The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuesday Morning, December 15, 1936 (Vol. 134, No. 62)

Park City Mine Workers to Get New Proposal.  

Striking union miners in Park city will consider a new proposal to settle the nine-week-old metal mine strike Tuesday at 9 a. m. at a meeting in the Elks hall. The proposal was drafted in the office of Governor Henry H. Blood late Monday night after a day of conferences with union officials and mine operators.

Vote Set for Tuesday on Move Perfected by Operators and Union.  

“As a result of conferences between ourselves and Governor Blood,” said Reid Robinson, president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, “who in turn conferred with operators, we have agreed upon another tentative proposal which the negotiating committee of Park City local No. 99 will submit to the membership at a meeting in Park City Tuesday at 9 a. m. in the Elks hall.”

Terms Not Revealed.  

Terms of the new settlement proposal were not disclosed Monday night, since Governor Blood stated that conferees preferred that union members first consider them. The tentative agreement was reached with the governor acting as mediator between Park City mine operators, who met in one room of the chief executive÷s offices, and mine union leaders who were assembled in another room.

Negotiators for the miners included Mr. Robinson, Ora L. Wilson and Glenn Gillespie, international board members; H. L. Miles district secretary; Glenn Freeman, district board member; Scott F. Smith, president of Park City local No. 99; Charles Snow Sr., vice president; Tom P. Costas, secretary, and Henry Thielke, a member of the negotiating committee.

Confer With Blood.  

Operators who conferred with the governor were W. Mont Ferry, managing director, and James Ivers, general manager of the Silver King Coalition Mines company, and O. N. Friendly, general manager of Park Utah Consolidated Mines company. Governor Blood also was advised that Gloyd M. Wiles, general manager of Park City Consolidated Mines company, had been informed of the tentative proposal and had agreed to it.

The governor was assisted in his day-long work as mediator by W. M. Knerr, chairman of the state industrial commission, and W. H. Rogers, conciliator for the United States department of labor.

Job Seekers Expected to Remain Away From Area During Balloting.  

As a result of the proposal reached Monday night rumors that members of the Park City Mines Employes’ Welfare association would again attempt to reenter the strike-closed workings are not expected to materialize. Members of this group were repulsed last Saturday by union pickets when they attempted to report to Park City for work.

Rejected Offer.  

This attempt followed the rejection by members of the Park City local union of a strike settlement offer submitted last Friday. The first offer was rejected by a vote of the union membership.

Pickets patrolled highways through the day Monday in Park City and evidence of hasty mobilization plans were revealed when, in response to a bugle call Monday noon, union miners rushed to strategic points. Sheriff Adamson has augmented his force by 100 special deputies, with 50 from Park City and 50 from other Summit county communities. Arms were issued to a few deputies and all carried night sticks as they patrolled their beats.

It was learned Monday that Norville Moulton, said to be a Park City union miner, was beaten in a Heber City pool hall last Saturday night after the riot in Park City in the afternoon. His assailant was said to have been a Heber City man who was injured earlier in the riot.

I. C. Curtis, field representative of the U. S. employment service, paid his regular visit to Park City Monday and reported no applications for work. He said in the past his regular visits produced seven or eight applications.

As tension persisted in Park City, Summit county officials met with injured members of the welfare association in Coalville, the county seat. The delegation, residents of Heber City and Kamas, who claimed they were assaulted in the Saturday riot, submitted evidence to County Attorney Bartley G. McDonough as a basis for requested complaints against Sheriff Ephraim Adamson and union pickets assertedly responsible for the violence. The investigation was not completed by Mr. McDonough when he ended the conference in order to confer with Governor Blood in Salt Lake City.

Persons injured in the Saturday riot were accompanied to Coalville by J. L. Johnson, president and Orville Commings, vice president of the welfare association, and R. J. Hogan, Salt Lake city attorney. Those who testified before the county attorney included: Ariel Nelson, Darrell Prescott, A. D. Prescott, LeGrande Nielson, all of Kamas; Irvine Sessions, Cordon Sessions, Royce Moon, Ray Miller, Nif Murdock, Bert Davis, Victor Mair, Alec Mair, Ira Pearson, Gene payne, all of Heber City. Many of the group suffered cuts and bruises at the hands of union pickets during the street fight.

The only injury of a serious nature reported to have resulted from the riot was suffered by Leonard Keith, 16, of Park City, who broke his arm while engaging in the riot in behalf of the union. He explained he “was trying to save my father’s job.”

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