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Show proIwjpT" for goal fields STATEWIDE STRIKE IS THREATENED THREA-TENED IF GUARDS ARE SENT TO CARBON COUNTY Streetor Employees Join City and State Federation In Urging Governor Gov-ernor to Withdraw Soldiers From Strike Zone Salt Lake. Intimations that a stat wide strike of all union workers wiU be ordered If the National Guard 1 sent into Carbon county coal district is contained in a resolution passed hy the State Federation of Labor. The) resolution charges that the troubles have been precipitated by mine guards. In a similar resolution passed by the street car men's union the attitudo of the mining companies is heartily condemned as an effort to discredit the miners by making It appear that troops are necessary. A resolution taking a similar stand was taken by the Salt Lake City Federation of Labor, La-bor, which held that order could easily eas-ily be maintained without the use of troops. The resolutions of the State Federation Feder-ation and the Street Oar Men's union un-ion follow : Honorabje Charles R. Mabey, Governor of Utah, Capitol Building, City. Dear Sir: Inasmuch as the troubles in Carbon county have been fomented and precipitated pre-cipitated entirely by mine guards and company hirelings in an effort to discredit dis-credit the union miners who havu been orderly and lawabiding 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 the mining companies at the expense of the taxpayers of the state, the State Federation of Labor, therefore pro tests the sending of the state troops into the mining district, and that we will recommend an attitude of down tools on the part of the workers of the state if state troops are sent In and martial law declared at this time. Thanking you for anything you may be in a position to do to see that the miners and their families get a square deal, I remain, very truly yours, M. P. BALES, President State Federation of Labor. Labor Temple, City. One hundred experienced men have been recruited in Salt Lake to go to Carbon county to act as deputy sheriffs sher-iffs to assist Sheriff Thomas F. Kel-ter Kel-ter of Carbon county in preserving order or-der and protecting life and property at the mines. This action has been taken by the comissioners of Carbon county at the suggestion of Governor Uhafles It. Mabey and Lieutenant Colonel W. G. Williams, adjutant general of Utah. The governor, in conference with the commissioners of Carbon county, asserted as-serted that he would not send the state troops into the coal fields until the county had exhausted every resource re-source in its efforts to maintain peace and tranquility. "I want you comissioners to get busy," the governor told them. "I want you to see that those camps are properly policed and that the lives of innocent persons are protected. Police Po-lice every camp in the county. "That means that we must get men from outside of Carbon county, for we cannot obtain men and deputize them in that section," one of the commissioners commis-sioners told the governor. Assistance in obtaining competent and responsible men was promised the commissioners by Lieutenant Colonel W. G. Williams, Wil-liams, who promised to place tha commissioners in touch with persons who could furnish the men needed. It was pointed out that the men to be deputized for the purpose of policing polic-ing the property of the coal mining companies, but that they will go there for the specific purpose of maintaining maintain-ing order and preventing bloodshed. |