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Show RE-OPENS MILLS AT BINGHAM Utah Consolidated'! Forty Former Employes Go Back to Work Under Guard Bingham, Utah, Oct. 9. After a tie-up lasting threo weeks today of all the copper companies In Dlngham tho Utah Consolidated Mining Company's Com-pany's whistle broke the long silence this morning and over forty former employes responded to tho call. Sixty strikers, headed by Western Federation Federa-tion of Miners organizers, were on hand to lntercopt thoso going back to work, but ten deputy sheriffs swooped down upon them nnd In tho moleo thnt followed ono of tho or-gnnlzers or-gnnlzers was felled to tho ground nnd his followers driven away. No shooting shoot-ing occurred In Bingham todny. Tho mine whlstlo at 4 o'clock announced an-nounced tho end of tho shaft and the men went to their homes under escort es-cort of deputies, who guarded each man's houso throughout tho night. "Wo havo broken tho ice," said President R. II. Chnnnlng of the Utah Consolidnted, who came from Now York to tako personal charge, "nnd we expect to show that ' this strike wns called against tho wishes of a majority of our employes." "Tho attempt to resumo operations will fall," snld E. G. I.ocke, secre tnry of tho locnl miners' union "Thoso who returned to work soor will seo tholr mlstnke." At noon three more men joined thoso who first started to work. Moro aro expected tomorrow. No serious disturbances had occurred nt a late hour tonight. A nuipber of strikers mndo their nppearance at tho mlno Into today and distributed notices among former Utnh Consolidated employes. em-ployes. Deputy Sheriff Axel Steelo said tho notices contained a threat to blow up tho homes of all thoso who returned to work. Tho men wero driven down tho canyon without offering of-fering resistance. |