He said 15 Park City men, all of them “impartial,” would be ready in the event of trouble Saturday morning.
“We’ll see how things look in the morning” he answered, when asked whether more men would be drafted as deputies.
After announcement of the Park City local No. 99 vote, Reid Robinson of Butte, Mont., president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers; Ora Wilson, Spokane, Wash., executive board member, and Glen Gillespie, Salt Lake City, executive board member, issued the following statement:
“After a very careful consideration of the propositions presented to the employes in the Park City district by operators, members of Park City local No. 99 decided to put these various porpositions to a referendum vote.
“After the vote, which was well publicized, was taken, the propositions were rejected by a vote of 3 to 1. It is very obvious that in the result of the vote, that the employes involved are determined to make a very definite stand for the demands of an increase in wages of 50 cents per day, eight hours from collar-to-collar, and for official union recognition.
“The arrival of W. H. Rogers, conciliator for the United States department of labor in Washington, D. C., in this district, portends that further negotiations between the officers of the organizations involved and the operators probably will offer a successful solution of the present controversy.
“We ask all those involved, who are participating in this strike, to bear with us until such time as the representative of the United States department of labor has had ample opportunity to make a complete survey of the situation in this district.
“We feel that due to the fact Park City district workers are subject to the same operating costs as in the Tintic district, they should be agreeable to allow employes (of the Park City district) the same conditions in regard to wages, hours of work and union recognitions as enjoyed by the Tintic district (eight hours collar-to-collar, $5.25 for muckers, $5.75 for miners and absolute union recognition).
“We, the representatives of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, in describing our policy of ‘no violence,’ wish to state that our men will accede to our wishes and allow us ample time to make a peaceful settlement of this controversy by collective negotiation.”
J. L. Johnson, president of the Park City District Mines Employes’ Welfare association, said that 87 men are prepared to go to Keetley to the Park Utah consolidated Mines company workings there and that several hundred were being recruited for going “over the hill” into Park City at 10 a. m.
He said the association members were not notified until just before midnight that the offices would be open, and that lack of time might prevent organizing the full claimed strength of 700.
Union miners at the Park City camp had been balloting Friday afternoon on proposals that came out of mediation conferences held Wednesday at the state capitol, where Governor Blood had succeeded in having compromise proposals drawn up for submission to the strikers.
More than 400 persons, 100 of which were women, marched through the streets of Park City Friday morning carrying banners and signs with various demands on them. Some of them read:
“We want 50 cents“
“Vote no and win your demands.”
“We want eight hours collar to collar.”
“Lest we forget, Bingham and Lark are looking to us for help.”
Miners at Eureka and the smelter workers at Tooele subsequently went back to work when the companies concerned offered them a 25-cent raise, with no discrimination against strikers.
Nonunion miners in Wasatch county and upper Summit county were organizing a group of employes early Saturday to attempt crashing the picket lines at Keetley and Park City Saturday morning, when the hiring offices are to open.
Mr. Robinson, Ora L. Wilson of Spokane, Wash., and Glen G. Gillespie, Salt Lake City, Internationl representatives of the union, representing the strikers, Governor Blood acted as mediator between the two groups.
Operators of the mines in the Park City district had previously posted notices that they would accept applications for miners at their mines December 10 at 10 a. m. Two 24-hour postponements have set the deadline for 10 a. m. Saturday if miners vote not to accept the proposals.
It is reported that 700 men have been recruited by the Park City District Mines Employes’ Welfare association, with J. L. Johnson of Heber City as president, to accept employment whenever the operators offer it.
Work at the Bingham and Lark mines was being carried on with about 125 men Friday, with no violence or disorder reported.