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Show Sheriff Ready To Reopen Utah Mines Telegram Leased Wire PRICE, Oct. 1 Sheriff Bryant A. Nelson moved Saturday to open the Carbon-Emery county truck mines for operations Monday "whether the pickets are there or not." He said Friday night, at a meeting in which mine operators met with Joseph Dudler, superintendent superin-tendent of the state highway patrol, pa-trol, and Otto Wlesley of the state industrial - commission, demanding ' that the state take an active part in the area "to preserve order," that he will have a force of depu- ws at every mine Manaay morn- ing to guarantee protection to all to proceed peacefully with their work. Saturday, pickets surrounded . the nonunion mines in Huntington canyon and other Emery county points "aa numerous as before," according to observers throughout the area. Union spokesmen, approached ap-proached on the "back to work" order for Monday, said it was yet "too early to talk. We have -had no work orders yet." , Sheriff Nelson said "truckers are Invited to come and carry on their business Monday, with the roada near the mines guaranteed to be open. Every truck mine in the area will be open for business Monday." This decision was reached, he said, at the Friday night meeting after the departure or state om-cials, om-cials, who merely took down statements state-ments of the operators with whom they met, and then left tha meet- , -ing. The session continued from 3 to 7 p.m. Following: the meeting; a union spokesman, who preferred to remain re-main unnamed, said he would try to meet with all wagon" mine operators Saturday on the situation, situa-tion, and meanwhile, "picketing -will continue." He further declared ' Pres. Houston Martin and international inter-national board member Malcolm Condie had been summoned to Carbon Car-bon county to confer with union leaders and to attend the proposed Saturday meeting with mine operators. |