The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
FAIL TO PERFECT
AN ORGANIZATION
Candy Makers Meet in Attempt
to Unionize Sunday
Afternoon.
SMALL ATTENDANCE DUE
TO THREATS OF DISCHARGE
Charter Members Names Sent
in and Next Meeting Set
for Sunday.

The meeting OF the candynakers and
other employees OF the candy factories
IN Salt Lake at the Federation of Labor
hall Sunday afternoon, TO perfect an or
ganization by the election of officers.
failed Of It's purpose because OF non-at-
tendance. Only eight or ten Of the thirty
or forty candymakers in Zion responded
to the call Issued last week for the meet
ing. 1t is charged by three or four OF
those who did respond that the others
were intimidated from attending the
meeting by threats from the owners of
the factories that they will be discharged
from their jobs IL they participate In the
movement 10 form union Of candy
makers
For agitating and taking an active part
in the starting of the now incipient union,
two or three candymalSers at Sweets and
Elite & Co.'S factories already have lost
their jobs. is the charge made by some OF
the candymakers The other employees
there, including those not candymakers
and at the Mcdonald Candy companys
factory, are threatened with discharge II
they join the union or take part in its
forming. three or four OF the candymak-
assert.
Daniel !, Elton secretary OF the Utah
Federation of Labor, who, by virtue OF his
office, is interested in the organization OF
the union, said Sunday afternoon that
enough names have been secured 10 or
ganize the union and viii he sent along
with n request for charter. Eleven
names are required 10 start the union.
AT the Federation hall at ] o'clock next
Sunday afternoon another meeting Will he
held and the postponed election OF Off
GERS Will take place. he said. IL may be
that each individual employee of the sew
ersl candy factories in Salt Lake will be
sent an appeal In the form OF a notice 70
attend sunday afternoons meeting. This
action has been spoken OF 10 get better
- dor hnH Ia lsg g1=,r
afternoon. Only two girls. chocolate dip
pers. and four or Ave men were present
then. Two or three Of the men were not
backward in making the charge that the
owners of the factories had "buffe loed'
the meeting with threats Of discharge II
employees join the proposed union.
n the union Is organized, in the neigh
borhood OF 200 will be eligible to member
ship in IT. II will take in the candymak-
ers, chocolate dippers. bakers. pastry
cooks and ,he like. Altogether. something
like nineteen different branches will he
Included. Employees Of candy factories
at Ogden and Provo will be taken into
the local organization. as there are not
sufficient workmen AT either OF those
places 10 obtain a charter.
About siXty-five of the number eigi-
BILE for membership In the local organize-
tion are girls, 1t Is said. There are be-
tween thirty and fifty candymakers here.
II is told. The remainder OF the number
eligible TO Join the proposed union Is
included In the other branches of work
outside of the candymakers.
The candymakevs taking an active part
IN the forming Of the union say that no
demands for more wages or shorter hours
are contemplated from the factories now
in the forming OF the union. They men
ton social features in connection with the
proposed union. a ten-hour day prevails
IN the local factories. The wages for
candymakers range from sl4 TO $50 and
$25 week. il is said.
Among the principal factories here are
the three named, the Sparks Candy
company. the Shupe- Williams Candy
company and the Startup Candy company
at Provo