The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-22
Union Strikers Returning to
Work Every Day, According
to Report.
ABOUT ID HAVE GONE
BACK TO OLD PLACES
Mill-0wners Refuse Conference
With Committee From
Carpenters.

The strike Of the millmen against
the eight mills of Salt Lake for a
closed shop bears evidence of disinte-
grating. 1t is said that in the neigh
borhood of fifteen union workmen out
on strike have returned to work and
the other union strikers are seriously
considering similar action.
Thursday it was reported that the
heads of the organization held a meet
ing to consider the advisability of
throwing up the SPONGE and return
ing to work, The report could not be
verified Thursday night. Heretofore,
though, the millmen have emphatically
asserted that they will not go back to
work unless the mill owners accede to
their demand and declared that "they
would not return to work, unless the
mills granted their request, until hell
froze over.'
The circular issued by j. n. Spauld-
ing, president of the carpenters dis
trict council, and two other members
OF the carpenters union, to the mill
owners for n conference between them
and the proprietors of the mills
Thursday morning failed of its purpose
The mill owners refused to meet with
the carpenters representatives. at the
time named in the circular, and did not
even consider that the courtesy of re-
plying in the negative to the circular
was due the committee.
Grounds for Declining.
The grounds for the employers de-
clining TO meet with Spaulding and his
committee were that the carpenters
committee had no grievance against
them, they had none against the COM
mlttec and there was no necessity for
the proposed conference. FWe know
no union said P. Nystrom, manager
of the Taylor Armstrong mill and
spokesman for the mill owners, Thurs
day evening. "If we have any griev-
ance with our employees we suppose
they are capable of bringing it to us
themselves. When they do this they
will find us ready to treat with them,
but under the present conditions we
sec no necessity for conference with
the committee named TO meet us, for
the reason that the carpenters arc not
our employees and we will have no deal
ings with any aggregation Of carpenters
not employed by us. Therefore, Mr..
Spaulding had no reason to expect us
to consent to a conference with him and
his committee,
Mr. Nystrom said the strike is break
ing and the mills are now experiencing
little or no inconvenience from it, He
sdNS LndI every udN Two VI tuIet men
from the outside are dropping in and
asking for work USUALLY the applica
ton is granted and it will not be long
until the mills have their full crews
back. He further said that men are
leaving the union every two or three
days and coming back to work. He
thinks these men see that the demand
of the union for closed shop was un.
Just, both to themselves and their en-
ployers, not to say anything of the
public's situation in the matter. Mr.
Nystrom says the mill owners deem
it public obligation not to grant the
demand of the strikers.
The demand for material from the
mills is decreasing, Mr.. Nystrom said
Thursday, owing to the labor troubles
here. The Taylor Armstrong mill is
not lacking for work, however, on ac-
count Of the large namber of out-of.
town orders it has to supply The pres.
emf difficulty is being settled by each
mill for itself. he asserts, and men from
the East are being sent for wherever
needed Nearly forty men now are on
strike, several having returned to
work, according to Mr.. Nystrom S
statements.