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Show oo GUMS SEEK S NEW LABOR L1W A number of Ogden members of the Utah Canners' Association went to' Salt Lake today to meet with the State Industrial Commission to discuss dis-cuss proposed changes in the labor laws of Utah, especially as regard cannery business. It is pointed out conditions under which canning plants work are unusual and the state laws are somewhat unjust un-just to this particular branch of business. bus-iness. It is necessary to accomplish a great amount of work In a short space of time and it is necessary, therefore, to hire' all the employes who can bo secured, despite the fact that some are under a certain age, although competent to do the work assigned. The meeting today is for the purpose of considering what changes may be embodied in a proposal to the state legislature for amendments to more completely cover the particular situation. situa-tion. Chairman P. A. Thatcher of the Industrial In-dustrial Commission called the canners can-ners to the meeting. |