Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-10
Labor Unions Preparing to Send
Ultimatum to the Builders
Of Salt Lake.
STEEL MEN PARTICULARLY
"Dickr Jones Says Is Here TO Stay and
Will Hire Anybody WHO Can
Do Work.

| The threatened labor trouble which
was predicted in The News a month
| ago is assuming definite proportions.
| There have been rumhliDgs In the local
| labor world all winter and these have
| been congealing into a we'll defined
form. Succinctly. it is the eternal fight
between organized labor and the free
lance with the tools. There is a prob
| ability that many of the great build
\ ings which are in the course Of con-
| struction will be tied up when the
| Weather breaks
The Building Trades Council Will
| meet next Sunday and at that time
some course OF action will be mapped
! out, the objective points OF attack be-
ing the so-caIled unfair" contractors.
| The council Will oppose the employment
| of any men who do not belong to
unions. Any contractors, or any build
ing upon which non-union men are
employed, will come under the ban.
Any structure upon which are men who
are not affiliated with the unions will
be tnboocd. That Is the gIst of the fight
which is to come. and which promises
TO oc one Of the greatest labor troubles
COMPLEX SITUATION.
The labor situation Is very complex.
The carpenters now are being paid
$3.50 for eight hours work. They want
s. straight on the first of May. The
plumbers are getting $500 for a days
HorN now lneS wai. ~. ne s'ea,i- LII
ntters are IN the same category Inc
pa,h.ers WI. q rus ,iolii s'oo " ~
think that there is more money coming
to them and the next few months at the
Labor nall promise TO produce some
very luild atmosphere
There Is a dlsaHection among mo
structural ironworkers' whose layoI
would tie UP number oil the most I'M
portant pu,iu,nss III .he ei.!. ,..,.,
not so much the matter OF Wages WIN
them as IL Is the lact that .pere arc
some buildings upon whicn noi-unlon
men are oeins employed' Ine de'e,np.
ed dynamiting OF the Aotel Otan
foundations. and the Subsequent triai'
has Kept this condltloh Delore tne union
men very keenlys Ihere mas oeen n'ucn ,i'snl
aniInus manaresteo anu trouo'c naS
been expected at any time
The union men are merging TO make
Salt Lake an organized city. They
are dtyerting all other matters In favor
OF this one point The meeting which
is to be held on Sunday is expected 10
produce some drasuic resolutions wnicn
will lead to immediate action. The fast
that Salt Lake is approaching a build.
Ing season such as II has never had
before in It's history, with number OF
great structures IN course of erection,
and others on tho tables of architects.
is being seized upon by organized labor
as a good condition under which to
make their fight.
u,,,rr co,r,,r, C,,ro, SAyS
mi Oot' VA ~
The Jones company of San Francisco
which has the contracts for the oteel
work on the Hotel Utah and rh9
Lraarns' huildIne together with a num-
her of others of importance, is the one
combination at which the fight Is
aimed
"I don't care whether the men are
,nion or not-" said "Dlck" Jones,
,,,anas ser NJ Tho Jones company. this
,,sarnire .I uant the work done and
tho men who are able to deliver the
noaa ara tho man Who are going to
eet ,vorl< from me 7 am paving the
Snjon scale and more and / am pay
Inc men according to their ability
rhe union saws that l must pay all
men alike That don't look good to
me. II one man is better than another
he gets more money, ,n bu' for tmere ne Is thet het
does not get the union scale. MOST
of them get more.
."rhe proposition is this" and MI
Jones got very serious. Here we
have a number of big buildings TO put
up. There is a local union here the
members of which have worked upon
small buildings In salt Lake and the
vicinity. They have not nad the ex-
periencc which would enable them 10
work on the DIG skyscrapers. In
other WORDS tney cannon uenVer .ne
goods. Now they want 10 hoio us up
and make US employ men VINO are oi
no earthly WORTH men tnAt we calho.
use except AT loss. Not lol I""' :
don't care wnetner man nas q ca.o ,,a
OF nor. IL ne Is d sooo woi -.
can nave Joo WIN Ino az
wages thai Tue on'o" payo' W
nus 10 oeneer ms snu .. '"I a,a;,,o
Jus. inc same as na,e ~ "n, sV,e
10 oe II, DdAt i1nv ioi
Sears-,la. inuon ~ ,.
Pect 70 Say ipuei. iVnso' a =, .ha
1ach Hi"iseS' .n o,,5 ~
stpuctursa non a ~ naJN
coihmit n''nset III ssalu 80 Gnu.
lions. pue ssuo INA. .hc "iee'lns ou
day would nave mucn 10 ao WIN Just
what would De oone III iapor Circles
during the next MONTH
WIZ A0yE,orJSE- E,Op MEN
At the regular meeting of the Salt
"Wednesday. a afternoon Mt the CONNER