| Show 1000 Miners 6 i Strike at Park City T Mines Are Closed Cloned Indefinitely OWNERS W SAY A t TR TROUBLE i U T TO ACTIVITIES OF f 8 8 Men Demand Hour 6 ti Day Wages of and That 2 Work on All Machines Engine Fu Remain ARK CITY mines closed down this morning at 8 o'clock and ancl P PARK will vill remain closed indefinitely according to officials of the companies whose offices are in Salt Lake The closing of the mines was due to a strike of about 1000 miners The owners assert that the price of lead zinc and silver does not justify their attempting ting to run fun their properties with the handicap handicap handi handi- cap of greatly increased expense l They hey assert that man many of th the I mines ltd have been operated of late simply lv to give employment t to the men and to returned soldiers Local mine officials stated that the strike was the result res of the activities of members of the I. I W. W V. V They Thc asserted that the majority y of the men realized that work was sc scarce and that they I preferred holding down their jobs but the agitators haJ half made it ft impossible and creat created d th the present trouble The strikers demand a Six Six- six hour l ur day a wage of per day and that two men be he employed on onan all an machines A statement I Issued suel by hy bythe bythe hythe the strikers Monday night is as follows follows fol tol- lows We C the members in mass meeting n assembled ll agree t ro unanimously that In ht I tho thu future we will not tolerate an any discrimination against t any member of any organization an and that we will walk 0 off the jo Job throughout the entire district dis without notice if it any member is discharged for helon belonging to an any organ organ- lion V t consider on iller thE these o demands to be benot benot not lint unjust In view of or the high cost cot of or living al also o In consideration of the I hazardous employment o of the miners Much ludl surprise was created l b by tin the I sudden calling o of the they strike as S there has hos been but little talk in Park City of such action Many of oC the thc mines of ot I I Butte Bulle have o remained closed dosed since th thI the I strike in that town an and hun hundreds re s of ot miners miners are out of ot employment t No 0 trouble has hns yet bt been en reported from rom th the scene seen of the strike an and no clashes lm o havo o occurred tJ between the strikers and men desiring to work Sheriff Sherif L. L P P. McGary of P Park City stated that extra guards were arriving log ing In the town to and that he was prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared for tor any trouble which might Wright arise Picketing has not nut yet been re resorted re- re sorted to by tho the miners The only men remaining on the Job jot Jobin jobin in the mines aro the engine and pump pump- men according to Sheriff McGary These men ke keep J. tho mines mins from being flooded A meeting o of the strikers was Wat Watto to bo Ito hel held this afternoon at which they were to determine their th future futuro course of or action |
