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Show IS ENTHUSIASTIC CHAMPION OF I SALT LAKE LABORING WORLD FRED A. ELLIS. Fred A. Fllis. recording and corresponding corre-sponding secretary of the Carpenters District council, is one of Utah s most prominent labor inen and he has made an enviable record- lor himself during his connection of five years with the labor movement. He was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., in 1S7-I, where he worked on his father's farm. Upon gaining his majority ma-jority .Mr. Ellis went, to Buffalo. N. Y., where he look up the calling of a carpenter. car-penter. Tn 1S07 Mr. ICllis left Buffalo for Chicago, at. which place he worked two years as a car builder. Jn 1S09 Mr. Ellis came west and settled in Salt. Lake, accepting the position of head carpenter in tho Oregon Short Line shops. Ju 1002 Mr. Ellis joined the local branch of tho United Brotherhood of Carpenters and .loiuers. In .January, 1001, Mr. Ellis wns elected to the pos'i- tiou of recordiug secretary of the Carpenters Car-penters union, wliich position ho held two years. At the expiration of his second term as secretary he was elected president, and held this position two terms. lie first entered the L"tah Federation of Labor as a delegate from the Carpenters Car-penters union in July, 1005, and soon provgd himself a valuable addition to the more active labor clement here. Ho served one term as a trustee of the federation. fed-eration. Mr. JOlIis has been a member of tho Carpenters District, council for three terms. Uo was a delegate to tho National Convention of Carpenters held at Niagara Falls, N. Y in 1006, and succeeded suc-ceeded in obtaining tho 1008 convention for this city, lie was one of the organizers of the local Building Trades alliance, of which he is secretary and treasurer. |