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Show TO FORM BRANCH Of INDUSTRIAL WORKERS At a meeting of unlnists last night at Federation of Labor hall it was decided de-cided to organize a branch in Salt Lake City of the "Industrial Workers of the World," the organization which was launched in Chicago last July. A formal for-mal request for a charter will be forwarded for-warded to the central body today. The meeting last night was called together to-gether by Chairman Joseph Gilbert, editor of the Crisis. The principles of the new organization organiza-tion were set forth by Mr. Gilbert and W. S. Dalton. The new organization asserts that there is no unity between employer and employee, but that a class struggle exists. It does not recognize recog-nize any difference between the skilled and the unskilled laborer. Capital Is entitled en-titled to nothing. It asserts. Furthermore, Further-more, the new organization contends that the working classes should use the organization as a political machine for the solution of economic problems. Through united political efforts alone, it is averred, and the uniting of all working classes can the members benefit bene-fit themselves. |