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Show SOCIALISTS PLACE TICKET 1 FIELD Candidates for Commissioners Commission-ers and Auditor Are Chosen at Mass Meeting. PLATFORM IS EMPHATIC Present City Administration Held to Be Ruled by Capitalistic Capi-talistic Interests. For Coinmlssloners-r-A. H. Kemp-ton, Kemp-ton, president of the Utah. State Federation Fed-eration of Labor; William M. Kneer, general organizer In Utah for tlie American Federation of Labor. For Auditor John W. Sowers, flnanciul secretary bf tho Brotherhood Brother-hood of Hallway Carmen. Socialists of Salt Lake City believe that the only way to stand a chance of winning in tlie city election this fall, Is to get behind candidates of their choice In a united party movement. To this end a mass meetwiFr was held at the Socialist headquarters. No. 28 South West Temple street, yesterday afternoon and a full ticket nominated W. J. Lemon presided at the meeting, and the hall wan well filled. There was a notable absence of Bpeech-inaklns. a.nd the business for which tho meeting was called was prosecuted with dispatch. Suggestion of Trouble. There avs Junt the suggestion of a Utile Ut-ile trouble when the chairman of the mooting -was chosen. Tie nominees were W. J. Lomon and James A. Smith. Lemon was tflie choice and as soon as tlie vote was announced, John Schick arose and asked Is he was a member of the I. W. W. Lemon replied that ho wasa and Schick declared that he would not ta.ke part In a meeting presided over by a member of tlie I. W. Wi, and left the hall. , At the conclusion of the meeting, John H Zensrer, who Ls employed In Walkor Brothers' bank, came to The Tribune office of-fice and said that the meeting was not a Socialist gathering and did not represent repre-sent the Socialist party, as It was dominated dom-inated by the I. W. W. Murray ID. King, howovcr, took issue with Zengcr, saying that the meeting was a representative Socialist gathering and that there were very few I. W. W. mem-ibers mem-ibers present. So far ns Lemon was con-cerned, con-cerned, Mr. King said that while Lemon was a member of the I. W. W., he believed be-lieved only in the industrial unionism Idea of the organization and thnt he was chosen chos-en because he had always been a representative rep-resentative union labor man and was well versed in parliamentary procedure. Mr. Lemon Is a conductor and for many years flias been in the employ of the Denver : Rio Grande. Mr. King also added that the personnel of the nominees was sufficient evidence that they were not chosen by the T. W. W., as they are men who have boon prominent In the labor movement and tho Socialist party for years and are not In sympathy with tihe I. W. W. But Little Contest. The nominees for commissioners were A- H. Kempton, William M. Kneer. 13, A. Lawrence. Walter Naylor, John H. Zen-ger Zen-ger and John Dunn. Mr. Kempton and Mr. Kneer won handily on the first ballot. bal-lot. For auditor, John W. Sowers and B. A. Lawrence wore placed In nomination, and Mr. Sowers was the winner on the first ballot. Those present at the meeting say that the Socialists have named a strong ticket, as the candidates are all prominent promi-nent In labor circles. Mr. Kempton, who is president of the Utah State Federation Fed-eration of Labor, is a member of the local division of street railway employees em-ployees and was a candidate for state senator at the last general election. Mr. Kneer Is at present employed In the office of the city recorder, and Is state organizer for the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. Mr. Sowers ls financial socretary of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and aside from his office la prominent In local labor circles. In addition to the selection of candidates candi-dates of the city offices, a campaign committee was selected as follows: Murray Mur-ray B. King, chairman; James Paxman, secretary; Mrs. Alice Reltz. treasurer; Nels Nellson and Mrs. Alice B. Parker. Platform Adopted. A municipal platform, introduced by Murray E. King, was adopted, and it ls upon this platform that the Socialists will go before the people of the city and urge-, the election of their candidates. The platform opens by setting out that "Salt Lake City ls confronted by a political po-litical aggregation calling Itself nonpartisan. non-partisan. Under a name that to the majority ma-jority of the voters signifies freedom from party ties and party Interests, and Implies broad citizenship and patriotism, the same business Interests that have controlled Salt Lake in all past administrations admin-istrations still continue to maintain this control." In tlie same connection. It is set out that this Juggling of party names was caused by a great growth In labor circles within the past fifteen years and that there are now 9000 workers enrolled under un-der the banners of the Salt Lake Federation Fed-eration of Labor and the Socialist party. par-ty. Tt also ls added that the time Is drawing near when there will be a direct di-rect struggle between the working class and the capitalist class for the control of the city The charge is then made that tho business class can not afford to let such a struggle arise, because it Is In the minority, and for that reason these Interests have launched, for a partisan purpose, a so-called non-partisan movement to give the Impression that they stand for no particular class of interests, but equally for all interests. Charge Partisanship. It is next declared thai two years of so-called non-partisan government has made It overwhelmingly apparent that there can be no such thing as non-partisan politics and non-partisan government govern-ment as long as one cla3 of men owns the meanB by which the members of the other class earn their dally bread Following this declaration, It ii charged that the so-callod non-partisan government In the city Is Just as gh' sentlally a business men's or a capital' ists' government aB any Democratic or Republican government ever dared to belt be-lt also Is charged thnt the present administration ad-ministration disgraced itself In tho eyes of decent people when It compelled the resignation of the city scaler of weights and measures, because it dared not oppose op-pose the unjust demands of the business busi-ness Interests which wanted to put an end to the strict enforcement of honest weights and measures. Attacks Administration. The present administration also Is attacked at-tacked upon the ground that It denied the petition of carpenters for union wages on city work and refused to set aside the unjust licence tax imposed on teamsters. team-sters. Reference Is further made to alleged lavish appropriations and the action ac-tion taken In the matter of limiting free speech. The administration also la criticised crit-icised for protecting Axel Steele, who Is referred to n "a private rioter and agent of several powerful corporations." The remainder of the platform deals with what the Socialist party stands for and what it experts to do for the working work-ing man. It concludes by urging all members or the purly to join a partisan movement representing their own Interests. |
