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Show 1 : : : " : - . .-. -. . . - . , .... .. ... . . . . . ; - , i .-. ' . ... , ..." . ' ::' ' : " . , . " ... i:" V W': '.(.'..- ' - ' L -: .:' ' '. ..." . .-. . : ... ' THE STBTKiya CABMEN POSED TOR THg TELEGRAM IN rBOyT OF IABOB HALL THIS MOBNTNO. I Photo ty Harry -hlpler. DECISION TO STRIKE V WAS REACHED AT MASS MEETING EARLY SUNDAY Mayor Thompson made the following statement regarding re-garding his negotiations with Resident Bancroft: "President Bancroft's letter is different from his statement to me on Friday. He told me on Friday he would accept the proposition of the men, and when I com-s. com-s. municated that message to the committee I thought that peace had been settled. I showed the men's proposal to r tfrcsideixt Bancroft at the Alta club. 'When I .talked to the newspaper men afterward I felt that the incident was .closed. I was much surprised to receive a letter from President Bancroft on Saturday which threw a different light on the situation. , "President Bancroft told me, in explanation of the letter, that the company would not stand for the arbitral tion.of future differences with the men. Friday he told ' .. ' . mehe wouldVV ' The decision to strike was reached by ' the Won employees of the Utah Light - and Bailway company In their mass meeting at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. 1 The vote was unanimous. ' The motor-men motor-men and conductors flrst voted thanks to Mayor Thompson and the citizens' committee headed by CoL 12. A. Wall, ; and the Bev. P. A. Simpkin for their ef -vA forts to effect a peaceable adjustment, S and to the newspapers' Of the city for their fair treatment to both parties to the controversy. Up to noon Saturday it was believed the strike would be averted. . As told. " exclusively in THE TELEGBAM Saturday Satur-day afternoon tho outlook then was grave. . Mayor Thompson, who had carried to President Bancroft the communication from the employees, specifying that all future disputes ' which could not be otherwise adjusted should be arbitrated, understood Mr. Bancroft to give his assent. But early Saturday morning President Presi-dent Bancroft summoned the Mayor to kis office and there informed him that the company could not agree to the terms as eonveyed through the newspapers. news-papers. These terms were those expressed ex-pressed in the commuication from the men. , Mayor Thompson then carried to the union men another letter from President Presi-dent Bancroft. In this letter the company's com-pany's head used the following language, lan-guage, after asserting his willingness to discuss any question of difference with the employees: "If, as such questions arise, the company and its employees may not be able to amicably adjust the same, such action will be takeu following such disagreement as the company may then deem advisable; but to attempt to ay in advance that all questions that may arise and we may not be able to , amicably adjust, shallbe submitted to arbitration, would involve the necessity neces-sity of arranging the terms upon which such questions should be arbitrated, provide for appointment of arbitrators, and it would subject the company to the arbitration of any question that might be presented, ana I deem it inadvisable inad-visable to enter into any such an arrangement ar-rangement for the future because future fu-ture questions can better be determined In the light of the surroundings as Ihey may arise than by any agreement in fMticipation of "uestions that have ' bc Ait arisen." Vmen refused to accept the new proposal and asked the privilege of meeting President Bancroft at 2 o clock Saturdav afternoon. They were then informed that Bancroft's-last attitude km final. MOUNT'S Purity Pickles Provide Palate Pleasure. All varieties of sweet v )i sour kinds. |