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Show ONE LAUNDRY IS Strikers Single Out Crystal and Request All Unions to Patronize It. PROPRIETOR HAS NOT YET SIGNED UP AGREEMENT Laundry Managers and Owners Hold Long Executive Session, Ses-sion, but Say Little. Striking laundry workers officially announce the Crystal laundry, 161 South Fourth East streot, to bo "fair." F. B. Piatt, proprietor and manager of the Crystal laundry, says that while he has not yet signed tho agreement with the strikers he may do so Monday, Mon-day, 'Laundry workers' organization and numerous unions of Utah Federation of Labor participate in demonstration parade pa-rade in which more than 2000 porsons are in line. Laundry owners and managers hold executive meeting at the Wilson hotel to discuss situation and officially de-claro de-claro that with tho exception of the Crystal they aro standing pat. It was in tho air Saturday that developments de-velopments might be expected in tho strike of (he laundry workers of Salt. Lake and the developments came. Significant as the day's developments were, the end is not yet, as there aro executive meetings' to be held today by the loaders on both sides of tho struggle and another twenty-four hours may add to tho complexity of the situation. sit-uation. The laundry strikers and their sympathisers sym-pathisers paraded Main street from Fourth South to South Temple street and doubled back on Main to Fourth South, marching cast to State streot and holding a mass meeting in Federation Federa-tion of Labor hall, in which meeting official announcement wns made by Financial Secretary W. M. Knerr of tho laundry workers that tho Crystal laundry was "fair" and every union man was urged to scud his work to that establishment. While the strikers wero parading and holding their muss meeting, proprietors and managers of the Colonial, Troy, Palace, Model, Star, Crystal. Standard, Sanitary, American Linen Supply and Royal laundries wero holding a meeting meet-ing to discuss tho situation, but according ac-cording to tho statement of Manager John Brooks of the Troy, their spokesman, spokes-man, no official course of action was decided upon aud it was announced that another meeting would be held today to-day or Monday. Nine Laundries Stand. Pat. F. B. Piatt, who owns and manages the Crystal laundry, said late last night: " I have not vet signed the agreement agree-ment for a closed shop, but mny do so Monda3'. Virtually all of my employees now belong to tho union and we have all tho work wo can possibly handle J. do not care to make any further statement until Monday." Representatives of the other nine laundries referred to said that so far as they wero concerned there was no change in tho situation. They denied any material loss of business, declared that all work was being turned out on time and were specifically emphatic in declaring that with tho exception of tho Royal they had all the employees they could use with numerous applications for positions on file. On tho other hand, the loaders of tho strike declared that the parade, the interest manifest at the mass meeting and the recognition, as the' asserted", of uniou employees b' the Crystal laundry, marked the beginning ot the end, and said that they were confident of complete victory within a brief periqri. Many March m Farauo. It wtis nearly 7:30 o'clock when the parade of the laundry workers and their supporters started from Federation Federa-tion of Labor hall, led by F. W. Butler as grand marshal and thc Federation band. Then came tho strikers, about 350 of whom wore in line, carrying numerous banners inscribed: ''Crystal Laundry lias Signed Agreement." "Might Makes Right. Get Might." "JCmpIovcrs Are Organized, Why Should Not We Be?" "Patronize the Crystal Laundry. It is Fair to Union Labor." "We Have the Support of Union Labor." "An lniury to One Is an Injury to All." There wero others of similar import. im-port. Machinists Furnish Feature. Following tho strikers canio a strong representation of the local members ot the International Association of Ma-chinists, Ma-chinists, more than lyO being in lino. They furnished the unique feature of the parade by carrying long streamers stream-ers of unwashed linen aud scarcely a man in this division wore a white col-lur. col-lur. Then came the Carpenters and Joiners, followed hy the Street Carmen's Car-men's m Union, headed by its baud. Then in the order uamod came the United Brewery Workers, tho Painters Paint-ers and Decorators. Blacksmiths, Iron Mulders,. Railway Carmen, Plasterers, Cement Finishers, Electrical Workers aud Uorscshoei's. A conservative estimate of tho number in line places it at 2300. Not nlj o'f the marchers attended the meeting at Federation hall, but the auditorium was well filled, O. P. Vick, president of tho Carpenters' union, acted act-ed as chairman and introduced the speakers of tho evening. Knerr Is Emphatic. W. M, Knerr, financial secretary of :tho Laundry Workers, who delivered the first brief address, said that tho parade just held was a nolico to employers em-ployers of the right of labor to organize, organ-ize, announced that the Crystal laundry laun-dry was now "fair" and called upon every union worker to lend it his heart- support. lie predicted that within a week four or live other laundries laun-dries of tho city would be forced into line and recognize the union, and concluded con-cluded with the statement: ''We will show our employers that union labor cannot bo trifled with." Murray King spoke along similar lines, urging particularly the necessity for the formation of organizations by every branch of labor, and M. J. Sul-livnn Sul-livnn of San l-Yancisco, general vice I president of the Electrical Workers, told of the benefits of united labor from his viewpoint. At the close of the meeting International Interna-tional President Grahamo of the Lnun-dry Lnun-dry Workers said that he had no further fur-ther nnnouncemnts to make at present, as hn considcrd that the situation spokeJfor itself. |