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Show BECKETT HEADS NEWJSSflCira Carpenters of Utah Organize Organ-ize Locals Into State Body. To promote closer affiliation among the various locals and standardize the working work-ing conditions and wages of union carpenters car-penters throughout the state, an organization organi-zation of the locals into a state council of carpenters has been effected, according accord-ing to announcement 'made by D. O-Jacobs, O-Jacobs, secretary of the new organization. organiza-tion. The council, Mr. Jacobs declared, will replace the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Car-penters and Joiners of America as the governing administrative board of the state, and is expected through its wider knowledge of local conditions to greatly increase the efficiency of the men and be of greater service to the government during the war. Heretofore, said Mr. Jacobs, the men in the small towns of the state were poorly organized, and knowledge of conditions con-ditions in one locality was not readily accessible to workingmen of another. The new plan, he asserted, will prove of material mate-rial assistance to the United States employment em-ployment bureau in enabling tnem to put unemployed men of this craft to work with a minimum of delay. The officers of the council are as follows: fol-lows: President. H. W. Beckett. of Ogden ; first vice-president, B. J. Wilson Wil-son ; second vice-president, D. W. Richards; Rich-ards; secretary, D. O. Jacobs: treasurer, Ray Spauldlng, and warden, H. J. Tim-merman. Tim-merman. Bert Mock, Frank Osborne and William Rose, together with the officers, comprise tho executive committee. The next meeting of the council will be held at Ogdcn, November 2, unless a postponement post-ponement becomes necessary on, account of the influenza epidemic. |