Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-26 | Page 3 | Workmen Receive Wage Advances; Ors Strike

WORKMEN RECEIVE WAGE AD ADVANCES V ANGES OTHERS STRIKE Coal Miners Meet at New NewYork NewYork York ork to Discuss New Scales I N NEW YORK b eb 26 Union mine workers who are here to negotiate a new new wage scale with the bituminous operators operators operators oper oper- i from western Pennsylvania I Ohio Indiana and Illinois expected to tolay tolay tolay lay before the operators tra to today ar 8 a plan embodying bodYing the tho run of mine min demand with basic rates and certain prote protective Uve measures asked for by the coal comp com corn p panIcs The Th- plan will include the 10 and 20 per cent cent- increases in wages also asked for by the United Mine l Workers It is said the operators have been in informed informed in- in formed of the salient features of ot the plan and will endeavor to have some of ot the rates reduced SIOUX CITY la Ia Feb 26 M. M. M R. R Murphy of Omaha general mau manager ger gerot of ot the Cudahy pa packing king plants made the statement today that the Cudahy and Armor packing comp companies nIes will Immediately immediately immediately Im im- im- im mediately adv advance nce the wages of ot em em- in all their packing plants 8 per cent The strike of the men in inthe inthe inthe the cooling plants has Imperiled the great stores of meat Extension of the strike to other p packing pack pack- ck- ck ing lag centers of ot the Missouri river valley Is hoped for tor by leaders of the Sioux City strikers and It Is predicted that emissaries would be sent today to Omaha and Kansas City In an effort to stir up sympathetic action In those cities Meanwhile an effort will be made locally to Include at the Cudahy and Armour branch houses in inthe inthe inthe the list o of strikers More thorough picketing of the entire stock yards dIstrict district district dis dIs- dis- dis will be undertaken PUEBLO Colo Cole Feb 26 More 26 More than two hundred employee at the Pueblo plant of ot the United States Zinc company company com corn pany quit work today when a demand for a wage increase of 5 cents cent per hour was refused according to members of ot the employee committee Officials of ot th the company which employs about six ix b hundred men at the local plant refused to discuss the matter At labor union headquarters here it was said today that the men would return to work wOrle pending an effort to solve the dispute by arbitration STEUBENVILLE Ohio Feb 26 A A Astrike strike of ot about a thousand clay workers work ers in the potteries In Iii this district was averted when operators at a meeting granted them an increase in wages amounting to 15 cents a day The men asked for a cent 25 advance Both skilled killed and unskilled labor is affected l I MEADVILLE ADVILLE Pa Feb 26 Nearly Nearly one thousand employee of ot the Erie Enie railroad shops In Meadville l are to be given an increase in wages a according cording to announcement The advance amounts to from 1 to 2 cents an hour