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Show JIB PRESSMEN'S STBIKEJT El Settlement With Employing Printers and Binders Is Reached. I Members of Printing: Pressmen's union No. 148, who went on strike Tuesday in Job shops of Salt Lake, have agreed to return to work tomorrow, according to R. T. Porte, chairman of the Employing Printers' and Binders association. An agreement has been entered into regarding the wage scale, the contract being be-ing signed by W. H. Young-, international representative of the Printing Pressmen's j union, and C. P. Jennings, Frank Pearson i and A. D. St. Clair, representing the Employing Em-ploying Printers' and Binders' ' association. associa-tion. The pressmen agree to accept a scale of $39 a week for cylinder press foremen, $36 for cylinder journeyman, '?37 for foremen fore-men in rooms of live or more platen presses, and $36 in rooms of less than five platen presses, and ?35 for platen pressmen press-men journeymen. "When the pressmen went on strike their demands were that all journeymen should be paid $3S, foremen in rooms of less than five presses $40, foremen in rooms of more than five presses, $42. Other conditions were included in their original demands, bait, according to Mr. Porte, most of these have been settled by verbal agreement. The new scale of wages is to continue in effect until April 30, 1921, Mr. Porte said. |