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Show Butcher, Grocer Unionists Ask for 40-Hour Week i Journeymen receiving $72.39 fv I week, said Mr. Lloyd. The atore manager receives $77.50, first man 163 and the journeymen foodhan-! foodhan-! diers i53 a week. I "Both sides hope for an earry amicable settlement of the work-; work-; ing agreement," he asserted. Negotiations are continuing between be-tween the Amalgamated Meatcut-ters. Meatcut-ters. Butcher Workmen and Food-handlers' Food-handlers' local No. 537. and rep-resentstives rep-resentstives of the Sslt Lake retail re-tail food store employers on a new contract, in which the union requests a 40-hour week Instead of 48 hours, with no reduction in pay. Sherman P. Lloyd, representing the employers, said Wednesday that the old contract expires Nov. 1. He said the employers hsve pointed out that the cost of living is down more than 3'r, but in spite of this, "we ere offering to settle on the old contract, with no decrease in wages." R. N. Burkhardt, local union business agent, snd a committee of 15, are representing the union. Talks between the union and management man-agement have been going on since Oct. 1. The present wage scale Is $77.50 for the head meat cutter, with |