Show CAR STRIKE WAS AS THIS MORNING l Four ur Hundred of Salt Lake System Unanimously Decided Not to Operate the Cars Cs Today Bancroft B Refused to Accept Arbitration Proposition with Ref Reference RefI I to Future Grievances Defines His Position There will be no street cars run b bAt y union men in Salt Lake City today At 5 this Sunday morn ing all members of the local division No 3 2 of the Amalgamated of Street and Railway Em Eme of America employed by th c e Utah Light Railway company ceased work The vote to strike was taken at 3 15 this morning at a meet meetIng meetIng Ing of the local division in I Workers hall The vote was unan una unanimous About of the rs were present the absent members it was stated will be equally for a walkout The reason as assigned assigned signed for their absence is that the y were misled by the reports in the afternoon newspapers which did not carry the developments of the day dayO and indicated a peaceful settlement At the meeting this morning C O 0 Pratt chairman of the International international executive committee of the A association read a state statement statement ment reviewing the policy pursued b y himself and the executive commit commits committee tee of the local division which con his advisory board This statement was indorsed with great enthusiasm Following Follo its adoption adoption tion the car men took their ballot with the result stated Resolutions were adopted ng the citizens committee and May Mayor Mayo or Ezra Thompson for their efforts t 0 o bring about a harmonious adjust adjustment adjustment ment of the questions In dispute i Resolutions were unanimously ad opted thanking the newspapers of the city for their fair treatment in p publishing all of the statements is iss issued Issued sued by the executive committee The president of the local union I s James H Lamont Lament the financial secretary and business agent is A H HP Burt the recording secretary is IsA A Ave AP P Nielson members of the ve ye board are W Cocking John Johnr Jones J D McCarty T W Palme Palmer r J Reeder B J Haddock H and H Ii HT T B Grey international vice prest dent The company operates about nine miles of track Since the recent transfer from froni the old to the n ow ew interests plans have been In the they making for the expenditure of man y of thousands tho sands of dollars in extensions and a improvements V Vt VI H Bancroft is the president of the company and Joseph S Wells is the general manager Negotiations n the company and the men came to a point p where further progress could not be hoped for went to press Satur Saturday day J eo ft on to hope that tIle the li sIr t rot Controversy versy soon would be adjusted The understanding was that Mayor Ezra Thompson had been given assurance by W V H Bancroft the president of ot the company com pan that the com corn company company pany would accept the proposition made to Mr Thompson by the committee and andI I I b by him presented to Mr Ir Bancroft that alt all future grievances would be loft left to arbi arb arbitration I as well bU as the immediate arbi arbitration arbitration of the t Ie wage scale Mr MI Thompson positively ly stares states that Mr Bancroft Ban verbally agre fd d to the tb writ written written written ten as an submitter by tm th men through h him but td y morning brought forth the development that shat shattered shattered all aU hope of ot amicable adjustment The blow that hat killed prospect pf pr happy and speedy settlement came camo In the form I Continued on Page 7 CAR n WAS AS AST I T ID THIS IS MORNING Continued from Page 1 of ot a communication In written forms form to Ir Thompson That communication Jl 0 J Reply fa gait 5 ut Lake take city Cit April 27 iT iTHon t Hon Mon Ezra Thompson Mayor Silt Salt Lake City Dear Srn Supplementing my letter le tr to you ou or esterday and referring r to tim the communication comm n on behalf ot o the tha yes which you presented to me m I t have to ad advise advise vise you that I have the th said coun counter counter counter ter proposition careful consideration and andin andIn andin in addition to what la Is I contained In my m communication of yesterday and with reference to the future I am willing to say consistent with the policy that I have always adopted under such condi conditions conditions that while connected conn ted with the Utah Light Railway company comp I shall in the future be ready and willing at all aIL times to discuss with Its it or r a com corn committee committee of the same samo representing the em any questions of difference that hereafter arise regarding their re relationship relationship with the company with a view to amicable adjustment of or any such dir dif differences If It as such questions arise the com corn company compan pan any and its employee may not pot be able to amicably adjust the same such action will be lie taken following such disagree disagreement disagreement disagreement ment as the company may then deem ad advisable but to attempt to say In advance that all nil questions that ma may arise and we may mar not b able to amicably adjust shall sh be submitted d to arbitration lon would in involve Ini Involve i volve the th necessity of arranging the terms upon which such questions should I be ht arbitrated provide for appointment of arbitrators and It would subject the com corn company compan pany panh pan to the arbitration of any question that mi ml ht be presented and I deem it In Inadvisable Inadvisable inadvisable advisable to enter into any an such an agreement for the future because future questions can better be determined in the light of the surroundings as they may arise arso than by b any agreement In anticipation tion of questions that have not yet arisen Therefore as 1 I am advised and It Is Ismy Ism my lily m opinion Viat any such agreement for forthe forthe forthe the future could not be enforced by byI I either cither party and that being so BO the ques question question question tion of arbitration would depend upon the pleasure of the party when the quell ques questions arose In SIn this connection I request If it you can procure it a n final reply to this communication communication i cation catron it being treated as supplemental to my communication of the as asT asI T J am under the necessity of being absent from the city next week and possibly longer Yours very truly i W H BANCROFT At End of Resources The co e el Informed Mr Thompson that the conditions suggested by Mr I Bancroft could not ng be ba accepted and that BO so far tar as the r concerned the end seemed seem d to have been reached The Themen Themen Themen men the he committee stated were ready to accept the terms which Mr aIr Thomp Thompson 1 son understood Mr Bancroft to have ac accepted