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Show LEWIS AU IT THE HESD OF STATE EEDEM1N Eureka, May 10. A. H. Kempton of Salt Lake, delogato last fall to the convention of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, was exonerated here today to-day at tho closing session of the state federation convention from any Implication Impli-cation of the federation In connection with the L W. W. agitation over tho Hillstrom case. It was decided that Kempton, In condemning tho action of the Utah authorities beforo the national na-tional convention, was only expressing express-ing his private opinions and in no way represented the attitude of organized or-ganized labor in Utah, on the trial and execution of Joseph Hillstrom. No delegates will be sent to the national convention in Baltimore thl3 year from the Utah federation, it was alBO decided today. It was voted that the sending of delegates would be a "useless expense" and the money in tho convention fund was turned into the organization fund-Officers fund-Officers were also elected at the final session, D. F. Lewis of tho Brewery Brew-ery Workers union in Salt Lake being be-ing chosen president for tho third successive time. Five vlco presidents were also selected, as follows: John Stromberg, Western Federation of Miners, Eureka, first vice president; Anna May Hunter, Garment Workers' union, Ogden, second vice president; J. S. Dixon, Cooks' and Waiters' union, un-ion, Salt Lake, third vice president; R. E. Currle, Carpenters' local No. 184, Salt Lake, fourth vice president; George Thenn, Browery Workers union, un-ion, Ogden, fifth vice president. J. H. Lamont of the Street Railway Employes' Em-ployes' union of Salt Lake was reelected re-elected secretary-treasurer. - Salt Lake City was selected as the meeting placo for the 1917 convention conven-tion of the state federation, and it was voted that the convention open there on the second Monday in May of next year at 1 p. m. Several resolutions were adopted, among them being one which condemned con-demned the shipping of munitions of war Into Mexico with the permission of the government Another resolution favored as a health measure the extension of the eight-hour law to cover all persons employed In and around mines, mills, tunnels, smelters, railroad cuts and the like. F. E. Morris, representative of the Typographical union of Salt Lake delivered de-livered a fifteen-minute lecture on the union label, and at the conclusion of his address it was voted to have Mr. Morris write out a 1500-word outline out-line of his address, to be printed in the official proceedings of tho convention. |