Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-18
LABOR TROUBLES
ARE VANISHING
Craftsmen and Contractors View
The Situation With Much
Optimism.
TO BE AN OPEN SHOP TOWN
Union Norl>mcu View the Time A.
Jnripc 60 Insist on strictly
Inion Proposition.

The labor troubles which have
threatened Salt Lake iu the coming
spring and summer are disspaung
even as the snow on the hillside
before warm Chinook wind and ac-
Cord'ng Zoo present indications the
season VIII be one unalloyed joy 90
contractor. investor. and workingman
A meeting ~ the salt Lake building
trades council is 60 be held Monday
night when the conditions will he
thoroughly throahed out Pressure
brought to bear upon the Insurgents
To-. the more sober minded men is ex-
prrtcd t0 have "a salutary effect and
30 Is NOT thought from present indica-
tiaus That tine city viii boz troubled
with any complications iu the strike
Inc so far as they concern aiding
operations
Tho mechanics an the way through
are drawing top notch wages iu salt
Lake and, having much weight upon
the local conditions the influx of
mechanics from the east. men with
families and some means. has made
many mon nun thoughtfully at their
pipes when their days work was done.
The majority of the mechanics be-
lieyo that the labor conditions cannot
Doc improved in the city az the pres
ent time and the more liberal minded
or the men feel that 90 IS not the
right time 90 cause any labor trouble
TIME NOT RIPE
The possibility Of a tie-up on trans
portstion because Of the threatened
hremen's strike has had something N
DO with the present feeling the fear
that supplies would be cut on from the
east and that an men would be laid
on because ~ this. Another feeling,
very general is that the contractors
are treating the men right In regard
20 wages ana that the union line should
not be- drawn too sharply az the pres
ont time The heads Of the various
organizations generally seem 10 feel
that the time is not ripe for the threat
ened attempt 20 make salt Lake
close union city The splendid wcathr
of the past few weeks has made an ul
tho mon feel better after the exception
I ally hard winter and they unconscious
ly contrast their idle and wanting
| days. 90 those which they have OF late
/ experienced
An in am. there is marked feeling
[ among the mechanics ~ the city that
I It is policy 20 let well enough alone
/ NEW SCALE FOR CARPENTERS
! n is not probable that there viii be
! any trouble among the ironworkers or
/ the city The Jones company. erecting
| the steel work on the Hotel Utah and
| the Kearns building. has been the OBJ
| tect Of attack by the union during an
| the winter from the fact that IL has an
| open shop. that anybody who can de
| liver the goods can get employment
At present there are not more than %
members OF the ironworkers' union who
arc not working. and John Munsey
business agent of the Organization. ex-
poets TO place them every day. He
even went N far ns 10 offer to take tho
l<earns building contract on the hands
OF the Jones company for the sole pur-
pose Of giving these men employment
Tho carpenters will get their demand
ed increase OF pay So for eight hours
on the first Of MAY The plasterers
are satisfied with their scale. and 50
are the briciolayers The fathers arc
working on a sliding scale. every man
getting money according 70 the work
he is capable OF dong Practically all
Of the mechanics are willing 10 60
ahead with their work and cause no
trouble. and tho contractors show a
disposition 10 treat their men fairly.