Show BOSSES WILLING V FOR ron ARBITRATION ARBITRATION Cigar M Manufacturers Reply to Statement of President The rs' rs strike has Imi dwindled ed el down to 10 a discussion dl as to which side stile Is Ss fur for the Ule rigid id censorship cen ecu established at the beginning cg of the trouble While The Republican can printed the Hie facts fRets about the strike as soon as It was vas called calle both hoth sides side refused to talk and pointed tl to an agreement made to keep keci out of the papers The union eke broke e th the silence Thur Thursday ty with a written statement to tolie the thc press and last night the bos bosses es prepared a u. statement sl signed nell b by George c cA A A. A Whitaker er which Is lus us follows 5 ovo UP I Id d' d t j i J wT Cf worth fHe president l of ot the Cig almal union No Xo 22 giving his views of oC the present trouble troubie between th the cigar cigar- makers and the c gar manufacturers ers of oC Salt Sail Lal Lake c Cit City In Iii justice to the thc theother other side Ide I respectfully request you ou to print the following facts Mr 11 slates states that the cigar claa manufacturers asked as a special cial favor that thal the cl make no statement to I the he press regarding their demands The fact Is w we were ere informed by v the committee that It was the Intention of mif the elg almal to keep thIs tills trouble from the tho pu public as ae much as IloR possible l le and nd they hat had selected select select- ed E R J. J Bone to handle that part of oC it The fhe committee then agreed that there should be nothing given to the tue pi ess lit lit- th stales that they han have been hemi Corking under the same ame bill of or prices S for COI nineteen years cars which is s true truc but hut he lo to toll toil that the bill was copied from froni rom the Denver bill when hen DB CI was enjoying fn the greatest great great- est eat boom In the cigar In Industry she ever had He lIe forgets org ls t to lo tell lell that while Denver's ers bill lihi was vas reduced educed from one to two dollars per thousand Salt Lakes Lake's i price remained i as i It was He lIe forget to toll tell that thai the ol old prices are arc still hl higher hel than the resent Denver Den price and arid ril mal make c from flom 1 O to more per pel week in Salt alt Lake Lal than they do In Denver el Again Mr does oes not Inform the public that while every other trade in Iii Salt SaU Lake durin during the panic of 1833 to 1896 8 6 suffered re a reduction In wa wages cs of from Crom coin 10 to lo toto 40 to Pet per cent the tue cigar cigar- makers makers' wages wabe remained the saute same Xo Noi the cigar ul manufacturers take this stand Han First t. t th the prices of or raw material have ha advanced from frum 7 i to 25 per cent in the last year yeal Second Salt Sail Lal Lake e arid and Os Ogden cn are now paying a hl higher her scale of or prices than luau Ull tammy any other uther city in Iii the United Sates Sate excepting Butte Montana where there are arc practically speaking no cigars s made Third the th margin Is so small now that thai It Is Impossible to grant th the Increase without without without with with- out omit from the quality of the goods and should we do O this It would be e only a ii mailer of a rm short shoil time tinie until we would be he driven rl out of or business l Fourth we ne must be bo In a position lo ILlon to lo compete with Eastern and Western estern union factories or 01 we can not continue In business All the factories in this city as at fat far ar as I know are arc working wor only union mell men anti anil would not cm- cm ploy IIlo anything else if thc they could coull Fifth we admit that there are arc certain shop cO conditions conditions' 1 which should be bc reme remedied le and we ne have agreed to do O so 10 Again to lo that we arc c confident of or qUI position we are arc willing that the whole mall matter I be referred to two twi two tn-o inc manufacturers ii ii revs thc they to choose the th fifths fifth man antI and we a agree to stand by their thell decision |