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Show "salt lake DEFENDS THE DYNAMITERS Salt Lake. Jan. 7 A universal union, un-ion, embracing all labor, skilled and unskilled, v. as adv ocated by William! li Haywood, notional organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World, in J a speech delivered in Unity hall last; evening The labor leader took as . his subject Tnionism and Industrial Problems He recounted incidents in connection with the Bingham strike j the dynamite conspiracy trial in Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, the Iawrence, Mass. btnke and the present strike in Little Falls, X V Ho attacked the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, declaring that it had not and could not do anything for the working man. He said in part "The American Federation of Labor has grown until those who do not know the industrial problem refer to that organisation as the labor mOve-; mOve-; ment. but It has degenerated until it Ms no longer a labor organization. It is not. a working class organization It holds that skilled lator is better than unskilled labor Labor conditions condi-tions have not improved since it was organized Tho federation does not want to organize or-ganize the working class. It has used many means to prevent men and women wo-men from joining unions It wants to monopolize skill It does it by - blishlng apprenticeships, difficult technical examinations and prohibitive prohibi-tive initiation tees. And occasionally local unions close their books entirely entire-ly It is the historic mission of the working class to overthrow the capl- i I talist class and emancipate them ' sehrs. That will not he done by the J American Federation of Labor "This class conflict shows the necessity ne-cessity for the working class to get together and orpanize into one big I union Unskilled labor has a right to 11 vo just as you have; it has a right to enjoy what ou enjoy ; if it was not for unskilled labor you would have to get down In the shops and do some of the dirty work yourselves The Dynamiters. "When the bridge and steel workers asked for wages In line with their hazardous occupation the directors of the Industry knew they must get rid of that organization The men were crowded to the wall, and they fought back Thev did not right in civilized fashion They fought Hke this nation fiphts othor nations. ANnat nations do, organizations do When the government gov-ernment was aroused by the tobacco trust and the sugar trust the soldiers went down to Cuba and blew towns off the map. These men were charged charg-ed with blowing up steel structures Perhaps thev did and if the?, did why'' They were fighting for their wives and children and organized labor. la-bor. The steel trust has a great influence influ-ence with the Fnlted States government, govern-ment, and a federal t;rand jurv was selected lo Investigate the matter Tin go to Los Angeles, to Salt Lake, to other cities the steel trust acts through the government. They came heri to Salt Lake and took .1 B. Mun-sey. Mun-sey. probably as good a man as lived in Salt lake They took Ryan from Chicago and the others, and they took them down to Indianapolis before h Jury of wlso men who found the MS defendants guilty on 26 different counts Tn passing sentence the judge said the Jury did not know what It was about, suspended sentence on some and varied it In others It seems that our penitentiaries are built bv working mon for working men. You seldom see other than working men In them, anyhow. Mine Exp'oslons. "( ..incident with this dynamiting in lxs Anceles, there was an explosion in a mine at Bryceville, Tenn., in which L'07 lives were lost. But there was no federal investigation There have been GO dynamite explosions in Chicago In the past two years In con-i, con-i, eei ion with the gamblers' war, and there has not been one arrest. Out here at Park City there was an explosion ex-plosion In the Ontario mine and ?.f men were killed There was no federal fed-eral investigation "These illustrations limply show-that show-that there Is a law for the rich and a law for the poor That ought to demonstrate the necessity ot organizing organiz-ing v. here ou can use your working power " The speaker launched into the Iaw- renee strike in Massachusetts and said the mill owner cried for the militia The Bpeakei then discussed the Btrike a1 Bingham criticising state officials ami the management of the I'tah Copper Cop-per company. SALT LAKE MAN WED IN DENVER Denver. .Tan. C Miss Maybelle Tobin, well-known Denver BOCiet girl, stepdaughter of M C Harrington Harring-ton banker and wealthy grain dealer, will become the bride on Wednesdav or Phil f. Purcell a prominent in suronce man or Salt Lake City, who is manager of the Continental Casualty Casual-ty company. The ceremony, which will be Informal, Infor-mal, will be performed at the Immaculate Im-maculate Conception cathedral bj the nev. Hugh McMenamln at 9:30 a. m. Following the services a wedding breakfast will be served to the bridal party and the members of the immediate imme-diate famih at the Albani hotel The young couple will leave Wednesday Wed-nesday evening for their honeymoon trip Mrs M. E Wllhaui, Miss Tobin's sister, will attend the bri.le as matron of honor and Qulnbv Tobin. Miss Tobin's brother, will be best man |