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Show FEDERAL MEDIATOR CO'f EM STRIKE Joseph Lord Discusses Mine Labor Situation With Commissioner Knerr. Joceph Lord, federal labor department mediator, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday, and will make an effort to adjust differences differ-ences exist ins between operators and miners at Eureka and Park City. HyweU Davies of the conciliation and adjustment service, originally selected, was unable to come to Utah because of his duties as acting federal director of employment em-ployment sea-vice and state labor administrator admin-istrator of Arizona. For this reason Mr. Lord was sent The mediator conierred with William M. Knerr of the state industrial commission commis-sion last nichf regarding labor conditions in tha mining communities. Me was unable un-able last night to state his plans for the immediate future. Mr. Lord was sent here from the dc-pa dc-pa rtment of lnbor several months ago when employees of the American Smelting Smelt-ing and Refiniug company's plant at Garfield Gar-field went on btrike in protest against a wage reduction of 7."- cents a day. |