Show VOICE PROTEST oi OF THE UNIONS Sympathizers With Men Accused of Murder in Idaho Hold Holda a Meeting f THEY DEMAND A FAIR TRIAL SEVERAL SPEAKERS ATTACK OF OFFICIALS OF TWO STATES Protests against alleged outages committed in the Idaho and Colorado bull pens and against alleged unfair treatment of President Moyer Secre Secretary Secretary tary Haywood and Pettibone of the Western Vestern Federation of MIners at the hands of Idaho and Colorado officials were voiced yesterday in two meetings held at Federation of Labor halls haIls Res Bes Resolutions were introduced and heartily indorsed by the members of affiliated unions who packed the auditorium and gallery Both meetings were enthusiastic The pledge to support the cause of givIng the officials of the Federation a fair trial was sanctioned b by the speakers and applauded by the audi audience audience ence The Utah Federation of Labor held its meeting at 2 i yesterday af afternoon afternoon Judge A J 3 Weber s1 spoke oke of I the officials of Idaho and Colorado as lawbreakers Jawbreakers He quoted from the con constitution constitution ar a decision of 01 the supreme court there it was unlawful to take a aman aman man from one state to another without a lawful hearing and proper extradition extradition tion papers Whack at Governor Gooding Public sentiment the speaker said will wilI counteract all this and before long citizens will rise up and demand demanda a fair trial and fair treatment The statements of Governor Gooding of Idaho will also be counteracted and he will wonder where he is going to get off at Mr lr Weber told of the pains the Idaho officials had taken in securing a grand jury which would deal fairly with the prisoners He said that there was not nota a sensible man ill in Idaho who had not formed an opinion of the case and that it would almost be impossible to secure a fair jury and a fair trial for the of officials DaneU Danell I Elton mentioned some of the crimes perpetrated in Idaho at the time of the trouble in the Coeur d Ahmes He also told of wretched treatment the families of the miners received at the lianda s of the Colorado state militia The offense the speaker said committed by Governor Gooding and Governor McDonald is even more das dastardly dastardly than any of the them When President President dent Moyer Mo er Secretary Haywood and were taken from their homes and carried prisoners to Idaho it was wasa a crime which made an impression on the minds of every friend of organized labor We do not want to clear guilty men but we propose to aid them in every way to obtain a fair and un unprejudiced unprejudiced prejudiced triaL Denounces the Officials Attorney William Newton spoke for fora a few minutes and denounced the officials dais of Idaho and Colorado for their action in the arrests and confinement of the officers of the Western Federation of Miners There is a conspiracy to murder and it is between James H Hawley Gov Governor Gooding and Governor McDon McDonald aid ald the speaker said President Moyer Secretary Ha Haywood wood and Petti Pettibone Pettibone bone are the men selected and as sure as they are not given a fair trial they will swing for the assassination of for former former mer Governor How long has it been since the rail railroads railroads roads commenced shipping criminals out of a state in a special train Not long I hope but it was done in the case of the Western Federation officials This alone is enough to convince the people that a plot is laid for them and that they must answer for the crime These men have not a chance for their lives unless public sentiment secures them a fair trial Resolutions Are Adopted The following resolutions were pre presented presented by Mr Elton to the audience and unanimously adopted Whereas The state officials of the state of Idaho in conjunction with the of officials officials of Colorado have taken from their homes in Colorado President Moyer Sec c rotary Haywood and others of the West Vest Vestern era ern Federation of Miners without grant granting Ing them the privilege guaranteed every citizen in these United States Therefore Be it resolved that We the members of the Utah Federation of La Labor Labor bor here as assembled do condemn the course by the aboc named state officials am consider actions that they are m in n devoid of principle and unfit for the high official they now hold in their respective common commonwealths commonwealths And be 00 it further resolved That this thia pledges its support to assist the officials of the Western Vestern Federation of Miners in procuring a fair trial And be it further resolved That this Utah Federation of Labor ask each affiliated aft lii union to pledge also their support to the same cause