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Show lOlfSIIEIS j HELD II ABEYANCE! ! Salt Lake Federation of j j Labor Is Awaiting i Developments. The Salt Lake Federation of Labor will lake no steps whatever toward bringing about definite action on the part of its members in the Tom Mooney strike matter until the last word has been said by Governor Stephens of California. "The Salt l.ako federation is heartily in svmpalhy with an'v movement that spells justice for Tom Mooney, but it will not initiate tiny move until nsitud to do so by the California Labor council, based upon results of the meeting between the delegation of ten labor ofiicials of California Cali-fornia with the governor of that state, said Otto 1-T. .-shridge, president of the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, yesterday. Mr. Asbridge, -who has been widely quoted as favoring a strike tin compel tho governor of California to either pardon Mooney or grant him a new trial ou one of the "remaining counts in the indictment against him, yesterday declared the issue not lo be a question of mass movement as a forcible measure, but one of levelheaded level-headed and pacific action to create a spirit of reasonable consideration for tho .loomed labor organizer in. the minds of those persons in whom all power in favor fa-vor or against Mooney now reposes. Ho said that until evcrv pacific measure has b:cn exhausted in Mooney's behalf there should be no thought given to drastic phvsical action. Tlie California Labor council has selected a committee of ten loval labor men to wait on Governor Stephens Ste-phens and - endeavor to prooure lor Mooney further consideration in court at least The labor delegation is to communicate com-municate with Governor Stephens without delav. , "Wc are all anxiously awaiting the outcome out-come of the California conference, and I believe that the results will be for the best interests of Tom Mooney and the labor world in general," Mr. A? bridge j avers. He also expresses the belief that Governor Stephens will, yield to the dictates dic-tates of his own conscience and accord Mooncv a new trial. "Labor has never, as far as I a.m aware, demanded an outright pardon for Moonev, We have always entertained the belief that he has been, first of all, a vie- , ' tim of circumstances, and then of a legal . ! 'frame-up.' AH persons who watched the : i progress of the trial at which he was ; , found guilty of murder, except, of course, ; ' those who were in the deal to bring about j a conviction, guilty or not, are as pro-I pro-I foundly convinced as Lam that the evidence evi-dence upon which the conviction was I founded was anything but substantial. I Many persons believe perjured testimony 1 aplenty was introduced into the record. All eyes are now turned toward Cahtor-I Cahtor-I nia. This week, doubtless, will decide I Tom Mooney's fate." j Speaking with respect to tho general labor situation locally, Mr. Ashndge pro- 1 nouneed it eminently satisfactory, except for one or two isolated instances where grievances are still to be settled. He expressed ex-pressed confidence that high wage scales were permanent, and suggested that there ' were still many adjustments of conditions and hours to be made for the workers before labor could be completely satisfied. |
