Nolan, secretary of the Internationa Inter-nationa Workers' defense league stated that 96 per cent of the members fa-fored fa-fored the strike. December 9 has been tentatively set as the day for the strike, but a definite day will be fixed later. Nolan says the vote today represents GGJ0 machinists. The San Francisco labor council and the state federation of labor has named ten delegates to ask executive clemency at the hands of Governor Stephens .