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Show GROCERY PACTS BOOSTWAGES Contracts which assertedly will Increase, tha average wage of grocery gro-cery clerks and meat cutters In Bait Lake City (2S0 weekly were being signed Friday by store operators. This formal action followed extended ex-tended conferences between Donald : P. Lloyd, secretary-manager of the Utah Retail Grocers association; F. A. Weyersberg, business representative representa-tive of the meat cutters' union, and R. L. Reese, business manager of . the grocery clerks' union. More than 100 grocery stores were reported to have agreed to aign. Detslls of the contracta were not 1 disclosed, but Mr. Weyersberg said tha wage provisions would mean "about 12 90 Increase In tha aver-age aver-age weekly wage for. tha clerks Whether the contracts call for I cloaed ahop waa not divulged, but Mr. Lloyd reported that the two' contract provisions over which the operators and clerks had disagreed , for several days tha closed shop and tha handling of merchandise from strike-bound establishments-had establishments-had been "satisfactorily settled." Mr. Lloyd alee said that the reaching reach-ing of is agreement had averted what might have been a atrlke beginning be-ginning Monday,' but Mr. Weyersberg Weyers-berg contended that, labor had not eonaldered such a strike. |