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Show 111 WCIIUEN 1 CEHEMLICIS Salt Lake Federation of La bor Adopts Resolutions at Meeting AGAINST CALLISTER Candidate for Four year Term Commissionership Called "Unfair " I The Salt Lake Federation of Labor by ! unanimous o e last n ght adopted reso ! lutlons condemn ng the Repub lean party : In 5alt Lake count The resolutions ; strongly indicate that the Repub lean ! ticl et in Salt Lake county will rece ve j I ttle if any support from the organ i Ized workers in the countj The labor peop e will probab y take no act on in officla y indo s ng any ticket in the count leaving the members of the unions f ee to support any ticket they choose. Mans of the workers in ''a t Lake county a e Soc alls a but a major ity are members of the Republican Den ocratic and Progres ve part es The Democratic and Progress e counts or pan zat ons are confident y expecting the support of a large majo ity of the un on men in the county for the combination ticket , , lnon labor is particularly antagonistic to the Republican part for two reasons which are set forth in t e resolut ons adopted la t n ght b the Salt Lake fed eration One is that the reso ut ons conmlttee failed to g ve any cons d era tion -whatever to reso ut ons p esented to the committee by representatives of or gan zed labor Indorsed Union Labor These resolutions indo sed organ zed labor and fa ored p acing the un on la lel on a I publ c print! g The resolu t ons committee of the county con entlon I declined to cons der recommending the adopt on of the reso utlons and refused to gi e the laboring men a hearing on them T e other reason set forth in the reso lutions adopted last n ght is the fact that the ch ef nom nee of the Republican county convention is the prop letor of a no un on pr nting office emplo ng only nonunion labor The reso utlons set fo th that the failure to give organized labor a hea ng at the con ention, cou pled -with t! Is nomlnat on, must be taken only to mean that the labor otes and support are not wanted bj the PepubU can party The roan to whom the resolutions refer Is T A Cal ter nominee for county eonvml sloner for t e four vear term, i CaHJster is a brother of K H Callister Repub lean boss for Utah He is a so the proprietor of a printing office that does not recognize the typographical union and that does not emp oj union printers Iso Dissenting "Vote The reso utions were presented last ltfbt at the regular meeting of the fed tf erat on They v, ere received with applause ap-plause and adopted w thout a dissenting vote, The re o utlons follow Whereas The fo lowing resolutions wre presented to the county conven -tion of the republican party of alt Hot Lake county Ef "Whereas The e ht hour day s WB& reoognized by statute In the state of Rv TJta h and, F Whe eas The statu es alo pro KL vide that all public work shall be on iff the sht hour bas s and Whereas Printing for the cities t counties and state is in the nature of Sft pubic work therefore be it If Resolved by the Republican party rt the county of Salt Lake In conven 1? tion assembled That we go on record f as faor ng the placing of the union lit el on all pub Ic printing as the only reliable guarantee that the work was don In compliance with the state 2 statutes and be it further Resolved That it is the sense of this convention that every cand date for public office be required to have the union label on all his printing both political and business which resolutions were rejected by the committee on resolutions and W hereas The rejection of these resolutions, coup ed with the fact that the chief nominee of the Republican ount convention of Salt Lake is the p oprietor of a nonunion printing of f e whe e there is no restriction on tl e number of hours worked each day orst tc d rect nottce to all union men hat their votes and support are rot wanted by said party therefore be t Resolved b the Salt Lake Fed era on of Labor in regular meeting as e nbled That we condemn the Re pub 1 -an parlv of Salt Lake countv for s a tltude of unfai ness In refusing z a bor a hearing and in falling to adop th s resol ton which If adopted would ave placed the pa ty re rd as avortng the cons stent c fo c ment of the state statutes v e0a d to public work Be it fj h Re cd T at we onside t i a on o t e part of flepubl an Id no en wokgnn a a pa oe no M or opc ef ea o J o s o La C or g abo ar e n any ea of d ad eJu -a ona efT r sa U a tion being a evlden t at the la U Is -as mating and afraid to ake a de ided s and on a matter that ou d be "of great benefit to a large umber of the residents and taxpayers o t l state of Ltah |