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Show IT! WORKERS STfilMW Six Hundred Members of Union Join Hundred Boilermakers Out. Six hundred members of the metal trades union went on strike yesterday morning to enforce demands for a blanket raise of $1 a day, swelling the number of metal trades craftsmen who have left their jobs to 700. Nearly J0U boilerniak-ers boilerniak-ers and helpers threw down their tools for the tame reason Wednesday. Twelve contract shops are affected. ' Union officials declare that the strike : was called as a protest against the cost 1 of living as much as against the present : wages. Mt-tal workers in Salt Lake receive re-ceive it! a day, and helpers $4.25. Employers say they are unable to meet the demands of the craftsmen because of present business conditions. G. M. Strat-ton, Strat-ton, general ma nager of the Salt Lake Iron A: SteM company, issued the following follow-ing statement: "Our labor troubles are due entirely to the present high cost of living. Every j strike for higiiL-r wages is fundamentally I a protest against the high prices of ne- ! cess i tiers, and it is irej!y admitted by the workmen that they would be as well sat-1 sat-1 isfied with a decrease in tlie price list as with an increase in the wage scale. They have asked for and received several wage increases, in the last two ears, and it is generally understood that they are no better off now than before. "I believe that if labor would make its demands for a decrease in tlie prices of necessities instead of further increases in wages, sufficient interest would be amused to bring about definite tic tion against pn ifiteenng, which is the basic-cause basic-cause of the present unrest. Employers of labor should be as actively interested in reducing the cost of living to their employees em-ployees as the yare in control: ing the various items of cost and economy of manufacturing." j |