Salt Lake Herald | 1891-01-29 | Page 1 | Powderly's Third Party Circular

Powderlys Third Party Circular NEW YorK Jan 23At a meeting of the executive council of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor yesterday the circular issued by Powderly requesting all labor organizations organiza-tions to send delegates to a conference to organize a third party in conjunction with the Farmers alliance was brought up but it was decided to pay no attention to it It was thought unwise for a labor organisa tion to meddle with politics The miners demand for eight hours which takes place May next was taken up Ic was resolved to levy an assessment of 0 cents a week per capita for five weeks on the members of all unions connected with tho federation It is said there are favorable favor-able prospects that the demand for eight hours will bo granted without any strikes as employers and employees are holding conferences all the time with good results The committee which recently went to the convention of the bricklayers at Toronto to ask the Brlckfayera National union to join the federation reported the bricklayers had decided to refer the matter to individual unions The chances are they reported they would ioin after awhile