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Show NO NEED OF SECRECY IN FORMING CARMEN'S UNION SAYS EMPLOYING COMPANY The' following bulletin, signed -by XV. ,P. r.e.id, sup6rintend.-'nt li tAi railway service 6t the Utah Light and Railway company, has been posted in the company's com-pany's x-ar-barnsv for the attention of the street railway branch employees, with regard to the company's attitude in the matter of the proposed organization organiza-tion of a local branch of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Association of Street and Electric Elec-tric Railway Employees of America: "To Employees, Railway Service, Utah Light and Railway Company: It having come to my attention Indirectly in the 'past and directly through the above circular at the Dresent, that an effort was being made to force the employees em-ployees of the railway service of this company into a foreign organization, I thought it timely to BUggest that before affiliating with any such organization as the one described, that you would weigh carefully , the relationship between be-tween ourselves as employees and employer; em-ployer; the advantages claimed and the disadvantages, if any, by participating in the movement designed. "Touching upon one subject of the circular, there should be no need on your part of secret meetings contemplated contem-plated by the signers of the circular in question, that is, so far as we are concerned, con-cerned, and we certainly are an interested inter-ested party. "At this stage of the movement we wish to say that we invite from you at 1 "i ell tfmes conferences upon inibject roati la' that you. tare -id. vHiimw' with us' fairly and broadly, that relate to your welfare ,jpid that ,jwiU (have.aj tendency to bring a doee relationship and good fellowship and. strengthen 'the confidence confi-dence between yourselves and this company." com-pany." - Assistant Superintendent O. P. Arnold. Ar-nold. Jr., said to The Telegram, concerning con-cerning the proposed union: "Many of the men do not wish to have a union organization. Our' payroll pay-roll for March was something more than $15,000. The men are making from $60 to $90 per month. One of the extra men made $82.50 in March by close application ap-plication to business. ."The men seem satisfied with the present schedule of 20 cents per hour for the first year, 22 cents for the second sec-ond year, and, beginning with the third year, 25 cents per hour. "The general average time for all men of all grades, is nine and one-half hours per day for as many days In each month as they care to work. One Mur-day Mur-day crew had thirty-three day;' wages I due them on Aaril let, as a result of I overtime and regular shifts. "The company has always pursued a liberal policy of conferring with the men and doing all that can be done for them, and still pursue good business methods. There is, so far as I can see. no need for the organization of a union of the character set out in the circulars distributed among the men." |