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Show 1 WATCH I REPAIRING SATHER'S JEWELRY WEEK io 10-DAY SERVICE ALL WORK GUARANTEED EASTERN UTAH'S FINEST ROOSEVELT, UTAH mil i vE5S55X WI1EI WILL YOU BE SUED? v Complete protection against disastrous personal liability v claims costs only $13.50 for $50,000.00 worth. DON'T TAKE A CHANCE J ' a the penalties for losing are too great. Just call 149-J. X You will be covered before you hang up your receiver, ffl W Read page 28 of April 5 Saturday Evening Post I HOMER P. EDWARDS I INSURANCE AND BONDS ROOSEVELT, UTAH ? ROLL ROOFING ALUMINUM ROOFING ASPHALT SHINGLES i WOOD SHINGLES ' PLASTER - LUMBER CEMENT - NAILS Turner Building Supply 1 Block East of IGA Store ROOSEVELT, UTAH IF YOUR CLOTHES "1 !! ARE NOT Wm 'I I BECOMING TO YOU THEY SHOULD ' "Stn I BE COMING TO US Sf Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service ' '! ONE DAY SERVICE I j W N-'J? ON REQUEST t t iy I CARLSON CLEANERS ; QUALITY DRY CLEANING 1 THE TELEPHONE TM&E j SITUATSOM TdDPAY You as a telephone user have an important stake in the issues involved in the telephone strike. We would like to give you straight answers to some questions that you may be asking. WHY IS THERE A TELEPHONE STRIKE? In recognizing its responsibility to the public, to the workers in the business, and to the owners, the management could not in good conscience accede to the Union's excessive demands. The Union refused the offer to continue the present liberal contracts, and has refused the Company's offer to submit wage issues to arbitration. WHAT WERE THE DEMANDS? There were over one hundred items and the pay roll cost would amount lo over $27,000,000 a year. That is about five times the Company's net earnings last year. If added to present pay roll it amounts io more than all the revenue ' j collected last year by the Company. WHY DOESN'T THE COMPANY GRANT AN INCREASE? ' The Company's earnings in relation to its investment are at the lowest . point in its history of operations. It is in the process of seeking increases in its charges for service based on 1946 costs, the largest element of which was wages. A further increase in wages will make it necssary to seek additional telephone rate increases than otherwise would be necessary in areas where rates haye not yet been increased. The Company feels, therefore, that if present wages are fair and just, it should not increase them and thus increase the cost and eventually charges for the service. Mountain States telephone wages have increased 72 per cent over 1939. ARE PRESENT TELEPHONE WAGES GOOD? i i i n The Company thinks so. Here are some typical wage rates in Roosevelt: I A girl starting as a student OPERATOR in Roosevelt, begins at a mini- " i mum of $25.00 for a five-day week. Regular increases bring this basic rate to a j lop of $33.00. This does not include overtime and premium payments for evening ) and night work. j The basic top rates for telephone craftsmen for a five-day work week . ;! range from $61.00 io $63.50 per week. In addition there, are overtime and prem- 3 j ium payments for evening and night work. J; i . There are other advantages to working for the Telephone Company, in- ' ,' 'eluding eight holidays a year with pay; vacations with payt of one, two or three j weeks depending on length of services; liberal sickness and death benefits, and pensions, with full cost paid by the Company and telephone work is STEADY WORK. 1 ARBITRATION - WHAT IS IT? i ' : ! The Company thinks its wages are good but the Union does not agree. , The Company suggests that a board composed of impartial citizens of this area, who are not associated with either the Telephone Company or any Union, and . who are mutually agreeable to the Union and the Company, should decide the Z question. j Arbitration is simply a means of letting an impartial person or group j ? persons settle a dispute after reviewing the facts and giving full consideration io both sides. The arbitrator acts as a judge or umpire. We think this method J of having un unbiased party decide the wacre question would be fair to employees i and the Company. It would certainly be in ihe public interest. I t ii x. 11 hVX seems logical that the Union should oppose arbitration, espec- to IV Yi7? e ; cApany s not proposing a reduction in wages if the board j SHOULD INCREASES GRANTED IN SOME I INDUSTRIES IN OTHER AREAS SET A 1$ PATTERN FOR TELEPHONE WAGES HERE? I fi fn SlV - e b.usm 15 of compelilive characJer hay slated that Uteailon iflJ ? "y iol "!?m 10 toe"" prices. An impartial board of ar-wV ar-wV .eUUmiS. in -d HCld.e am?n3 ,h lhin35 e1""" o which recent h, TerTthinwr!anSohhrinLnli!!,a!in '. tblZ unhPPY situation. We are doina , THE MOOHTAirj STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY |