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Show LABOR SESSIONS TO BEGIN TODAlf Mayor to Welcome Utah State Federation This Afternoon. TVith more than 300 delegates present pres-ent from Salt Lake, Opden, Carbon count', Helper, Magna, Eureka, Park City and Provo, the twelfth annual convention con-vention of the Utah State Federation of' Labor goes into session at 1 o'clock this afternoon in the Labor temple. The meeting 'will be opened by President John K. Steen. .Mayor Ferry will deliver- the address of wolcome to . the delegates. Mrs. Lilliam Sherman will serve as secretary in the absence in the cast at a trades convention of Secretary Sec-retary A. E. Harvey. W. H. Knerr, representative of the Utah industrial commission and an honorary member of the state federation, will be -in attendance. at-tendance. The convention is expected to be in session three days with two sessions daily, starting tomorrow, one being held at 9 o'clock and the other at 2 o'clock. Tho committees which will conduct the details of the convention work include in-clude thoso on auditing and credentials, constitution and bv-laws. law and leff- islation,. resolutions, correspondence, grievances, entertainment and thanks. The entertainment committee already has partly outlined its plans to make pleasant the sta' of tho delegates in Salt Lake. Among the topics which will be discussed dis-cussed at the convention are ratification ratifica-tion of the peace treaty and the league of nations, reduction of the cost of living, liv-ing, cooperative stores, rehabilitation of crippled working men, desirability of a national labor party, Plumb plan of railroad control, redisricting of federation fed-eration territory, feasibility of raising number of vice presidents from five to seven, election of officers and selection selec-tion of the place for holding the 19C0 convention. |