Show THE CARrE eier thing sams to ie going smoothly generally spooling A report was prevalent on the streets yesterday mornine thai a number of carpenters laj quit work because 0 the refusal of contractors to hrant the stipulation that nine hours dball constitute a days work the rumor nas traced up and st nan found that only one mail bad refused to go to work at the ten hour rate and that he was an employee of contractor fred foulger air N 0 flygare said that although he bad twenty men in his employ not one of them had expressed to him any action at the number of bouis they worked or the amount of pay bey received lie did not anticipate any double n hat ever but should any occur the places of dissatisfied men could be filled as be was daily in receipt of numerous applications fr at the rate of pay and number of hours no preva ent it is said that a number of carpenters are now working nine hours per day only and that they will leave the matter until saturday when they receive their pay and if the daily hour is deducted from their weekly wage it is likely that they will refuse longer to work some of the contractors are of opinion that the carpenters union will be totally unable to accomplish anything because of its lack of strength it is baij that there are very few resident carpenters who are members of the union and that it is mostly composed of transients whose interests are not with ogden but who after having created trouble for themselves as well as the home workmen would leave the city it is claimed that the was formed too late ID the season to accomplish any good for ita members the majority of the carpenters to join on account of this fact this leaves the union in a very weak condition and in the opinion of many men totally unable to protect its members in the event of their going out on strike all the contract work which will be done this year has been taken by the contractors and some of them have figured so low as to make it utterly impossible for them to allow any advance in wages in fact all contract ore have figured on their work at the rate of wages and the amount of time which obtained in the spring of the year if a contractor had in his employ twenty men and if at this time the demand of atie carpenters was granted he would lose the work of two men tach day this would be ruinous to the contractors and it is baid that they are determined to hold the time the same as it is at present saturday may bring some new developments but it is to be hoped that every thine will be satisfactorily arranged an error was committed in a short item regarding the carpenters was published in this paper yesterday it should have read thattie union had a resolution that its members w take no more work on the ten hour plan no order has been issued by the carpenters union calling upon its members to drop their present work |