Deseret Evening News | 1907-02-18 | Page 1 | Too Much Union

TOO JUOH UNION This Is What Mimi 1111 Says D S Murray or of This General DS fl 8 Murray of the Bell company has reo ac turned from Butte where he was call called ed by the strike of the operators there Mr r Muray today that while lie had made some concessIons which resulted In the I rl II returnIng to 10 work he WM was satisfied that time the de demend mend for lor a ralso In pay had no rea grounds True Tru living Is hIgh In Butte Dutte but the pa pay time the girls Were alread already receivIng amply suf flUt Iced he asserted thIs morning TheIr action Is sImply a part art of at the move beIng made modo b by an all ot of the unions In Butte for lor hIgher and higher wages although time the wages paid there are already the highest In inthe the United States Plumbers are Bre get gat ting 7 7 per day dllY hot hall carriers are get getting ting 6 5 per day and propose to demant deman even en more Miners are receivIng ler day but bUI It Is understood that they will an extra quarter making the figure H Labor LabOI agitators there seem leem determIned to make it H rl rigid ld en ot of the eIght day no flatter time the consequences may be beto beto to IndivIdual members In iii tact fact so 10 stringent la is It proposed to enforce hits eight hour day that the tho unions will viii not allow a man to work elon with overtime pay n Mr called the attention ot of the commIttee that conferred wIth him to the tho tact that very otton the chances to earn II a little extra money would como In very handy where a 11 haiti had a large famIly and perhaps time the committee replied that mimic did not any Eon Ivon hotel walters are allowed to work eIght mind and It a 11 dinner Is to be iven walters must bo be up on tue streets says Mr Murray Things are coming cominS to such luch n mm pass In Butte Dutte that there thoro arc evidently seriouS times ahead