accepted on on Friday evening but they the would not accept the terms specified in Mr written note r Mr afternoon said sald that the committee was extremely sorry that the wor wo f t had haa come ome to pass but that there was no other course open except to submit to a meeting of the men the report of the action taken by the executive executive executive 1 tive committee and himself during the 1 week eek I 1 Mayor Is Positive I Mayor layor Thompson is Ia positive In his as assertion asI I that Mr Bancroft stated to him himon Aon on Friday evening that the proposition submitted to him by the committee would ho bo acceptable a to t the company compan Mr Ir Mayor MaJor do you desire to make any with reference r to tu tott tuI toti I tt U Is the question put Jut to the I mayor at S 8 last evening No I do nott no believe there Is anything necessary to ba b said tonight My M secre secretary secretary secretary tary has told you all alt that has trans transpired transpired r Mr Thompsons secretary Alexander S St t Fowler Fowier informed the representative of The Herald that the mayor had been re requested reQuested quested to rail call on Bancroft Mr Thomp Thompson 4 I son did so said Mr Fowler and he I 1 was handed banded the communication which you bave have Mr Thompson then Informed the committee of Mr Bancroft letter The i committee declined to accept its terms P The committee requested Mr Thompson ThompsonS S to Inform Mr aIr Bancroft that a further communication from him Wm would be ex expected 1 1 up to fo S 2 That hour has r passed and no further communication has arrived from the presidents office t I Mr Thompson Is Ls firmly convinced Si continued Mr lr Fowler that he did not misunderstand Mr I Bancroft He Is em emphatic emphatic emphatic in II his statement that he be read to Mr lir Bancroft the communication comm i submit submitted submitted ted too to hint by the committee and ani that Mr Bancroft after listening to its reading stated that the terms therein contained would be acceptable to the company Mr Thompson then as reported in your pa paper paper paper per this morning notified the committee of Mr Jr 8 verbal acceptance I carried the message from Mr Thompson to Mr Pratt myself mys lf That is Ia nil all there is isto Isto isto to say I think with regard to io Mr Thomp Thompsons Thompsons Thompsons sons connection with the negotiations n g Mr Ban Statement W H Bancroft president of the th Utah Light Railway y company com ny said yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day afternoon after the end of his lila con conference conference ference with Mayor Ma or Thompson Thomp on The Tho company stands exactly on the proposal made originally to arbitrate the wage question agree to make the award effect effective effectIve ive lye for one or two years as the men may choose and protect every man concerned c in the present agitation from any dis discrimination discrimination crimination because of his activity That has been our position right along W We are perfectly wining willing to have the men appoint one of their number or any citizen not an official of a 1 labor union to represent them In arbitration we e are willing to have them call any anyone one they please to present their case to an arbitration board Unfortunately Mayor Thompson has misunderstood misun the th situation sl He came to tome tome me Tue Friday with a memorandum m which he ha read to me and asked mo me If I would not be willing to arbitrate future differences If it they could not be settled amicably with representatives of the men I told him hUn that my action In the present case showed I was willing to arbitrate serious differ differences differ differences differences when they arose arid and that I had no objection to arbitration But I did not and do not expect to agree to any ar arrangement arrangement arrangement which provides In advance for forthe forthe the arbitration of unknown grievances or offers otters an excuse for raising questions qu which cannot be foreseen I ITo To Arbitrate Wage Scale The men themselves through their committee which conferred with me said they had no grievances now except the wage scale We offer to arbitrate that They have everything to gain and nothing to lose because the arbitration would not notI consider a question of a lower scale and I whatever award might be made would either give the men as much as they get now or else raise their wages That seemed a fair proposition to me but I am amnot amnot amnot not now nor have I been willing to make an arrangement which would enable the themen themen themen men or their committee to t raise other questions besides the scale within a day or a week after the scale had been arbi orb arbitrated arbitrated Mayor May Have H ve Misunderstood der I do not understand how the mayor maor could have misunderstood my tily position on this I did not make any written or ver verbal verbal er erbal bal statement to him that could properly have been construed as he seems to have understood things I had repeatedly rep re refused ref refused fused f sed to consider any nv other arbitration than the plan outlined to him on Thurs Thursday Thursday Thursday day and to the citizens committee on the same day And while I should regret trouble I do not see at this time how any anymore morO more could be asked of the company than It stands ready to concede Others Calf Call Meeting L ti Lynn secretary of local division No 57 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Wor ers and district president of that organization yesterday received a telegram from M J Sullivan of ot San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco grand vice Ice president authorizing him to act for the International body in all matters pertaining to the electrical workers grievances These grievances in include elude clude refused demands upon the light de tie department department of ot the Utah Light Railway company and upon the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company Mr Lynn says sa s Mr Sullivan himself cannot come to Salt Lake at this time A special meeting of the electrical workers has been called by local president R B G Whitehead for 1 this afternoon in Electrical Work Workers ers eras hall ball hallAt ballAt I At a special meeting of the Utah Federation of Labor will be held In Federation hall haJJ The Tho call has been Issued by D I Elton At both of ot these meetings the street streetcar car situation will be discussed This Tho fed federation federation fedoration oration has pledged Its moral and finan financial financial cial support to the street car operatives and has Indorsed the policy polley of Mr Pratt and his associates The electrical workers also have the support of the federation |