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Show PROTEST TROOPS FOR COAL FIELDS TATetWIDH STRIKE 18 THRBA TENED IF QUAROS ARE 8KNT TO CARBON COUNTY Streetcar Employees Join City and Stats Federation In Urging Qov- ernor to Withdraw Soldiers From Strike Zone Salt Lake. Intimations that n state wide strlko of all union workers Will bo ordored If the National Guard Is sent Into Carbon county conl district Is contained in a resolution passed by tho State Fed oration of Labor. The resolution charges thnt tho troubles haw been precipitated by mine guards. In a similar resolution nassed by tho stroot cor men's union tno nttltudq of the mining companies Is heartily condemned as nn effort o discredit the mlnera by making It appear that troops are necessary, A rcsolutioa taking a similar stand was takoH. by tho Salt Lako City Federation of Labor, La-bor, which hold that order could eas-ily eas-ily be maintained without the use of troops. The resolutions of tho Stato -Federation nnd the Street Oar Mon's union un-ion follow: Honorable Charles R. Maboy, Governor of Utah, Capitol Building, City. Dear Sir: Inasmuch as the troubles'ia Carbon county have been fomented aad precipitated pre-cipitated entirely 4iy mine guards aad company hirelings in an efTort to dls-" crodlt the union miners who have beoa orderly and lawablding to a fault, and that this has been done for" the obvious reason of having the National Guard sent down to do police duty for tbo mining companies at tho expense of the taxpayers of the state, the State Federation of Labor, therefore protests pro-tests the sending of the state troops Into the mining district, nnd that we will recommend an nttltudo of down tools on the port of the workers of the state if stato troops aro sent la and martial law declared at this time. Thanking you for anything you may be in a position to Ho to see that the mlnera and their families get n. square deal, I remain, very truly yours, M. 'p. BALKS, President State Federation of Labor. Labor Temple, Oily. One hundred experienced men have beeu recruited In Salt Lake to go to Carbon county to act ns deputy sheriffs sher-iffs to assist Sheriff Thomas F. Kcl-tor Kcl-tor of Carbon county In preserving or-dor or-dor nnd protecting llfo and property at tho mines. T Is nctlon has been taken by the comlsslonera of Carbon county nt the suggostion of Oovornor diaries R, Maboy nnd Lieutenant Oolbnel W. O, Williams, ndjutunt general' of Utah. Tho governor, In conference with the commissioners of Carbon county, assorted as-sorted that he would not sead the state troops into the coal fields until tho county had exhausted every ro-Bourco ro-Bourco in its efforte to maintain peace nnd tranquility. "I want ' you comtasioners to get busy," the governor told them. "I want you to see that those camps are properly policed and that the Uvea of Innocent persons are protected. Police Po-lice every camp in tho county. "That means thnt we must get nes from outside of Carboa county, for we cannot obtain men nnd deputise them in that. section," one of the commissioners commis-sioners told the governor, Asslstaa.ee ia obtaining compotent sad .responsible mon was promised the commissioners by Lieutenant Colonel W. 0. "?? Ilsms, who promised to place the commissioners In touch with persoas who could furnish- the raea seeded. It was polntod out that the men to be deputised for the purpr se of policing polic-ing the property of tho coal mint companies, but that they will go ther for the spoclfic purpose of saalntafa-Ing saalntafa-Ing order and preventing bloodshed, |