Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-07-18 | Page 16 | Engineers Claim No Strike Called

ENGINEERS CLAIM NO STRIKE CALLED i I State Say ThY They e Resigned Jobs as Protest Declaring that they thoy did not strike but walked out because a of methods and policies followed by E. E S. S Borg Borg- quIst quint resident engineer on the Price Price- Emery road project members of at tho the state road en engineering party from Huntington arrived in Salt Lal Lake o yesterday yesterday yes yes- cs and explained the conditions they said led up to resignations of at seven men mono The They declared that Earl Kershaw Kersh w of Lohi Lehi was running tho the transit and that ho arranged for his hlo sister to to go 10 r from Lehi to Huntington by b way of at Price She Sho was In Price on Saturday and Kershaw thc they p said had arranged to go there to meet her that day Then ho took her to Huntington and intended intend Intend- ed on Sunday to go so on to Elmo I According to tho tiro engineering crew crow members member Borgquist told that he would havo have to work on Sunday but the tho tran transit lt man said ho he would have to keep the tho promise ho had made mado his sis sis- ter Ho Ile did not work worle Sunday Sunda They another say Bay that on Monday morning transit man arrived and It was generally gen Ien orally understood there thore would bo be two on tho the work but that Tuesday night Borgquist told Kershaw he be was dis dis- missed Then tho tiro rest of ot us us considering this was not a n. square deal decided to re resign resign resign re- re sign and the entire force torce left lert said one of the tho engineers all there Isto Isto Is la lato to it The state will find It hard to get s-et men for tho the work for experienced men arc In demand right n now w and tho the state pays less than companies that are arc seeking engineers and their as as- as 15 The Tho statement was made at the State Capitol yesterday that tho the ef efforts of- of c- c forts torts to replace the tho men had not been successful The crew left Huntington Hunting- Hunting ton with engineering ens work worl advanced on the Price-Emery Price project for ten days' days work Vork by tho the contractors' contractors crews II