The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-12
INS|STENT DEMAND
MADE FOR END
OF BIG STRIKE
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the city, and In a few instances, TO the
attitude of the strikers in forcing
general walkout and in Insisting upon
recognition of their union In any a.
bitration they are willing 10 enaorsS'
Tonight the company, through Presl-
dent Kruger, announced its Willingness
10 comply with Mayor Reyburh re
quest for concessions to men willng
Mayor Reyburn, President hfuger
said: II take the responsibility OF say :
ing that, as far as there are vacancies
we shall receive the men back until
March 16, 1910, under the terms Of our
resolution of February 20, ana Deneve
an some way we can give them the
financial assistance that you request
OF course, we must Loyalty guard the
rights of the men who have been loyal
TO us, and we think II only fair to point
out in this connection, that we are now
rapidly filling our ranks.
Pratt Says It's a Bluff.
c. o. Pratt leader of the striking
carmen, said tonight that the action
of the mayor and the responsive offer
of the company was bluff In It's
usual daily statement, the committee
of ten tonight claimed increases in the
ranks of the general strikers during
the day, and declared that the workers
of the state only awaited the word TO
join the movement here. The state
ment indicated possibility of further
trouble by declaring:
"If within fOrty-eight hours, the
present general local strike is not set
sIed, every labor organization now on
strike Will be instructed to formulate
demands for such wages, hours and
conditions OF labor as they deem COM
mensurGte with the increased cost of
living now upon
"Rai1rOad employees, miners unions
and labor organizations of every craft
znd trade throughout the state VIII be
notified 10 take similar action"
The committee of ten, which has the
general strike in charge. is bending all
Its efforts toward adding recruits from
the big industrial plants. According
10. John ]. Murphy, president Of the
Central Labor Union, and a member
of the committee of ten, no efforts Will
be made to have the bakers leave their
posts, and even the union bartenders
and walters viii remain at work.
The big labor movement has result
ed in the granting of certain conces-
sions to workmen in at least two of
the big Industrial plants of the city.
AT Baldwin's locomotive works where
the sympathetic strikers succeeded in
bringing out 2,211 men, according to
the company's own statements, the men
have been granted a half holiday on
Saturday.
Concession to Machinists.
The spirit of unrest has brought
concession to several hundred machin-
lists at the 'Mi0vale steel works, it is
said Several thousand men are en-
ployed at that plant and the company
has much government work on hand in
the way of armOr and ordinance con-
tracts. The machinists employed at
the Midvale plant held a meeting on
"Wednesday and most of them became
members of a newly organized union
and agreed to join the general strike
movement when the word was given
by the leaders.
The company, according to one of
the machinists. learned of the move and
granted the machinists time and half
for extra work. If the machinists go
on strike the move will affect much
of the other parts of the plant.
The strike situation so far as the
philadelphia Rapid Transit company is
concerned remains about the same The
company continues slowly to increase
the number OF cars in operation with
the assistance of men recruited in other
cities.