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Show ' various committees and tho passage ot a number oi rHtv.lutlons recommended recom-mended by the committee on p'solu-tlons. p'solu-tlons. Among the resolutions passed van one favoring tho enactment of a stale law prmluing lor a general piu-pnyer's piu-pnyer's liubiilty amj antl awim,JJ rUk law. Another resolution favoring mi eight-hour day law for government employes, whether by contract or subcontract, sub-contract, was panned. A resolution recommending the introduction of a direct primary law in the next meeting meet-ing of the legislature was adopted. Work In Legislature. Tho legislative coinmlttw was Instructed In-structed to do all la Its power to secure se-cure tho introduction and passage of the foregoing bills at the next meeting meet-ing of the utato legislature- The resolution favoring tho Introduction Intro-duction at the next meeting of the legislature of a Mil providing for tho equalizing of taxation lawn of this dtate was ordered back to the committee. com-mittee. The Federation also went on record as favorlDg the passage of the Initiative Initia-tive and referendum bill. The delegate of the steamflttenj union was denied a eeat In the convention con-vention without prejudice. It being th contention of th Federation that representation of the steamfltters Is provided for by tho delegate of the plumbers, until the dispute between national organizations of thedo two unions Is settled. LABOR FEDERATION FAVORSH LAW Salt Lake, Sept. 13 Equality of taxation, tax-ation, employers' liability, direct primary, pri-mary, eight hour day on governrm-nt work, and the initiative and referendum referen-dum are tome of the laws which the Utah State Federation of Labor went on record vesterdav as favoring. With the election of officers and the t-tlection of the next meeting place the sixth convention of tho Federation, Fed-eration, which went Into session behind be-hind closed doors yesterday morning, at the Federation of Labor hall with j between 55 and CO representatives of j organized labor lu various purls of i the state present, will come to a ' close. j President W. M. Pigott preside! at i the meetings yesterday with Theodore Theo-dore Gleree of Ogden acting a sec- retary. I The afternoon session was devoted I to the hearing of the reports of tho |