Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-08 | Page 20 | PWA Project Walkout Ends

PWA PROJECT WALKOUT ENDS With settlement of a construction ' astrika at the University of Utah, another labor walkout loomed in Salt Lake City Thursday It's deadline dead-line less than 24 hours away. Men returned to work on P W A 7, construction of a girls' -dormitory . at the university aa union employes of the Utah Ice and Storage company com-pany threatened to strike Friday noon unless their wage demands are met Other labor developments Included In-cluded preliminary ateps in broadening broad-ening Jurisdiction of the teamsters' and chauffeurs' union and a five-state five-state meeting of delegates from auch locals slated for July IT. Approximately 23 men returned " to work on P W A construction at " the University of-Utah Thursday "after a subcontractor agreed to hire " only union labor on hia part of the "b. William M. Knerr. chairman of " the state industrial commission, "said the agreement was made by Thomaa B. Child, subcontractor In - charge of brick work, at a meeting In the capHonaU Wednesday. officials permitting workers to re-. re-. turn to the project. Present at the meeting. In which Mr. Knerr acted as conciliator, were R. J. Ashton, architect representing the state building commission; Paul . Paulsen, general contractor on the . building: Mr. Child: F. A. Noller, " secretary of the Salt Lae City Build- lng Tradea council; W. O. Dlx. International In-ternational representative, and C. T. Dix, business agent of the Hod Carriers', Car-riers', Building and Common La-' La-' borers' local union. Employes of the Utah lea and Storage company Thursday relterat-ed relterat-ed their threats to strike Friday -" noon unless demands for higher . . waxes, eight-hour day and time and I J one-half for overtime are met " Union officials said they hoped to meet Friday morning with A. W. ' Hahn, Colorado Springs, Colo., trustee trus-tee of the company for the Colorado federal court. The meeting, they hoped, might avert tha threatened strike. Mr. Hahn will meet with union - employes of the company Thursday at 7 p. m. In company offices. Ml West Broadway. . Employes at a meeting In Moose hall Wednesday night reiterated . their intention to strike and voted to refuse to negotiate with Mr. Hahn "unless he meets .with the three-man three-man committee and with tha three-man three-man committee only." Tha committee Includes F. M. Savage, chairman and union vice president; Thomaa Steele, union " president, and Max Bateman, union secretary. ' Mr. Bateman said ha hoped the .three-man committee could meet with Mr. Hahn Friday "by 10 a. m." He added that Bute Senator Eldred M. Royle, district union secretary of tha International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, would also be at tha meeting. The Ice employes' union la affiliated with the C. L O. William M. Knerr, chairman of the state Industrial commission. Thursday announced a committee had been appointed to draft tentative tenta-tive regulations governing safety, sanitation and working conditions for women in Utah industry. The committee waa appointed at meeting of employer and Federation Feder-ation of Labor officiala, with Mr. Knerr Wednesday. It will report Its findings to the commission for final approval. Committee member Include N. W. Pickett of th state board of health. Mrs. Naomi Peck and Miss Thelma Moor of the State Federation Federa-tion of Labor: L. J. Sweet, candy manufacturing official, and Harvey Cahill, executive secretary of the Utah Canners' association. G. Elmo Hall, president of the local Teamsters and Chauffeurs' union and of th union district council, Thursday announced delegates dele-gates from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada will convene here Jury 17 to outline Joint policies. Mr. Hall presided at a teamsters and chauffeure meeting in Provo Thursday night, called for purposes of forming a union. R. D. Stevenson, Boise, Idaho, secretary sec-retary of the district council Teamster Team-ster and Chauffeur union, conferred con-ferred her Thursday with Mr. Hall.