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Show WORKMEN tlM ! 01 UIIiPi ill L j SALT LAKE, Nov. 1fi Two hun-! dred and fifty workmen si nick on the ! Hotel Utah building this morning . when the Otis Elevator company start- : ed its electric elevators and refust-d ; to place a union man In clui ie of ! the operating plant As a result the ' plastering and carpenter work has been tied up. Tho bricklayers are at. ; work, however, on lop of the building . and Installing partitions. In the strike there are ?Z plasterers j and about 220 carpenters and helpers. The Otis Elevator company s.-ut a) man from the east to take chnige of j the operating of thp machine oa soon as they are installed. The ma- chlnery was put In operation Monday I afternoon, and the union workmen ' took exceptions to this Tho plasterers' plaster-ers' union and carpenters' union hell a meeting Tuesday nUht and demanded demand-ed that a union man be nlic?d In I charge of the elevators. Tho c(;m pany refused to comply, and the men ! walked out thia morning. The brick layqers' union in not afillintcd with the Utah Fed?ra! ion of Jabor nnd re-i fused to strike In sympathy with tho j other men. The elevators are jt'll In operation nnd are be!n used for hoisting ma- terlals to different parts of the building. build-ing. A. II. Parsons, who b:i the ; plastering contract, said hat his' work has been temporarily ttoppid, j ' but he hopes that the difficulty will soon he settled .Tamos Black, the j general contractor, has a small foice; of men still at work. He bell:voi; i that the differences will he sot led and work resumed ag?.ln in a few days. i |