Show i W lO I I I I T To PAY PAr MN i I I I lA ll I I II Industrial Commission to I I Seek New Nev Law for State I II I S Mining Company Is s I Accused of Negligence I state stat industrial commis commission commission cominis- cominis T TIlE J- J sion will request quest the thc i i legislature to amend the law lawmaking I making it compulsory for all allI employers t to pay their s 's swages I wages at least once a month No employer if the he amen amendment ment is passed I II will be allowed to work a man for i imore I more than thirty da days s 's without paying I him for sucha ucha period perio According to M M. M Knerr of I the state industrial commission the amendment will be framed to conform on form I Ilaw to provisions outlined in the California j law which provides that an all e emust must be paid his bis wages at len least t on once onor I Ia a month and which al also o o provides that thai l I Ia la a discharged man shall b be paid upon j I J discharge dischar or 01 that his wages shall run on in f fM and anti be collected for thirty days dars following owing discharge as as- asa a penalty penally II to the employer When a workman not under written contract in Cali California Califor Califor- Cor- Cor nia quits of his own accord he must b be paid within five days or the thirty thirty- I day dav wage penalty penally attaches in that case also I All AH such provisions Plo a as contained in inthe I the California law will be written into inlo I 1 Ithe the statutes of Utah Mil Mr IJ Knerr said I The fhe leason leading to the decision I of ot the Utah industrial ial commission ion to toi have th tho law amended lies in the I i complaint of or employs employ's of th the Florence FlorenceI I I II Mining company of Philadelphia The I I company own owns potash deposits a at t I Marysvale Utah and the commission I has been advised that the miners have been discharged with some oma of them I having more than two vo months months' wages ages j i due then i i Frank Lee representing the miners I has sent the following wire to the I commission I II I We Ve miners have been working for forthe the tho Florence Mining and Milling company company company com com- pany at Marysvale Some of us have wages due from November and DeI De- I cern cember bel 1 1017 1917 n 7 and nine days clays in January January Jan- Jan I uary 1918 The Florence people have I j discharged us liS from flom their service without without with with- l J out paying a cent for work done We Ve are without money to live on Kindly Kindl J i ad advise e what is ig to be bl done an and takei tale take takes take's the matter up with the company at i i once I i ii I i immediately upon receipt of ot the wire AVire Mr Ir Knerr telegraphed to the I company compan at Philadelphia asking for speedy y s settlement He declared that I it was nothing short of an outrage to I I keep meta mel men from getting the money that I they had uld earned earnE-d and to prevent a repetition of or such cases he said the legislature would 1 be urged to to amend the tho law According to the present law of Utah there is nothing to pr prevent v nt an employer er withholding wages for two or six months month the tho only recourse of or orthe the I lying ing in In Ina a a suit In instituted in the civil court I |