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Show I Workers Quit When Demand for 90 Cents an Hour Is Refused SALT LAKE, May 1. With over n hundred employes striking, five planing plan-ing mills of Salt -take closed down , this morning. D O. "Jacobs, business I 'agent for the Carpenter's union, claims thht the dispute concerns wages alone. I Managers of some of the planing. mills J s"av that the men not only demand, An I ;ihbrcaso in pay, but strongly object-i object-i , ,to, the "American plan" being put into J effect. The man ask for 90 cents an hour or S720 a dav. They now receive 56 a dav. Owners offered to compromise al So cents an hour, but this offer was i i rejected by the strikers, It is claimed. Among tire ranks of the strikers are I 1 .cabinet makers, bench men and other I .slrilled lumber workers. I Mr. Jacobs stated thai the scale paid I ;S,nlt Lake workers was low in compar-I compar-I ison to wages paid workers in other vi-I vi-I cinlties. |