Show THElABOR TR1S1 T 1TS 1 Petition to the City Council Changed t aDemand A STRIKE ON THE SEWER FIFTY OUT OFA HUNDRED MEN QUIT WORK I is Stated the Git Council Let Bj yir McCorniclc Want to Bankrupt the City So That the Waterworks AV111 Have to Me Sold The usual weekly meeting of the Labor trust was held last evening in the Wasatch building with an attendance attend-ance of about 300 members President CR Berry called the meeting to order and after the minutes of the previous meeting had been reacl and approved JJ W Rogue was called upon and in a short address advocated the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 He thought the demonetization of silver ver had been the direct means of making mak-ing tramps and millionaires A letter of apology from Captain rMiddemiss for not being present was read after which a recess of ten minutes min-utes was taken to give an opportunity tothose who had not previously signed the roll to do so THOSE WORKING ON THE SEWER A committee of three from the Work ingmens association waited on the meeting and the spokesman Mr Rogers made a statement to the effect that he and others had been out to seethe see-the sewer and tried to find out what were the terms on which they had been employed He had seen Mr Doremus out there and that gentleman had expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the contractors contrac-tors could not under the law compel the men to work ten hours a day and that he thought the contractors were imposing on the men in attempting it Mr Wilkerson one of the contractors had stated to him that some of the members of the workinpmens committee commit-tee had offered to sell the people they represented if the contractors woUld pay them 1 per week One member of that committee who made the proposition propo-sition Wilkerson said was Colonel Boyle and there were others who had also intimated that they would like to < get 1 a week for a similar service The speaker said he entirely discredited discred-ited the statement especially as far as it applied to Boyle In this connection H L R Jones made a statement the effect that he had been out to the sewer and hade had-e n two old residents Mr Deming and Mr Birkner and they stated that out of the hundred men working there not more than siX could b < > identified as bona fide residents of Salt Lake Yesterday afternoon continued Jones the men at work Demanded to be informed in-formed whit wages they were to get and were told by Mr Hobson another of the contractors that those who were wprth 150 per daywin l get that sum those worth l7p0 would get that amoun and thos vorth 2 would get 2 When pressc jorth say definitely what wages hec > vpuVL PW Hobons reply was I 1 Is none of fobns business As a result fifty of the i men quit three ofjiwhom went back to jWhom work c Mr McCaffrey made a few remarks after which the bylaws and constitu tion as drawn upby the committee appointed for that purpose were read and laid over for one week iTO i-TO THE crri COUNCIL H L R Jones then offered the foP lowing resolution which was unanimously unani-mously adopted To the Hon the City Council of Salt Lake city i I Gentlemen The Labor trust in full assembly j l meetlngjrhavin learned with i regret that your honorable body not i only failed to heed our petition endors I I ed unanimously at our meeting one I week ago but against our protest proceeded pro-ceeded to ratify thq < seer contract Therefore being again assembled and more than evejlmpressed with a aJ sense of the gt eVJImpesse action of your honorable bod is i inflicting on the fair name and fame of our city in theater the-ater of pushing the work of the gravity sewer in the face of the self evident fact that ft means absolute bankruptcy to the bity we renew our petition of one veslc ago and again beg you to retrace your steps recall your contract and let the work upon the gravity sewer be stopped at once and your pray petitioners will not cease to prayTO TO SELL THE WATERWORKS Mr Jones in speaking to the resolution said the city council was purposely pursuing a course which they knew would bankrupt the city Mr Mc Cornick was seeking especially to accomplish ac-complish this so that the city would be forced to sell the waterworks A storm of voices yelled out the waterworks water-works will never be sold Jones continuing said Mr McCornick was deserving of no more consideration than a pauper who was buried Ju the I potters field In conclusion < Mr one explained that he had no absolute proof 10f his statements regarding Mr rout Cornick r-out he had strong belief in their correctness A DEMAND Secretary Doxey moved that as the city council had seen fit to ignore the petition presented to j them last we k that the present petition be put in the form of a demand Carried AX OFFICIAL ORGAN John Witbrck said the Argus weekly paper had done good work and faily represented the laboring men He therefore proposed that the Argus be made the official organ of the Labor trust Carried unanimously ADVICE ASKED It was resolved that all the labor or ganizstiops of ilhe cIty be invitexl < > attend at-tend nert MrmtKy nih and give their advice and assisi ince in the mnctsr of I acloptin i a restitution and by laws A commiMoe risirtSnrr of Mas s Boyle Ho ue nnl Vi son was appointed appoin-ted to present iTrs demand ressntly adopted to the cty council A BARBECUE John Wllbek proposed that the Labor La-bor trust invite < l the labor Hss > oia 1ioZt to join with them in a barbecue to be held in Liberty park on the Fourth of July Voii s Where will we get the ox to roast Mr Witbeck AVe can get the ox aCl risrht an3 a good fat one too and we will have a j llv l good time BUSINESS FIRST George Henry thought Fourth > of July Ju-ly celebrations and roasted oxen were all l right and proper but the burning question was what assistance this organization or-ganization was going to lend the men who had struck work on the gravity sewer A number of tem had come to the meeting to ascertain if the them Labor trust was going to stand behind COMMITTEES APPOINTED Mr Rogers of the Workingneno association asked that Jtihe trust appoint ap-point a committee of ten or twenty to act with a like committee from his association as-sociation to go out and induce the balance of the men working on the sewer to quit A motion to that end 1 a put and carried and the chair named fifteen members a a committee H L R Jones thought it i vas a wrong move to try 10 make men quit work in tae way suggested and that by taking action of that sort they taouftd lose the sympathy v of many people Adjourned for one week j r t d t j7 |