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Show Lahor Aims Unionizing Drive At Power Firm, Sales Workers Organization Campaign Intensifies Over Wide Front in Varied Trades . Drives to organize electrical employes of the Utah Power & Light company and all retail ssles clerks of Salt Lake City were announced Wednesday by Paul M. Peterson, president of the Utah State Federation of Labor. Tht announcement cama at Utah Light and Traction company employe! em-ploye! slated a Friday dawn meeting meet-ing to consider results of negotiations negotia-tions with tht company. Other developments on Utah's labor la-bor front Included organisation mattings of building service employes, em-ployes, hod csrrlers snd laborers, film exchange workers, automobile mechanics, taxirsb drivers and a C I. O.-A. F. of L. mass meeting in Provo. Electrical tokuts ef tht Utah b Powtr and Light company will matt Friday at S p. m. In tht New-house New-house hotel to unionise. It was announced an-nounced Wedneeday by Paul M Peterson, presldsnt of ths Utah Stats Federation of Labor. Employes themselves, without solicitation so-licitation from union heads, requested re-quested tht meeting, Mr. Ptttrson said. fipsskers at tht gathering will Include Mr. Ptttrson, Harold G. Crose, sscrstary-trsasurer of ths (OosUnuad mi Par. Beveal iCouusa ttaat STATE LABOR'S ' DRIVEWiDEIIED Mmh ana raa aai aiTrr-I. raTTnnTa ivj OTTTma TTaTI. kvalnaaa aant for tha Taamatara' and Otavfraur' anion. A moating af aity clothing aalaa taa la tha Nawhauaa katal Maaday at T at. will aiark another atap In unionisation af aH rotail aad da-partmant da-partmant at or a aalaapaopla la tha city. It waa annaunrad Wadnaaday ar- PtA- L fataraaav praaldant -mt tha Uuh Stata radaratioa af Laaor Bhoa aalaamaa kara alraady kaaa arganlaad. A moating af eauntar rWrka will ka caiiad aaat waak. following tha clothing aalaa moating. Mr. I'atar-aoa I'atar-aoa aaid. Aa untan argantaatlaa tfrtaaa aaa-- aaa-- tlauad ta BaU Laka CUT. labor af-ficlala af-ficlala annaunrad maatinia af kuUd-Ing kuUd-Ing aanrlra amplayaa Thuraday at p. m.; had aarriora. kuilding aad common lafcorara, rnday at ( p. av. and tkaatar film aschanga aanployaa. rnday at M p. m, ta tha Labor tampla. Tha Unlaa Lahal laagua will hold a auua moating la tha Labor tampla May IT, K waa annaunrad Wadnaaday Wadnaa-day ky Mra. KM B. Kalaay. aacra-tary-traaaurar. JPlana will ka laid tor Unlaa Laaal waak. ta ka aatabratad tha waak prarading Labor day. Union amplayaa of tha Utah Light and Traction company will moat Friday at 1 a. m. ta aenaidar ra-aulta ra-aulta af bargaining nagotlatlona ka- twaaa rompany and antort afftrlaki r.U B. Kalaay. praaldant af local ail. Amalgamated Aaaoclatlon af Ktreat, Rlactrtc Railway and Motor Coarh Kmployaa af Amarica, who Baadad tha amploya bargaining com-mittaa. com-mittaa. Wadnaaday aaid: a bona ta roach a tantativ agraamant with tha com pan r at a mooting Thuraday morning. Raaulta af tha maatlng will ka preaantad ta tha unlaa Tti-day." Tti-day." Company afflclala dacllnad to comment, other than ta confirm tha mealing Thuraday at 10 a. m. In Ira rt ion company office a. Tha Friday meeting will be held In tha Labor tampla, Mr. Kalaay aaid. Laat waak 1M af tha 272 union employes voted to atrika May 1. unieaa tha company mat their demands de-mands for union recognition and a blanket wage increase af 10 cents per hour. Tha atrika waa held In a abeyance pending further aegotla-tiona aegotla-tiona whan aa agreement could aot be reached before May 1. Anv aereament reached between anion and company officiate must be preaantad la union members for ratification ar resction. CIO and American Federation of Labor leaders In Utah county Wadnaaday Wad-naaday were preparing for a mass meeting Thuraday at I p. m. In tha Provo high achool as tha next atrp to conaoiidated all labor groups Into a common front. Paul M. Peterson, praaldant of tba Utah ft late Federation af Labor, ' will address tha meeting, to be presided pre-sided ever by Jamas C. Thtmmea, Chicago. Ill, CIO organiser. Mr, Thlmmea said CIO unlonlaa- , tlon of employee In tha Pacific Btataa Cast Iron Pipe company plant was prog r easing and that 11 mora workers algnad up at a Tuesday Bight meeting. In a meeting af tha Utah county central labor council Tuaaday night a committee was appointed to meet with a similar committee from tha Columbia Bleel plant CIO union to s roneider affiliation with tha central body, an A. F. af L affiliate. Ninety par cant af Bait Laka City's shoe eelesroea ara expected ta )oln: , a new union at a meeting ta the I Mewheuse hotel Wedneaday at t p. at, according to Paul M. Pater-son. Pater-son. praaldant af tha Utah Bute Federation af Labor. Parky B. Maugban, elected temporary tem-porary praaldant af tha union formed at a Monday night meeting, will preside. A. A. Newman, shoe sals amen ergenleer, and Mr, Petersen Pe-tersen will speak. goose tag Bait Laka City automobile automo-bile saackaalca Wedneaday were awaiting a Saturday wage negotiat-1 negotiat-1 Ing meeting betweea anlaa officials and Batumi bile dealers. At a asset Ing la tha Leber tampla Tuesday aight they accepted a committee com-mittee report aa Bagotiatlana already al-ready ander way and expreaeed determination de-termination ta I na 1st en a ao-canta-an-hour flat pay rata instead af piecework pay, according to Sid Terrle, anion kuaineae agent |