Show BOTH BOTo SIDES EXPECT TO STAND FIRM 1 StriKe Situation App Apparent Apparent- rent 11 Reaches ly-Reaches Reaches Hopeless DeadlocK OPEN SHOP IS ISBONE ISBONE BONE nONE OF CO CONTENTION Official of Ste Steel 1 Company Says Union Will ViII Not Be Recognized The open shop rule will be maintained maintained main main- tamed on their contract on the Commercial Commercial Com Coat mercial club building by the Minneapolis lis Steel and Machinery company according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to a statement given to THE TELEGRAM this afternoon by J. J L. L Record president of that company who arrived here yesterday for the purpose of going over tho labor situation with the local representatives of the company company com coin pany and those of the James Stewart company from whom the sub contract for the structural iron work was se se- cured The Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Machin ery company will not accede to the thed d demands mands of the union said President R Record cord The rules under er which the union asks us to conduct our work we Tle cannot accept Under what conditions will the work b be carried on 7 he was asked So far as our company is concerned it will be ba carried on on the open shop basis Lasis The unions unious and union members will not be discriminated a against if they wi wish h to work under our rules nIles but we will not accept the conditions they want trant us to The company will take such stich steps as may be required red to protect its employees employees em em- s and proceed with the work Steel is accessible and we e have e plenty of material to go gp o ahead with with- the worK Secretary's Statement and business husi- husi J J. E. E Munsey se am ness ag agent nt of the Salt Sat Lake local of the International Bridge and nd Structural Iron ITon Work Workers tS made the following statement state state- ment meat to THE TELEGRAM covering the local situation on with regard to the work on the Commercial club building and the attitude of the Minneapolis Steel an and d Machinery company compan The International 1 Brid Bridge t and nd Structural Structural tural Iron Tron Workers Workers' charter prohibits union men from working in open shops The rho union has lIas adhered strictly to this rule and its men ha have hare o not worl worked world d in open shops shop since the or organization was form formed tl This is for the reason that the employers cannot secure competent and experienced men tacit to work in the theair theair air lir where they grade the pay according accord accord- lag ing to ability Competent and experienced iron workers will Till not work with inexperienced men where their lives i would be endangered ered i While hile I T admit that there are l' l some ome I incompetent m men n in the union it is al always always always al- al ways our policy polley to weed these men out for the reason i-eason that If a a. contractor wants nants men we furnish competent men and if ifa ifa a union man n does not give 1 results and the foreman m discharges discharge him nim we do not 1 discriminate against the contractor but furnish good men to take tho the places of the Incompetent on ones II The demands of the union were were- for foran foran foran an increase of 50 cents per pel day from 4 to per day of eight pig hours The Minneapolis Min Mm- neapolis Steel and Machinery company was notified January 12 of this year ear that this schedule would Toula be effective on and after May amy 12 We e a also Iso specified that pay days day should V iP hI r semi monthly and that three da days days' s pa pay and arid not five days days' pay should be held hack bark as had been the tile custom of the company The company had always ahva's paid semi Declare Building Unfair The union will nill declare the building unfair to all organized union labor nn J to all building crafts through h the BuildIng BuildIng Building Build- Build I Ing Trades Trade council il of this city All union men will be prohibited from working on the building at an any stage of It its construction construe construe- tion o or under any y conditions d so ion long n nand as asIt asit W It remains n h a TJ The Minneapolis seaf Steel bled t and ry company compan has hll been unfair for two vo years wherever Er they could possibly possibly pos pos- sibly work union non-union men It Is the open shop poll policy which they wish to maintain This The reason we believe that we are ar justified jus- jus In asking o for the Increase In wages Continued on page ra e 10 BOTH SIDES Continued from page 1 Is that the business is one In which the most skilled workmen are BIe always alwa's in great risk At his best the structural Ironworker iron ironworker ironworker worker does not work more than six months In the year ear In the west especially especially espe espe- daily conditions are bad as the thc men have to Jump from GOO to 1000 miles or more between Jobs The Iho structural Iron workers work work- ers era s are the worst paid craft t in t the building build build- 1 ry ebU ing Industry of t the west In the east t CI Chicago cago pays a seals scale of 5 per day New York St. St Louis 1480 and in other eastern cities th the wage age that the Ule local men are asking Tn In the west San Francisco pays pay 5 1 Seattle Spokane t and Portland pa pay and Butte 5 5 The cost of living in the west est is fully tully 2 25 per percent percent percent cent greater than it t is In the tile east tast and ne we believe I that a as a matter of f Justice us i teJa we ar are entitled to o per day I In Salt Lake City Mr Ir Munsey le Iun said that he be believed Ed that the union would finally receive recognition recognition tion In its work and that he had ha not given up hope that h good results s might t be K lo rf sd tr attained within the next few d days r re regardless regardless re- re ls ardle of the present attitude of the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery compan com corn pan pany I M. M TV 1 W. W Lohman president of the James Stewart company compan g general constructor constructors having the contracts for the Ule construction o of the Commercial club building arrived in Salt Lake City this afternoon on a n. delayed train from St. St Louis Loul Mr Lohman Lohman Lohman Loh Loh- man went into conference at once with the local representatives o of his company on the labor situation at the building r. Later I a conference will b be held with President t J. J L. L LiI Record r of t tc the te Minneapolis its lis Steel a and d Machinery c company n having haying hay hav In ing the sub contract for the structural steel 1 work and a I Joint conference wilt will probably h he be held after this with th the board of governors Ol of Ui the Commercial club Mr Ir Lohman Is registered at the Knutsford Knuta- Knuta ford |