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Show TUB FIELHF fJoii Various Notes of Interest to tho Mechonio and to ths Laboring ) Man. SUCCESS OF THE EXCHANGE. A General Labor Demonstration to be Had May 1st The Fluuibers Are Solidly United. The carpenters' open meeting Wednesday Wed-nesday night w as the biggest thing of the kind this season in Salt Lake. Many had to go away for want of a seat, and standing room een was not to be had. A mass meeting of tho various trades of the city Is called for, and the time of holding it w ill be announced as soon as a suitable hall is engaged. The plasterers have agreed with their employers to a scale of M per day of eight horn's, 50 cents per day; and this rato will hold good during IWO. Tho painters have secured the signatures signa-tures of all tho bosses in Salt Lake City, except one, to an agreement to grant uiuu hours as a day after May 1. ' The carpenters do not look for any trouble on May 1, as tho last trade is to como In under the advanced scale, and consequently (hero can be no reasonable reason-able excuse given as to why they should bo refused their deniauds when all tho balance of the crafts have been accorded ac-corded it. The Union Headquarter and Labor Exchange began business Monday morning last, as announced In our columns, col-umns, and Is now well under way and becoming quite, popular already, anion-ber anion-ber of mechanics having been supplied with work through tint olllee, and a number of employers having called there for help. No doubt that before long the trade and labor organizations of this city will take a hand in ous politics, as they have concluded that in no other way can they hope, to receive the recognition recogni-tion they need in the legislative bodies of cily, county, and territory. The eight hour and lien law bills having been totally ignored by the last legislature, legisla-ture, and an equally apparent indifference indiffer-ence in tho new city government., to their interests, lends them to tho above conclusion. Every cigar factory iu Salt Lako is a union factory, and they are encouraged to know .that homo miido cigars are steadily supplanting the outside nonunion non-union article, as nearly all the dealers in town arc replacing the contraband goods with honest while labor productions produc-tions bearing the blue label, tho trade mark of the cigar makers union, The plumbers of Salt Lake are ol-Idly ol-Idly united to a man; as they claim that there Is not a single non-union man working at the trade in town. This is an example for all the other trades to follow, as that alone will assure peace and quietness. The plumber' union confine II membership strictly to Journeymen alone, neither foremen or bosses Inking any part in its workings, The 1st of May will sec the greatest demonstration nil over the world in favor of the .fight-hour work day that was ever known. Not only thousand, or even hundreds of thousand will take part iu tho grand turnout by the working work-ing people, but millions is the name that must bo given to the great army of labor that, will be marshaled in peaceful array on that May morning not noon to be forgotten, unless, perhaps, that It might possibly bo overshadowed the succeeding year by tons, yes hundred of million marching under thcgloriou banner of freemen declaring their right to ay that only eight hour, and no more, shall constitute a day' work. The history of the short hour movement move-ment iu this century show that whore-ever whore-ever labor ha risen above brutal drudgery drudg-ery not only have hour increased, but moral and intellectual product ha directly di-rectly resulted. Shorter hour menu better men, a higher standard of comforts, com-forts, increasing want, a broader vie w of the requirement of human existence, a dependence of moral relation which i but another term of widening social relations an expansion of the menial qualities, growth in Intellectual attai V-melits, V-melits, increased production, a greater consumptive capacity, a larger cotiecp. lion of responsibility, a wider range for the exercise of human uetivitle, closer relations of sympathy with our fellows, a keener sense of equity and justice, a more determined character, greater zeal in "works of well doing," restriction restric-tion of the merely brutal passion, enlargement en-largement of sentimentsin a word, human progress. On Monday evening, March li, av The Carpenter, after long and careful consideration, the. e xeciitivo council of the American Federation of La'or unanimously selected the United Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Carpenter and Joiner of America as the organization to be first financi.illy sustained in making the demand de-mand for eight hours a day on M;iy 1. The demand in to w made in nuch lo-calitiesas lo-calitiesas may lie selected and approved of bv the general executive ljoard of the United Brotherhood and under the Pile of that organization. Next after the carpenters, the United Coal Mine Worker of America are to be unstained, at such time ax the officers of that association may deem nio-t ad vantageon to the interest of the miner. And so in continuou succession, each and every trade i to be sustained a rapidlv as they aro organized and feel prepared to wake the demand. Carpenter. |