Show STREET GAR CAR MEN MENI I MAKE DEMANDS I Conductors and Motormen Contend Rate of Wages Is Too Low SETTLEMENT IS PROBABLE BOTH SIDES HOPE FOR F R ADJUST ADJUSTMENT MENT M ENT I Both the lie street car ear company com officials I and the in the operating s rv I ice ico ie believe belee that list a satisfactory settlement r I of their ther points paints of difference respecting I wages will be reached The wl recht men em I declare that they the are not look lok I Ing fo for trouble and the company feels the same sam way abt about I it I ir Rumors been len frey freely circulated td bv by b I I irresponsible i Persons for many man weeks that the conductors and motormen th tha were on werf I point of t striking that unless their de ds t mands were werl granted forthwith the tho whole I system would be bi immediately tied up As AsI I a matter mater of fact the request of the thO th men I for an m advance in wages was presented wage I only 1 recently General Manager S I VI Wells ells els of the Utah rt tab h Light Railway Joseph Joeph com corn S I pany Ian said sid yesterday that the t th petition n of or I I I the men mn is under consideration Pr vi I OUiS ous ou J to a conference ferenee arrangements for forT T which were completed yesterday esterday J J 1 H It I ItI I Lament Lmont president of the Street Ele Ehe Elf I tile trie Railway union declined i to make makl any statement for publication I He admitted however that the request for an increase had been ben presented in I Says Pay Is Too Small Smal I One of the conductors talked talk freely Creel I about abut the situation The men m n are arc ctr cerI I I underpaid said sid he lie W Ve V make mak makeI I barely brel enough nough t to live on In the th first tnt I place we must mut work twenty days before we begin to draw any pay at all Then I we 0 get et 20 cents centa an hour p After six I months we get 25 2 cents and an in the the course cou I or of five years service we may ma get et 27 7 I cents It I is i i only Oly the old od men mel who wha draw drw I 27 2 cents cont They The are the th ones on the I day runs anti and they work from eight to toI I ten hours The others the cent men I are put on the night runs rD and work from fromI I nine to twelve hours hour hor The length of oC time I E r governed by b the lines to which they the theare are assigned I I Responsibilities Are Heavy I The responsibilities resting upon con cn and motormen are numerous and andI I exacting as every one knows kows The mo me motorman mo meI I torman must mUt watch vatch his track and his I traffic When hEn the th crowds are arc large life I and limb are arc ar in his hil care Should he I come dangerously near any an of the nu numerous nuI children that are permitted by I the parents to play on the car ar tracks the people are arr ready ready to lynch lych him and anti the conductor as well wel Should he by b rea rl soh soi of slippery rails overrun a crossing a a few feet a great Jet cry cr is instantly raised The uThe conductors responsibilities ties lies tes alone are of no mean proportions He handles a a large Jarge amount of mane each eh day all au I of which is small smal change cha The care cre of ot his traffic especially the wo we women wo men and children children requires his Jils constant watchfulness We Ve are not complaining about the amount of o work we have hae to todo todo todo do nor not the character of that work but worl we ve do maintain that tot we do pot get enough pay rot for doing It i Bread Without Butter There Is one man mn in the barn brn service whose wages do not Hot exceed 16 a day I asked him how he and his family man managed managed managed aged to live on that pay with butter at 41 4 40 cents a pound poun easy ea he lie replied we cut out the butter but r and eat cat et lard with wih our bread bred Quit Work A large number of o laborers laborer employed em 4 d dIn In the track department left lef their Monday The walkout of Is not In the nature of oC a strike as the term ter Is generally Jeneral understood The men mn do not belong to the union although they the would not be barred baited from mem membership membership under tinder the th rules rull The Te action of ot the in leaving levin their work Is la lanot not a no movement but indi individual individual vidual action on the Ull part pr of or each Ve We 0 had no difficulty in tf filling the places place of men who quit work said Raid Mr Ir Wells There were fully ful a hundred men mn at our station staton applying for places this morning We e are art not Inconvenienced by b the action aeton of the men In fact many of those who quit yesterday and Saturday returned to work today toay Workday Is Lengthened The complaint of the is that with the beginning of the season the th company compan requires them to work ten hours hour instead of eight hours hout at th the same rate rato of pay 2 a day Some of the men nien who 10 did p not leave off oc at first did dill so later when it i is claimed a large number of Japanese laborers were ere put to work be beside beside side them To this class thy they tM objected At present said sid Mr Ir Wells el we are employing only the number of ot men necessary necessary necessary sary to keap ke p the system In repair but soon we will wi add a great gret force of la Ia laborers borers brer During the tile summer we e expect to reconstruct our entire system and will vl need a great many more mor men We Ve an anticipate no trouble in getting all al the help we require Have No Connection There is 15 no connection between tho the ac action action action tion of the In laying down their tools and the request r of the conductors conductor and motormen for an advance The in increase Increase crease asked for by b the men may ma be b broadly given ghen as 10 per cent although a general readjustment is proposed Involving ing more equitable conditions than tr tt j say sa ay now exists According to t tor officials believe the Mr or Wells Veis company that the car men mm pie Are c now receiving good go wages wa ls We VI are re r paying a higher hl her rate rat said sid ie he lit than uthan that which prevails in Inmany inmany many of the western west em cities cItes Nevertheless the outlook is I considered favorable for an early erly and amicable set settlement settlement of the whole r question |