Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-03 | Page 7 | Stockyard Workers Protest Pay Award

STOCKYARD WORKERS PROTEST PAY AWARD CHICAGO, Dec. 2. Refusal to take responsibility re-sponsibility of accepting the increased wnije award announced yesterday by Federal Fed-eral Judf?e Samuel Alsc-huler, arbitrator, an.I a call for an outdoor mass meeting Sunday were promulgated today by th'i stockyards labor council. The decision oy Juis:e Alschuler granted wage increases aV--i elating approximately $12.000,OU0 a ynar and affected 125,000 stockyard work-iM-.s in Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Lincoln. Fort "Worth, St. Paul, East St. Louis and Sioux City. At the council meeting lost night, when it was voted to table the award, pending an expression of sentiment from workers work-ers in t he other citie?, the union men 's-.Tted the increase, which approximated 1 7 U per cent, should have been from '! to .i0 per cent Instead. The workers ::Lo were d ispleasnd with the announcement announce-ment that the increases were retroactive tn September 1. instead of July 14, last, as they had requested.