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Show BAKERS THREATEN TO STRIKE AGAIN Journeymen Insisting That Stockholders Who Work Join Union. Journeymen bakers of Salt Lake last night threatened to call another strike today when the Master Bakers' association associa-tion refused to concede that stockholders and partners owning an Interest of $1000 or more who work In the baJterles must be members of the union, according to Thomas Thom-as Raniage, attorney for the master bakers. "From time to time employees have acquired ac-quired stock In tho various bakeries," Mr. Rarnage said. A. E. Harvey of the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, acting for the journeymen bakers, signed a contract with the master bakers in May under which the men on strike returned to work. The contract stated that the master bakers proposed that men holding stock amounting amount-ing to $ H' 0i or more shoutd not be compelled com-pelled to join the union. The journeymen agreed to vote on the proposition and to recommend it to officers of the International Interna-tional union at Chicago. This they did not do. "The master bakers and tho journeymen journey-men returned to work, having been granted grant-ed their demands with regard to wages, hours and conditions, and given the closed Bhop. "The contract prodded that in the event the executive committees of both Organizations Organ-izations failed to agree on all provisions of the contract, the whole thing- should be submitted to arbitration. When the union insisted that stockholders belong to the union, the executive committee of the master bakers agreed to submit all of the contract to arbitration. This was at a meeting of the executive committees of both organizations held last night. The journeymen refused, and have threatened a walkout. If a strike is called the bakers will operate on an open shop basis. Only a small per cent of the journeymen will answer tne strike call, In the opinion of the master bakers." |