| Show LABOR FEDERATION HUN HUNI I CAllS CONVENTION I II I Labor Unions Will Meet in Salt Lake City Git September l II and amI I Will Adopt Adapt Important Resolutions Resolutions I ti ns for far the People Who Wha Toil Tail The rh Utah Uta State Federation of La Labor Labor bor at Its convention at Salt Sail Lake Lalio CIty lt Utah Sept 12 to 13 will do de I cide clde to take talce more Interest In the i coming cowl state election oIl than has ever been taken before I Mr Ir Theo Gierse secretary nail and 31 1 I treasurer of the Utah State Slate Feder Federation atlon of Labor has issued the tho official official cial del call for the convention In which he hi strongly Indicates the necessity of state laws for the protection of ofhie hie wage vage earners It II Is considered that the mechanics ics lieu Hen law on ou real property In Utah does docs not give much protection to the thie mechanic against the tho tb dishonest prop property erty crt holder hold r An efficient shop and anti factory factor Inspection law will Iso bo ho considered also alBo that this state should have havo hll 0 some sort of an employers lia liu liability billt or 01 compulsory Insurance law whereby all those O work or oc occupation carries any risk of life or j I may bo he provided for In cast case I of or accident Now No ouo one who follows hazardous I employment to earn the livelihood for tor and family and through some seine cause caul happens to be bo killed or ci In Injured j his hia hi family and neighbors ate aio ar I made to suffer ancl lu iii cases eases where whore a aman aman I Iman man who does but hazardous i I work loses an arm or leg and can no longer earn hta hili hI daily dull bread he Is made a tl beggar and an object of pity and aud shame unto society Those are arc the points and facts that will be bo fully considered by tho the Mr John M N Marshall who is a delegate to the tho convention will pre present rc sent scat that body boJ with a n copy of o tho the mechanics lien law of or the state of nf Michigan Mr Marshall being fa a with tho thi efficiency of the tho me mechanics mechanics lion lieu law of t I tHee I Michigan be Moves Hee that the copy CO will be of or somo sonio assistance to the legislative commit committee tee of tho the federation I IThe k The question of or patronage of home I industries will also come in for Its i i share ahara of consideration Both Mr dr Ir i j Worse and Mr 11 Marshall are arc strong stron I among organized labor of or If j f Utah UtaJi made mado goods for Utah Citi Citizens zens It Is characteristic of union I 1 Imen then men to encourage homo home industries In I Inot not only because the wages earned Carne in inthe inI inthe the home factories are put Jut lute into clr dr I I dilation among the consumers but butI also because the consumers have the tho I privilege of Inspecting and supervising I ing log the factories of their homo home city or 01 state I It IB is a well w ll known fact among tho thio better Informed union men that things of oC every overy day uce tre lr e which arc are made In Inthe inthe Inthe the sweat shops and under unclean I conditions In the large cities anti and In Inmany Inmany many mau Instances by persons of or ill III health or 01 afflicted d with contagious catTy carry tho c contagIous contagions to the consumer Tho American Federation of Labor for sonic past has been beell making n a 1 series of Investigations and chem cheni ical teal analyses those lines and nud tho the union men maintain that thal they th e hero havo sufficient evidence of oi authority to prove that garments or articles o cigars antI and such If Ir marl made under unclean conditions or by dis diseased dl diseased eased Cr OnE will In most eases casts ca Ws carry cany the Mio germs of tho tb disease to the consumer The Cigar CIal Makers International union is ono one of or tho th strongest labor organizations in tho world and it fa is f I claimed that thai its anti and lilt Is due tine to the fact unit t at the thC union ci el cigar gar har makers do tb strongly Insist on clean factor factory conditions and they the will not permit one of their members who is isIck sick Ick to work III In the factory actor but will VIII Ill pay him out of work rork or sick bene benefits its ills f or oi send Rend him him to a n hospital The Tho lu general has hus como come to I realize that the blue bille label of or the tho I Cigar Makers International union when placed across the front of a box hox is a guarantee that the cigars I therein contained were wore made mn e under I clean and healthful conditions and unless tho the blue l label bel that guaran guarantee tee t ee of the tle Cigar Makers Inkers International olI al union onion does appear on the cigar cl ar box there Is no way wu of tolling tellIng whether er lr the cigar one is made by h ft n whito man in good health and under unde clean cloan conditions or whether r it was made umile In a family living room in a largo l arge city under tinder bad bul conditions or by bya b a diseased cd Chinaman or Filipino But If IC themen will only learn to lo smoke cigars that are aro made In n our own city or state they tho will not only havo have the tIle benefit of tho the els circulation dilation of the tho wages earned but can visit the tho home cigar cisar factories and see seo for I themselves how boss anI and under what con can conditions conditions and by whom the cigars they the smoke are made and anti then have hae sonic some something thing to lo say sur about It I II I |
