Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-12-04 | Page 41 | Independent Mines Follow

I i Independent I Mines Follow I W Cob Colo Dec 3 By By the Associated Closing Press Press Closing of ot the Ojo mine seven miles from La Veta I and posting of notices of a 30 per cent wage reduction effective in in- thirty days das j I at the Sunnyside mine were further I developments today In the movement i I of so-called so Independent mines to meet the situation created by the wage reI reduction reduction re- re I In Colorado Fuel Iron comI company com com- j I pany pang mines nines and nd reduction of 1 a ton on in n the prices of or certain grades of coal cosh j I Officials at the Sunnyside mine I II which had been closed Ince the middle of of November said the they expected favorable favorI favor favor- I able action by the state industrial I commission on their application for fora a i wage reduction and an they they- hope to reopen re- re j open the mine the first of ot the year ear Th The Oakdale mine thine at Oal Oakview closed i for tor two days and will r reopen reopen Monday lit It wits was said today l Frank rank Hefferly HetterlY international organIzer organizer organ- organ i Izer for the United Mine Workers of I America told newspaper me men men that more than miners at the Cameron I mine of ot the Colorado Fuel Iron company had signed a statement denying denying deny deny- ing that they had petitioned the company com com- pany for tor a wage reduction and reopenIng reopenIng reopen- reopen reopening Ing of the tI-le mine as stated by company officials