Show BELIEVES STRIKE WILL SETTLED BE Elmore Returns and arid Talks With Officials of Belf Belr Telephone Company CONFERENCE HELD TODAY TELEPHONE CABLES ARE SEV SEVe SEVERED SEVERED ERED IN N SAN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO r I have haye every eYe reason Ho to believe that the telephone companies and our men will get together on this thing said Charles A Elmore Emore at the Wilson lIson last night Mr Ir Elmore is the tive live of the president ent of the International International Brotherhood of Electrical Work Workers Workers ork ers Mr Curry who acts for Mr lr Lynn I during his absence and I yes es had hd a conference with General Manager Murray II and General t Sommers of the Bell Ben company The conference e was entirely Informal and ami the discussion was of a technical We talked about the tile condi condl conditions conditions that led up to the tile strike and threshed out differences We Ye expect to meet the UH Bell people today The Th time hue has hs not been hen fixed but It will likely be some time this afternoon I r am now working on onn onn rn n outline of a wage schedule for every local ocal in the district which I will probably probably ably present with the approval of the executive x uthe board of or course The local loca renditions vary Yar in some respects in our district It is possible I believe belien to tomake tomake tomake make a wage scale that will cover coer states Utah Wyoming and Ida ho lie 10 but when we come to Montana a different condition presents itself So SoI I J am trying tr to arrange a rate of pay pa and working hours and conditions condition that will ill fit every local in iii the district May Enter Into Contract It is my opinion that the companies c will agree to enter into contracts with the brotherhood if we arrive arrhe at an un nfl d This has been one one of o the points of difference but I have hae reason to 10 believe bliey that contracts satisfactory sa to In t both sides may be signed One of the things about this situation is that MO wo vo have hae no old sores ores to heal There are areno Jio no 10 to grievances We e simply 1 resent our OUI request for what we be to he a it fair increase of wages nd the company presents its side from froma a standpoint of or business We have no M 11 feeling toward the company and I believe the company com pan has no ill feeling toward the men The linemen and elec electricians in tills this district are on n the whole the most capable workmen I l r have tan ever seen and I have seen a lot f them The company realizes s this fart many man of the company officials being practical linemen and electricians Themselves Every man In the northern country countr Idaho and Montana and in the eastern country Wyoming T oming whom we called out outs J f s out In every town the Ithe men mon have lound found employment with installing firms In the way of o wiring buildings petting motors and the like save that t in Butte there are six or seven still idle I have hae no doubt that if they wanted named to they th could find ready read em employment for I J tell you ou expert line llen fire are a pretty prett scarce article in this r I went as far west as us Missoula and would have hae the Couer but I was recalled to Salt Sail Lake Lynn the president of the district is in Butte where whore he is looking after the Montana end of our string I think we will come out all right at least I think I have reason to 0 hope so tonight In I n San Francisco What i is the situation in San Fran Francisco FranASCO cisco ASCO i I 1 had a telegram from Sullivan this i morning You know Sullivan is tho the thov v Ice fee president In that telegram it was stated that th t the rebellious union No o had no charter that th t t the charter had been revoked at midnight when he die h local refused to respond to the ultimatum Issued by Mr 11 Sullivan It Is possible that they the fight it out In the American federation but I 1 doubt it |