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Show ORIENTAL LABOR ON RAILROADS HAY CAUSE CONTENTION Harriman Employees Meeting Meet-ing in Salt LaKe City Are Secretive. Representatives of Tarisoa labor or-gaaiaeUoaa, or-gaaiaeUoaa, whoaa members are employed em-ployed on tha Harriman lines, are meeting ia Salt Lake City today to try to form a general organization which . will include all of tha metal erafta, as well as soma of tha other employees of the company. Several preliminary meetings have beea held ia the last two or three days, preparatory to the meeting which waa called to order ia tha Federation of Labor hall this morning. The utmost secrecy las beea main- tained by the members of these organisations organ-isations so far as to what had beea dona, or what might ba tha result of tha meetings. About twenty representatives of the carmen nnaoa met at the Cullea hotel ho-tel at o'clock this morning. The meeting lasted nearly aa hour. At the close of the meeting several members ssid that there was nothing to give out to the public One of them declared that nothing had beea done so far; that aa did. aot know what they . wea going go-ing to do. how they were going to do it, how long they would be in the eity, nor anything else about the gathering. Another of the representatives said that he was not here to talk for the public, but that they expected to ae-complith ae-complith something befora leaving this city. Just whst that something was be would aot state. It is understood that daring the present pres-ent session the question of the employment em-ployment of Japaneees and Chinese labor la-bor on soma classes of work an west-era west-era railroads will come op for discussion. discus-sion. The representatives from California Cali-fornia aad some of tba other weetera states are expected to support a movement move-ment for the abolishing this alaaa of labor. It ia likely that tha meetings will last several dsvs. ' |