Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-12
WILL GIVE OUT NO DETAILS.
...,..,,blv Less Than One Hundred
Or, Of Two Hundred and Fifty
Employees Present
,vorHEH MEETING TO Be HELD
v,,,eer Campbell Declares That the
Company VIII Brook No Interior
,nse from the Agitators.

~. street car men have enectet
thing OF an organization, an APP
u,,,a,lon to union, but the move
,,.t Is evidently not the "overwhelm'
=. uocsss" that the agitators predict
a for It, and quite number OF s'ree'
on.ratlyes, when questioned this
~.,,,ns BY a News reporter, either
IA thew were not at the meeting, or
81, ,b,v did not know anything about
4 In fact some OF them say plainly
~, they do not want any union. AT
N events, there is very evident lack
a,sst enthusiasm indispensable to the
ccem Of any movement; and such
m.ratives as might be supposed to be
,,,nInent In the proposed organization
y, not disposed to be confidential with
outsiders
There was a meeting az one o'clock
Al, morning. as advertised, In Fedora
don of Labor hall, TO which only those
Immediately interested were admitted
Trs agtators report that lao ore more
a, men we're present. but car men
,l,mselyes say there was not over 30
AZ "a men there, out Of $50 car oper-
,tIyes. and go employees all told.
organizer II. Il. Currie Of the Amer'-
AN Federation Of Labor. presided, and
0tssnzer Pratt OF the Amalgamated
rron explained the aims and purposes
A thp organization The agitators
q course took the management OF the
company 10 task and charged non-ful-
f,rent Of promises In the matter OF the
nine hour day, and other things, and
urred organization as the panacea for
Al the mems woes. An adjournment
vas taken az a late hour, and another
MEETING viii be held to finish up bust
ness rot completed at this morning 3
SESSION,
WILL HAVE no INTERFERENCE
Manager Campbell Of the Utah Light
Railway company stated this morn
ifg that It has always been and Is now
he policy OF the company to confer
With ts employees, and to grant all re-
quests made within reason. Moreover,
he company is not opposed TO the men
oganlzng for their mutual benefit, and
ioI the appointment OF committees for
conference IN adjustment Of grievances.
But Mr.. Campbell stated emphatlcally
that there was one thing the company
would not submit to, and that was die
itlon from persons not employees of
The company. He did not propose that
printer, painter or u baker should
VAT on the management and tell what
mould and should not be done In the
administration Of the company's affairs.
IT'S OWN MEN ONLY.
The management will have nothing to
% with outside parties In the conduct
o. us a1alrs, but will treat only with
lu own men, The great aim Of the agi-
hlors pushing for a car union was to
secure control OF its administration, to
iWthgthen unions or declarations al
i'say existing and the good of the men
Individually would be a secondary
consideration.
COMPARATIVE WAGES.
Mto the charge Of the agltators that
aaN Lake carmen were paid less wages
nan. wan 70 other cities Mr.. Campbell de.
uslei was entirely untrue, and In
i MV9l OF what he said, produced sta
w .... furnished by eastern car line
\ easements easements m response to telegraph
,,I mqui'N The wages paid in this