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Show LAHOR I'NIONS. Combination and co-operation for good purposes are helpful alike to tho heart and poeket. And so when a , body of intelligent artisans combine to "encourage a higher staudard of skill, to cultivate feelings of friendship among the men of tho craft, to assist each other to secure employment, to reduce the hours of daily labor, to secure adequate ade-quate pay for good work, lo furnish aid in case of death or permanent disability, disa-bility, and by legal and proper means to elevate tho moral, intellectual and social condition of all our members," they are pledged lo benilicent work such as was inaugurated by that perfect, per-fect, Divine Man and Master, the carpenter's car-penter's sou. The Times has quoted above from the constitution setting forth the object and purposes of the "United Hrotherhooil of Carpenters and Joiners of America." Ameri-ca." The very name of the society bus a fraternal chime in it.. This sodefy lias a local union in Salt Lake Cily and it, in connection with similar unions of various other trades represented here, make up the "Federated Trade Union." These local unions of intelligent artisans aud mechanics, moving compactly and in concert, aro powerful for weal or woe. Should they allow themselves to be led lo tho political shamble by self-appointed leaders from within their membership mem-bership or without, they will forfeit their own self-respect and tho respect of tho community. Working within tho lines as marked out in the above quotation, the carpenters of Salt Lake, on the first day of May next will ask and obtain fti.ftO per day of nine hours. The building contractors of the cily, The Times is informed, have been for some (ii)ie duly advised ad-vised of this determination and have therefore had ample time to figure out their contracts upon that basis. The advance iu rent and in the cost of living, owing mainly to the rapid growth of the city, imperatively require this small advance iu wages. Curtail " ing a former day's work of ten hours by one hour, mark a step iu the right direction. di-rection. Eight hours is enough for a a day's work; Strikes should give way to arbitration on disputed points. With leisure hour for mental improvement im-provement and the enjoyment of domestic domes-tic life with wife and children, supplemented supple-mented by total abstinence from all intoxicating in-toxicating drinks, mechanics and artisans arti-sans will take their proper place in society so-ciety and fill honored positions iu municipal mu-nicipal and legislative bodies. |