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Show "fall Corcoran of the legislative committee utrodticed the following: t mil ml, iy the workiiigineri of Salt Lake, in mass meeting assembled, that we demand at the nands of thoTtah legislature the legislation that ws promised in the platforms ot lie' three political polit-ical parties, and upon which platforms they were elected, namely: A mechanics' lien law; pay meat of wages in cash: eight hour . n public works; Later daj a legal holiday; providing fr the safety of life and limb of the minor, and the Australian ballot retorm. Unanimously ndootcd. The objects for which the meeting was called having been accomplished, . it adjourned ad-journed ii? ilk. THE FEDERATED TRADES. a Housing RaUy at which Was Endorsed Labor Kills Now in the Thirtieth General Assembly. It was an inning for L'tali labor. Fully a half thousand participated in the parade headed by a brass band while the federal court room at 8 o'clock was filled to its utmost. ut-most. The object was to promote the welfare wel-fare of certain bills looking to (be interests of the bone and sinew of this valley vv hich are now before the legislature. The meeting was called to order by R. fi. Sleater, president of the federated trades, who read the following letter from Ciovcruor Thomas: Salt Lark I'm , Utah, Peb. S6, 1801. Mr. Phil Corcoran. Salt Lake City, CfoA.v-Pkai: CfoA.v-Pkai: Sin: Your kind munition to be present at the ina-s-ineetinc of workuigue n, to be iedd at tin' ledernl courthouse this evening, to discuss labor measures, is just received. For reasons which will readily occur to yon and your friends, I will not lie present, but tsig to assure as-sure the workingmen of s.ult Lake City and I t:ih territory, ttiat every judicious measure p.ismd in their interest will receive very hearty approval. 1 am, very respectfully, ASTSTCB 1.. ThoXAS, liovcrnor. The meeting being under the direc tion of Ihe Federated trades nnd under call trotn that body it proceeded under its officers, ,1 udge Kovvman opened tile addresses and assured the workiugiuen of Salt Lake and of the territory that he was in hearty sympathy sym-pathy with the organized efforts of the great mass to secure its rights. lie. called attention atten-tion to measures now before the legislature and was followed by Phil Corcoran of the legislative committee of the Federated trade. Mr. Corcoran reviewed the eight-hour eight-hour law, the mechanics lien, the measure I providing for the payment of labor la-bor ;n cash, tho system in vogue t In church institutions and in uOD ludiug assured the vast assemblage that if they succeeded in rescuing from the array ar-ray of bills that had gone down in the legislative legis-lative maelstrom the three bills alluded to the Federated Trades will have performed great good for the wage worker for I'tah. The following telegram was then read by the president from Judge Powers: Pllov o, Fell. 1S92. I reurrt lhat I ennnot attend the ivorkinnnv-n's WOlfln My symp nines are with the t Hits. Capital can tike care of Itself, Toe time has come when workingmen should demonstrate that they cannot be boted about like ihQttle-eock. Demand De-mand eiicht hoar on public works, also a suitable nice! anii V l.c'ilnvv, also the Australia ballot reform aod other consistent measure, l regret that ths hill making smpiorers respsonlblc for negligent Injiinei to enmloyees is killed. De ntana ymo rights, insisting when men accept office on s platform demanding certain laws, legislators leg-islators mu-t sustain demands of nominating conventions or receive merited censure. Let labor be heard from tonight O. W. Powers. Harley Roberts representing the sioue-eulters' sioue-eulters' union, John S. ilnvi-ler of the Typo-graphical Typo-graphical union, John Wlllcll and John Duggcn of the Miuer's union of Eureka, then addressed the meeting, after which |