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Show U::iOHS OPPOSE jJIMJUVEEK ; OGDE.V, Nov. 11 UP Ogdrn enachlnists and carmen's unions Vent on record as opposing the fl vein's? ve-in's? week in the Union Pacific railroad rail-road shops at meetingaln tba Labor temple last night, but one official emphasised that bia group considers consid-ers the railroad company in no way to "blame. , "We protested the acceptance of five-day week bylhe general com-mittee com-mittee representing the six shop craft unions, but we do not claim any violation on the company's part," said Orln Walwork, chair-Bian chair-Bian of the local carmen's union. - The company gave ths general committee the right to accept the five-day week or else agree to the (losing down of certain ahopa at points other than Ogden and the layoff of some 2057 men." . Glen E. Parsons, district vice Chairman of the International Association As-sociation of Machinists, said a meeting of about 75 railroad machinists ma-chinists last night voted unanimously unanimous-ly against the five-day week. ' He and William Price, vice chairman chair-man of ths local machinists' craft, and William Staker, vice chairman of the machinists" helpers craft, left this morning for Pocatello, Idaho, to attend a meeting there tonight of shop crafts employes, at which he said Harry Barrett, machinists' ma-chinists' general chairman, will be present Parsons haa declared that the five-day week violates an agreement agree-ment under which ths Union Pacific Pa-cific promised not to reduce the working time of shopmen until sll workers employed after July 17, 1M, had been laid off. ' ' |