Show THE FEDERATED TRADES the mass meeting of workingmen working meo held in the federal court room last night under the auspices of the fed aerated trades council was well attended banners bearing the following t nd other inscriptions were carried tb through rough the streets to the scene of the meeting eight hours on public works is law from maine to california eight hours on public works should be law in utah the glory of utah is in its mines protect the life and limb of jhb miner be honest and give us a mech mechanics aulce lien capital always takes care of itself lf we demand cash payment of wages legislators read up lip your platforms the meeting was called to order by JR G S sleater eater president of the federated trades at 8 the follow ing letter was read from governor Oo vernor j thomas SALT LAKE CITY utah feb 28 1892 9 2 mr phil corcoran salt lake city utah h dear sir your kind invitation to be present at the mass meeting of workingmen to be held at the federal courthouse rt this evening to discuss labor bor measures is just received for reasons which will readily occur to tc you and a d your friends I 1 will not be pres 2 betout INI at 1 beg to assure the workingmen of addi take lake city and utah territory tb that at every Indic tous measure passed in their interest will receive very hearty approval I 1 am very respectfully i arthun L THOMAS governor F JUDGE BOWMAN A the first speaker he said that he wa in in hearty sympathy with the labor they should maintain heir rights organizations by the wage workers should be encouraged Rare the workingman should be placed on afie same plane of equality as the rich ikaku the fact of a man being rich or Is poor neither made him good nor bad the idea always creeps out I 1 iu u le legislation that money ranks above all things tee else that property rights and vested vented rights must not be interfered with sad and a number of other excuses that prevent our legislative bodies from doing the right thing property rights frequently interpose in the rights of the mass in that of humanity the speaker then took up the bill in produced for the protection of miners he said he endorsed it fully and thought that the territorial government should protect its citizens in life and d suits lands and that any legislation that failed in that was false and not true to tile the fundanet fund amei tal princ principles aples of right his he thought the legislature should crry carry the legislation on this subject to the extent where there should be per for life and lands the expense of a mining inspector he be thought which had bad been urged its as an aa objection to the bill was a thing that 7 boxed him every sentence in the bip biche he thought should become a part Of s laws PHIL CORCORAN mid aid that it was only a short time ago that th the workmen were helping helair g to make ibale platforms and candidates for suffrage were seeking their aid he thought the first thing the workmen should bould do tonight was to kick themselves platforms were made to conceal ceal the d dishonesty honesty is of the parties who had made promises to the lips to break them in ie the balls of legislation until organized labor learned to depend on itself alone and helped elect only those pledged to its interests conditions would not have ChAll changed ged in utah xer must arise and assert its own rights when the federated trades asked the legislature to pass the eight hour law it did not ask it to interfere with any aby other law they did not ask the legislature to fix the number of hours a bricklayer should work upon the mccormick Mo Cormick building nor fix the rice ice they only asked them to enact a cw E w to correspond with laws in existence in every other state one of the members who opposed the passage of the bill a liberal used this item if the territory could exact more work in ten hours than in eight hours it was public extravagance to PRY pay t that hat workman for the two hours houra the two hours was money thrown elway away I 1 would only ask this legislator to apply his 0 own w n arguments to himself he e then spoke of the bill which had bad been defeated in the council providing fo for the payment of wages in cash a and u d which bad been introduced in adoth another form FROM 0 W POWERS the following telegram from 0 W P powers owed was then read feb 26 1892 I 1 regret that I 1 cannot attend the work ingmans ing mens meeting my sympathies are with the toilers boilers toi lers capital can take care of itself the time has bas come when the workingmen should demonstrate that they cannot be tossed about like shuttlecocks demand eight hours on public dublik works also a suitable mecha mechanic niciO lien law also the australian ballot reform and other consistent measures I 1 regret that the bill making employers responsible for negligent injuries to employed emp loyes is killed demand your rights insisting when men accept office on a platform demanding certain laws legislators must sustain demands of nominating conventions or receive merited censure let labor be heard from tonight 0 W OTHER SPEECHES speeches were made by roberts Bo berte daveler willett and duggan after which the following resolution was pawed passed and the meeting adjourned jour ned resolved by the workingmen of salt lake in mass meeting assembled that we demand at the hands of the utah legislature ure the legislation that was promised in the platforms of the three political davies par iee and upon which platforms they were elected namely A mechanics mechanical lien law payment of wages in cash eight hours on public works labor day a legal holiday providing for the safety e of life and limb of the miner and the australian us ballot reform |