Show BE CUT OUT labor Union sto lead in a reforma alon H L grant one of iho labor leaders of ogden says the unions are to place their stamp of disapproval on several forms of local graft in an interview he said the ogdan unions in their labor day celebration have decided to cut out the program graft and the prize graft it is the custom of all societies when giving an outing of any kind to work tho program and prize grafts and in this react the unions have been as great sinners as the other organizations evary merchant knows what the program graft Is too well to need any description of it but other people may not the idea is to get up a program giving a list of the events ot the dayland day sand intersperse these with advertisements of the business men now man with sense enough to be in lousiness knows that an advertisement in one of these programs is not worth ona red cent to him but if he refuses to give up he may lose a customer so he submits to the graft and digs up five or ten dollars the prize graft Is of the same nature A prize of a rocking chair for the oldest lady on Is offered the committee waits upon the furniture dealer and unfolds the scheme by stating nature of the coming event and adds we are going to give a prize of a rocking chair to the oldest lady on the ground now iou donate the chair and we will advertise it in our program as donated by john brown the popular furniture man now brown knows full well that as an advertising scheme the proposition is worthless but he also knows that it he refuses he may make a few enemies and lose some customers so ha allows himself to ba bun koed out of his chair both of these schemes are but little less than blackmail and it this departure of tha unions will lead to their destruction then the unions will have done a good thing tor the merchants there will be the prizes usually given at such events by the unions on labor day but they will all be in cash and the money of the unions |