In the following year of 1912, a union leader by the name of E.G. Locke wrote to the ambassador of Turkey and sent copies of his letter to Governor Spry regarding that they investigate the Crete’s issue with Skliris. The Crete miners and Locke formulated a large union full of 1,200 members by September and planned to mobilize a movement by pressing American union leaders for a strike vote. The President of the WFM, Charles Moyer, overheard their call to action and scurried to the UCC in Bingham, Utah, to dissuade the immigrants and Locke through a speech. Moyer was reluctant to this strike due to a previous union strike at the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota, which cost a vast amount of money and resources. Preceding the speech was a
