Salt Lake Herald | 1900-01-03 | Page 2 | Want More Pay

WANT MORE PAY Street way Men Get Up a Pe Pc Petition Petition A movement has bes been on foot among the conductors and of the Salt SaR Lake City Street Railway for some sometime sometime time Ume past to have their pay increased from 18 to 20 cen ce e an ll hour Mur A eti tion ban been circUlated among the men asking the company for tor thie Increase and it is understood under tood that t all aU except e two or three have signed the petition A W McCune the president of or the thu company and W PRead P Read the super superintendent dented denied all aJl knowledge of the matter last evening from which it would appear that the petition has not yet been presented at the office of the company There are conductors and motor motormen motormen men non in the employ em of the Salt Lake Street Railway company They work on an aD average av ten hours a day da so that this Increase of 2 Z cents an hour would mean mn 20 O cents a e day des to each man To the company ny It would mean an extra expenditure of 2000 each day or the tle income inane from cash gers In their the men menthe m the cost coat of all kinds of articles that are necessary eary nece in lit living Jiving I hs has KJ been increased and that they can casi hardly make meke ends meet at the present sculls scale There Is no I talk of a s strike