SOCIETY, CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELIGION
175
A Fourth of luly Parade in Mercur in 1901. (Utah State Historical Society) believers attended church services in Salt Lake City. Many of the first immigrants would go to Salt Lake City to get married in the churches there. Some Greeks attended the Methodist church in town because there was no Greek O r t h o d o x church in the county. A M o r m o n chapel was used for the funeral of one Greek Orthodox man killed in World War II. After 1900, Slavs, Serbs, and Croatians, along with Italians and Greeks, dominated the labor ranks in the mines of Tooele County. The Slavic people were less conspicuous than the darker Greeks in the predominantly white Utah society. 36 Greek m e n seeking work were at the mercy of sometimes unscrupulous labor agents in Utah who sent workers to five areas, one of which was the Tooele smelter, receiving exorbitant compensation for their services.37 Mercur had a large settlement of Italians. Ethnic bonds, which united people in the old country, continued. For example, godfathers provided a strong bond among Serbians and Croatians, assuring parents that their children would be protected if
