Show r UNION L LABORS BORS DECLARATION N II In The Heralds canvass vass among the Democratic workers who have hae been a Ue in the field during this campaign It may ma be considered important that the following statement be given the widest publicity Austin Davis who is Mr Ir Gompers mouth mouthpiece mouthpiece piece in Utah and who is secretary of oC i ithe the Utah State Federation of or Labor and anel state delegate to the coming Den Denver Dener Denver ver er convention of the American Feder Federation F der atton of Labor as also president of the e eS Salt S t Lake Typographical union n No 11 upon being requested to make a statement as follows You may ma say sa for me that la in the campaign of cf education Instituted by bythe bythe bythe the American Federation of ot Labor con concerning concerning a union mans duties to his organization that concerning politics has been received with the respectful attention which amounted to enthusiasm in many Instances Twentysix organizations in Utah have listened to the exposition In Jn analytic details of ex existing exIstIng existing laws subversive to the wage earner and the response has been un unequivocally Unequivocally equivocally all in ha favor taYo of their modification modification modification cation and repeal The prevalent Idea or of the great outside world that the la Ia labor labor bor vote of the country countr Is confined al altogether altogether altogether together to those tho o which wear overalls and carry carr the traditional dinner pan pall Is very yet erroneous The labor vote of DC i America today is vested In the highest skilled best paid pall of oC the re no respective r trades tr des and crafts and in the communities in hi which they live they thc are considered the highest type of cit citizenship citIzenship They have l av the best in the way WhY of o home comforts and modern surroundings they read and they think They Ther are arc members of o the various churches and great secret and in mingling ng with the out outside outside outside side world with the more fortunate and the less provident of or their brethren the conscious judgments and abd ideas they form of current events and of prevalent conditions be found to tobe tobE tobe be sound and sane ane nC As i organized or aI la ha labor labor haho bor ho they are the patricians pa ri lans of or the in industrial Indu industrial du world of f their daily dall associates in avocations c tJ hs that do not at present admit of f organization tion silently envy em their lot By following out the underlying Principles of the llie American Federation Feder of Labor Lab r they have been elevated In the last ten years ears to a I height unknown to workers In foreign countries and through a policy of con COI conciliation dilation and peaceful means arbitration arbitration tion and business methods The mod modern modern modera ern era labor organization Is made up of these t elements and ranks i i with the associations formed by b the I employers of labor There Is no DO rea reasonable reason son ble question that can come be le between between tween them that be b amicably settled And An in ra of their th lr great growth and providence when they th y are asked to Include in jn their tenets their principles the practical and sensible disposition of their franchise to vote for their friends re going to toO Obey py O their th s J ln t ns put partisan feelings s aside e an j oppose those thoe who ho seek reek to oppress them The lie He found r f in the Associated Press Saturday morning and repeated by the candidate famed for his umer ous Injunctions against our class is only characteristic of ur the aristocracy to which the reigning Judi Judiciary judiciary ciary clat has allied itself That Mitchell Duncan Keefe and others oth rs are I not true to their obligation is silly sUb gos Jos gossip gossip sip They are ire among the men who framed the th planks concerning con eon labor adopted by the Denver convention and each was present at Denver and ap appeared appeared appeared before the resolutions commit committee tee t of or that convention II n has taken these men years of r consistent effort to get to the top In the organizations of which they the the head and arid at this late day in the fullness of their success they the will not be untrue to the one or organization organIzation organization which has been the back backbone backbone backbone bone of oC their smaller and dependent or organizations organizations It Is a desperate attempt of a set of desperate men at a psycho psychological psychologIcal psychological logical moment to divide labors forces It is a genuine In Utah union men almost as a unit will vote for the men state and I national who are pledged pl to and stand upon the Democratic platform The Th few who will not follow the peerless Gompers are among those who vho employ a morbid to a union purpose they will be found clothed head to foot toot with a i scab or sweatshop product eva evasive evasive sive where possible of or their union du duties duties duties ties and find an annoy annoyance nce and thorn In Inthe inthe inthe the side of the organizations or unfortunate unfortunate nate enough to retain their membership member membership membership ship By B their works wor ye e shall sharf know kno them |