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Show PRATT TALKS OF Missioyo cm He Is Here to Conduct Negotiations Negotia-tions on Behalf of the Carmen. HE FAVORS ARBITRATION WHERE IT IS POSSIBLE Leader of Street Car Employees' Association Is Man of Peace. C. O. Pratt of Cleveland, Ohio, who is a vice-president of tho Amalgamated Association As-sociation of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, and who Is hero to conduct negotiations for tho complaining complain-ing street car men. Is a guest at tho Kenyon. Speaking of his mission Jn general gen-eral terms, he said: "Our policy as a national organization Is tho elevation of our occupation, tho betterment of working conditions for our craft, tho establishing of a relationship with our omployers that will ellmlnato friction, and reduco tho possibility of strikes to a minimum. "We stand for arbitration on all points of difference that cannot bo amicably adjusted, ad-justed, and by these fair and open means wo put tho odium of any overt act of rupture on tho employers. By this policy, wo acknowledge the truth that tho public pub-lic has rights as well as the employers and employee." "Our contention here Is for better wages, shorter hours, more decent treatment treat-ment of omployees, and, above all else, tho right to present grievances to tho ofllcers of the company through our regular reg-ular grlevanco committee. On tho part of the company, Its representative Is willing wil-ling to deal with employees only as Individuals, Indi-viduals, and thus tho union Is not recognized. rec-ognized. "We shall uso all honorablo means to bring about an agreement, before we refuse re-fuse to work. I shall exhaust every expedient ex-pedient known to former experiences, beforo be-foro a break can come. Wc stand beforo be-foro the world and tho people of Salt Lake for a nine-hour day. both on humanitarian human-itarian nnd utilitarian grounds. "Tho groat nervous strains on men causes a cruel waste of vitality and is a loss, alike to both sides. As an Individual In-dividual the man Is worn out, as an employee em-ployee ho Is not able to do his best work, and as a man In charge of public lines he Is not capable of proper care over them. "I have never mot a more Intelligent and orderly body of men than these In Salt Lake; conscientious and truthful, and tho troublo with them and the Utah bosses Is that the said Utah bosses began with mule teams as motive power, and learned to curse tho man who cursed tho mules. "They have not kept pace with tho progress In motive power, and aro not In harmony with the intolllgent men necessary neces-sary to care for great motor cars. The men have a good cause to resent, tho manner man-ner of treatment they receive. As mnt-ters mnt-ters develop, we shall keep the people advised." |