Show STAGE HANDS ORGANIZE formation of a Local of the Intoina tionnl Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees The organization of Salt Lake local Xo 00 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees was com ileted last night by the Installation of i ifliccrs by Steve I Simmons of Snn Yanclsco lntcrnatlornl first vicepres cient o the order I Following the In tullnllon o dicers nn impromptu bnn ouct was fcrved and the members fool hat t the new organisation his started out under the most favorable auspices The officer of the local are as follows President William Edwards vlccpres dent James Livingston recording soc Gtary iIr B Altlons financial secrc cry J F GfSi ten ulel E Schuler executive board F L Myers J Plant H Newman TWO DOZEN JOIN The local branch starts out with a membership of twentyfour which In eludes every theatrical stage hand at present employed In the city the most prominent of whom have been working for eight yearn to secure the organlza lon which was consummated las light These naturally are very jubilant ant over tho final success of their cC orts Th conclusion to organize was cached several weeks ago the appll atlon for a chhrtcr having been acted I upon nt the international convention rc cnlly held In Columbus 0 This con entlon authorized First VicePresi dent Simmons to stop In the city on the way to his home In San Francisco to install the officers and place the new local l on a working basis WILL HAVE FAIR WAGES Mr Simmons when seen last night aCer completing his work talked en huslastlcally of the objects of the order or-der and of what It Is accomplishing Salt Lake he said has long been the only city of Its size In the Unlt dSt d-St f s in which the stage employees wen not thoroughly organized We have altogether 115 locals with a totul membership of more than 7000 and everywhere the best possible results have always followed the formation of our locals While as a matter of course one of our principal objects Is to maintain main-tain a fair wage schedule for stage employees em-ployees there Is another object to which fully as much attention Is paid and that Is to provide stage managers with competent employees Our rules are very strict In this regard and our work hay resulted In reducing the number num-ber of Incompetents In tills service to he minimum Drunkenness Is I not tolerated tol-erated by the order and the hobo supes who used to drIft from town to town making life a burden for both managers and honest employees have been driven from the field As to the wage scale here It Is likely1 no change will be asked for at least some time to come The boys are quite well satisfied In this regard re-gard and thc main object now Is to get together Improve I the service wherever that may be possible and trust to increased In-creased efficiency for the rest |