The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-24
QUESTION RESTS
ON ARBITRATION
Both Street Car Company and
Operatives Say They Will
Welcome Mediation.
MANY POINTS ARE INVOLVED
WAGE SCHEDULE NOT ONLY
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED.
STREET cAR SITUATION.

STREET CAR SITUATION.
y c. o. Pratt, international chair y
man. replies to communication OF w. y
+ II. Bancroft. president Of street car y
y company. setting forth more fully =
y points involved
= MIR. Bancroft SAYS company is will y
ing to arbitrate wage scale. but no =
other matters.
= Pratt's communication on Wednes-
4 day.
+ MIR. Pratt submits summary OF re- y
y quests submitted to company. Both =
y sides decline to pei NIT publication OF =
: text Of original demands presented =
y TO company.
= state federation indorses action Of +
street car employees and pledges =
= support. .
! Electrical workers have eonsults- y
= ton with light department, but no >
y result is reached.
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Both sides-the Utah Light & Railway
and its employes-profess q viii
ingness to arbitrate. The company offers
to arbitrate the wage question, and the
men, speaking through c. o. Pratt, chair
man Of the International executive conf
mttee of the AInalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway Employees.
whom they have authorized TO represent
but they want to arbitrate ques-
lions relative to other conditions included
in the arbitration bill Of particulars. as
well as the wage schedule. Until Mr.. Ban
croft's reply to Mr.. Pratts letter OF yes
terday is forthcoming, the street car sit
uatiOn will not have reached the 9rux.
Mr.. Bancroft is expected to send his re-
ply today.
Mr.. eancroft's First Reply.
Developments in the street car situa-
tion yesterday began with the lifting OF
the embargo on the publication of tho
Pratt In answer to the communication
sent on Mo lday by the latter TO the presi-
dent of the company. Mr.. Bancroft's com
mUnicatiOn reads.
Arbitrste Wage Scale.
Mr.. c. o. Pratt, Kenyon Hotel. City
Dear Sir: 1 have your letter of this date
and note its contents. At about the time
of its receipt 1 was advised by General
Manager Wells of the Utah Light & Rail-
way company that committee OF en-
ployes had called upon him this morn
ing. and that he had an interview with
them and had suggested TO them. that
as the matter of difference in regard TO
the wages had not been satisfactorily ad-
iusted to them. the Willingness OF the
company to submit that question to three
arbitrators and as / understand from
him. he suggested that 1t would be agree
able to the company for the employees 10
number, the company naming one, ana
the two so chosen to select a third ar
bitratOr or umpire. and to such commit
tee submit the question or a scale OF Wa
ges for their determination. approve
this suggestion, and L submit that this
proposition is one that should be accep-
table to them. / conceive that II VIII De
also entirely satisfactory to you, as a
third party but expressing as you do by
vOIlr letter q personal interest in their
welfare. Pending the action Of the en-
ployes upon this proposition, IL seems that
we should take no further action.
Wv. H. BANCROFT.
April %. 1907"
Pratt Is More Specific.
After reading again and thoroughly ill
costing Mr.. Bancrofts communication,
Mr.. Pratt prepared another letter, which
at 9:25 o'clock yesterday forenoon was dis
patched from Mr.. Pratt's headquarters in
the Kenyon hotel. That communication
is self explanatory. 1t reads:
Makes 1t Clearer.
''BIr. W. H Bancroft. Deseret News
Building, City.-Dear Sir: Your com
munication of April q was received by me
too late in the day to permit of an earlier
reply. ] have carefully noted all you say
and. as it is the first official knowledge
that ] have had of the company's Will
lingness to adjust the present differences
through a board of arbiters, am au-
thOriZed by your employees 10 say that
Il
bitTation, not only of the wage scale, but
of the entire matter of differences be
tween the company and its employees. ami
we are ready to meet you at a moments
notice for the purpose Of drafting and
signing the necessary bill of particulars
embodying the questions involved in dis
pute that shall be the specific questions
for a board Of arbitration to pass upon
also we are prepared to meet with you.
or your representatives. to draft the usual
set of rules that shall govern and limit
the srbitrators that may be agreed upon
to decide our interests.
'WilI say it is entirely satisfactory TO
US for the representative of the company
to select one arbitrator and for the en-
ployes to select one arbitrator. and the
two SO selected shall choose the third ar
bitrator or umpire.
Rejected company's Proposition.
1T is possible that I did not make my
self clearly understood in my former COM
munication to you in explaining the ac-
ton taken by your employees in mass
meeting assembled at an early hour Mon
your attention to the fact that it was
by unanimous vote ] was authorized by
them TO act as their representative at
this time. and there is no one else who
is in position to officially represent their
interests.
1.-The employees who are members of Di-
vision 3s2 of our association also took a
secret ballot as to whether they would
stand by the requests they had originally
submitted To the company. That also was
practically a unanimous vote, there be-
ing only eight votes out Of our entire
membership of over 40 IN favor Of &C
cepting the present offer of the com
pany.
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