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Show i. 4,000 Men Quit Work Today at Utah Copper Com-I Com-I pany Camp Workers Are Demanding an Increase in Their Wages. I OWNERS REFUSE TO TREAT WITH UNION 10,000 Men Will Soon Be Idle If Strike Is Not Settled Set-tled Governor Spry May Declare Mar- i tial Law in District. it: W i Bingham, TJtah., SepL IS. Union J J saloers oC this camp who disregarded j l the advico of President Charles H. ! J Moyer and voted unanimously last l night to strike for a 26-cent advance t in dally pay, bnd everything their own fMl -way this morning-. Only a few of the J4I Jive thousand workmen In the diH- ,itt tilct attempted to go to their Jobs and g these were turned hack by strike ugj pickets. tJW While SherlTf Sharp was consiilt- iciK In "with other state officials In Salt deajji. 2xk City ajid trying- to reach Gov- JrtH eroor Spry, who Is in Southern Utah, oTjig by telegraph, a deputy sheriff was Hgf fired npon, it Is claimed, by a strike i7kJL picket at the Utah Copper property. Ofjjj He returned the fire, wounding the it; picket, a foreigner Sheriff Sharp raffii has ordered one hundred deputies to ijfg- Bingham from Salt Lake. They will ajjlr arrive thlB afternoon. $&' Jspi ' Bingham, Utah. Sept. IS. Bingham fia waited anxiously this morning for I the developments following a vote of the miners' meeting last night In favor of a strike for higher wages to begin today. A strike will affect Immediately iTO 4,000 men, principally aliens, and -ftg If continued for many days will In-jSw In-jSw i volvp nine or ton thousand men, ln-rw ln-rw rinding those employed In the re-inr?K re-inr?K function mills and smelter at Girfield. Crj An Increase of 25 cents a day is the aK bone of contention. The Utah Cop-unj Cop-unj i Per company and many smaller con- 8 earns have refii6od to treat with union officials representing the miners. Charles H Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, advised ad-vised against an immediate strike at. the meeting last night, but was over-rnled over-rnled by unanimous vole. it5 Bv 10 o'clcrk all the miners were 2fi ( idle. Strike pickets, many of whom IjiS ' were said to be armed, turned back 9E the shifts which started for work. H i Twenty-five deputies, sent to camp by Kf the sheriff of Salt Lake county, were powerless Miners were leaving yesterday In , large numbers for other districts and mnny more arc preparing to leave. DISCUSS BINGHAM STRIKE. Salt Lake City, Sept 18. The county coun-ty sheriff, secretary of state arid secretary to Governor Spry are in conference tod-jv discussing reports from Bingham, a copper mining camp x Eighteen miles distance from Salt ry 'Lake, where strike pickets, armed 'fttfi iTvith rifles shotguns, pistols and rSJj ' olube, prevented any of the five thou. ,li : land men normally omployod In the !JiZ! .mines, going to their work this morn- $ Tlie force of denuty sheriffs sta- iy ; tionpd In the camp Is entirely inade- 351 iquate to handle the situation should &i (trouble arise, and the conference at fuS1 Hue capital Telntes o the advislbllity m of declaring martial law and filling iwfc i Bingham with Btato troops. -31 At no011 a"iet continued throughout Ihe district. i?a -n |
