“By the way it looks now, the men won’t start rustling until Tuesday.”
“There are several hundred men in the Heber and Kamas valleys, who assert they are willing to work under conditions we offer. We insist that Summit county or the state of Utah, or both, provide adequate protection for these men who want to work; then, we intend to employ them.”
Work will go forward again Monday at the Park Utah mine at Keetley, where operations were begun Saturday, and 80 men on two 40-hour shifts will go into the mine, according to Mr. Johnson. However, the association will discourage rustling at the Park City consolidated Mines company, the Silver Coalition Mines company and the Park City division of the Park Utah Mines company.
Organization of a crew of 100 deputy sheriffs, equipped with night sticks, was completed Sunday by Sheriff Ephraim Adamson and County Attorney Bartley G. McDonough, to “keep all public thoroughfares open,” the sheriff said.
Governor Blood declared Sunday night that he had been “keeping in touch with the situation at Park City and with representatives of both the union and the operators,” but said that no further negotiation meetings were held Sunday.
“I have talked with the county officials and they feel they have the matter in hand and can take care of the situation,” said the governor. “It is the county’s task to preserve law and order. The law provides that the county shall take care of the situation to the limit of its capacity.”
Petitions were circulated Sunday by Park City union members requesting that the state militia not be called into service, the petition setting forth that the siuation did not demand such action. It was supported almost universally by the strikers and their families.
Meanwhile, little was heard from the representatives of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers concerning plans of the strikers to resist efforts of the Heber City group to return to work. Reid Robinson, president, said Sunday that some kind of a plan would be formulated Sunday night.
Since then, however, work has been resumed at Tintic and Tooele, with a small force returning at Bingham.
This group, comprised of Frank Knight, Fred A. Peterson and Alden Pitt, Woodland; Roy Atkinson, Al McNeil and Lewis Atkinson, Francis, and Douglas Simpson and Leo Dillon, Kamas, following the second meeting, issued the following statement through Mr. Knight, spokesman:
“We had decided that if the sheriff could not enforce order we would have to ask for his resignation.
“As a result of this meeting we find that he was not as much to blame as we thought. We feel he overestimated the strength of his deputies and placed a little too much confidence on the word of pickets, who he claimed to have said, ‘would not start trouble.’”
After a meeting with the county commission, county attorney, mayor and the sheriff himself, however, the group rescinded its demand for the sheriff’s resignation stating that “he was not as much to blame as we thought.”
Flying fists in the packed Park City street brought injuries to a group of Heber City men, it was officially set forth in a list issued by Mr. Prescott. The following, all of whom were riding in a truck driven by Carl Murdock owned by his father, Nif Murdock, were injured, none seriously:
Russel Flygare, Irvine Sessions, William Spanton, Royce Moon, Carl Murdock, Cord Sessions, Ariel Nelson, Ted McPhee, Elite Clarck, Bert Davis, Victor and Alec Mair and Ira Pearson, all of Heber City and Ross Larson and Darrell Prescott, Kamas.
“We also want to take action against the sheriff,” he said.
Leonard Keith, 16 of Park City, son of William Keith, who suffered a fractured right arm Saturday as he fought the cause of the strikers, told hospital attachees:
“I was fighting to save my dad’s job.”
Deputies sworn in by the sheriff and county attorney will be on duty at 8 a. m. it was announced Sunday.
The extra deputies will be on duty Monday at 8 a. m., it was announced by the sheriff.