Show WORKMEN DEMAND WAGES fOR LABOR of SubContractor on Conduit Say Not Been Paid CLAIM 2000 IS DUE LARGE AMOUNT DUE TO P J MORAN IS TIED UP Claiming that they had received no pay from their employers since Aug 17 for la Ia j bor done by them on the big conduit that thatIs thatis thatIs Is being hoing built bunt by the city in Big Cotton Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood wood canyon can on fifteen laborers headed by F F H U Candland general foreman applied to the city attorney yesterday for re relief refer lief Ilef fer and for advice as to what method they should follow in order to secure their pay The result of their protest was that several thousands of dollars that would hn been paid to P J Moran Moron the gen general general general eral contractor who has the contracts for tor or building the conduit is being held up until the differences between the work workmen workmen workmen men and the contractors are settled and the men paid Wait on City Attorney 1 I General Foreman Candland led l d by fourteen other waited on Assistant City Attorney H J Din Inny yesterday afternoon and stated their grievances The Th men claimed that fully 60 or 70 men employed on the conduit had received no pay for their work for the months of ot August September and Octo October October ber bel and that the last wages that had been them were received Aug 17 which was payment for the July work Candland stated that the pay is held up for a half month in order that the em cm employing employing contractors may rimy rhay have time to au audit audit audit dit their accounts He said also that he understood that a payment of had been made mado to Moran one week ago and that the men were worried that they would not get what was due them Money Mon y Is Tied Up The rho spokesman and his followers then wont to the office of the board of pub public lie lic works where Secretary Frank K Christensen told them that they were em employed emi J i lo oyed ed by b Showell Bros Belcher Beicher sub subcontractors subcontractors subcontractors contractors under Moran They The told their story to him and he at once set the wheels of his office in motion mollon with the result that the money mone which would have been paid to Moran Nov No 1 on estimates of work completed was tied up effect effectually effectually effectually until the men arc are paid Clerk Christensen stated that while money for past estimates had been paid to Moran and that it may have baye been paid by him to the subcontractors he did not know If Moran had paid them In any an event the men were assured that they would lose nothing though a little delay might result Contract Clause Cited The contract which the city cit entered Into with the general contractors for the construction of the conduit contains the following clause which was read to the workmen Sec See 47 Failure to Pay Pa for Labor or Material If ic at any an time it shall appear that the contractor has failed to pay the laborers employed ed upon the work worl or has failed to pay for the material used there therein therein thereIn in the city may withhold from the money which may be dup duo du to the contractor un tan under under tander der this agreement such amount or amounts as may be necessary for the payment of such labor and material and an may ma apply appl the same in such payment and deduct the same from the final estimate of the contractor This provision Is in intended intended tended to protect the laborers employed ed upon lIpon the work and the parties who may furnish material to b used therein and the city may mav or may mav not exercise its option as s it may mR deem best Candland Recites Complaint Candland who represented the work workmen workmen men mali made the following allowing statement to The Horald Herald There are arc from liD W to 70 0 men who are tied up at the conduit and who have not received their money since Aug 17 That rhut pay was work done in July These rhe men are ar restless and there have been strikes every ev r few days US I have done doneall doneall doneall all that I could with them to keep keel them at their work assuring them that their money was wats all right and that they would get et their pay Finally I J could not hold them any longer and they came to town this morn morning lug ing to see what whet they ther the could do to get their wages There is more than 2000 2003 In wages wa es tied d up in this claim claim and we need ne d the money mone We asked the contractors Showell Bras Bros Belcher for the money and md their 1 hell or some other right hand man told us m that they the did not have the lie money mone and could not pay pa us Show oil II Bros say sa that thai th tb y have nothing and nd when wIlen we heard that Moran got 15 lZ a week ago we Wp w thought that it was time to act We e not get any sat sut suti satIsfaction i from Moran as a he hE referred us to the Show ils who are arc the sub subcontractors subcontractors contractors under him |