The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-02
PROPRIETOR HAS NOT YET
SIGNED UP AGREEMENT
Laundry Managers and Owners
Hold Long Executive Ses-
sion, but Say Little.

he has not yet signed the agreement
with the strikers he may do SO Mon
day.
Laundry workers organization and
numerous unions of Utah Federation of
Labor participate in demonstration pa
rade in which more than 1000 persons
are in line.
Laundry owners and managers hold
executive meeting at the Wilson hotel
to discuss situation and officially de-
clare that with the exception Of the
Crystal they are standing pat.
IL was in tho air Saturday that de.
velopments might be expected in the
strike of the laundry workers of Salt
Lake aud the developments came.
Significant as the day IS developments
were, the end is not yet. as there are
executive meetings TO be held today
by the leaders on both sides of the
struggle and another twentyfour hours
may add TO the complexity OF the sit
uation.
The laundry strikers and their sym
pathiZcrs paraded Main street from
Fourth South to South Temple street
and doubled back on Main to Fourth
South, marching east TO State street
and holding Il mass meeting IN Fedora
Jion of Labor hall, in which meeting
official announcement was made by
Financial Secretary w NJ. Knerr of
the laundry workers that the Crystal
laundry was "fair' and every union
man was urged 10 send his work TO that
establishment.
While the strikers were parading and
holding their mass meeting, proprietors
and managers of the Colonial, Troy,
Palace, Model, Star. Crystal. Standard,
American Linen Supply and
Royal laundrics were holding a meet.
ing to discuss the situation, but ac-
cording TO the statement of Manager
J ohm Brooks Of the Troy, their spokes-
man, no official course of action was
decided upon aud il was announced
that another meeting would be held to-
day or Monday.
Nine Laundries Stand Pat.
L. B. Platt, who owns and manages
the Crystal laundry, said late last
night:
~ have not vet signed the agree
ment for closed shop, but may do so
Monday. Virtually all of my employees
now belong to the union and we have
all the work we can possibly handle.
i do not care TO make any further
statement until Monday-'
Representatives of the other nine
q
AS they were concerned there was no
change in the situation. They denied
any material loss of business, declared
that all work was being turned out on
time and were specifically emphatic in
declaring that with the exception of the
Royal they had all the employees they
could use with numerous applications
for positions on file.
On the other hand, the leaders of
the strike declared that the parade, the
interest manifest at the mass meeting
and the recognition, as they asserted,
of union employees by the Crystal
laundry, marked the beginning of the
end, and said that they were confident
of complete victory within a brief
period,
Many March in Parade.
It was nearly 1880 O'Clock when
their supporters started from Fedora
ton of Labor hall, led by L. w. Butler
rs grand marshal and the Federation
band Then came the strikers, about
$50 of whom were in line, carrying
banners inscribed:
"Crystal Laundry Has Signed
"Employcrs Are Organized, Why |
Should Not We BeY'
"Patronizc the Crystal Laundry. 1t
Is Fair 10 Union Labor
FWe Have the Support of Union
Labor
"An Injury to One Is an Injury to
ALL
There were others of similar i'm.
port.
Machinists Furnish Feature.
Following the strikers came a strong
of the local members of |
the International Association of Ma
more than 150 being In line. |
They furnished the unique feature of |
the parade by carrying long stream
crs Of unwashed linen and scarcely a
man in this division wore white col |
lar. Then came the Carpenters and |
Joiuers, followed by the Street Car
mems Union, headed by its band.
Then III the order named came the
United Brewery Workers, the Paint
ers and Decorators, BlacRsmlths, Iron
Cement Finishers, Electrical Workers
and Horseshocrs.
A conservative estimate of the |
number in line places 1T ut 230O
Not all of the marchers attended the |
meeting at Federation hall, but the
was well filled. G. p Wick,
president of the Carpenters union, act
en aS chairman anu introduced The |
speakers of the evening.
Knerr Is Emphatic.
w. NJ. Knerr, financial secretary of
the Laundry Workers, who delivered |
the first brief address, said that the !
parade just held was notice to EN-.
Dloycrs Of the right of labor to organ
lze, announced that the Crystal laun-
dry was now ''fuir" and called upon
every union worker to lend If his
hearty support. He predicted that
within week four or five other laun-
lries Of the city would be forced into
line and recognize the union, and con-
Guided with the statement: owe will
show our employers that union, labor
cannot be trifled with -
Murray King spoke along similar
lines, urging particularly the necessity
for the formation of organizations by
every branch of labor, and M, j. Sui
lIvnn Of San Francisco. general vice
president Of the Electrical Workers