The unions agreed that there would be no mass picketing at Park City until after the meeting Thursday with union members.
The terms of the proposals were not made public Wednesday night.
Mr. Robinson late Wednesday night said that submission of the proposals to the miners Thursday would probably mean acceptance by the men at the meeting. However, he said, there had been times in the past when terms worked out by officials had been turned down by the union members later, though he did not expect any such turn of affairs in this case.
Evidence that Park City local No. 99 of the international union has been greatly strengthened as a bargaining agency was shown Wednesday night at a meeting in Park City called to clear the difficulties between the Park City miners and their coworkers from the Kamas-Heber valley.
Leaders of the “valley” faction which was active in organization of the Park City District Mines Employes’ Welfare association expressed approval at the Park City meeting of union policies and declared their willingness to cooperate.
Meanwhile, however, 100 members of the welfare organization, meeting in Heber City, agreed to return to the mines Thursday morning if the operators opened them.
The Elks hall in Park City was jammed with workers and their families.
Paul M. Peterson, president of the Utah State Federation of Labor, commenting on the “winning over” of the “valley men,” said: “Without an army I doubt that anyone will be here to go to work tomorrow through the picket lines. We have no desire for violence, and in Park City there will be no violence, because those who would cause it will not be here.”
Mr. Peterson also expressed a belief that “all the men in this hall will go to work in a few days.”
In the major speech from the “valley” deligation, Douglas M. Frazier assured the Park City local of their support.
“The boys who pack union cards (in the valley) are 100 per cent for you,” he said. “The trouble talk from the valley is not coming from union men or prospective union men, but from gossips. I have the authority to apologize to you for the treatment you Park City men received at the Kamas meeting last week.”
Gene Payne, one of the men who publicly handed in his union card at the Kamas meeting, explained that “I handed in my union card because I became disgusted with the union and because I thought there was crookedness in it, but we fellows in the valley don’t want to go through your picket lines tomorrow. A lot of you are my friends. I want to go to work when the rest of you do.”
Sentiment at the meeting at Heber City was strongly in favor of the men returning to their jobs at the mines in the Park City district, and of rustling for jobs if they had not previously been miners there.
The meeting was addressed by business men, city officials and officers of the Park City District Mines Employes’ Welfare association, with various men speaking from the body of the house.
Storm McDonald, Heber City business man, said: “This strike came as a result of union fears of labor coming to the mines from the farms. Their (the union leaders’) ‘take’ in their racket was getting slim. They had to stir up something and that is their point, to stem the tide of farmer labor going into the mines.”
Agreeing with Johnson and McDonald Mayor L. C. Montgomery said the question was not wages or hours but involved fundamental principles of American government.
Montgomery told the men: “I know they will humiliate you by calling you scabs. They’ll call you everything they can think of. If I were you I would rest on my convictions, use the public streets and go to your work peacefully. At the same time you cannot take it on the chin without hitting back.” “I am not looking for any violence tomorrow if we do go over,” said Johnson.
Various speakers urged discretion be used, and most of those present seemed to be of the opinion that if peaceful efforts to go to work were made there would be no violence.