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Show i longer earn hid dally bread, he Is I made a beggar and an object of pity and shauio unto society. Those are tho points and facU that will be fully considered, by tho cunvenlloi.. I Mr. John M. Marshall, who Is a cVlegate to the convention, will iro- ' sent that body with a copy of tho mechanics' lien law of the state of Michigan. Mr. Marshall, being familiar fa-miliar with the efficiency of the mechanics' me-chanics' lien law of Michigan, b-llevevs b-llevevs that the copy will be of some assistance to thf legislative commit-Ue commit-Ue of the federation. The question of patronage of home Industries will also come in tor Its share of consideration. Both Mr. Glerse and Mr. Marshall arc strong advocates, among organized labor, of "Utah made goods for Utah Citizens. Citi-zens. " It Is characteristic of union men to encourage homo Industries not only because the wages earned in the home factories are put Into circulation cir-culation among the consumers, but ilso because the consumers have tho i'rlvllege of Inspecting and supervising supervis-ing the factories of their home clcy or state. It Is a well known fact among the better informed union men that things of every day vide which are made in ( the sweat shops and under unclean conditions In the largo cities, and in many Instances by persons of ill : health or afflicted with contagious I diseases, carry those contagions to the consumer. The American Federation of Labor for some time past has been making a series of Investigation! and chemical chem-ical analyses aloDg these lines, and the union men maintain that th have sufficient evidence of authority to prove that garments or articles of clothing, clgarB and such. If mat'o under unclean conditions, or by diseased dis-eased persons, will. In mast cases, carry the germs of the disease to tho consumer. The Cigar Makers' International union is one of the strongest labor crpanlzatlons In the world, ami li is claimed that Its growth and slrend is duo to the fact mat the uulon cigar ci-gar makers do strongly Insist on clean factory conditions; and they will not permit one of their members who Is sick to work in the fuclory. but will pay hlni out of work or sick benefits bene-fits or send him to a hospital. The public in general has come to realize that the "blue label ' of 'ho Cigar Makers' International union, when placed across the front of a box. Is a guarantee that the cigars therein contained were made under clean and healthful conditions; and unless the "blue label," that guarantee guaran-tee of the Cigar Makers' Internal tonal ton-al union, does appear on (lie cigar box, there Is no way of telling whether wheth-er the cigar one smokes Is made by a white man in good health and under clean conditions or whether it was made In a family Ihlng room In a large city under bad conditions or by a diseased Chinaman or Filipino. But If the men will only learn to smoke cigars that are made In our own ci'y or state they will not out.,-hae out.,-hae the benefit of tin- circulation of the wages earned, but can visit Ihe home cigar factories and see for themselves how and under what conditions con-ditions and by whom tho cigars they smoke are made, and then have something some-thing to say about it. LABOR FEDERATION TO BE POLITICS ll seems to be a decided fact that Ihe Utah Stale Federation of Iibor, at IU convention In Salt Lake today and tomorrow, will take definite action on political matters, and will decide to take an a tie part In the state election of congressman and legislators this year. Mr. Theo. Glerse. secretary and treasurer of the Utah State Federation Feder-ation if Labor, has Issued the official offi-cial call for the convention, in which he sirongly Indicates the necessity of state laws for the protection of the wage earners. It is considered that the mechanics' mechan-ics' Ikn law on real juoperty in Utah does not give much protection to the mechanic against the dishonest property prop-erty holder. An eiiii.nt shop and factory Inspection law will also bo couriered; atso that thtt state should have some sort of an employers' liability lia-bility or compulsory insurance law whereby all those whose work or occupation oc-cupation carries any risk of life or limbs may be provided for in cue-of cue-of accident. Now one who follows hazardous employment to earn the livelihood for himself and lamily, and through some cause happens to be killed or la-jured, la-jured, his family nnd neighbor arc made to suffer; and In cases where a man who does honest but hazardous work loses an ami or leg and can no |