Show mass meeting held sunday resolutions adopted by the labor unions of coreba aw S dalton of salt lake the speaker A maas meeting vas held at odd fellows hall on sunday afternoon un per the direction of the labor unions 0 the object of the meeting was to acquaint the general public with certain matters ir connection with the arrest of president moyer secretary baywood and other officials 0 the western federation in fact it was an indignation meeting for the purpose of protesting against the treatment accorded these men ut the hands of the civil authorities of idaho A large number of people including many women were present when chairman p J russell called the meeting to or per and introduced W b dalton of bait mr dalton spoke al some length regarding the fight that has peen waged for years against the west ern federation mr dalton is a very forceful lorce ful and convincing speaker and pis remarks appeared to touch a re spending chord among his hearers as pe was frequently interrupted by ap mr dalton said this way not the first time that the officials of the western federation have been secured of crimes committed by others and as they had been acquitted in the past they were sure to establish their innocence if allowed a fair trial he stated that the mine owners fearing the strength of the organization had brought about their arrest in an effort to crush ahn great organization which has accomplished much and promises to accomplish more for the working class after the close of mr dalton s ad dress secretary john vance of the local miners union read the following resolutions which were adopted after which three rousing cheers were given for moyer haywood and other officials of the western federation of miners WHEREAS the official lackeys of the capitalist class have ruthlessly overthrown every safeguard which the law provides and by brute force have kidnapped and imprisoned charles H moyer william D haywood and geo pettibone officials of the western fed aeration of miners and WHEREAS the daily press with a few honorable exceptions is doing its utmost to prejudice and inflame the minds of the people against our comrades by holding them up as criminals and assassins for the purpose of rail reading them to the gallows and WHEREAS fhe miep owners association and the standard oil company for years have vainly endeavored to destroy the western federation of miners by means of bull pens eions manufactured confessions and brute force of every kind and have been met and defeated by peaceful legal appeals to the conits and the bal lot and in every case where a union man nas been accused and a trial had the members of the western fed aeration of miners have been acquitted RESOLVED ahat we as members of the working class in mass meeting assembled delare our belief in the in inocence of our imprisoned comrades and in alie federation of workers of the world as law abiding labor dorgam denounce this attempt of law breaking standard oil and mine cwi association to mur der our brothers and we warn the tools and ackes of capitalism that we will not stand by and submit to this outrage on american citizenship ahal we denounce the unfair and vicious course of the brosti buted pread ind we call on the working class of eureka to repudiate these or gans of plutocracy and to support papers in sympathy with unionism VED I 1 hat we declare that the private ownership of the means of pro by the plutocrats is the real cause of this and all other outrages and crimes against the people and we call on the working class to join the indus trial olure of the world and the socialist i arty and to actually and legally take of the mines railways factories and trusts in the name of the american people and thus put an end to the usurpation and des of the trust owning plutocracy which has debauched debau hed our institution impoverished our ie and is seeking to burdei the labor leaders w ho can not be bribed to betray their class |