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Show Salt Lake Facing Electrical Walkout Fixture Men Are At Odda With Em- ployers, Quit; Latter 8ay They Will Not Yield Salt Lake, Oct. 6. With tho fixture fix-ture men in tiireo of tho city's largest larg-est electrical shops nlfcady out on strike for nn eight hour day nnd the Insldo wlremen expected to follow the lend in symrnthy at any moment. Salt Lake Is facing a strike of electrical elec-trical workers that threatens to call out all tho union men connected with (ho assembling and Installing of Insldo In-sldo electrical npparatus In tho city. Tho flxturo men declared last evening even-ing that they will not return to work until their demands for nn eight hour day at tho present scalo wid the ninth hour to bo paid for as overtlrao nt tlmo and a half, havo been met. Employers Em-ployers generally and E. H. Eardley, of tho Eardley Drothcrs Company in particular, declares that they will hold out to tho last, as they consider Iho demands of tho men prohibitive. Reports as to tho number of men affected by tho walkout which occurred occur-red at noon yesterday, differ. Tho employees em-ployees dcclaro that twenty men were affected at tho plant of tho In-tcrmountnln In-tcrmountnln Electric Company, Q, W. Forsberg, an oindal of the company ikclared that out of soen men cm-ployed cm-ployed In tho flxturo department, five had walked out. Tho Capital Electric Elec-tric Company officials dcclaro that none of their men walked out and E. II. Eardloy of Eardloy Brothers, said lost night that of tho seven men cm-ployed cm-ployed n their flxturo department only two had walked out. Tho men nay that nine employees left tho Eardley Brothers shop. Ofilclals of the electrical workers' . union predicted nt the Lnbor Temple last night that the employment of non union men to tnko the strikers' places plac-es would mean that tlio wlremen will bo affected. Mr. Eardloy said that ho will rcplaco tho men who walked out yesterday ns soon as possible and that he bellovcd other firms will pursue pur-sue the Bamo policy. "Most of the men In our employ ho said, aro on our sldo of this question." |