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Show OIFPEREMT SOON BESETTLED Electrical Workers to Act on Report Submitted by Committee. MARSH COMING TODAY Conciliator to Take Up Points at Issue in Conference. i K li.e lo- ill union of electrical workers work-ers ;icre:i a jepur; of choir committee. 1., i.c submitted at the next meeting of tiie loii?e. all liic differences existing between be-tween ele.-trlcians and lh Mountain Siates Telephone & Telegraph . company , will be settled. If the report is not acceptable ac-ceptable '.lie jroposii ions at issue will be siii.mitted to' W. B. Wilson, secretary of i he federal depaitment of lahor. This is the statement of certain officials offi-cials lonnected with the coiu'ei ences held rhirintt the present week with L C. Crasser, secretary of the international union, and the men's grievance eommit-i-e on the one side and H. W. Kline, division di-vision manaeer of plant, for the company on I he other side. These officials declare ihat all conditions favor acceptance of the "report and with it settlement ot all differences. When the meeting at which i the result of the official meeting will be presented is lo be held none of the labor executives would say last night. The final conference, at which grievances griev-ances of electrical workers were discussed, dis-cussed, was conducted in the office of Superintendent Kline yesterday afternoon. The men arc asking wage increases and modified working conditions. All electrical elec-trical workers employed by the Mountain Moun-tain States Telephone & Telegraph company com-pany in. (tah and Idaho and part of those in Vyoming arc interested. Marsh Expected Today. 1-:. P. Marsh of the conciliation division nf i he United States depaitment of labor is expected in Salt Lake some time to-dav to-dav to investigate and report upon troubles trou-bles of the electrical workers' union. I pon the completion of his investigations he will go to Washington to make complete com-plete report. Mr. Marsh was the personal representative representa-tive of President Wilson in the adjustment adjust-ment of telephone trouble on the Pacific coast last vear. He is expected to get at the seat of all the difficulties here and lo be able to recommend a mode of procedure pro-cedure which the department of labor will approve in settlement of the diner-ences. diner-ences. A strike of employees of the Ltah Oil Terming company, involving l it) men. was settled in less than one day after the men decided to walk out. The walkout occurred oc-curred at noon Tuesday. Yesterday morning morn-ing a conference of a committee representing repre-senting the men with the company management man-agement was held in the executive offices in the Xewhouse building and all difler-ences difler-ences were dissolved. Last night the men resumed work. Cause of Strike. The strike, according to '. V.' Sage, secretarv of tne company, was ordered because" of hi- own failure to post an ' authorized copv of a schedule of wages recently presented by the men and which n a.s supposed to have been posted as official of-ficial notice of acceptance by the company com-pany on a date agreed upon. Mr. Sage explains the failure was due to lack of time to prepare the schedule in proper form and" not to any disposition on the part of the company to refuse the demands de-mands of the men. This explanation wag made at the joint meeting yesterday morning and wae the foundation upon which "settlement of grievances was effected. ef-fected. - O. P.. Henney. business agent of tne pipe fitters' union, who conducted all negotiations ne-gotiations concerning the new wage schedule, last night declared every point for which the workers contended had been gtanted by the Utah Oil P.efining companv and all men would be back on the pavroll by this morning. He de- t dined to discuss details of the affair. It is understood, however, that presentation of a new schedule of pay was made August Au-gust 3. and t'.iat various meetings in this regard have been held since, bringing the ntat-er to a point where acceptance of the now scale of wages was assured, with the exception of formal posting at the re- j finery by the company's representative. I Upon this failure the walkout was called. j |