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Show mm will H MQGIFICJIi Opposed to Portions of Bill Permitting Per-mitting Employment of Convicts. Union labor is opposed to parts of the measure. lnthc legislature providing for the employment of convict labor upon all public Improvements, and will seek to defeat tho provisions objectionable to it. The executive hoards of the Ttah State Federation of Labor, the Building Trades Council, the Salt Lake Federation of Labor La-bor and the Western Federation of Miners met in the Federation of Labor hall Wednesday Wed-nesday and unanimously adopted a resolution reso-lution opposing the employment of convict con-vict labor upon public improvements 10-qulrlng 10-qulrlng skilled labor, such as steel bridges and culverts. The resolution follows. fol-lows. "Whereas. J louse bill No. 220 pending before tho state legislature at this time provides for the employment of convicts on public buildings and grounds, and iron, steel or wooden bridges, and concrete culverts: cul-verts: and, "Whereas. The employment of convicts on such works would come in direct competition com-petition with free skilled labor: and. "Whereas. Such work rightfully belongs to the citizens and taxpayers of this stam, thereby be it "Resolved. Bv the I'tah State Federation, Federa-tion, the Salt Lake Building Trades Council Coun-cil and tho Salt Lake Federation, of Labor and the Western Federation of Miners, representing a combined membership of 20,000, that we are bitterly opposed to the passage of the measure in its present form. ' The resolution is signed by A. E. Harvey, Har-vey, Utah State Federation of Labor: 13. A. Dimsby. Building Trades Council: J. G. Wllks. Salt Lake Federation of Labor: Marlon Leake, Western Federation of Miners. The laboring men today will follow this resolution with a petition to the legislature legisla-ture to eliminate legislation allowing the employment of convicts upon public Improvements Im-provements requiring any kind of skilled labor. x |