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Show ififilO IfiT TELEPHONE SHE Mediators and Employees to Meet for Discussion of Issues Involved. I.O.S AX'JKLKS, (j, t. ::u - Verni-r 7.. Tied tit Denver left lu-rc lat.o tu.biv for Han Francisco, where lifi will inuet rep-rnsiMital rep-rnsiMital ivr-n of tin' I'm-ific Htat Telephone Tele-phone i Tflrnrapli company and dele-Hntiuru dele-Hntiuru from i 1 1 employees in an ct'l'ort Id avert. 1 lio impending strike. Secretary William H. Wilson a ml other i.jodi ulors will follow within ten lays. Mr. Kit.I was named by Secretary Secre-tary Wiliii, u jim his special representative lo proceed at once to San Francisco. Mr. Koed said lie had'alrcady undertaken under-taken a rra ntjcineut S Tor an immediate iiKietiiin with the company an, I representatives repre-sentatives of its employees. He nai'l .Secretary Wilson, with three other members mem-bers of .'the. mediation board anil with a stair' of assistants, hope, I to complete work now under way in 'the! mining districts dis-tricts of Arizona ami be able to leave tor .San Francisco within ten days. Mr. lieeil sai.l mediation of all nun-iiij.' nun-iiij.' and labor disputes in Arizona was sufficiently advanced to make certain that no lo'nr; delav would be united of the telephone employees before opportunity oppor-tunity could lie uiven them to present their' case lo the mediators and that his mission was to arrange for the slij:ht delay de-lay made imperative by the work now in progress in Arizona. SAN' FRANCISCO, (let. ISO. President "Wilson In "vitally interested in a quick and satisfactory adjustment" of the dispute dis-pute between the I'neiric Telephone & Teleirraph company and employee, ae-eorilliiK ae-eorilliiK to a message received tonight by (lavln McN'ab, an attorney, from Ixiuls V. t'ost. asslsiant secretary of labor. Secretary of Labor V. H. Wilson also tvnt a message from Clifton, Ariz., asking ask-ing that no strike action bo taken pending pend-ing mediation. Tt wan learned from an authoritative source that both Hides have agreed to do nothing to force, the strike, which the union leadens had set for tomorrow night. They are said by the .same authority to I welcome mediation. Vomer Z. Reed of Denver, member of j the federal board lo adjust labor troubles. trou-bles. Is on Ids way here from l.OB An-p,elea An-p,elea and will make an effort to reconelle the differences between tile company and Its employees. The threatened strike of electrical workers and exchange operators was Intended In-tended to compel the company to recognize, recog-nize, the unions formed by the operators in Seattle, Tacoma, rortland. .San i-'Yan-elsco, I.OH Anjreles and other coast points. The men also demand Jl a. clay flat raise, to which the company made a counter proposition of .",i cents a day. The unions lave iwho postponed a .strike, once because be-cause of a patriotic appeal not to Imperil the succe ss of I he iaberty bond cmri-paign cmri-paign and in hope, of mediation. |