Show G GROUPS OFFER TO MEDIATE IN GAS DISPUTE f V N 11 N NIi II Ii f I I Kf SOUGHT 1 cas Gas bas Company Officials Say Offer Is Final Operation of Plant Not in Danger Claim P IVIC and industrial inI interests in in- I of Salt Lake are etting cHing together in an at- at to prevent a rupture tween the Utah Gas and eke ike ke company and its emp A Aike Arike ike rike tomorrow upon the on in of ot the annual wage contract I la The employee cs demand lemand I flat Increase se of 35 per cent for fore forC 01 e t coming year ear The company of- of of-I of ts rs a new schedule jiving giving a a. flat fiat Ise se of ot 10 per cent or an J Vt ve e proposition which with slight lifting of time in different detriments de tIe- tIeI de- I will wail give the retort men O per da day and the others a aIse I IIse Ise ftc of 13 per cent The officials I I the company sa say that this offer s. s final and that if the men strike tir ir places will be immediately led from a long Ions waiting list and andt Lt t there will be no cessation in lence whatever or inconvenience Incon o the public It was announced today that a of oC the was to be belied belied belied lied this afternoon on Offered In n the meantime a a. committee presenting the city acting in the of or the public has waited Spon General Manager George R. R Morning of t the company The Thc consisting of C C. Clar- Clar ce cc eslen acting ma mayor or City torney fOrney William H. H Folland and I gene igene Morris secretary to the I offered its services in a a lule of ot the d t r- r ees betl between en the men and the pally l' l The state industrial mission mission through though its chair chair- n xi P P. A Thatcher has al also o dered i its is good o od lod offices for tor peace I I I al t c l' C. C B. B Ua Hawley o of the Jt it Lake Commercial club sa sat s st I t t the ci ei i z ands read ready to do don o In n Its lis pov P po e. e to prevent a nip nip- i t I 6 o to tho th- serious in- in n n-I n I of me public Wo We wi ga gad volunteer our JUl ua II vices said 5 Mr 11 lla Hawley l 1 hp he tier x wl 11 L te be e Brought up I v at a of the board of ot I The p people oJ lo as the I Ird rd purl purt j huhl not riot be made mad to fer er HI ani 1 i neil neither side II hi d it II tu to be a R. that ud old Id BO JO before if e. board of ot arbi- arbi Uon tron Is P Pat si t. t Ir r. r H Horn Orrt p r. g- g treel tred that as far Ih th h CO pi 11 is 18 concerned its Us dulc offe 1 tl lor tN the nung II r Will VIII l no le said that been bc- bc cen en en forty nil fifty men aro arc In- In red Cd mot moM of them engage i Innmon In Jn innmon labor nun aur and whose pla places cs h S be he d d if It they walk ic o one is m more moc C interested irKing Irking ir King pas gas than thul c e arc are he bald au id d we ue will see bce ee to Ie it that there II I 1 be ro IO o n service Ir Ir- Homing Horning said Mid that to 10 at- at Pt to meet the new demands of the men without an Increase U m gas rates to the public would sean mean mean absolute bankruptcy If we U grant rait such demands an InCrease In- In Crease jn in rates would be Impera Impera- IL wYe Ye he declared tl Men en n Get 4 0 he m n arc are getting an r per day for or about average seven ours Work he said The present vage ge scale Is la 1 12 per cent higher Jo n the scale of or last year and Win per f cn cent higher her than at the tho dm 1 of the war labor Jabor con- con I I gins ha have so 80 he hc said Ii i that labor now costs about per pcr percent percent cent per unit of or gas made over what it cost In 1914 |