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Show 1 GREAT CROWD OF RAILROAD I MEN GATHER AT CAPITOL TO SUSTAIN THE PICKET LAW U . ! SALT LAKE, Oct. 4 The appear-ince appear-ince Of S(5O0 railroad employes, peu-lioninp peu-lioninp againet the repeal of the picket pick-et ins law was a feature at the legislative legis-lative Besslos thia morning at Salt Lake. The crowd of workers wow id-dressed id-dressed from the sieps of the capiiol ImilrilnK by Governor Bamberger nd wore then admitted to the galleries Ol the house of representatives Following the romplrtion of the regular order of business, R E Cll? i -v, labor representative of Salt Lake county, took the floor on personal orivllese. He called attention to the Eafcl thai two uniformed policemen yrio on th" floor of the house and demanded de-manded an explanation He s'afed Jiat several days aco when a crowd jiarehed 10 the capitol to urge thi n -neal of the pieketinc law that no DOr Ice protection was thought necessary, Representative CutTey said: When ihe white collared I W W.'a came here there was no call for police protection pro-tection " He stated that he had no knowledge of who asked for police but said th;r none of the O. S. L. or D & R. G employes who were present had Ufced for protection of the police This utterance was greeted with in lense applause from the galleries. Representative W W SeegmlUer lumped to his feet and requested that the serReant-at-arms be Instrutced to keep order, even though he had to clear the galleries Among the number num-ber of representatives who jumped to their feet in an effort to second the motion. Wilford Day of iron county-was county-was successful The motion carried by a large majority I Representative Currey ihen stated that he rould handle the situation and addressed the galleries as follows: "Boys, vou are here on a peaceful mission The rules of the house prohibit pro-hibit applause or noise of any kind from the galleries. I will ask you not to applaud anv statement 1 make." Silence followed, which was net broken until Representative Currey again demanded to know by what authority au-thority the uniformed officers had been given seats on the floor The; speaker of the house said that the sergeant at-arms was responsible Cur-I re however stated that he had over heard a telephone con resa 1 ion in which the arrangement for police protection were discussed. Representative Grace Strattonj Airey said: I don't understand that these men are on Ihe witness stand D D. MKay Ihen recommended that the house resume the regular or-; der of business and was informer) that S.1 business hail been cleaned Up I jir Masters then moved that ihe es Ision be adjourned, which motion carried car-ried by a unanimous vote The occii-l pant-' of the galleries then left quickly quick-ly and wilh very little noire It is rumored that the anti-pleket ing law will be brought up again 'n the session this afternoon, with one of the state senators as its sponsor. |