And be it further resolved That one I copy cop of these thes r be given ghen to the press one sent to the Western Federation I of Miners and une to Governor Gooding I of Idaho Denounces the Capitalists Joseph Gilbert editor of the Crisis directed his remarks last night at the meeting of the IndustrIal Workers of the World against the capitalists and declared that they were at the bottom of all the outrages and crimes corn com committed to prejudice and inflame the minds of the people Mr Gilbert de dc described scribed at length the strikes in the coeur d dAlene Alene and Cripple Creek He attacked the capItalists and mine own owners owners ers and said that they were the cause of the trouble He told hIs audIence in forcible language how the working class would have to drive them to the haunts and slaughter them by their ballots When TIlen you go to the polls cast your vote for your own interests and then back it up with a gun the speaker said Two years ago the workingmen cast their votes and rightfully elected their candidate but their votes were not counted The workingmen did not stand behind them but at the next dee elec election deetion tion we wIll make them count the bal ballots ballots lots The Killing In speaking of the assassination of Governor he said that his death was simply the working out of the law of compensation He said that Orchard might have killed him but that lie he was simply a tool of the MIne Own Owners ers era association When the bloodhounds bloodhound were put on the trail tran ho he said to run rundown down own the murderer of the men at In Independence Independence dependence Cob Colo the hounds went straight to the door of the cabin where Orchard had been living At this time Orchard was in the employ ot of the Mine Owners association he said Mr Gilbert also talked of the powers of the trusts and that It was now now up to to the workingmen to break them down and to send men to the legislatures who could not be bought and corrupted Some More Resolutions A musical was rendered during the evening and the following resolutions were presented by A G Al Allen Allen len chairman and adopted by a unan vote N Whereas The officIals lacke lackeys s of the capitalist have ruthlessly o over overthrown er thrown every safeguard which the law provides and by brute force ha have e kId and imprisoned Charles H Moyer William D Haywood and VIncent St StJohn StJohn John offIcials and R P A Pettibone n a member of the Western estern Federation of Miners and Whereas The daily press with th a few honorable exceptions is doing its utmost to prejudice and the minds of the people against o our r comrades by holding them up as criminals and assa assassins for fot forthe the purpose of railroading them to the gallows and Whereas The association and the Standard oil company for years have vain vainly I endeavored to destroy the Western Federation of MIners by means of bull pens deportations manufactured confessions and brute force of every kind and have hae been met and defeated b by peaceful lC legal RI appeals to the court and ballot and Whereas In every case where a union man has been accused and a trial had bad the members of the Western Federation of Miners have been acquitted Resolved That we as members of the working class in m mass ss meeting assem assembled assembled bled declare our belief In the innocence of our Imprisoned comra comrades es and in the Industrial Workers of the World of which the Wes Western ern Federation of Miners Is an Integral part as organ organIzations organIzations and d denounce thi attempt or of the lawbreaking Standard Oil company and association to murder our brothers and we warn the tools and lackeys of capitalism that hat we will wiIl not stand by and submit to this outrage on American citizenship R Resolved solved That we denounce the unfair and vicious course of the prostituted press and call on the working class of Salt Lake to repudiate these organs of plutocracy and to support all papers in ins s sympathy with Resolved We Ve declare that the private ownership of tile the means of b by bythe the plutocrats is th the real caus of this and all other othar outrages and crimes against the th people and we call on the working class to join the Industrial Workers of the World and the Socialist party of and to legally and actually take possession of the mines railways facto factories rica ries and trusts in the name of the Amer AmerIcan Amerlean lean Ican people and thus put an end to the usurpation and lud despotism of th the trust owning plutocracy which has de debauched debauched our institutions impoverished our p people ople and Is seeking to murder the tho labor leaders who cannot be lJ be betray tray their class a J i |