Show tl tJ i I I NO HElP fOR SEATTLE I f I I I l I Salt Lake < Street Car Men I Will Stay at Home I 1I 1 I SATISFIED WITH CONDITIONS 1I 1 I Not Charmed With the Idea of I Moving I i I I I Advance in Pay Offered in i Seattle Not Enough to Induce Them I t to Quit Here tI j t I f The Consolidated Hallway and Power I company if this city is not In the least I alarmed at the prospects of a shortage of men as the result of the fluttering Inducements thai l are fooinr iniule to their employees by the Scuttle Electric company of Seattle t Vasli In spite of the increase in wages that has been offered of-fered to experienced street car men none of the local employees have resigned i re-signed up to this Lime to accept the offer from the Northwest city As the result oC the strike which prevails pre-vails among the carmen ut Seattle offers j of-fers arc being made throughout the whole West by the Electric company 1 j for experienced men to take the t place J of the strikers As an Inducement to 1 the men to accept prices are offered whIch are In excess of most of the salaries sala-ries paid in Western cities for streetcar street-car employees To those vho decide to go to Seattle i2 cents per I hour Is offered for the six months r 23 cents per hour for the next year 21 l cents nor hour for the next three and a half years and 5 cents per hour for the next live years When the offer was made it was feared by some that the local employee would accept and that large number would leave thc city for the north The men however have expressed a I determination to remain In Salt Lake and refuse the offers that come from Seattle They are for the most part satisfied they say and do not favor a I change to a place which they do not I know and where they will be compelled to begin at the bottom Some men may want to change continually con-tinually and some of that kind may accept ac-cept the offer said a motorman In the employ of the Consolidated company J yesterday But the large majority of J I the men are pretty well contented and will remain where they are Of course they have grievances and would like more consideration at the hands of the company but they believe that It is I better as It Is I than to begin anew in a place where they are strangers So far as the company is i concerned It has no fears whatever of a strike op I r a shortage of men said Assistant Superintendent Su-perintendent O P Arnold The Seattle Seat-tle company want experienced men and will get them most likely but vo I are not In the least alarmed that we will be handicapped by a shortage of men who have accepted Its offer The men seem very well pleased here and can make as much as SDO per month by putting In two or three hours overtime t above the regular eight hours labor We pay > our men from 20 to 1 > cents per hour according to their experience IJ and the inducements offered by the Seattle Se-attle company > are not sufficiently large I tto take away many of our men If any |