Show TRADES UNIONS CHURCH ADDRESS AnDRES H. H W. W Dennett of Salt Lake Talks on Organization at Ogden UNIONS UNIONS' MANY BENEFITS BENEFIT S Points Out How of o f Labor Is Beneficial to the Many r I r I 1 II 11 w V Dg ETT Republican Special Service Ser Ogden Ogdon April 18 Trade Trade Unionism Unionism- Ethics Morals Practice was the subject sub of ot an address made by H. H W. W Dennett Den nett of the tho Salt Lako Lake Typographical I union before representatives of ot organIzed organized organ organ- labor at the First Congregational I church last night Tho The address In part follows A stud study of ot labors labor's progress through organization especially from tho the guilds I of tho the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ies les to tho the present Is most InterestinG Was Vas as It II not by combination of ot the thc toilers that first enabled them to strike ot oft off tho shackles les of ot serfdom and place I their firm firmly In tho the path that led Jed fo to 0 I liberty and pro progress Was as It II not nol the labor unions that t dispelled the superstition that some soma I men ruled by divine right that rIght that some somo I were nere chosen to lIve In luxury and ease while the great masses must unceasingly unceasing unceasing- I ly ty toll toil with scant remuneration If It these are aro facts Is It not fair to 0 I I presume tho they assisted materially In the thc Inspiration I for republican form torm of or government govI gov gov- S rn m e n t So o many Isms surround the thc trade I unions inions of ot today that I deem It 11 essential essential essen esson- I IL Lial at this time to explain m my position I L am speaking as a trade unionist as I represented In the thc principles enunciated ed ii b by tho the American Federation o of La La- I bor These are not theories Th They stand stanli emphatically for progressive government gov gov- a a government of or by and for Cor forthe the people social enlightenment and higher civilization Permit me to enumerate some of ot them They demand that tho the evil of ot child labor be eradicated that the million and a n hal half children be removed from the mills and factories of this country countr nn and compulsorily placed In school The They demand an equal wage wago for tor the women who toll toil They The demand the tho abolition of the Iho sweatshop and filth filthy tenement house and penitentiary products thc they aro are striving for sanitary workshops and a n living wa wage e. e These are sufficient to demonstrate tho foundation on which the American Federation of ot Labor Is rearing Its structure of ot Industrial peace T Union In OlIn this discussion n I shall tako tho the Typographical union as a basis for tor argument an an as that thai Is the thc n with which I have o been affiliated atell Led for tor more than a quarter of ot a u con- con lury tury iry and with which I am mo most t fa familiar ra- ra and also because It Js Ss ono one of ot the thc IC oldest oilIest trade unions In America uA As to the thc origin of ot the trado trade unions wo we 0 nee need not discuss at this time lime being c content with out our previous pre statement that hat tI they are the result o of e economic conditions Many suppose tho the unions' unions stock In t trade rade consists principally of ot strikes a ami agitators n opposition to lo courts and contempt for Cor law and ord- ord d dr r. r and despoilers of ot society yet none of or 0 pf which Is Iff truo true Strikes are only re ye- ye s sorted to when conditions become un un- un bearable L or a vital principle of or organIzation organ organ- I Is placed In jeopardy as for In Instance In- In C stance tance tho the called eo open shop pol Dol- pot pot- icy I cy so strongly advocated by of or Industry our capI cap cap- Have you jou ever considered how little I these thesa same captains cared for law competitor or 01 community Interest O so lon long as tho the ticker recorded watered tock stock above par In gambling exchange hen th this s whole Intermountain section appeals In vain for justice In tn freight rates ra es what consideration given would be n a u. u engineer ci fireman br brakeman brake uraKo- k man or switchman without his or nt and what n wage would ho lie re ye- ye As As to our contempt for law der del I would woul call and ordel or or- your our attention to prison statistics In general My 1 ob ob- ob has been beci that the per of ot this thin percentage class closs of ot criminals Is le surprisingly so 80 for fOI the very Hm small lallon tation as to our lawlessness amount of ot System S of Aro Arc wo we a burden to society Let mo me Invite your our Investigation ma matter matler ere Go to lo In this Associated Charities your our and Be secretary I L of the venture the 1 assertion from this s that source requests for arc are few tew tW tween en The Tho several and far tar b be be- ed ell various beneficial unions have ado adopt p the Iho public le learns little schemes c or mes wh which ch about aboul nothing In Illustrating these me refer to one or two features let leL While or organizations I 1 the International Tj Union n On does docs not have havo Typographical j a a. co comprehensive h system of ot benefits It Its along a ong these lines are expenditures are aro large ar tho the most Important feature Cot of ot rl Perhaps Is lit this or or- or the tle Ionic Home at Colorado m Printers Printers' era Springs where n Indigent many lany members find md fort In connection rest and corn com rr J with the tho ho home la is I maintaIned n a tuberculosis whIch Is regarded us ns the best equipped i In i the he ln United States at the present time Dur DurinG ng the recent International Tuberculosis 1 congress at Washington D. D C. C the m modest dest exhibit of ot the printers Was as lauded laudell on all aU sides and the officer In charge of or the arm exhibit admitted l Its C. C army superiority n c cent nl Another feature of ot comparative rec recent re re- re adoption Is an old-age old pension of or 1 per week Cek to those 60 years of or ne age M or older older who have ha been members for 20 years or Of more more- This entails an expense ex ox- ox pense penso of ot per month They propose pro pro- pose poso f nv now w to extend this feature to all incapable who have a n year 20 union record VuA A death benefit konot of at 75 is also paid Those TheBO are aro benefit features of ot the parent bod body N Nearl Nearly all of or the locals loea's supplement these with additional g rants and Cind have havo sick h many and other features I know of or no record f o ot f l the tha amount expended along these l ines in K by the printers annually but II It must bo ho enormous Our local union lone alono a IO In the 1903 3 panic punic spent spout i In J i out work benefits while many of ot other locals contrIbuted o one ne days day's ys work Lork each weel week or Its Us equivalent equiv equiv- a lent alent e to tl the tho unemployed When hen the earthquake occurred In San s. Francisco t the he International Union placed 12 a at t the of or the thc San Francisco members and a n. dispatch from Crom Fernie S U stated C. C C after 1 the fIre firo there recently that the union men nen had money b Mm ither ithe the bankers ankers Tho explanation I IB Is s simple r n J fhe officers read of or th the disaster die dis- and aster n knew cf members were In distress sent Bont them assistance assistanCe- Does oes this not show the tho spirit of ot brotherhood Is stron strong In unionism 1 |