Show PHONE TROUBlE V VV VV NOT SETTLED V V Officials and Union Men Confer Without Any Result WONT TAKE ANY CHANCES 1 COMPANY t PREVENT A SYMPATHETIC STRIKE The Th selected by the local nalon No Wi 57 International Brother rother Brotherhood hood of Electrical Workers at a meet log held Thursday evening to confer conter with the ot of the Rocky Moun tam Bell Telephone eom regard regardIng lug Ing the pre present ent trouble met with H Sommers superintendent of construe construction tion yesterday afternoon The corn com mitten demanded an explanation of the com y action In discharging Inside workers worker because tho they had joined the local union Nearly the whole afternoon was spent spontIn In dl discussing the situation but no agreement was reached Not Opposed to Unions D S Mura manager ol of th tele telephone phone company compan In speaking pe of the trouble said Id We have taken no stand or organized organized labor Jabol Ye We have encouraged among our But Buta a telephone company is a 8 public utility hence it must protect the OIl public We cannot have all our belong lug IrIC to one union It If a strike was wa called under such conditions men Inca In all branches of our service would woul walk walkout out and the public would suffer sutter as a aro ro result V VWe We e offered no objection tion when our OUI I outside workers formed a union An agreement was some time back that out outside men such as an linemen would join the union while the I workers were to held no membership In the local union The They had been warned that thai such a step would cause their discharge They paid no atten attention attention tion to this so 80 upon joining the union they were ere lot let out In taking this ac action tion the an Is determined to pro protect tort the public by preventing a ponti I ble sympathetic strike our service Mr Murray said laid the company would stand firm by this decIsion The Tho din Jis charged men will wUl not be Fifteen inside Inide men a the tho corn com decision refusing to joIn the tilO union with the others Union Is Undecided The union members have olne oine to no conclusion Jon regarding further action i Several of the most prominent of these say the matter will be carried to the national uniOn unless some agreement i Iii Is reached soon BOOn Th The mon men claim the company has no right to discharge em for tOl becoming union members F N Elsmore Elemore a 8 member of the unton has been to represent the natIonal union nulon In an investigation of the affair with power to confer with the officials Mr El more was present at the meeting yesterday lie He said We Ve are not ready to make and I statements the trouble ex en I between the Ben Bell Telephone cOrn com company pany and its Every e wilt be bc made to settle the dispute peaceably Until some definite agree asree mend ment is reached we will say ay nothing It Im |