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Show Hanchett Scored By Carmen for "Attempt to Bluff" Tiiesn ALLEGEOTIIREAT V STILL RANKLES WORKERS Trainmen Iue Statement Thanking Newspapers and Official Who Aid in Effecting a" Settlement ' CHARGING that Lafayette Hanchett, rounty oommix-ioner, oommix-ioner, appeared to them to be the representative of the I'nited States government, and that he raid that It the street car men (truck work they would be put In an Interne ' ramp, street and electric railwsy employes, em-ployes, through a committee, hare addressed ad-dressed an open letter to the public. Thejr assert that Mr. Hanchett. without due regard to the feeling: of I ' all concerned, said that a strike would I mean that the men would not only be placed In an Interne camp. Ilka German prisoners, but would be deprived de-prived of any visit by members of v their respective families. The street car men claim that Mr. i llanchett's remarks were unjust snd ' uncalled for. They declare that Mr. f Hanchett conveyed the Impression that he was the mouthpiece of the I nited Statea government, and that Nhe was arrogant In hia address to skem. Irtespertlve of thla feature, they state that negotiations were con ducted peaceably, with a view to ef-- ef-- fecting a settlement, and that satisfactory satis-factory arrangements were made for continued goodwill fted cooperation ,. between the traction enipany and It" emploves. Ttwi,s um extended to all thoae who asaftUed in haviQK the agreement consummated. STATEMENT BY EMPLOYES The statement of the street railway employes follows: tVThe executive board of the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, division 12, dnairea to express its thanks to sll who In any way assisted tn the settlement bf the recent wage agree- ,ment with the local traction com-j com-j tJany; ta the general public for their .patience and faith In the good Judg-1 Judg-1 mcnt of the parties to the agreement; to the newspapers for the general at ' tiU:de of fairneas in reporting the va-' va-' rious phases of progress In the pro ceedingg, though a few headlines were misleading, and to Governor Bam-berger Bam-berger and the Industrial commission of the state of Utah for their aasist-tance aasist-tance to both sides to the arrange-tment arrange-tment "We desire at this time to make ' clear the position and attitude of this .organization and ila membership, practically all of whom are not only : natives of this state, but loyal, responsible re-sponsible ritisens of the city and Hate, heads of families and home owners. "Throughout the period of negotiations, negotia-tions, lasting over five weeks, during . which time seventeen separate con- ferenres were held, no suggestion or Implication of a strike or other attempt at-tempt to tie up tlm business of the aalocal traction company came from our auanixatton or any of its officers or j committees having the matter, in hand. It la unfortunate that the state ' nf the public mind In some quarters j is such that whenever a wage con I extract Is to be renewed certain misin-I misin-I front lniifd on page 3 the union's representatives at the moment mo-ment that this high handed action on S the part of Mr. Hanchett was entirely ALLEGED THREAT (Continued from pae 1.) formed or uninformed persons feel called upon to rive out statements forecasting moves as yet unthought of by the workmen most deeply concerned. con-cerned. The past history of our organization or-ganization does not Justify such an attitude, practically all of its contracts con-tracts hsvlng been secured by peaceable peace-able negotiation. "We do not feel It egotistic on our part to say that the members showed extreme patience throughout the time mentioned, even under circumstances made unnecessarily trying through unwise un-wise statements of those not directly concerned, and certalnlv not in touch with th progress of the negotiations. Credit is certsinly due to these loyal hearted men, who through the five weeks of slmost constant conference and negotiation, with over four hundred hun-dred of them In contact with the general gen-eral public every minute of the day from a. m. until after midnight, no untoward incident or word was charged to any one of these men, and we feel confident this was fully appreciated by the vast majority of the people. "Only one untoward incident seems to demand a statement, to clear up some misapprehensions on the part of those who are not fully Informed. On May 12, while negotiations were pro-! greasing in the usual channels, tree-1 tion company officials and members ! of the committee on negotiations of the carmen's union were summoned to ths office of the county commissioners. commis-sioners. It was pointed out by Chairman Chair-man Hanchett. with considerable asperity, as-perity, that 'there could be no strike,' and that 'the federal government did not intend being annoyed by petty differences' dif-ferences' between a group of street car men and the car company while a great war was brewing.' Said Mr. Hanrhett: 'I wish to say that the United States is at war and that it will not allow any action on the Dart of anyone o Interfere with its plats during this war. Salt Lake county is not going to stand for a strike of street car men, nor of any other big without the knowledge or approval of any officer of the United States government gov-ernment thst It was a piece of self assertiveness, untimely snd uncalled for we still hoped to svold sn open rupture in our negotatons, and so assured as-sured the commissioner the strret car men 'would be loyal to their country and do' their duty.' However, How-ever, no other happening In this trying try-ing time came so near causing an open rupture as this unwise attempt to bluff the men. If not the tractiop officials. Nothing so Injured th prospects of Ihe men for a Just settlement set-tlement as this same interference by one who waa not asked or Invited to participate. The final settlement waa secured through the active cooperation coopera-tion snd level headedness of men who would not think of resorting to such methods. It should be said, however, to the credit of Mr. Hancbet. that he ; afterwards sought an interview with our representatives, Messrs. Burt and ! Reeder, where he indirectly tried to 'get from under" by stating thst his attitude wss based on the proclama- : tion of President Wilson, the slate- ment of Secretary Wilson snd the re-' nort tit A. N. McKay, though Mr. Mc-j Kay had not then returned from Washington snd the documents quoted gave no lustiricatlon for such as sump-, tion. With this explanation, we are willing tn forget. I "We trust that future negotiations will be permitted to take their nor- j mal course, and we again heartily i thank a friendly public for lis for-bearaace for-bearaace snd sssure them that the ' street car boys are loyal, law abiding citisena, one with you In your com- j munlty, proud of our city snd state, , and hopeful of the future." The letter Is signed bv Allen H. Burt. J. A. Reeder, A. S. Baker. A. H. Avery. James P. Curtis. R. M. La-I mont and H. C. Fowkes. who compose com-pose tbe executive committee of the union lntarasta, wh era tha government interests in-terests are at take. There will ba an Interne camp at Fort Douc-laa Douc-laa within a short time. We would not want to see any of you behind tha barbed wire. Don't do anything that will get yon into trouble with the United States. The man who doea not want peace will not be taken across the street to the county Jail wbile soma attorney aeeks out a writ of habeas corpus; be will be , taken to an interna camp, where he , will stay nntil the war is ended, and fats wife and family may not know where ba Is, and If they do know, they will not ba permitted to visit him.' Much mora was added along this same line, evidently intended to eonvey the lmpreaaion that Mr. Hanchett spoke j for tha government of the United i States. i "Though It waa well understood by J |