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Show OFFICIAL GALL OF THE FEDERATION OF LABOR In It Is Outlined the Kind of Legislation Legis-lation Desired; What Measures Are. Tho official call for the second annual an-nual meeting of the Utah state federation federa-tion of labor, to be held ia Salt Lako City, March ,8, has been issued by John N. Spalding, president, and Austin Davis, secretary-treasurer. In the call occurs the iollowing statement: The incoming legislature of Utah will be petitioned to pass many remedial reme-dial laws affecting the wage-earning clas, which will directly and indirectly indirect-ly effect lasting benefits to every Industrial In-dustrial and business Interest of the state and give added impetus to the welfare oP rich and poor alike, and In no Instance will class legislation be asked for. Funds will be urgently needed to do this work to keep one or more of the legislative committees actively at work during the legislative leriod. Somo measures to be asked for are: (1) Uniform, equalized taxation, based on property values. (2) Law to protect mechanics' lieu on public buildings and works. (3) Sanitary wall-papering, plumbing, and sare-Cuarded sare-Cuarded electrical work, as well as s-clentific measures for proper ventilation ventila-tion and hygienic conditions in the rcbidcnccs the 'people live in. (1) Sanitation of workshops and factories, bakeries anl rublic kitchens, and sufficient suf-ficient authoiity delegated to health officers for effective enforcement or laws so made. (5) Double vestibules tot street car and engine-men, and a penalty for overcrowding public con- eyances. (0) For proper and sanitary sani-tary sleeping accommodations and shelter to be provided for all engaged on public works, state and federal, or by private corporations, so that conditions condi-tions destructive to public health and morals and dangerous to life generally may be obtained, (7) For laws regulating regu-lating bands of music In state institutions insti-tutions from competing with professional profes-sional adult musicians, or inmates of penal and quasi-penal institutions doing do-ing work In competition with free labor. (8) For a state labor bureau, nith a commissioner and assistant v, I ih defined duties and police authority. author-ity. (9) State hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis and like contagion con-tagion on the plan pursued at tho Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs. (10) That February 12, the birthday of the noble emancipator and apostle of human freedom, Abraham Lincoln, be made a public holiday. (11) The increase of license fees for business purposes on all aliens not citizens of this country, and the re-covation re-covation of all contracts on public works whero the contractor shall employ em-ploy such alien- labor. The above measures asked for can in no degree but benefit any civilized and Christian community striving for higher ethics, ideals and actual living conditions. Any member of our at-liliation at-liliation has the privilege of adding to the list, by applying to the legislative committee of the state body, and is corcMally invited to do so. |