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Show NO CHANGE IN THE CEMENT-MAKERS' STRIKE No change In the cement-makers' strike, called Wednesday on the Portland Port-land Cement company of this city, resulted re-sulted from the conference yesterday morning of the strike committee with the manager of the works. The men were notified that any of the late employees em-ployees who cared to return to work would be treated with individuality, but that the company did not care to do business with the , Cement Workers' union, recently organized. The demands of the men are that v,ages be restored to the new scale adopted by the company last fall; that they be paid time and one-half for overtime; over-time; that compulsory accident Insurance Insur-ance be abandoned, and that no man be discharged without Just cause. L. M. Bailey, general manager of the Portland Cement company of Utah, in speaking of the strike yesterday, said; "We voluntarily advanced the wages of the men last fall, the Increase amounting to from 1 cent to 2 cents an hour. On account of overstock our works were closed down from April 1 to June 1G, and when we resumed tho wages wero placed where they were before be-fore the close-down. It was explained to tho men that this action was only temporary, tem-porary, that as soon as conditions would warrant it they would again be advanced. ad-vanced. But in the meantime they had effected their new organization and they wanted to try it on, so they called the strike. We are at present paying common com-mon laborers 17 cents an houi, oilers and mill tenders 18 cents, mlllerB 20 cents, burners 23 cents, and helpers 24 cents and 25 cents an hour. Our work requires very little skilled labor, the machines doing the work- What has to be learned by the men about running the machinery we have to teach them. A total of' thirty men went out and we havo ten left. We have enough help to attend to sales and shipments and havo enough stock on hand so that we shall be enabled to, carry on our business without trouble," The strike committee of the union ' claims that forty men arc out and that the reduction of wages against which they axe protesting amounts to from 1 cent to 8 cents an hour. |