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Show STRIKING ELECTRICIANS HAVE RETURNED TO WORK Peace Conference Is Held and Trouble Is Ended , by Promises That the Men's Demands Will Be Considered. The strike of the employees of the Utah Light and Power company was declared de-clared off last night at 6 o'clock and all the striking electrical employees returned re-turned to work this morning after being out for a week. After a conference with Manager R. S. Campbell that covered a period of more than two hours, a large majority' of the strikers declared in favor of returning re-turning to work and calling the strike off. The company made no concessions but agreed to take up the employees' demands de-mands for union recognition, eight hours and increased pay At a later day ajid consider them. The strikers were not promised their old Jobs, but were told that they would be given places as fast as they could be i made Grievance Committee Explains. The strikers' grievance committee issued is-sued the following statement last night: At a meeting of the employees of the I'tah Light and Power company today the strike was declared off. This action was taken by reason of. the fact that Mr. Campbell assures us, and has all along assured us, that our grievances would be taken up and considered If given time. Th statement we have made before that MrT Campbell refused to arbitrate or receive re-ceive a committee was based on- something some-thing Mr. Campbell said in a moment Of aggravation and perplexity, and could not be taken as true in a positive sense. The suddenness of the whole trouble was brought on by an act for which he disclaimed dis-claimed all responsibility and which he corrected at onc. In view of this, and the fact that we are guaranteed that we will be listened to and our grievances considered, we consider con-sider It nothnlg but right and just that we call the fike off and give the management manage-ment time. We wish to again disclaim any enmity against Mr. Campbell and to state that the rauses of the trouble were not of his making. We hope that the true cause may be found and that everything may be adjusted amicably, for we want to accomplish ac-complish our ends without strikes. We wish to state that true unionism doe.? rot work by arbitrary or underhanded under-handed methods, but by what is right and reasonable. Wishing unionism and all union men success, e remoln, sincerely, sin-cerely, -COMMITTEE. The discharge of four station men as a penalty for Joining the union was said by the strikers to have been the cause of the trouble. They assert that Superintendent Super-intendent Arnold learned that the union intended to ask for eight hours, a minimum mini-mum scale of wages and recognition, and asked these men if they would stand-by the union or the company. Their discharge, the men say. followed their declaration to stand by the union. Mr. Campbell. It Is said, reinstated the men. but before the grievance committee commit-tee learned of this the strike was ordered. or-dered. ' Campbell Makes Promises, Sunday Mr. Campbell held a long conference con-ference with about a dozen of the oldest men and explained that his attitude had been misunderstood. lie said that he would present their demands to the board of directors at the earliest moment mo-ment and made it clear that such matters mat-ters could not be decided in a minute or a day, and that the employees would lose less, if they did not gain more, by working until their demands were either granted or refused. The men uhn Attended the conference took steps yesterday to call the strike off, with the result stated. Between sixty and seventy men have been out; the greater number of these will return to work at once, but several will await the company's pleasure In the matter. The strikers attribute their failure to the fact that a number of station men and other employees went back to work at a critical - time, and thus subverted their efforts. , |