The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-11
4 STRIKE QUICKLY ENDED.
The One at the Worlds Fair a
Thing of the Past.
MEN AGAIN GO TO WORK.
That, too, at the Same Wages and The
Same Number of Hours.
Cool Heads and Temperate Blood Guide
the Dispute to a Peaceful Is
sue-No More Strikes Dur
ing the Fair.

the men who walked out this morning
will walk back again tomorrow morning,
and ninety nine out OF every hundred will
work for the same wages and the same
number of hours as before the strike.
For the first time since its inception or
ganized labor came Squarely in contact
with the United States government, and
while all questions of wages were salts
factorily settled, the right of an employer
to use non-union or union men and the
right of men to be in the ranks of organ
lied labor or without them was insisted
upon by representatives of the national
government and acknowledged by the
union men themselves.
For twelve hours today the results of
the painstaking expenditure of more
than $50, 900, 900, the good name OF a
mighty nation and its pledges to the ma
lions OF the earth were imperlled and
endangered while the men who reaped
the benefit of that money argued with
men who controlled it over a question of
five cents an hour and the right of men
to think and act as they pleased within
the law. 1t took cool heads and temper
ate blood to guide the dispute to a peace
ful issue but fortunately these elements
were not lacking.
1t was 10 O'Clock tonight when the
meeting between the council of admins
tration and representatives of the build
ing trades council came to an agreement
which is to continue throughout the en-
tire period of the exposition and under
which future trouble seems impossi BILE.
The men have received formal conces-
sion of a minimum rate Of wages and
have yielded to the demands of the ex
position officials that they may employ
any man whether he be or be not mem
Der OF any labor organization.
The first step looking toward peace was
made this afternoon when committee of
strikers submitted to the council of adj
ministration proposition to arbitrate on
April II. The council was in session and
promptly returned an answer that it was
prepared to meet the men at once. To
this the committee agreed and the result
was a lengthy meeting. All points in the
case were gone over, and at 10 o'clock to-
night the council presented to the execu-
tive committee OF strikers their resolu-
tions.
They declare that in the employment of
workmen or artisans, representatives of
the union or organized labor shall be en-
titled to equal consideration with nom
union and that workingmen heretofore
employed who today struck shall not be
refused employment hereafter on that ac-
count, it being the expressed purpose OF
the council that organized labor, as such,
shall not be Disseminated against, and
further, that there shall be paid every ar
tisan employed at least minimum rate
prescribed for his rate.
These concessions are made with the
distinct understanding that they will be
accepted by the executive committee as a
full settlement and solution of the pres
ent controversy; that the men who have
gone on strike shall return to work at
once, and the sripulations of said resolu-
tions shall continue in force and be ope-
rative during the whole period of the ex-
position.
These resolutions were at once signed
by all members of the strikers executive
committee, representing eight or nine
thousand laboring men, and the trouble
was over.
1t was close call for the exposition,
not only for its opening, but for it's sue
cess. The work of the men who struck
today Is nearly over, and while they could
not have ruined the fair, they might, by
stopping work, have SO delayed matters
that the exposition could not have been
in complete readiness by the LIST of May.
1t was great relief, as expressed by both
of public opinion, which would fall on
the party which opposed or INSTRUCTED the
success of the exposition.
The strike today was an attempt to
unioniZe the fair, nothing more, moth
ing less. The labor leaders claim that
the fair authorities have not kept faith
with them because they had refused to
consider the making of new agreement
in face of the fact that majority of the
had already made arrangements with men
entirely satisfa. tory to the latter.
Two years ago when labor representa-
tives made demand that none but union
men should be employed at the fair they
were asked If they could guarantee that
unions could furnish enough men at all
times to enable work to be prosecuted
without delay. After taking account OF
stock they were forced to confess that the
unions were not strong enough to furnish
all men the exposition might require.
They were then informed by the national
commission that the government could
not and would not discriminate against
men because they were or were not mem
bers of q labor organization. This ended
the argument on the union question and
the matter dropped until two weeks ago
when the unions put in a demand that
non-union men be discharged. 1t was
refused and then trouble began which
eliminated in today strike.
1t was strike of labor leaders and not a
strike of men, as the vast majority of the
men were unwilling to strike and went
out only when the walking delegates
ordered them out and most of them very
unwillingly. There were several quar-
rels and numerous minor fights during
the day but nothing of a serious nature
occurred.
The strike was the elimination of much
controversy over what is claimed to be an
agreement between the Worlds fair
officials and the representatives of union
labor by which all disputes between en-
pioyers and employees on the exposition
work should be settled by arbitration.
The men contended that some OF the ex-
position officials have recently shown a
disposition, now that the fair is nearly
completed, to deny point blank anything
asked for, and that this has notably
been the case IN carpenters troubles
which have been pending for some
time. The exposition authorities, it is
alleged, declined to sign the scale pro-
posed by the Carpenters union for the
new season, although majority of the
large contractors in the city had signed
Today was named by the business agents
of the building trades council, otherwise
walking delegates, as the final time at
which the arbitration must be assented to
if g strike was to be averted.
On behalf of the exposition officials II
was claimed that the workmen were tax
ing advantage of the last days and the
hurry, in the completion of the work, to
squeeze the exposition management and
to violate the agreement heretofore made.
by insisting that only union men should
be employed on the grounds
This morning Dicketg were Olqoad q + a n
entrance gates early to warn union men