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Show UNEMPLOYED I1 RELIEFJEISIs Pass Resolutions Ack-Legislature Ack-Legislature to Provide Work. BISHOP JONES SPEAKS Declares Present Theory lj Wrong; Would Make Needed Changes. Criticising the governor anri Ctr.., committees of the legislature for set.-'." lack of Interest In the unemployed lem when they failed to Eend repre--tlves to the state conference of the UT employed at Unity hall yesterday fte. noon, the gathering passed a resoVLi0-demanding resoVLi0-demanding that the legislature diately enact such laws and appropr"--such funds for public work as vrilj r-l'J the present emergency. In the resolution the bill presented ( the house of representatives by Enll Lund of Salt Lake, providing for an -propriation of $100,000 to be expended1''' grading the capitol grounds was fn,ir.-f: and the actions of the members of house of representatives, whose tar1" were declared to be obstructive and f"';-tory, f"';-tory, were condemned. The reiu," was adopted unanimously. Copies of resolution are to be mailed to every cr" ber of the house today. IIrs. Harvey Cheered. Another resolution that met with ma-, imous approval was proposed by y-. Cora D. Harvey, national secretary o? International Brotherhood Welfare a. ciation. The resolution foDows: The social organization of industrr is tbe final and permanent sotoi of unemployment, with its attencc--poverty, and we make bold to st-t that there is no other solution. T-'e great wealth producing and distrib'jl-lng distrib'jl-lng forces and agencies must be .... ganized and administered as detriments detri-ments of the public service, and as th i s can be bro u gh t about o-;v through the education of the mas:'; we recommend as measures of t-r-porary relief co-operation of city, county and state governm?: and individual help; investigation Tf the relation of intemperance to (y unemployed; -a revision of the vl-grancy vl-grancy law. The hall was crowded, princinallr r migratory workers a few of whore v employed but there were represents!;-present represents!;-present from labor unions, the miror and the Coinmercial club. Bishop Jones Speaks. Bishop Paul Jones of the Episcoaai cese of Utah was the first stiea.kcr. ' declared that the methods empiov many cities at the present time "t; the unemployed were driven out of mr. was wrong. He said: In. every walk of society we find i certain element trying to get southing sou-thing for nothing. I do not at-provs of this element in the upper class any i. more than in the lower ciajti. 3;; there are those in the working c!;a that want ork and can't get it lui are unjustly branded. . The present theory is in error. It is based on tbe theory that tftre i; work for al! and it doesn't fit ie conditions. Tbe worst of the natter nat-ter is that the least skilled and t.i-lowest t.i-lowest paid, as a rule, are only temporarily tem-porarily employed and do not tirr. enough to tide them over the unemployed unem-ployed periods. They don't wan: charity, they want work. The system is wrong. "U'hy wii: until these people have soent t:e:r last nickel in search of work be.0:? givinq- t'em assistance, Bet.n w:: trouble is apparent and avoid a ser.-ons ser.-ons situation similar to that vihi:z now confronts us. "Without the migratorv workers country could not be developed." c---clared H. McClimock, reoresentinc I-International I-International Brotherhood Welfare a ciation. "Thev have been responsiole :"' the growth of the countrv. Onlv tLe i.-venturous i.-venturous spirits settled the wiMernesi . America three centuries ago; oniy : -adventurous spirits continued to rawest ra-west ward and settle the United they settlel Utah, and now society suri'iised that tie descendants of or live generations of tramps are hoxi- Hoboes Are Needed. Mr. McClmtock pointed out Lvt a!! -railroad construction work, irrisau." projects and other development work f a large scale could be handled success:--, only by migratory laborers men moved from one point to another the work. Even the big grain nelde. i-1 i-1 inn ber camps and similar insur-t:-.'-'-whero w ork was available only a part f each year were dependent on hobo he Fa id. The employment agents wt: condemned as sharks who preyed up-" tho migratory laborers because ti:ey not organised. Representative Emll S. Lund of i Lake outlined his policy with rdt:i" to the unemrloyeo problem end urrf that tiie wandering laborers settle dc1" and establish homes. "No residence, no vote," he d':f' "And no vote, no voice in the geve::-mem. geve::-mem. Poverty Is a social crime and f" ciety is responsible. Let your poverty : I known, otherwise the more afiV-ient heve th.at every body is as well off . pr5;' ciaily as themselves; don't let pri-s :-' teri'ere.'' . y Among the other speakers were Clay, secretary of the Salt Lake Con".-; cial club : Phil Bun re, represfntir? !" blacksmiths union, and E. K. Fuse, c."' man of the meeting and rcpresentati the bricklayers' and stone masons' ur.?' |