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Show , MEDIATORS FINISH S LABORS IN UTAH Federal Commission Con-i Con-i J eludes Probe of Indus- i i trial Conditions. i ' AGREEMENT REACHED 1 t I " ' Members Express Belief That No Trouble Impends , in Big State Companies. Verncr Z. Reed and :. T. Marsh, mem- ; hr-rs of the president's mediation commission, com-mission, who have heen in Salt Lake several sev-eral days investigating grievances affecting affect-ing labor in Utah, completed their work and h'ft the city last night. Investigations Investiga-tions were made of 'a part of the em- plnyecH of the Utah-Idaho Central Railway Rail-way company, the Ogden Packing & Provision Pro-vision company, the Garfield Smelting cirnpanv and the nulls of the Utah Copper Cop-per coinpaiiv. In speaking of the commissions com-missions rec.ommendal Ion affecting the Hiimltirig a i id copper mining industry, Mr. ; Heed said: Tho commissioners have recommended recom-mended that Utah, as well as the seven other states where the copper mining industry is important, be con-Md.M-ed by the government as a zone, and that a basic scale if wages be made applicable to the eight states, all wage differentials being temporarily suspended. II. is recommended that a government commission be appointed ;o reinstate wage differentials, with power to make their findijigs retroactive retroac-tive wherever it may be found that differentials are really necessary. Set Price of Labor. t The real reading of the recommendations recommen-dations of the commissioners is that the government, having availed itself of its authority to set the price of the product, should also set the price of labor. Committees from other smelters and of the other matters of the state were heard by the commission, and for the most part all tho employers and employees are satisfied with the recommendations of tho commission. Various leading citizens have interested inter-ested themselves in the work of the commission, and it is their belief, ajid tit it of the commissioners themselves, that while labor trouble and strikes were imminent in Utah that now peace and patience will prevail, and there will be no outbursts pending the adjudication. With respect to the Utah & Idaho Railway company, the matter has been referred directly to the govern-' i rnnnt, and with respect to the Ogden ; Packing & Provision company it is ; believed that a satisfactory settle- ; I nient between the owners and the em- . vloyees will be effected ou their own j account, within a very few days. j Co-operation Appreciated. The commissioners express their i gToat appreciation of the co-operation of the employers and employees in all tho companies concerned, except that of the officials of the Utah-Idaho j Railroad company, who declined to meet the commissioners. The governor gover-nor and state officials and many prominent citizens worked in cooperation co-operation with the commission. Mr. Marsh and myself leave feeling feel-ing that the conservative spirit which always has prevailed in Salt Lake and Utah will continue and we reported re-ported to the government that pending pend-ing th final adjustment of the questions ques-tions involved we anticipate no trou-J i ble between employers and employees. Mr. Reed is one of the owners of sev-i sev-i eral miles of cliff front oil shales at j Watson, Utah. He expects that he and ; bis associates will have the first oil re-i re-i finery in that district. Mr. Reed is build-j build-j ing at Santa Maria, Cal., one of the first I of the shale oil , refineries in the United j States. ) ; Appointed by President. ! The mediation commission of five mepi- bers was appointed by President WiL ron as his personal representatives and a. representatives as well of labor and capital in industrial matters. The commission com-mission is composed of two capitalists, two labor representatives and one cabinet cabi-net member. Tho commissioners are: Secretary of Labor Wilson. John H. W'alkf r, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor; E. P. Marsh, former president of the Washington State Federation Fed-eration of Labor, representing lalor; Ver-ner Ver-ner Z. Reed. Denver mining man, and Jackson L. Spangler of Pennsylvania, capitalists. Tho commission was organized and instructed in-structed personally by the president in September, 1917. and was sent west to end the- copper strikes in Arizona and the timber troubles in the northwest. Its members also settled the strikes in the oil fields of California and in Texas and Louisiana. It also averted or settled the I flephone and telegraph difficulties in tho five middle western slates, the packing pack-ing plants strikes, involving 75,000 employees, em-ployees, and centering at Chicago, and tho sympathetic strikes touching upon the transportation in seven states. Loyal to Government. Members of the commission have met representatives ol 1,500.000 organised and unorganized labor and representatives of more than $-l.ft(H.on(i,Ono American capital. capi-tal. The members have found the people on either side loyal to the government, but unaware of the menacing danger of industrial war to the United States. This is being overcome, however, and representatives repre-sentatives of capital and lalxr are realizing realiz-ing the danger to the government and arp. assisting in bringing about an industrial indus-trial peace. One of the duties of the commission was the investigation of the Moonev case at San Francisco. Its report recommended recommend-ed that Mooney be given a new trial. The work ot the commission nas grown to such an extent that it has been found impossible for the members to travel in a body and now they are working in special spe-cial details. |