The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-31
OUTLOOK FOR A
STRIKE SERIOUS
Cooks and Walters and Bosses
Cannot Get Together.
NO CHANCE OF ARBITRATION
RESTAURANT MEN REJECT OF
FER OF COMMITTEE.

CONSERVATION seized upon the mem
Ders OF the Cooks and Walters union
last evening when il was discovered
mat some person had slipped into their
nall and had forced their chest contain
ing the roster of the organization and
It's records. A portion had been car
RED off and there was no way Of judg-
ing what had been copied. In view
CT the crisis in which the union is in
vowed, with the prospect of a general
strike, the knowledge that the records
mad fallen into unfriendly hands was
far from Teassuring
1t is the general impression that a
big strike is at hand involving a bitter
struggle and retaliation at the hands
Of the restaurant keepers in the form
of blacklist. Hence the unusual sig
nlhcance attached to the loOting OF the
union headquarters. II is attributed
to some nOn-union man. the motive be-
ing the hope of selling his information
10 the employers if a strike follows.
Nothing to Arbitrate.
The latter met ut X. of p lIaH last
evening TO consider q communication
from the arbitration committee of the
Federation of Labor, suggesting that
the differences between employers and
employees be submitted to arbitration
President H. D. Sheridan led in oppOs-
ing the proposition. The contention
was raised that the demands of the
union were unreasonable, that existing
conditions We're satisfactory to the res
taurant keepers. and that as the lat
ter are asking nothing at the hands of
the union there is nothing to arbitrate.
A vote was taken on the question re-
sulting in the determine ton to decline
the proposition made by the federation
in behalf of the Cooks and Walters
union.
Some few present were inclined to
favor meeting the union proposition.
These We're assured that the skilled
labor was satisfied and would with
draw from the union rather than give
up steady employment. They were still
unconvinced, fearing the effect of a
strike would have upon their business,
although proffered financial support by
some of the larger restaurants.
Union is Confident.
The Cooks and Walters union met at
the same hour at Federation of Labor
headquarters to prepare for the i'm
pending struggle. Their grievance hav-
ing been placed in the hands of Messrs.
Strickland, Rasmussen and Gregory.
comprising the federation arbitration
committee the organization was en-
Joined from making public what took
place. No formal action viii be taken
until a report is received from the
committee.
The union feels confident OF success
believing that self-interest will com
pei the cheaper restaurants to with
draw their support from the bosses or
ganization, resulting in individual ac-
ton and the disintegration of that
body Even n The event of such a
course a severe struggle is looked for
with the higher priced institutions thai
receive little patronage from workmen.
If a general strike is declared the
assert they are in a position
to replace the cooks and walters on
short notice. There is a grave posi-
bility of the struggle assuming more
serious phase through the bakers and
other unions walking out In sympathy
to make the tie-up more effective.
Grievance of Stone Cutters.
The arbitration committee of the
Federation of Labor has a minor diff
fculty to adjust in a complaint from
the Stone Cutters union, directed
against Contractor Walker The latter
is said to have substituted non-union
workmen for union men in building the
restraining wall about the McCune
building in order to reduce the expense |
of the job which was taken at low
figure.