Show UNIONS ONIONS mi AND INDUSTRIES i IN I DEADLOCK ELECTRICAL WORKERS AND TILE SETTERS STILL OUT OUTON ON DEMAND FOR INCREASE American Amelica Plan Purpose Will Be to Break Up Organized Organized Organ Organ- Labor Says Union I Official cial WITH both sides confident of victory union members of the Hie building building Y Y c crafts craft ts and the thc Utah Associated Industries were deadlocked last night night A A. walk-out walk of electrical workers and tile setters yesterday because f their demands for moro more pay had not been granted brought rought tho iho controversy contro versy over oyer the projected American plan or open shop proposition of f the Associated Industries to a crisis Important sessions of the Associated In Industries body are scheduled I for today the nature o of which General Secretary Th ri A. A C. C Rees 1 did id not noL 2 t disclose i 0 n U. U A IIO c C- C tel'S demanded a a. flat Increase of ot ono one dollar per da day daT effective o yesterday l. l Locked Out Oui I IN Claim The workers who suspended activities activities ties tics claimed they were ere locked locked- out by employers The employers said that this wa was not true that an agreement virtually had been effected except for tor forone forone torone one or two minor details These were the thc only two crafts crans that suspended operations op op- op- op as a result of ot the Impe impending trouble between employers and em em- em Charges were made by the tho union side that tho Associated Industries wa va was working In secret that the sole ol e purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of ot the tho American plan was to to disrupt organized labor On the other other land hand hand the Associated Industries declared the he fight tight was for the tile employers employer's rights to protect him from arbitrary fixing of ot wages and other adverse conditions forced ed upon them by union labor American Plan Finn Foolhardy The American plan of ot the AssocIated Associated Industries Is la the foolhardy dy at attempt at- at tempt of a minority group SToUP to disrupt organized labor charged O. 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E Asbridge As- As bridge secretary and business agent of ot the plumbers and In an Interview last lant night They cant can't break down a thin thing that has bas been fifty years yearn in the tho making makIn said he Union workers will wUl continue continuo their work They refuse to be bo disturbed disturbed disturbed dis dis- dis- dis by this reactionary action It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is r recorded that In every other scrap of ot this kind won union labor has emerged than ever The Tha same results will come from the prese present t situation Mr Asbridge said the situation would be definitely settled if It the Utah Associated Associated Asso Asso- elated Industries would call a It ma iS meeting and invite In members ot of the tho press He charged the employers with framing their plans in secrecy They say Bay the American plan has f tor orbits ils principal object bringing down the cost of building Labor costs casU have hare increased 40 0 per pcr c cent ht while the cost of or building materials has advanced cd to SOO per pcr cent The place to direct the tho attack is at the root of ot abnormally priced materials Mr Asbridge said that at recent meeting with labor representatives George Gcorge Q Morris manager of ot Elias Ellas Morris Sons was asked if It the electrical elec elec- workers could negotiate with their to effect a a. new salary agreement Mr Morris told us he did not believe c such a conference could bo be e arranged said Asbridge Ten Fen Embraced d Tho questionnaire which the employers employ employ- ers submitted to organized building trades which brought the slowly kindling kindling kindling kind kind- ling controversy to a a. head yesterday embraces ton ten questions This was submitted submitted submitted sub sub- on March 3 Secretary Asbridge replied for tor organized laDor in a a. len lengthy th statement followed by bp a statement Is Issued Issued Issued Is- Is sued by the tho Associated Industries Fifteen Fifteen Fit Fit- teen questions were at first submitted to the thc building crafts crans but tho the nu number bc- bc was finally reduced to ten Question No 10 involves a sacred union right to Asbridge It proposes proposes' that all ex waste waite de de- de rna mands ds which have havo been arb arbitrarily made mado be hereby cancelled and that wages for 1920 shall be fixed by by bya a committee of oC representatives of tho the public employers and labor Asbridge replies that if IC st standard wages are aro not nol paid here the thc workers will migrate to other centers and says Ia's that reconstruction reconstruction recon of ot our laws by-laws and working rules under such circumstances circumstance would have hare been a direct relinquishment of ot our rights Committee Considers rs Nine of ot tho the questions were considered consid consid- ered cred by a 1 Joint of ot building crafts representatives and industries representatives aud and propositions on some of oC the tho questions were advanced a.d. to both sides The ten questions that brought ht about the tho controversy are arc L That the employer shall have havethe havethe havethe the undisputed right to determine the number of ot men to fo bo be on any work of ot construction n at any time during the tho course of building an and to have the decision as to tho the necessity l Continued on page 20 O. 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