Show HIGHWAY A Y LABOR j CHARGES SIFTED Tooele Road Contractors Contractor Deny Violation of Working Working Work Work- ing Laws st State te road commission engineers engineer mc meeting Ing at Tooele Wednesday probed probe charges that ChrIstensen Gardner Inc Salt Lake contractors are break jug Ing the hour eight day law and otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise violating state and federal regu regu- lations on t the te e Erda Erd highway project E. E C C. Knowlton assistant engineer of the commission conducted the instigatiOn in in- which included a a meeting with the contractors the commissions commission's unemployment com committee and the citizens citizens' citi- citi zens' zens committee representing several severa hundred unemployed in the Tooele city courthouse Mr dr Knowlton warned that the commission com corn mission intended to enforce to the limit all state and federal regulations on emergency hi highway projects and promised the citizens' citizens committee which brought the charges against th the contractors that the matter would be thoroughly investigated stIg ted The committee met with members of the commission at the capitol capito I Wednesday when they charged that federal regulations requiring a six six- hour day or hour 30 week were being violated on the project ct that single men were given work by the contractors contractors con con- tractors when married men went Job less Jess that some workers were allowed to work ten hours dail daily In violation of the state law fixing a maximum of oI eight hours on public projects and other asserted violations The contractors admitted that some violations ma may have occurred when the Tooele Erda-Tooele project was begun because of unfamiliarity with the regulations but entered a a general d denial de denial de- de nial to the charges which they declared declared de de- de- de dared were circulated by disgruntled es discharged from the job We are living up to the rules per cent said W. W W. W Gardner president president dent of the firm Our foremen are the only men working ten ho hours rs a ada da day We are arc not required to rotate labor Jabor although we do it wherever feasible |