Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-23 | Page 10 | Ogden Strikers are Locked Out

ma mm IE up OUT Action by Union Follows Unauthorized Walkout of Forty Men. 1 OCt PTCN", Aug. 22. About forty of the fifty 'five employees of tho Globe Mills who fwent on strike Wednesday -vening without authority of the union have been locked out by the action of the union. This transpired today whun only fifteen of the men who went on strike found position po-sition awaiting them ii t the plant. The . remainder were informed that there were no places for them. It is stated that theiae,! men have gone to the coast. The ' drastic action In behalf of the union was - takeri by J. S. Holmes, business agent o the hod carriers a"nd cement workers. Mr. Holmes said that when the em-'ployuH em-'ployuH of the Globe mills went on strike last fcHmday for $5 a day wages the com-pany'informed com-pany'informed the men tnat the new scale would go into effoct September 1. The union then signed a contract to this effect. ef-fect. Some of the agitators declared, however, that they would put the increase in-crease in effect over tho head of the business busi-ness agent and make the Globe company pay the wages before September 1. They then went out. ' The1 union condemned the action, as did tho building trades, and, as Mr. Holmes obtained a sufficient number of employees ' for the company, little time was lost. The agitators were locked out and union men with families In the city filled their places. The hullding and trades council of the citv has commended the action of Mr, Holmes and the tmion he represents.