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Show LABOR FEDERATION SC0RESCH1EF WHITE Adopts Resolutions Condemning Con-demning Alleged Maltreatment Mal-treatment of Sullivan. Members of the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, at their regular meetiug last night in the Labor Temple, entered au emphatic protest against thq alleged lawless and unconstitutional orders of Chief of Police J. Parley White, instructing in-structing members of the police force to maltreat wife-beaters and "cadets," and adopted a set of resolutions condemning con-demning the chief of police for allowing his officers to mistreat J. T. Sullivan of Eureka. As a final protest against the alleged "unlawful and uncivilized action of Chief White and his assistants,'' the Federation of Labor voted to bring all cases of maltreatment by the police force before its body and to use every effort to obtain the co-operation of other organizations. The discussion resulted from the information in-formation given to the organization by J. T. Sullivan of Eureka, who alleged that he was beaten by Patrolman Donnelly Don-nelly in the city police station and in the presence of other city officers. After Aft-er investigation, the . labor union brought to light the fact that Chief White had admitted to the city commission commis-sion that hehad ordered his officers to maltreat wife-beaters and "cadets." Another set of resolutions, protesting anainst the military and civil authorities authori-ties in the state who, it is charged, have persistently hampered the organization work of Ben Gogin, organizer of the International Union of Mine and Mill Workers, was unanimouslv adopted. It was charged that United States Depu; tv Varshal Reeding of Bingham, on September 22, threatened Mr. Gogin with the statement: "We will get you,' if he persisted in his work, a.nd ordered him to leave town. It was resolved that, copies of the protest be sent to Secretarv- of Labor William B. Wilson ond Governor Simon Bamberger. |