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Show THRILLERS PROMISED I SPEECH m PRATT Philaclelphiari to Present Carmen's Car-men's Side of Expulsion of 3000 Members. Exposures of a startling character are promised by Claronce O. Pratt of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, former chairman of tho lnterna-natlonal lnterna-natlonal executive board of tho street car men's union, In an address which he will dollver at the Salt Lake theater to night, In which ho will present the street car employees' sldo of tho controversy which resulted in the expulsion of moro than 3000 men from the International union. Tho mass meeting to bo. held at tho Salt Lake theater tonight Is a result of the refusal of tho convention of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America to hoar the appeal of the 3000 Philadelphia Philadel-phia street car men for reinstatement. All referenco to the Philadelphia controversy, contro-versy, which came up on the appeal of Pratt nnd the Fhllodelphlans, waa tabled by tho convention yesterday by a vote of 100 to 37. This resulted in Pratt'B determination de-termination to hold a moss meeting tomorrow to-morrow evening. Within a few minute after It was announced an-nounced that Pratt would bo denied a hearing before tho convention arrango-monta arrango-monta were mado for today's publlo hearing hear-ing of tho case. Pratt secured tho theater the-ater and sent Invitations to tho international interna-tional officers of the association to occupy oc-cupy seats on tho stage and to all of tho delegates to attend tho meeting. Brig-ham Brig-ham II. Roberta will preside at tho mooting moot-ing and Beveral prominent labor leaders of Salt Lako have promised to occupy Beato on tho stage. Twonty Salt Lake street car men In uniform have promised to aot as ushers. The Philadelphia union with nearly 4000 members was expelled from the International In-ternational Streetcar Mon's union by the executive board because of alleged technical tech-nical Infractions of tho association's rules In electing C. O. Pratt to membership member-ship and to offlco In tho union aftor he had been defeated for election as an International In-ternational officer. The union maintained main-tained Its organization after suspension and appealed to tho present convention for reinstatement. Pratt declares that tho International sloam roller was quickly quick-ly applied to tho appeal and It was defeated de-feated without any opportunity for a linnrlnir. "Tho action of the convention," euld Mr. Pratt last night. "Is arbitrary and Inconsistent. Wo should loudly and rightly denounce capitalists and streetcar street-car companies If they pursued the ramo attltudo toward tho appeals of employees. Wo should Insist on a fnlr hearing. Wc should demand that wo have the opportunity oppor-tunity to put forward our side of tho case. Fundamental principles of unionism union-ism would demand hucU a course. But tho convention has soon fit to disregard what we have always contended for. "I should have much preferred presenting pre-senting our caso to tho convention, but as tho convention doos not want to hear It, we want tho public to know what It Is the international officers do not want to hear. Thoy have denied us a hearing boforo an Impartial jury. Thoy will have to face a hearing beforo the public. There will bo somo revelations mado tomorrow night that will prove Interesting." The Pratt matter occupied the attention atten-tion of the convention the greater part of the day. Tho thirty-seven Pratt men XOpntdJiued on Page Ten.) THRILLERS PROMISED l SPEECH By PRATT (Continued from Pago One.) formed a very noisy minority and they attempted to revive the Philadelphia controversy con-troversy at every opportunity. The Pratt men objected to the adoption of the report of the executive board and also to the reinstatement of J. V, Mona-ghan, Mona-ghan, who had been suspended by the Pratt wins: of .the Philadelphia local. The objections of the Pratt men, however, were futile. Salt Lake street carmen, grateful to Pratt for his organization of tho union in Salt Lake and his successful conduct con-duct of tho Salt Lake streetcar strike, are with Pratt to a man and the Salt Lake delegates worked hard In an effort to secure a hearing: for Pratt before the convention. The twenty-first anniversary of the establishment of the streetcar men's union occurs tomorrow and the convention conven-tion will adjourn at noon. In the afternoon after-noon the delegates -will be guests at an entertainment at the Eagles club and in the evening they will be addressed by President W. D. Mahon at a mass meeting meet-ing at the First Congrogatlonal church. President Mahon at this meeting is expected ex-pected to reply to the address of Pratt. A mass meeting will bo held in' the First Congregational church at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, as a part of the usual programme of the convention conven-tion of tho Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, Em-ployees, of America. Carmen and their families will be present and the general gen-eral public is invited. President W. D. Mahon will "be the priucipal speaker. |
