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Show STATEMENT OF THE GIGARMAKERS Editor Tho Standard Owing to a circulation of rumors to tho effect .that we, tho employes of the Columbia Colum-bia Club cigar factory, uujustly went ( on strike, we would like to use a i small space In your columns to ln-. ln-. form tho public of what wo bellovo I to bo a Just and true statement of tho situation. Persons who have followed tho history his-tory of the labor controversies In this city know that tho clgarraakers have had little trouble since their or-j or-j ganlzation In Ogden several years ago. The Clgarmakers' union has endeavored en-deavored at all times to be fair with the manufacturers, working in tho interest in-terest of manufacturers while at our lynches nnd when out of tho shops. yto of tho Columbia factory have been ""working at a dollar Icsb on the ihoir-('8and- cigars than tho clgarmakorsl in Salt Lake City, while, as evcrv'ono knowstlio cost of living Is practlcal-Iv practlcal-Iv the same in both cities. Th now aia0-JMMMfl cigar over whicii the present contro-i contro-i versy arose affords tne mauei oi it less pay than the regular work, and the matter was taken up by the entire en-tire union of the city, and It was declared de-clared that a higher price should be paid for tho job. At the tlmo this decision wns inado by the Ogden local only two men weie employed on the cigar In question. ques-tion. When the management of the factory was Informed of the action of the union they declared that rather than pay any inorp for the. making of the cigar the entire factory would be closed. It was accordingly closed down and the men locked ouL On the day before this action was taken by the management f wo -,could not work in tho shop because of there being no heat, but tho matter of furnishing fur-nishing us with heat while we worked was satisfactorily arranged, so that it had nothing to do with the lockout. (Signed) C. A. BASS, C. B. WALLIN, J. A. OLIVER. J. A. FLINCHBAUGH, C. B. BRANTING, Committee. |