Show BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM No End to the Electrical Strike in Sight WORK GOES ON AS USUAL The Company Will Not Recognize Recog-nize the Union Body 6f Strikers Standing OuT for a Principle and Shows No Sign of Weakening I Electrical 1 hal on First South street o as crowded with idle electrical workers yesterday as n result ot tho strike which was ordered last week There aro no signs apparent among the strikers of an abatement of tho difficulties unlcsn official offi-cial recognition of the union Is made by the Utah Light and Power company Manager Campbell in behalf of tho company Insists that he can not and vlll not recognize tho electrical or any other union To acknowledge the exist once and power of the electrical union he nays would bo the recognition of unIons un-Ions In every line of work In which tho company Is engaged Such action would meun a revolution of the plans by which the company has always operated Among the men who have quit work here Is no disposition to handicap tho company or to continue the trouble Inc nltely They declare that they are willIng Ing to meet any of the companys representatives repre-sentatives at any time and discuss their grievances They assert that they do not propose to yield unless they are recognized rec-ognized The claim which they made upon Manager Campbell for a scale of wanes and hours they say was merely incidental and was done to brim before tho attention of the company the fact that the union existed They also deny the statement that In accredited to the company that they arc weakening as a body I was stated that several of tho strikers had grown weary of Idleness l and had gone to the company with a request for reinstatement This statement Is denied by the strikers A few of the men they admit have returned re-turned to work but not enough to Indicate Indi-cate that the whole number Is willing to return They say that Manager Campbell Camp-bell cannot secure a sufficient number of men In this city to do the work they did and that he must bring in outside labor or employ unskilled workmen No serious results have followed the strike up to this lime Arc lights In many parts o the city have been dark since the Strike was declared but with that exception no perceptible effect has been made upon the working of the company com-pany I wan feared for a time that street cars might be hampered on Decoration Deco-ration Day because of the trouble at tho powerhouse but the fears were ground less Tho crowds were handled as well as possible and cars continued on sched ulo time tme According to Manager Campbell men are being employed as rapidly as the company thinks advisable There nro enough he says to keep everything moving and he declares that ho has no more approhennlons an to the outcome Tho thing that I regret most said Mr Campbell Is the act that many of our old men men who had our confidence confi-dence should desert us and go on n strike without consulting the company Many of them arc among the best citizens of the community and we regretted very much to lose them I grieves mo to think that the men whom we had trusted and who had been with us for years should leave no suddenly and for such an apparently trivial reason They haw taken the matter of their reinstatement out of my hands by their refusal to grant me an extension of time In which to jive a reply to their demands |