Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-13 | Page 2 | Cooks and Waiters Seek Missing Agents

COOKS AND WAITERS SEEK MISSING S AGENTS S Funds Disappear r With Departure De of UnionS Union S Official Information concerning the where whereabouts ab of ot Charles Charles' McKee former business agent in Salt Lake for the Cooks and Waiters Waiters' union Is much desired by the officers of the It also would please the officers of ot of this organization to know what became of the funds in his care during the last year but both have completely disappeared from the face of the map and the members members' of the are trying hard bard t to determine what amount of their funds has been misappropriated It became known more than a month ago that McKees McKee's accounts as business agent for the union were in ina Ina a somewhat muddled condition and pending an investigation into his af af- af fairs the business agent was sus He remained in the city dur during during ing the investigation but about two weeks ago advised the officials of the union that he was going away for about a week but would return He was permitted to go and apparently apparently apparently h he has kept going for to date it has been impossible to find any trace whatever of the former busl- busl ness agent Al is chairman chaitman of a committee checking his accounts but has been unable to determine the amount of money noney taken from the I unions union's treasury Say Accounts Are Mixed Jerry L. L Sullivan international sec see secretary of the union was in town a week ago and went over the accounts of the missing business agent and found them in a rather badly mixed up state The same condition was found by Edward Florrie Florie international international president who was here her two weeks ago and it was recommended t that at McKee b be made to 9 account for the missing funds runes But nut when a search was instituted the business agent could not be located In the meantime Mr Prichard and his committee com corn are endeavoring to determine the amount of money misused by byM M McKee McKee f came came canie to S Salt lf Lake from frOta r m Denver about months ago He was a likeable fellow and made himself popular with the members of the Ule union The post of business agent of the union bec became me vacant some time later and McKee with the aid of a number of men recently J I from Denver succeeded In having himself elected to the office I Money Not Deposited i It was noticed some time after McKee MeI MeKee Me- Me Kee took over the duties that the I funds collected by bT him in the form of dues to the union umon were not being deposited in the bank in compliance with the rules and regulations of the order He stalled on off those who would seek Information regarding the apparent Irregular manner in which he was handling the funds He told them that the money was being paid out for necessary expenses faster than it came in in and he campaigned with new energy to bring in more funds Matters continued this way for tor several months when some Game of the themore themore themore more anxious members determined to learn where the money was going demanded an investigation which was called and the first business of th committee was to suspend McKee Mc Mc- Kee t S SS S The further the investigation proceeded proceeded pro pro- the more involved became McKee but final action as to the disposition of the case was postponed until the arrival of President Florrie In the meantime McKee decamped and left behind only a badly mixed up set of books and an empty treas treas- ury