The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-14
EIGHT MILLS 81
OPERATIONS |
All Enforced Idleness 4
Days Resulted n.
Strike.
RESUME WORK WITH
0NE-HALF ORIGINA'
Mlllmen Firm in Stan
10 Back Unless De,
Is Granted.

-, VI oait Lake, n
closed down for a few days
OF the strike of the mill,
"closed shop rcopcned
morning and are running AZ.
The exception Of having 10 J.,
short crews. Forty.fonr mon
and probably ten Apprentices.
to work Wednesday morn;n,
reported in the afternoon h
hve union men returned 10 /,
at the mills. As a rple ;,
union workmen among tba Z
fused to accept the offer fro,
of their old places back {
wages. The union mon n,
Tempt to restrain Others Z
TO work III the mills M
any mature was reported h
with the resumption of oucra
Contractors and the build
generally are said to be mueh
over present conditions. ~
seeming quiet. trouble is fez
told that union carpenters ,
soon TO handle lumber cut h
mlllmen. A forcing of th;
that case, will bring abou'
Of the carpenters, which "
hamper, if not stop. build
tions. Little has been said &
tration of the present di0iey
is said that Influences nre
bring about an amicable sei
the differences before more q
bic comes.
Some contractors think tha
is directed more at them h
mill owners. There is some
those interested in building
all operations until prica
Yielding on the part of the 4
10 the union S demands \wo|
the contractors and builders
an expense than the mill
some sav. The kick is ma
that building prices are prob
certain extent.
What One Contractor
a contractor made the|
"Wednesday that he has had
experiences with union carpi
are not concerned as to wI
broke him" by dillvdallyiI
they were doing for him. (
that he is almost really 10 q
only nonunon work, with n1p
nonunion mills. he viii Jmal
the principle. he SAID, by ord
rial from the Sierra Nevada
nonunion labor is employc|
union carpenters advance o /
resort TO a policy that wll.
passing oi necessary buildiu
nonuni5n labor entirely. 81
little building vet going on
prohibitive prices caused tn
the building market.
Manager Arthur Lynn OF
Nevada mill said Wednesday
only question of few
local union carpenters will
the difficulties between ~
and the Workmep. The trout
to extend 10 other buln
unions. he thinks. I'm ~
said he, eve mill owners
build houses ourselves this
get along as well as possit
union labor.
According to Mr. Lynn,
union millman in Salt Lake
at work Wednesday and wo
ing turned nut as rapidly
under tho handicap OF a
He said he had heard that
union men left the ranks on
crs and went back 10 work,
came from the East ana "
work, Before the week IS o
the mill owners expect 70 Y
here from outside points.
Millmen's Statemer
j. \. Spaulding. presidenf
trici council of the carpente'
to make a statement Wed1e
Secretary W. z. Rail of Ine
union said the strikers VIII
unless the mills accede %
mands.
have TO work for the mill
do not come to our terms
will get work elsewhere
others will move from the q
plovmcnt. Another thing
culiar to notice the actioI
'scabs in returning to W
are willing and ANXIOUS W
benefits of the wages palq
but are unwilling to assums
Mr, Rail said that none oI
men returned to work Wednq
inc Four or FIVE union Ineu
TO quit when the strike w
are the only union laporei7