Sheriff Ephraim Adamson of Summit county Tuesday night said: “Union officials have promised peaceful picketing. Those other fellows from over at Heber have the right to travel on the streets, and these other men (union men) have a right to watch them. I’ve got no right to say they haven’t but I’ve got to keep these streets open.”
Sheriff Adamson’s statement came as the result of a meeting held at Park City Monday night under union auspices, when veiled threats of violence crept into discussions from union officials, business men and independent workers, though it was believed no serious danger of violence would develop.
Reid Robinson of Butte, Mont., president of the Intenational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and Ora Wilson of Spokane, Wash., international union representative, attended the Monday night meeting in the interests of settlement of the strike by negotiation.
Workers continued to enter the U. S. mines at Bingham and at Lark, Tuesday. Union officials reported the numbers were diminishing, but this was denied by company officials.
Sheriff Adamson said Thesday night that he would seek a conference with Governor Henry H. Blood at Salt Lake City Wednesday relative to methods of handling the strike stiuation in the event that disorder should ensue.
Operations were said to be continuing at the United States Smelting Refining and Mining company mines at Bingham and Lark, though union officials said the number of men reporting for work each day was lessening. Company officials denied this.
Four men returning from work at Bingham Tuesday afternoon to their homes at American Fork and Lehi protested to city officers at Midvale that they were being followed by strikers, and asked for protection. They decided to return to Bingham for the night in order to evade suspected molestation at the Point of the Mountain entering Utah county.
A meeting of the Park City District mines Employes’ Welfare association, the newly organized outgrowth of the Park Utah club will meet at the high school at Heber City at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
It is understood members of this organization will sign up for work at the mines Thursday if assured of protection by county officers.
Union officers could not be contacted Tuesday night for further comment on the strike situation.