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Show Will The Children Suffer? Will the children of Springville be made to suffer because of the selfishness and overpowering motives of a few individuals? This question was brought forcibly to the minds of citizens this week, when workmen at the site of the new grade school house, near Brookside, were called out on strike. - Three building projects were singled out by the union as being the most vulnerable in the state on which to begin their activities in regard to a controversial con-troversial wage raise and the Springville school building project was one of them. So while negotiations proceed and work continues con-tinues on dozens of other building projects employing union men throughout the state the union has decided that our children in Springville must be the victims. At press time Wednesday little progress seems to have been made and school children of Springville sit by with no place to attend classes next fall unless they are herded into an already overcrowded school room. The school contractor, Ralph E. Child, indicated he would like to go on with construction plans which are expected to be completed by August 15. However, he is faced with the fact that his union carpenters have walked off the job by order of superior officers, while on the other hand the Associated General Contractors Con-tractors of which he is a member, has a committee on labor which orders him to hold the line until the committee makes negotiations and which as a member mem-ber of the Association, he should do. And then, on the other hand, the contractor is faced with the Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley bill by which he cannot discriminate between union and non-union workmen and he cannot refuse to hire men because they do or do not belong to the union. 1 In the meantime, Mr. Child is making a plea today for workmen, non-union carpenters who will go ahead with him on the much needed school building. build-ing. The carpenters who have been receiving $1.62 ' per hour, are striking for $1.87 per hour. They have been offered $1.80 but are holding out for the higher figure. |