| Show I GOMP COMPANY SIGN AGREEMENT Carmen Carth n Make No Progress Toward Getting Demands ands Considered TELL THEIR GRIEVANCES i Recognition on of oC Union Is Apparently Stout Stone Wall ull In iii Street Railway Rail hall HI way Conflict 1 t Not In a thousand yeara Is th the answer of the Utah Light company to tn the request of the carmen carmen car car- men Inca for signing of a union agree agree- meat ment between the s' s a ald Hl il th the company The Tho position of the company com coin pany jany panya Wa-s Wa stated b by General Manager Manage when he voiced Campbell yesterday a refusal The The- latest developments In tho the local loca street car cm trouble have hoe not altered th the situation At C G o'clock last evening J a t number of or labor worker representing the as an executive vo committee commit commIt- tee heW held a meeting Jut but no definite tat refusal of f thi rn lg W n n oem 91 t I rr 1 n ti f ma I II i 9 if lh he committee lle i 11 strike Ite but Wiser r h counseled d CI 1 untila until a Unto time that 8 scoOts CInK moro more propitious than titan now General Gen Manager tann er Campbell Camp stated staled lost last night that the request of or the str car men that the company Hl enter cuter Into a n labor contract with them item would not be considered In an statement by a representative t of th the car cm men itten yesterday their objections to the policy of or the company as maintained at present Were thus stated Alleged Freedom ral Taken ln Away The Tho Individuality and freedom of I the as an American citizen Is la taken from him hint Applicants Appl for po position position l- l tion arc required to promise that they the will not Join the union In opposition to tho tim spirit of or the lie constitution of the United States Men en have e been called before the superintendent and threatened with discharge for Cor ex expounding expounding exI ex- I pounding the lie principles of unionism I as at they the believed In them hem Two car men were half haIr an hour late lato not long ago rhe They rhey were wele late be because because be- be cause the car on op which they were wore riding to work worl was derailed and th they y had to walk eight blocks s through a n blinding snowstorm thus thu falling failing to get getto getto getto to the barn ten minutes before their cars went out One of these men was sent sont out to relieve ue one the straw bosses bosses' on the snowplow lIe He returned about 1 o'clock and asked the dispatcher ills dis If it there thero were an any more Ihl lines hues huesto S Sto to go over o Ho lie was told that there were nol not and was advised ad further that lint linthe I he ho should take lake his car to lo the Rapid barn baan and then take talce a n weel weeks week's vacation I without pay Wouldn't Au Ail t-ii t Money on One Ono of the men lost a n child b by death last month lIe He had hail no mon money y yat at the time lime an and went to the tho office ollice to ask the cashier to advance him a littIe little lit lit- tle tIe mone money on his time lime check After he had explained his situation the cashier gave him hint a u. Hat flat No and told him him he must wait walt until va pay day for his money The Tho company takes the word of anybody In preference to that lint of u a acar car man A drunk put In a n. report a against a con conductor apt long ago The report was a n He lie on OH Its Us face and went the len length th even e of d declaring the car cai had hail not been run to the end of or the line The rhe conductor refuted this by hy bya hya a report signed by six w witnesses yet yel he received a severe bevere reprimand This drunk runk got gal on the car cal later tater and antI picked a 0 quarrel with the conductor over 0 his hla fare fale and struck the Ito conductor The conductor did not retaliate further than titan to sel seize c the tho man to lo prevent his striking again The conductor wanted the man prosecuted and called on the superintendent about It it Tho The superintendent said Id What hat do you OU want vant us to llo 10 do Ill I'll tell teU you OU right light now wo we wont won't light fight the case casL The hI compan company com corn pan pany says It will not stay with you OU If It you oU strike and when you OU do tie not strike It It leaves you yell without protection The UTh autocratic ways wayts of or some of or the officers are arc most objectionable Ai An ri exception on Is George Manning n a real man respected by or c every carman caninan In Inthe Inthe Inthe the employ of the company But the others override the men at all times especially one ono of or the lie dispatchers They The are preaching unionism rn faster aster than titan we ve cnn can Between fOlt city and fifty fl men have o Joined the union since yesterday yesterday yes yes- morning Alleged CUM of oC Autocracy A conductor was 10 cents short one day and und his attention was wa called to this his bv by a n. member of uC the thc office force The said uld he did dill not be IH believe lieve It U a as he had counted his mone Inon money cal carefully carefully- full The next day ho was In In- formed that sonic ome small change had hind hadI U I Continued o Thre j. J COMPANY WONT WON'T I SIGN AGREEMENT I r Continued from c One been found In the tho basket the lie lay day before before be be- fore oc but that tha It had hac nil all al l been en turned over to the assistant cashier Why didn't you OU use that money monc to pa pay the shortages es as ns far tar as ns It I would go the conductor Inquired I I guess guel that's what I ought to have done tione was all al the satisfaction he ho gut got It Another J conductor went up uI p otto one lla day to lo ask If It he lie was not ahead on lit his account account On what day he was wn ask md- ed eel Well el any lay day I 1 have been heen b. b by the time superintendent that mat unless the conductor can cnn tell tel the time par- par day In hum which he lie turned In too eay much It shall not be e looked UI up But tho ho money docs noes not belong belon to the time company monc said the lie conductor That makes no difference those arc are the In- In at lo mu If UI a conductor turned In 10 lO too much today and 5 cents too little to tomorrow tomorrow to- to toda morrow ui-morro-m. the they lucy would keep the 1 O until he lie called for or It I and auth send him him out his mis shortage o of G S I cents edits ju just t the time seine same as If ho had hOl no balance In there thole instead o of giving him credit for or the thc U. U O. O Strike c Not cin Il Jcu ed lc While the thc matter mater of a strike to ce 01 orce the thc company to grant the time demands de do- c- c mands of oC the has ha been discussed discussed dis dl- cUs cussed ed amon among Individual members of IC the local carmen's union It Is very vely lc likely that the whole matter mattel would have to go o letor before the time Utah Federation Fedora Federa lout tion lon of ot Labor before definite definite- action acton could he be 1 talin taken takemi The Thc refusal of or the time company to tn treat with wilh wih the men on demands outlined in their the papers has Imas stirred the of 01 the lne line anti and the thc matter mater will wi be he agitated until the hue time Is ripe 1110 for action acton it I 1 Is l said Time The meeting last night was held merely to discuss the thc company's refusal re refusal re- re fusai and amid ti-mo ti executive committee had huel nothing to to tl announce It I is saul said il that the lo local al union of carmen initialed twenty-six twenty recruits last night an aim unusual number ni-mi ni and com coming coniing In at this tune time the men inert take I It Il Ilas t as an evidence that they ne are arc gaining among the time |
