Show D DITCH WORKMEN 2 t KMEN ARE IDLE L ant 6 order from contractor coates reducing wages and increasing hours brings on strike of the fo forces ces em employed p loved tho the teamsters team and labor s on ott the tile 0 ditch of the utah irrigation and power compa struck str ck iday afternoon ud od to day work is suspended pend iia el s settlement tt lement of the troubles teamsters ha have ve beon gating five ollars a day of 0 eight hours and labor ors two to 1 cy aty of 0 nine hours hour this his vacti age Z has been paid since tho be ginning vinning CX of he who i w ork and hashem has a in force up to t today august general superintendent ford had been in salt lako lake city for several days and when ho he returned to camp last monday found a it letter from F FR R coates coate of the contracting firm of the coate angi engineering 1 li cering this communication informed ford that beginning the 1 wages for teams would to live dollars for nine nine hours instead of oe eight bours laborers Labor orb wore were to be paid baro for ten hours it wai wa not long after ford communicated coates to the tile men that thero there was not a man nor team tenta on the job leaders of the tile foreign element italians and greeks attached red hags flags to poles and mai matched glied along tho the ditch eno As fast as the tle news was coin cola munica ted to the men inen they throw down their picks and shovels while the teamsters unhooked their horses from plows s scrapers bandwagons and wagons men now demand foi for a day of nine hours while nillie the tile teamsters aro are holding out for five collais for eight n hours they have discussed tho the situation with superintendent ford chief en gincer moore and auditor Do dougan tigan 0 colonel moore went into salt lake city last night and will take the matter up with president fitzgerald Fitz geraldA ho bo in turn will ill com communicate in with N ith coated F colonel moore I 1 is expected homo tonight the daffe ion ceto to contractor coates by reason of the reduction of wage wages would mean about three thousand dollars monthly figuring the tile number of nion tit present employed most of the laborers and teamsters team stes s are still in pal and the host best of order prevails the rumor ehlt some of the men were not pau 4 forlani for lasi m month italy Is jil gand less in making maling up tip iho the payrolls for Tuly July thoro there wore some T clerical errors and und it was to straighten these out that colonel moore and auditor dougan douga n were gloag the ditch line yes YOS berday paying pitying out mono thero there is 1 said to bo be considerable dissatisfaction with nith the team brause oe canse of alleged prices frices they are cli charged 4 arged by a focal concern vr hay and grain thi this will alfio bo be taken up lip with v ill tho tile con contracted w A nar 1 I 1 n v d f |