Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-19 | Page 12 | Orem Line Strikers Taken into Union

OREM LINE STRIKERS TAKEN INTO UNION Federation of Labor Pledges Support to Men in Trouble Witli Traction Trac-tion Company. The Palt T,ake Federation of Labor at a special meeting held in labor temple yesterday morning, unanimously accepted the Orem strikers as a bona fide tra.de union and pledged their undivided support sup-port to the men in their fight. The- Orem strikers were rpprescnted by a committee which attended the meeting and members of the strikers' committee addrcssetl the meeting explaining In detail de-tail the events that led up to the con-troverpy con-troverpy between the company and its employees. They said that, in addition I to the oilier d:f ferences. the wages paid by the company were not satisfactory to the men. What the action of the Salt Take Federation Fed-eration of Labor will bo in regard to placing the Orem line on the unfair list could not bo determined yesterday, said Allen H. Burt, executive officer of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway employees, last night. Associate'! with the local federation are sixty organisations of trades unions and these would withdraw their patronage, patron-age, he said, if the road Is declared unfair.