| Show GEORGE ESTES OF THEU THE U B OF R E TO SPEAK TONIGHT has just returned attending A L U session in denver george the president of the united brotherhood of railway employ es is in ogden on his return from the sixth annual session of the american labor union at denver he delivered a fine address at lester park pavilion thursday night and one at the county courthouse last night and he will deliver another in the courthouse tonight at 8 to which all are invited mr estes is one of six delegates that the U B of R E elected to the american labor union convention at the ossion in denver a committee of seventeen wa chosen consisting of all presidents of national and international unions that have united with or are under the protection of the A L U to draw up a new constitution for that body which is to be the most compre of any constitution ever adopted by a labor organization mr estes was elected the secretary of that committee and as such he wrote the constitution this constitution embodies three new principles first should the constitution become effective by referendum vote to the members of the A L U as required by their laws thereafter trades unions ill not be admitted to in or chartered by the A L U all the unions of which the A L U is composed will be required to form on industrial union plans instead of trades union plans the second point is the creation of a defense fund formed or accumulated by a per capita tax of 5 cents per month on all members of the A L U the third point is the centralizing of the power in a general executive board composed of the general president general vice president general secretary and treasurer andallo and also the presidents of all national and international unions united with the A L U and one representative senta tive for every members of the unions chartered the general executive board has power to declare striker to declare firms corporations or things fair or unfair to levy assessment and generally speaking making of the executive board of the A L U a labor trust mr esica brings put some salient points in his lectures at the pavilion night his first point was made on the fact that railroad men owing to increased motive power cars of greater capacity labor saving machinery etc are doing more cam more grobs and net receipts and declare more dividends this statement is taken directly from interstate inter state commerce reports which arc based upon the aborn leporta if the companies these reports chow that notwithstanding the fact that the lonnay lon nag and the earning power have every twelve months the average salary of the railway c as a whole have decreased in the past decade anil this notwithstanding jbf fact that the cost of living lus increased 30 per cent from this deduction i drawn fact that railway mc as n whole arc not receiving their just proportion of jaher wealth created by their labor the next point taken up was the fac that the railroad men as a whole are more than 20 separate organizations arc formed by them all of them more or lea agag lo 10 profit by it half or members of the other organizations there arc these sio organizations acir aggregate membership will not exceed whereas n north they arc opposed up posed to coar there are 12 railroad ail road leaving that aie air or that is 18 times greater than the united states army n a war footing The object of the U B of R E primarily iu to bring aliis million men to bring as many of the class organizations within the folds as may have principles of which the order approves last mr estes on the organization of the U H af pf R E and its makeup make up the relief department on the y 1 watt by collict P huntington in april idoo and the organized employed emp loye aland against it aia it v at abolished to far as bor is concerned then in november all of the unorganized employed emp loyes met in mass meeting and sent delegates to san francisco and t in getting the obnoxious department abolished but from committee the U B of R E grew in two years into the strongest railroad roil road mens organization in the country mr will deliver another address at the county courthouse this evening and will faither elucidate the principles of the order |
