Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 24 | Smelter Workers Accuse Company

SMELTER WORKERS Will Metal Trades Council Members Mem-bers Say They Have Been Refused Work, - Charges that the American Smelting & Kefinins company had not kept an agreement agree-ment to give them back their Jobs, which they quit " February 23 in protest against a cut of 75 cents a day in wages, were made yesterday by members of the metal trades council. A n agreement w hereby the men were to return lo work i yesterday was reached between tho copper cop-per company and the workmen, t lie strikers' couneil voting Friday that the, men should return, accepting the To-cent , reduction hi wages. j Members of the metal trades council allege al-lege t hat when they themselves applied for work yesterday they were refused by the copper company because of their participation par-ticipation in the walkout. C. YV. "Whitley said yesterday that the delay In hiring the men was occasioned because it was wished to determine which men should be taken back flrijt. Former soldiers and married men are to be given preference, he said, lie denied that men were not employed yesterday becauso they had walked out. "So far as I know, the company has not violated any agreement." said Joseph Lord, government conciliator, who was active in bringing the copper company and workers to an agreement. Mr. Lord said thai, he was sure all the needed men would be reinstated by the company as soon aa the piant could resume operations. opera-tions. A meeting of the men who walked out was held yesterday afternoon at the Labor La-bor temple to determine upon some action ac-tion to be la lien because of tho alleged refusal of the copper company to give tiie men work. Anothpr meeting, at which Joseph Lord will bo present, will bo held at JO o'clock tomorrow morning.