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Show PEACE PARLEY SETL'ITIEUP AT PARK CITY "Unions-WillConfer! With Industrial Commission By BILL McDOUGALL A strike committee of the Park City .Miners' union, which enforced a walkout Monday morning that closed the Park City Consolidated Mining company workings, was to meet with the state industrial in-dustrial commission at 2 p. m. In an attempt at settlement. The new strike, following by only five weeks settlement of a walkout that kept more than ISM men idle at Park City for more, than twe months, waa called Sanaa San-aa night after the company aa-sertedly aa-sertedly refused to reemploy three heistmea under aa agreement With the anion. Operations wers halted at the Park City holdings of the company as between SO and 00 pickets went on duty along the Deer valley road, leading to the mine, and turned back several automobiles of workers. work-ers. One fist fight waa reported. Plana Announced Lawrence Robinson, strike committee com-mittee chairman, announced plans . to meet with the industrial commission commis-sion and said feloyd M. Wiles, general gen-eral manager of the company, would be present. William M. Knerr, commission chairman, said the strike group had requested a meeting, but that he did not know what would be done at the session. A meeting of Park City Consolidated Consoli-dated workers who belong to the union wss hsld at Park City In the morning, when grievances were aired. W. P. Goes, superintendent of the mine, said the firm did not plan to bring men through the Keetley tunnel to Park Utah Consolidated Con-solidated Mines company property and thence to the Park City Consolidated Con-solidated mine. "We were notified that If such acUon was taken, the union would closs the Judge division of the Park Utah." hs said. "We cant afford for the union to crack down oa a fellow company." Aecusattoa Made Mr. Goes charged pickets turned back maintenance men, electrical . workers and others Who viers permitted per-mitted to peas lines during the major strike of October, November and December. "The situation Is critical," hs said. "Water is rising in the mins because there are no electrical men." Lee Johnson, president of the Park City District Mine Employes' Welfare association, whose members mem-bers were turned back from Park City In a riot when they tried to crash, picket Unas during the major strike, said no members would attempt at-tempt to go to work at the Park City Consolidated. Workers at the Park City Consolidated Con-solidated Mining company went on strike at Park City Monday morning, morn-ing, prepared to "hold out" for granting of demands that three holstmen be rehired. Between SO and 00 pickets were en duty along the Deer valley to the road and between and T a. m. five carloads of workers were turned back. There was no violence. . Sheriff Ephraim A damson escorted escort-ed an assayer and a timekeeper through the line Monday morning while pickets permitted a foreman and two shift bosses to pass. Deadline Was Set The strike was voted Sunday at a meeting of Psrk City local No. OS. International Union of Mine, Mill (Oenttnund en Paso rtre) (Colusa Two) Peace Parley Begun as Strike Is Called at Park City Mine (CaaUeaal traa Pais Oaa) and Smelter Workers, at aspiration of a deadline set by unionists for rehiring of the hoistmen, according accord-ing to union officers. Part of the settlement agreement of the major walkout called for rehiring re-hiring of workers without dlscrimt- activities. Henry Thlelke, chairman of the local union publicity committee. Issued Is-sued the following statement: "Regular meeting of the local union No. 98 decided that, in view of the fact the Park City Consolidated Consoli-dated Mining company has refussd to abide by the agreement entered into in settlement of the recent strike, namely. In rehiring men as of October . IBM, three men have not been returnee to work at their former for-mer jobs. The grievance committee has, for the last three weeks, tried every reasonable effort to persuade the com pan lea to live up to the agreement, agree-ment, but the Park Con, for reasons rea-sons best known to themselves, are continuing to discriminate against union men for their strike and union activities. Five men were laid off, four of them being very active union men, the excuse for their layoff being be-ing reduction of forces. Question Asked "But If that be the case, why haa the company hired men since the so-called reduction? Why does not the Park Con, if a layoff be necessary, neces-sary, uss the same procedure as other companies, by laying off men with the least time of service? If Wiles (Gloyd M. Wiles, manager of the Park City Consolidated) gets by with his pernicious plana of firing men, we will soon be in the slimy clutches 'of the company's latest brainstorm, the company union." When the strike settlement was reached in December, workers were given 48 hours in which to re filter for reemployment The union contends con-tends at least seven nonunion men. who did not register, were hired and that three hoistmen on the payroll at the outset of ths strike, and who registered, were not rehired. The hoists on which these three men were working still are in operation, op-eration, according to the union. The three, officials said, are John Mair, R. Swanson and Otto Carpenter. Vote Is Unanimous "The membership, in meeting assembled,' as-sembled,' unanimously voted to reestablish re-establish ths picket lines at the Park City Consolidated Mining company unless mine officials decided to put the men back on ths job and cease and desist from any discrimination against them for their union actlvi-tiee. actlvi-tiee. "The Sliver King company evidently evi-dently decided that they would make good their word and have, so far as we know, rehired all the men who walked out October 9. except one, and Mr. Heitzman (superintendent) (superin-tendent) haa agreed to hire him Monday. Promises Cited Mr. Wiles said the men had been promised jobs on or before February Feb-ruary 15, and that workers had been promised jobs when "work opened up." Ths union contended the company com-pany violated stats safety regulations regula-tions by not operating hoists at all times when men were underground. Had the regulations been met officials of-ficials said, the three hoistmen would have been employed. A strike committee, headed by Lawrence Robinson, appeared to lay the union case before the Industrial In-dustrial commission Thursday, it was announced. Mr. Wiles was present, pres-ent, they said. The union said that on January 15, five men were "fired." They reportedly re-portedly were F. L. White, chairman chair-man of the union grievance committee; com-mittee; William McGuire, Sam Pen-tico, Pen-tico, Orville Moutton and Ted Mcl Affee. The first four were named by union officials as "active union men." I'm afraid of is that some of our boys, who have been working only six weeks sines the two-month strike layoff, will fight to get back to work Monday, with a possibility of men being injured. We're not going to have a lockout That's against everything that's right and proper. The men are there, the mine is there, and we'd like to see them keep on working. "These men can't honestly say they've been discriminated against because they haven't Agitation for this trouble is not local. "We promised the men at the end of the recent strike that they would be put back to work when the work opened up. It so happened that in this ons place we have not operated since the strike, thus leaving the hoist crew idle until on or before February 13, when we will start up there again." Charge Is Made j On January 21, It was charged a nonunion miner was hired, and on January 22, a nonunion hoistman was employed. Mr. Robinson said the strike committee com-mittee notified company officials it was ready to meet with the latter, lat-ter, but received no reply. A timekeeper known only as McDonald Mc-Donald approached picket lines Monday morning, but did not pass through. Ha returned with Sheriff Adamson and Ivan Nicholla, an as-sayer, as-sayer, and the two men were taken through the lines by the officer. Pickets had a tent at the railroad crossing on the Deer valley road, and poured out whenever a car approached. ap-proached. A long was kspt ready to be thrown across the road. One hundred thirty men have been employed at the mine. Mr. Wiles' statement said: "Several of our hoistmen, who were also msmbsrs of the union, offered to resign their jobs and leave town ao the other fellows could get jobs in order to avert the strike. That shows what kind of a situation it is. "The demands are unreasonable. Those thrss msn were promised they could have jobs on or before February 15. "We had 180 men working before the strike; there are 130 working now. A number of men left Park City during ths strike and are working work-ing In other states, but if they had come back after the strike we would have been unable to place about 50 men. There is a limited amount of ore available. "In a matter of that kind, I don't see what a company can do. If the men call that discrimination, ws might just as well close up the mine now aa some other day. "It'a aa extremely small minority that do that sort of thing. What |