Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-20
LINEMEN DRAWING CONTRACT
They Hope to Secure Action on it
BY Bell Telephone Company
Officials This Week.
EImorc Takes Document to Gcnl. Man
ager Murray This Afternoon and Its
Adoption IS Expected to Follow.

store and incidentally Is head of the
carpenters union in Salt Lake, has
failed TO make himself >heard by the
mill owners of the city.
Together with two members OF the
carpenters union ne addressed q conf
muuication 10 them ana they decided
that they had never heard Of Spalding
among their employees. They had no
grievance against him. and didn't know
how he came TO have any against
then, so that there was no need To ac-
cent his request FOR n conference. They
even went further and passed his com
mupication by as not calling for an
answer.
We may not have much need Of our
employees, said Theo. Nystrom, spokos-
man OF the lumber dealera. hut ii we
have any grievance with them, we
suppose they are capable OF bringing IL
to US themselves and when they do
they will find us ready to treat with
them as such. But We know no union.
If they want TO belong to one that is
their affair, but they have no right 10
force it upon us, or to have US treat
with 1t Independent OF our men them
selves Especially we have no deal
ings with any collection of carpenters
none OF whom are our employees. and
therefore Mr.. Spalding has no reason
TO expect conference.
When asked as to the general prog
ress of the strike Mr.. Nystrom declared
that so far as the mills We're con-
cerned 1t was dying OUT and causing
little Inconvenience. we are running
along very comfortably" he saie
Every day a man or two drops In from
the east looking for work. and We put
them on. Then also the men are drop
ping away from the. union every day,
or, iraay III how an
union has led thom estray and tried TO
get them TO support a proposition IN
fair 10 themselvs and unfair TO US and
unfair 10 the public who have right
10 expect the law OF supply and de-
mapd to regulate the price of labor and
material, instead of having to employ
certain people at certain high rates
when there are hundreds of men with
out work. willing to take their places.
| No one else Is protected from this law,
and why should the mill men be al
lowed to place this barrier between
| themselves and conditions which we all
have TO face, by saying who shall and
| who shall not learn the trade and work
| at ity There are many grievances
among laboring men that win popular
favor, but the demand Tor a. closed shop
! is not one of these, as we feel a public
obligation not to grant such a demand"
The demand for mill work, Mr.. Nys-
! from says, is falling off, owing to the
| general impression that laboring men
| are trying 10 create conditions here
| similar to those in San Francisco, and
| consequently are not willing 10 go
| ahead with Investments in buildings.
| His own mill he says. has out of town
| business enough to Keep II busy, and
| he cares little what action the ,caT-
toll III.
| building operations. Each mill Is
settling the labor problem for itself.
and some OF them have decided %
| send east for men enough TO complete
their crews. The men now on strike
| number between 30 and 40, as about
10 have returned to their places.
ELECTRIC LINEMEN.
Down at the headquarters of the
| Electric workers there is much SUI
| pressed interest today over the pros
pect OF going back 10 work Charles
a. Gilmore spent this morning draw
| ing up an agreement between the dist
! rict council OF Montana Utah, Idaho,
| and Wyoming and the Bell officials. II
viii be submitted TO them this after
| noon, and VIII form the basis for a
thorough discussion OF grievances
II seems that UP 10 date there has
been wide breach between MI Muir
ray ana the mem over lno lACL tnaI
hc has no faith in the stability OF
their organization and believes that
they wronged their employers in go-
Ing on strike In violation of a con-
tract drawn up a year previous, 10 be
self renewing unless terminated by
one side o. the other. liis viaw IS
that he was not given notice at In
tended termination. and so far ne
gotiations have been along a line in
tended TO ra-establish basis Of COM
mon understanding and guarantee tho
company against repetitlons Of unex-
peCted strikes,
The agreement being drawn up to-
day must first be signed BY the com
phpy officials and the district repre-
s0ntatives who have met with them
Then IL must be ratified by every local
IN the four stltas and after they have
finished their task II VIII come back
Tor final approval AZ the hands ~ tho
district council and VIII have the
guarantee II this committee that he
terms VIII he carried out, This IA ex-
pected To consume all Of Two weeks
so that IL may be near the middle
of July before hnal adjustment comes
~ ID follows directly in the path OF
the present move for peace, Louis
Lynn. districI president, Is stll al
Butte, In charge Of affairs there,