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Show H BUILT ON FALSEHOODS. H The following from the Salt Lako Horald is without a word of H truth insomuch as it refers to Mayor Glasmann of Ogden: H The hand of Mayor William Glasmann of Ogden has iH reached into tho Socialist campaign in Salt Lako and, lH through the agency of the bartender's union, has endeavored iH to disrupt the Salt Lake Federation of Labor as a punish- iB , merit for its recent endorsement of the Socialist ticket at the iH recent state convention of the State Federation of Labor at H Ogden. H At the meeting Friday night of the citv Federation of 1JM .. Labor, representatives of the local bartenders' union pre- iH cipitated a lively fight on tho floor anent the action of the lH federation in endorsing the Salt Lake Socialist ticket. The H bartenders demanded that the federation rescind its endorse- Hj ment and leave the individual union membership free to V vote as ifc pleases. This action of the bartenders was the di- H root result, it is charged by the qfficials of the federation M who claim to know, of a conference the bartenders' officials H ' had P"or to the state convention with Mayor Glasmann of H .: Ogden. Glasmann, it is charged, porsuadod tho bartenders H to combat the endorsement, and, if necessary, attempt to dis- J .solvo the federation by withdrawing themselves and inducing induc-ing other unions to follow suit. The Glasmann plan, prompted by his desire to promote an insurgent labor party in the state, did not work out. The bartenders made a hard fight at the meeting of the federation federa-tion to have the endorsement rescinded, and, when they failed by a three to one vote, they withdrew their union from the federation, threatening to induce other unions to do likewise. At the next meeting'of the painters' local a motion will be made that, that union also withdraw from the .local federation-because of the endorsement of the Socialists, and the carpenters probably will adopt the same course. These unions have" expressed sympathy with the bartenders, but they represent all the support in the city federation the insurgents in-surgents have so far won to themselves and Afayor Glasmann Glas-mann It is openly charged among the unions friendly to the Socialist endorsement that when the convention was held in Ogden there was a sum amounting to $500 in the possession of the bartenders' officials immediately after they held a conference in Glasmann s office This is vehemently denied, however, by the bartenders themselves. The object of Glasmann's desire to have a split in the ranks of labor over the Socialist movement is understood to be the formation of an insurgent labor party under the dictation of Glasmann, to be used in furthering certain insurgent in-surgent plots he lias against the voters of the state. One of these plots is a Utah branch of the Progressive League of America. Glasmann f has been promised high reward and political glory if he succeeds in getting the league duly formed in Utah. With the exception of the bartenders, the painters, the carpenters and the building trades council, which has a clause in its b3-laws preventing any political endorsements, all the Salt Lake unions have refused io fall in to tho Glas-man Glas-man trap. The mayor says he is not interfering with any Socialists or labor people anywhere j that he never had a meeting as alleged, in Ogdon or elsewhere; that there is not one word of truth in the entire article ar-ticle in so far as it relates to him. What is the object of this continued misrepresentation of the maj'or? Do the Stand-pat Republicans fear the organizer of the Progressive Republican league in Utah? |