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Show EIGHT HOURS GRANTED TO STRIKING BIKERS Question of Wages Will Be Determined at Meeting to Be Held Later. At a meeting of the master bakers last night the demand of the journeymen bakers for an eight-hour day was granted and numbers of the bakers returned to work early this, morning, according to E. L. Wille, representative of the master bakers. Picketing by members of the union will now be stopped, it is stated, and men will resume their work un Ml matters of wages and overtime pay can be settled. Further settlement is pending upon the return of the union organizer, who H now In Denver and is exoected back by Monday. A committee from the master mas-ter bakers will then meet with tho organizer or-ganizer and representatives of the union and endeavor to arbitrate the matter of wages. "A different face ha a been put upon the matter by the organizer," said M r. Wille, "and his demands were more acceptable ac-ceptable to us. We are ablo to deal regularly with him and hope to reach an early settlement of all differences. In the meantime all the bakeries will take back their employees and resume operations opera-tions as before.'' Two arbitrators were appointed yesterday yester-day to settle the differences between the cooks and waiters' union and the .Salt Lake Restaurant Men's association. Parley Par-ley P. Christensen is the appointee of the union and J. E. S chafer will represent repre-sent the association. The first meeting of the two will be held this morning and an attempt will be made by the arbiters ar-biters to select a third member of the arbitration committee. In the meantime, it was stated by A. R. Bain, a representative represen-tative of the association, that all cooks and waiters havo returned to work, pending -final decision from the committee. commit-tee. The decision will be retroactive from May 1. Construction work has been resumed on all large projects, according to members mem-bers of the Building Trades council. A conference of committees from the mill 1 workers and employers was held yesterday yester-day afternoon at the Hotel Utah in an effort to effect a satisfactory adjustment i of the wage dispute. About 150 men are involved in the j mill workers' strike. The men left their jobs on May 1, demanding an increase of 122 cents per hour. It was stated by some of the employees who had returned re-turned to work that they were being paid at the increased scale. |