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Show WaLKQOT CUHTA1LS M LINE SERVICE; Thirty-five Employees Refuse Re-fuse to Report for Duty After Conference. MAN IS DISCHARGED' Statements Issued; Traffic Schedule Will Be Re- j sumed This Morning. ! Tr;i ; u rr ia1 on t lus Prv:ti V m'S was r : ; i lovl tonuiv ow i" tn a walkout u' :uoul llii'U I'iw onu'lovos luvitu:o I ot' tho rctual o' tho ot't'u'iuls to moot tho JonuuuU ot tho iron at :v four-hour, vonioroiu'O I'ruiao niht that Motor-man Motor-man Yh-ii 'nits,M bo roiustaf od. Aooordiii to Tt.it'tio Matiaor Uoss l.oson. Sunt sou w as uisv-harO'l .bo-i .bo-i jt.'.so ot hi :uv: io:U roooru. I'ho rop-;ost rop-;ost :iiati os ot Ttv om plovoos at" tor a mooittii; at a downtown hotol ;siul a r-t;;!oiucut in whuh thov olaim 'Simtsou was o.isoha: ood on ;uoi!Ut ot boiuo, an agitator. Tho Salomon t assorts thai t hoi o is a. movomop t potutinii lor a vi!;t n:iy ituro;io. Ko-oi osOLUutivo oc t!io oompany donv rh;' t nuv ao' disi-uto ovvusioned tiio ws SkOMt. Ti ai r"; r M ar.:i:or IVason saii : lt ; i ho iu-'i rr.' dot initoly out of ' i.io or i.:o and tiiat thoir juiivos would bo tiilod at onoo. T:)na:or Koaso-u said that ton trains w ou Id bo ru u on tho train Uno today, t'io oaoh wav, and ton trains on tho branch. Tho co'iipany hopos to omuuo tho rou'niar s.-hovU;lo of twoutv ; sins on tho main linn and siilccu on tho brM'h 1: uo tomorrow. The first oar on tho main and branch lirvs will losvo tho Salt bako d-u ot this n'.ornin at Xl it was announced last in- bt. I'b o stato imtist rial oo:u:t ission has no: boon a;,iiroal-ho 1 by eithor sido to : ho roi'.t ro vsy in an off o: t to brin abonr a j-oTtio.uont. If siu-h a rouost ,-. rr.udo it is hkoly that I'rostou A. Thatchor, eh a : : man of the commission, w i i bo ca 1 1 o I in. o i; a-" oa tt t of tho V. ir.ess of iiiiam M . Knorr. whoso rood offices ;uo ,souliy sought and ex-tor.ded ex-tor.ded in s.u h uin-.v Manager Beasrr.'s Statement. Manaor Foason. tih-oussiug tho situation situa-tion las: r.;.i;ht, said: i Thurso.ay wo dii-harcd a motor- ! "-.ar.. Virgil Smitsi it. Ho w a dis- ; charged booause l-i his aooidou: roo- j ord. Friday at 4 o'clock a com-i-it- ; t-"o. conistiji of August Adoir-h Ahror.s ?nd 1,. Barro:'. who are J rioir.be rs of train crows, allod upon j the railroad officials au.i ordered j us to roiutato this man at once. I They thr o itt-i:ed that i f w e d i d ! not tho traiu cri ws wonid walk out j ;Ms morn in . That they won Id not rcuort to work. They said to us ' that there was r.u dissatisfaction with work i iii; conditions or waos invoive.i. but it was strictly a ques- ' tion of re-employing this man. The comiany a-ruod with the 1 n:eu from 4 o "clock until midnight ; to no result. We did not think the ! men would go out for any such reason. This morning only halt a doen of the thirty-five employed showed up for worK. Today we ran two trains north and two south instead ! of ten. , The men evidently thought that we would be forced to cotne through because w-o have in box cars a lot of perishables, such as apples, potatoes, po-tatoes, cnc'iaiies and onions. It having hav-ing been impossible to get sufficient suffi-cient refrigerator cars, we have boon encouraging the small shippers to send their ensbables tn alt Lake for storage until such time sls ! they could ret transportation facilities fa-cilities out of here to the va- J i ions markets. Seeking New Men. The men who did not report for v.-ork Saturday morning will not be emjdoyed. and we are now in the market for new men and are advertising ad-vertising for new men to report to take their places. The uers of thy Orem line goiug to the West Jordan sugar factory, to Granger and other points were not inconvenienced yesterday as automobiles were provided to take them to and from their work. The Ororn line is notifying the farmers that there will be "adequate service to handle their ready crops by Monday. Today there will be ten trains on t he main line, i'i ve . 'ach way and U n trains on the Magna branch. This is in compnri-on compnri-on with twenty on the main line and sixteen on the branch lino, aa -iwjnl-.rr service. We anticipate no difficulty in securing se-curing a sufficient number of men to commence complete operation bv Monday morning, as we already have had a number of applications and mauv more wili apply when they understand that there are openings. The service is attractive to the men, as they are- not exposed to the weather, do not risk life and iirub to the same extent in other service, are home for every meal a ud home every night. Employees Statement. The statement of Orem employees, given out after a mooting yesterday afternoon, is as follows; The representatives of the Orem employees claim Motonnau V. Smit-son Smit-son was discharged ou account of being an agitator. The committee worked diligently with the Orem line officials from 4 p. m. until midnight Friday, asking t hem to jirove the charges, which they I ailed to do. They then changed the charge to i n cum potency a nd recklessness. Srnitsoti has been in the employ of the company three and one half years. The Orem line officials alo state that thero are considerable products along its linos, some of it perishable, and it is causing considerable con-siderable anxiety. The men claim that if they considered these products and welfare of all concerned, con-cerned, it would have been a very easy matter to reinstate Mr. Smit-son Smit-son and move these products and settle Mr. Smitson's case by arbitration, arbi-tration, but the officials stated thov would not put Mr. Smitson back if they had to close the road down lor good. Ti e company also state that there was no wuvjo difference. How-over, How-over, t he pica wish to state that there was a n'ovement on foot and is still pending, for a slight tn-i tn-i crease. ;i nd tlie y consider tho dis- missal of Mr. Siuitsou a movement i ot the coinpanv to check the re-i re-i quest. |