Show PRINTERS ENTER R TF Opposed ope to o Action of Forest Service in Letting Contract to the Industrial School c The Salt It Lake Typographical union No US lii yesterday esterday appointed a committee to investigate and protest against the let letting letting letting ting of ot contracts for tor government printing for lor national forest district No 4 to the state industrial school at Ogden Inthe In the omnibus appropriation bil bUl passed by b the thelast thelast thelast last congress in which the printing for tor forthe forthe the forest department was provided for tor forit forit it was specified that this printing should he be done within the bids were called for or Tenders for or a part of the tho printing were sent to Gifford Pinchot chief forester at Washington and those for worth of ot the printing were awarded to the state industrial school at Ogden The school had been given permission to put in bids for tor this work by Governor Cutler and the board of trustees of ot the school and was able to make the bids much lower than other printing establishments For the of the Printing company of ot this city on one part of the work was while on the same job the Industrial school bid 58 Employing printers as well vell as the union printers in their employ nave neon neen strong in protesting against what they term unfair competition It is argued that the state industrial school is a penal and charitable Institution supported by b the taxpayers of the state The cost of labor laborin in its printing establishment Is nothing while in other printing establishments la In labor labor bor is one of at the largest factors in the cost of at operation Proprietors of other printing establishments are taxpayers and the taxes for the support of at the state institutions such as the industrial school must come out of ot their profits on work done by them In addition they the believe that they are entitled to a ble interest on their investment These fac factors factors factors tors of ot course do not enter into the bids of the industrial school for tor or this work and the bids consequently are a great deal lower than any of the other bidders bidder This In brief is the contention of the union printers and the employing print printers printers ers era The committee appointed by the union urion printers to investigate the letting of ot the tho government contracts for tor the printing for tor forthe forthe the forest bureau consists of ot Austin Davis W Yo Dennett and E A Gregory Gregor This committee will meet Gifford Pinchot who Is 15 coming to Salt Lake within the coming week and will discuss the mat matter matter matter ter with him It Is the intention to take up the question both with the Washing Washington ton authorities and with Governor Cut Cutler Cutler Cutler ler and the board of control of ot the in industrial Industrial industrial school The employing printers will also ap appoint appoint appoint point a committee of ot investigation and protest which will act in conjunction with the union printers and prepare to take tako action against the competition of at atthe the industrial school |