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Show I EXPECT TO II WINSTRIKE 9lf Bingham Miners Confi- ji dent of Victory in fljl i Present Struggle till ' ' 91 Klnghnro, Utah, Sept. 24. J. C. jHjl Xowney of Butte, Mont, and Yanco Hjl Terzich 6f Angel's Camp, Cal., execu- ( tlve board members of the Western 91 Federation of Miners, arrived here Hi! early today from a conference at Salt II r Lake City and announced that tho I striking coppor miners were bo fully IB n control of the situation here that Hffl : tho operators certainly would be gJl ' foroed to terms. "2J : Ir contradiction to this General B Manager D. C. Jackllng of the Utah j? I Copper company, repeated today that J I the determination of his company to 111' resume operations shortly regardless II I of the miners' demands had in no rl II i t? been changed. J l , The Greeks again arc gathering in SI I crowds on the hills but so far no I ! shooting has occurred Tho Utah I Copper company continues to augment II Its force of guards and although re- II ! cent developments have given them II new hope for a peaceful settlement, 1,1 both strikers and operators are mak- I II ; lng preparations to block anv pro-f pro-f II ; . posed move. Ill When questioned as to the trip of I I President Moyer to Ely, Mr. Lownev Jl said: (ill "Mr. Mover is In Nevada for the purpose of consulting J. C. Miller, a III I member or the executive board and l "w-itli local union officials on the sll- 12)' nation there and to discuss co-op- I liv- eratlve action there and delsewhere jig. should tho Utah Copper company! ill' .continue- to ignore our domands for lllj bettor pay. We have the situation llj .i well in hand and the company will lit "be unable to resume work without l granting our demands. Labor is IIBH '"'"l.c, oiiinuuitilRCia ill U UUlll Hull Hu-ll i vertised for in many western cities, If but hnve Information that the labor jl agents are meeting with no success. " -M A. L. Wilde, secretary-treasurer of 1 , the union of steam shovel men is In -rll , charge In Bingham during the absence I II - of Moyer and is busy today with his cf-flB cf-flB forts to bring about agreements with 'ill tJle mJners and operators through the 'Wn instrumentality of Governor William 1 sPr-v- IK, So far Mr. Jackling has refused to J IL' consider such a conference. iMl Tno announcement by General -Hjl Manager D. C. Jackllng of tho Utah WW Coppor company that Lelcadas G. -U Skliris, employment agent, has re- HVi signed was revived here with enthu- K slasm by the strikers. Hi On behalf of the miners. A. I,. Wild. ' secretary treasurer and business MM: agent cf th0 Asnoclntion Union of HJ Steamshovcl men made an appeal to mh' the governor to bring about a meet- . Ing of the Union leaders and officials m of the Utah Copper company for the M ; settlement of their differences. Although the leaders of the strikers III i p"re encuraged over the outlook for l :, n peacoful culmination, Deputy Sher- JH t iff T. Schwetzer, reported that a l : clash between the Greeks and dep- "ties on guard at upper Bingham I : '"'as narrowly averted yesterday H A number ot Greeks gathered on i jmt tho hillside opposite where the steam -3D shovels He idle aud sent a shower of i WW bullets down around the deputies. No I ps no was hit, but seieral had narrow Mffi escapes. Only tho efforts of the offi- f cers In charge of the deputies pre- l vented the latter from returning the Ht fire and precipitating a battle. Soon BR however, the Greeks censed' firing Mi and disappeared over the hill W&; When officers of the local union 'B were informed of tho incident they S ; declared it was the work of porsons jH not in sympathy with the union Secretary E. G. Locke of the local H i miners' organization stated last night HI that the resignation of Swliris fore- W shadowed an early settlement. Skliris H baR beon charged with racticing the Ml peonage svstein among the Greek iM employes. The charge is denied by I , officers of the Utah Copper company, Will wll sa-v tliat tne reslgnution of HU Skliris was accepted only because it H would eliminate one of the alleged H grievances against the company. A J. C. Lownev and Yanco Terzich, JH exocutivo board members of the Iflj Western Federation of Miners who 'Hi' spent yesterday in Salt Loke City Hi', conferring with other officials, said Hj? that the resignation of Skliris is sec- HT ondary for the demands of a higher Blr wage scale and is not a sufficient Hjl concession to cause any of the strlk- Hj ers to go back to work. 'Hit peputy Sheriff patrolling the Bing- -H ham and Garfield railroad owned by ,HH the Utah Copper companv. reported Ht the findindg yesterday of three boxes IHII of dynamite beneath the Freeman Wp. canyon bridge, a short distance below trfc the Bingham depot. Union officials Hnr' claim that no one of their men is re- B sponsible and that they have evidence m ! that k wos put there so it might be Ut found and suspicion cast against the U ftrlkors. Beports of the dynamite H .1 discoveries have been numerous but m j In most cases where dynamite rcallj, m ' wag found It has been' proven that U ' the explosive was lerl by miners when Ut t thoy walked out. ! Moyer At Ely Camp. H( Ely, Nev., Sept. 24. Churles H. 1 Mover, president of the Western Federation Fed-eration of Miners arrived in McGlll, Nev., last night. Ills train was. several sev-eral hours late and no meeting will be held with the labor officials hero until today. It gonerally is regarded hero that Mr. Moyer's visit to the capip Is for tho purpoao of calling a strike of the ininers and smqltr men, Hjl: who at a Tneeting Saturday night b. made a demand for an Increase in WfJ-ii "'a- WXds- The scale of wages now paid In Ufl this district is as follows! 1 Muckers and caren, ?r.00 a day; B miners and timbermen, $3.50; shaft (Continued on Pago ScTon.) uo (Continued Fiom Page One.) men, ?J and $4.50. The minimum wage for skilled Inborors at the concentrator con-centrator and smelter, 3; common laborers, la-borers, $1.7G to $2, which is below the scale paid in the Arizona and Montana Mon-tana mines, but higher than the scale at Bingham, Utah, where the minors now are on strike. An increase of 50 cents a day has been demanded for all classes of laborers. There are about 5,100 men emplojed In the mines and smelter here Ask Governor's HoJf. Salt Lake City, Sept 24. Governor Gover-nor Wllllnm Spry who was requested today by A. L. Wilde, president of the Stearashovcl Men's union which Is on a strike at Bingham, to use hiB good offices in arranging a conference confer-ence between tho strike leadero and the operators notified the shovel men last night that he would do all in his power to bring about the desired meeting. The governor was unable last night to set a time when the meeting would be held other than It would ho at the earliest date possible. possi-ble. oo |