Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-03 | Page 3 | Hoboes Decide to Form Union

HOBOES DECIDE TO FORM UNION I International Itinerant Workers Work Work- I ers to Affiliate With lith American Amer Anler- ican Federation New Deb 2 At At the conclusion sion slon of or a S secret session of the leading I spirits of the National Hobo convention It was announced tonight that plans had been perfected for organizing org hobo unions and affiliating with the American Federation of ot Labor The name nume chosen for the tho new or organization Is the International Itinerant Workers Union Hoboes of or America IL lL B. B Fitzgerald organizer of or the American Federation of or Labor In the state o of Louisiana assisted In organizing ing the new union 1 C. C Jefferson Davis of Chicago o was waa elect elected d president J. J TIa Raymond mond Fredericks Fredericks Fredericks Fred Fred- ericks Cleveland eland recording secretary the tho Rev Re ReP P Peter ter M. M I II IL New Orleans treasurer and Robert Hobert W. W Gilispie national organizer r. r James E Ends Eads ds How was barred tram from the meeting which effected this The National Hobo convention camo canto to an end today and according to official official of of- announcement made mado by President Jefferson Davis the hobo hoho organization tion which James Eads How founded In tn St SL Louis eight years ago has been wrecked on the rocks of ot socialism and andIs Is a thing o of the past Davis declared tho the attempt to hold hoM a national hobo convention In New Orleans had proved a 0 flat tat failure which he attributed to the efforts of ot MillIonaIre How and others to use the hoboes for tor the dissemination dis dis- of or socialistic propaganda Davis ls entertained a motion suggested d db b by himself t today and declared the hobo organization disbanded How continued to urge points political and and religious to tho the very last but the hoboes appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to bo be charmed by the vl vigorous and magnetic utterances of ot Jefferson Davis and never nover failed tailed to tu Join with fth the tho president In helping to howl down How Howand Howand Howand and his cohorts It is said that How Flow and anti Davis ls likely will organize separate associations of ot the Migratory r Workers n Defeated A today proposed that the hoboes petition Con Congress ess to stop hulls bulls from sapping bees boes who are aro merely merel trying to ride a freight train The Tue resolution was waa defeated One delegate declared ho lie believed one half of ot the tho men of or G Georgia aro are acting as deputy sheriffs Oklahoma ho says on only I pays net fifty cents a a. head hend ant and consequently hoboes are not bothered bothered both both- ered ored th there re as they thoy are In Georgia where h re the bounty lount Is 2 Inspector of ot Police Reynolds tonight advised ed the time delegations to clear out of ot the city before morning or ci they thoy would have to ta stav sta In the tho parish prison until after the the Mardi Gras Glas visitors have departed