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Show FORTY 111 MEN IN SILT LIKE iE DISCHARGED i SALT LAKE. April 12. Forty men smployed as teamsters and helpers byi the Salt Lake Transfer company were summarily discharged yesterday, and they attribute this action on the part Df the officials of the company to the Kici inai iney recenuy Decame affiliated affil-iated with the American Federation of Labor, as one of the branches of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Team-sters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers' union. This statement of the discharged men is not accepted by George Sims, manager of the Salt Lake Transfer company, who said that the men demanded more wages, and upon the refusal of the company to grant the increase, walked out, and "they are going to stay out so far as we are concerned." According to Frank Hunter, president presi-dent of the local branch of the union, the men were discharged simply 'because 'be-cause they were courageous enough to show buttons indicating that they had formed a union. Mr. Hunter and other members of the executive committee of the organization stated that tho strike was but a forerunner of others which will follow because organized labor in this city, and there are fiftv-threc fiftv-threc branches of industrial workers in Salt Lake, will not work hand In hand with unallied labor. |