Show I EMPLOYERS TELL DIFFERENT TALE Can Work Wark Foundries Foundries' at Profit Profi Without Aid of Striking Striking Striking ing DEMANDS ARE IMPOSSIBLE Deny Statements of Union and Charge c Strike Is Unauthorized 1 by In International Dod Bod Body Joseph Silver er of the Silver Bros Dros foundry A A. n. n H. H Lu Lundin of oC the Warm Springs foundry and anti R n. Mo May of oC the Salt alt Lake Lak En Engineering works work entered a general denial last night of or the different statements that the Iron Molders Molders' union had made as to the fight lIght now on for an nn Increase of fit fifty cents a day for and gave their side of oC the question All three agreed that even en were I Ith th tile they willing It would be Impossible for fOI them to pa pay the Increase sc asked 81 ed as is the they did not nol make e fifty finy cents a day oft off each In their works While Iron hon masters In Pittsburg worked work work- ed with raw materials produced right In n tho the city the they had to pay freight on their raw material and as an nn Investment Invest Invest- meat ment proposition their Iron foundries vere wre about a as paying Ill as an any Investment Invest invest- t- t ment meat In th the United States State The They could not rol raise e their prices they said lId without driving all their custom to the he east But Dut If Jl It were Vera possible they said the hey would not pa pay the tho scale Benle asked n is as the pre present ent scale was as high h as ns was vas paid anywhere outside of or Moo Mon tana ana Pile T 11 averred that the thc net result re- re stilt sult of the strike o so 50 far had been that the they hey had lost some men reduced reduce the payrolls that much had to turn to themselves and were getting over o our fifths of the regular amount of oC work vork out and getting It out cheaper and nd of a quality better bettel If It an anything than ban before the men struck Mr Ir May lay said aid he had gone to work himself anti nd as a result had d ered red where the he union men had y t been doing half halt a days day's work vork every ery lay ay The employers ers further charged that the he strike was as unauthorized b by th International union and that the fed fed- ration oration of oC labor had told the local helpers to go o to work and take the place laco of the striking founders founder If IC 5 san nry Importing Help Hell What hat help the helpers and apprentices apprentices tices ices and their own efforts could not supply the masters said thc they were importing just as rapidly as the they wanted van ted It The They alleged that thal the union was gong go go- o- o lug Ing ng after their apprentices initiating them Into the union and guaranteeing them work worle In Montana fontana although they were ere not all halt half through their ap- ap and could not hold journeymen's Jour- Jour cymen's jobs I That he had signed a contract with the he men who ho stayed with him Mr l I Silver Indignantly d denied and challenged chal thai an any one to produce such a contract Mr f. May Elated 1 that a similar char charge e had ad been brought to Mr Silver SIl about his foundry Mr 11 May l and Mr 1 Lundin both denied that Mr Ir Silver Sliver had tried to run the tho whole association or or that there was any friction In Its ranks s and asserted that If IC It was necessary they would go tp p his factory and help holp him get hi his work worle workout out as Mr l Silver Sliver would do If IC necessary necessary necessary sary for Cor them All the helpers had come back the employers said 1 1 and the total number of oC men out was thirty five at the outside outside out out- sl side e and totally without backing at that |