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Show TliTIC DIS1CT OPERATORS FIRM Mine Owners Decide Not to Recognize Committee of Employees. (Staff Correspondence.) EUREKA, May 10. Mine operators of the Tintie district will not recognize tho committee of seven delegated by the employees yesterday to present tho demands of the workers, alleging that the demands of the men had their first inception from the I. W. W. organization, organiza-tion, according to a statement mado today to-day by a prominent operator of Eureka. What effect this decision will have upon tho action of the employees will not be known until the mass meeting tomorrow evening at the miners' union hall when tho committee makes its report re-port to the workers. The owners adhere to their declaration not to grant tbo demands of the men. The meu ask for a raise of 75 cents a day, that they be lowered into and raised from the mino on tho company 's time, abolition of the rustling card and cessation of discrimination against members mem-bers of any organization. The operator who made tho statement that the workers' committee would not be recognized by the owners declared also that mine operators had met after the Park I'ity strike and concluded that if the strike spread to other localities they would adopt an attitude as firm as that taken by the owners at Tark City. Ho said ho meant by this th.t. they would make no concessions as to wages, hours or other conditions. The operators interpret the Tark City strike as an I. V. V. conspiracy to bring about a general disturbance, the plan being to start at Vark City and carry disorder from camp to camp and from state to state witn a view of reaching a condition of insurrection, he said. ile stated also that only those mines of the district which had a large output of silver were operating at a profit, because of the low price of lead and other metals and that if the workers work-ers vo'ed to strike operation of the mines would be suspended until the meu concluded to return to work. tic gave it as his opinion that smelt- (Contimiccl oa Taga 2, Column 4.) MIC DISTRICT OPERATORS FIRM (Continued from Pago One.) iii freiplit and the cost of supplies are abnormally liiph at this time. MINERS LEAVING PARK CITY FOR OTHER FIELDS Special to The Tribune. PARK CITY, May 10. Practically the only movement in connection with the strike 'here was the continued exodus of miners who must earn Iheir livelihood in other fields. No move was made by cither mine owners or st rikers looking toward a possible arbitration uf tho dis-putt;. dis-putt;. The strike com mittee published a notice no-tice to the effect thai the miners were standing strongly behind the committee for the demands already presented. The inino owners rested on their previous assertions- tha t tiie demands would not be granted under any circus I an ees. The streets were practically dencrlnrl for m oh t of the day and there could be found no Indication of any disturbance. Sheriff L. P. MeCarry hua his considerable considera-ble force of deputies on tho. scene-, a well as a sufficient number of men In rc-'ervo to take care of any possible trouble. The continued stream of miners h way from the camp is sab by those most familial fa-milial with tlio situation to bp composed chiefly of tho floating eiemeut. So far as could be learned, none nf t lie men having iheir homes and families here have left t bus far. There arc a Iso Mill in ca mp a not inconsiderable number of 1. W. W. Word from Eureka is being awaited lie re "with m uch Interest by tiie st rlkers. both radical and cons-.-rva I ive, It was a ppa ren t that, the ("a i lure of t he men at Kurelm tn present a program of demands as far reaching as thn;;c made, here had a disquieting ei'feet upon lhe leaders of the local -movement. |