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Show HORSE TEAM OWNERS TO DEMAND INCREASE City Commissioners Will Be Asked to Pay Higher Schedule of Compensation Compensa-tion for This Work. With a demand for more remuneration remunera-tion for a day's work, a, committee representing rep-resenting owners of horse teams employed em-ployed by the city of Salt Lake, will wait on the city commissioners next Monday night. The committee will present a peremptory demand for $7 for each man and two-horse, team a day and $6.50 for a man and single horse a day. In the case of the team and man this constitutes a raise of $1 a day, and for the single horse and man it is 50 cents a day increase. Teamsters will decline to accept the 50 cents a day raise offered of-fered for themselves in a schedule recently re-cently drafted by the city commission. The decision to demand an increase was reached at a meeting of team owners own-ers and city employees held at the Labor La-bor temple last night. The committee ' selcjed to call upon the city commis-p"fcis commis-p"fcis is composed of John Hawes, A. Foster, G. lloehner, William Haslam and H. P. Walton. W. D. Patterson, executive officer of the Carpenters' union and specially des-ignatetl des-ignatetl representative of the Interna- sJannl Workers' defense league to look avr the defense of Tom Mooney, recently re-cently sentenced to death in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, announces completion of arrangements arrange-ments for a protest mass meeting of union labor men pf the state to be held in the Hippodrome theater Sunday night. |