Show 95 MERCHANTS OF OGDEN ARE SERVED WITH A WARNING unions of the city denounce legislators and collection agencies and adopt strong resolutions of censure ogden division lumber nine united brotherhood of railway employed Emp loyes ogden utah ogdan march 4 1003 at the regular meeting of ogden division no y united brotherhood of railway employed Emp loyes hold in union labor hall march ath 1003 th following resolutions were adopted whereas it has come to our knowledge by reading the columns of the salt lake tribune of february ath that during the debate on house bill no 73 entitled A bill for the relief of collection agencies which sought to make the judgment debtor liable for tho costs of suit an amendment to alic exemption law representatives stone and Chi supporting the measure argued that as a man is allowed 30 per month exemption etc could very well afford to let the balance of his wages apply on the balance of his debts and costs if he were honest and if receiving per diem abc some thing left to pay the coats after deducting the 30 in support of his family etc and whereas we au organization comprising nearly five hundred residents of the state of who livo by salaries and arc well acquainted with the economic condition of tho wage workers in this state read the expressions pres of such statements with indignation dig nation therefore be it resolved that we the united brotherhood of railway employed Emp loyes of ogden division no 0 in regular session assembled denounce such statements as untrue the abhorrent and the authors a disgrace to american manhood unworthy of citizenship and totally unfitted to represent the suffrages suf frages of a free people that HO pledge to use our individual and collective efforts to defeat tho political aspirations of any candidate for public ortice who displays buch ignorance of the condi tion i under which the laboring live or who seek in any way to impola additional burdina by means of tion adverse to the interests of the wage working and wealth producing class resolved that we further pledge ourselves and ask all organizations with whom we are affiliated to withdraw patronage and support from any business man firm or corporation advocating and assisting in the imposition of legislation adverse to tho of the honest working class and whereas we arc informed that francis G luke general manager of the merchants protective assoria As socia lion of this stale and the stratford collection agency of this city lobbied with great zeal for the passage of this amendment to the exemption law it being in fact mainly through their efforts that the bill was framed and while e do not advocate any policy or rule that shall be a measure for the re tion or evasion of the payment of any honest debt we believe this class of agencies is not well founded be it resolved that we refuse to deal and use our best efforts to keep all our friends and associates from dealing any merchants or firms who we know give their accounts to these agen cie for collection resolved that vc denounce the drake loaning institution and advise all brothers to have no business dealings with a grafting outfit of this kind who advertise to help the wage worker then ask for an assignment of wages and interest at the rate of CO per cent per annum resolved that thanks of this organization be extended to those gallant defense of the principles of justice defeated the bill resolved that these resolutions bo spread upon alie minutes eliat this union ask the endorsement of the trades labor assembly of ogden eliat a copy be furnished to the representative is referred to and to those who voted in opposition to the bill and that ibbe given to the press for publication W S agent division no 0 V U of R E SEAL resolutions ogdan lodge no international association of machinists brotherhood of boiler makers and shipbuilders Ship builders of america locco no brotherhood of locomotive firemen perseverance lodge no ia brotherhood of carpenters anil join era of america local union no alio trades and labor assembly of ogdan ogden typographical union no the barbers protective union no 1 of ogden team international union lo 10 cal no cooks and waiters alliance local no lc united association of journeymen plumbers has and alca m fitters local union no international broom makers local union no 38 the brick masonn and stone workers of ogden hod carriers union no of og den tin wants to know what the will dd who imo already placed their account sIn lianda like alic Bt andar anch hasal has al ready given mr stratford a large mini ner of old accounts dundei a contract that bo cancelled without mr Str fordi consent i the standard editor la iha author of that part of the saves to the debtor aff rot of exe cution etc T hn now to aft because man tries to abolish that came law TEdi tor ark colo knych S n authority hit the federation of miep workers have culled upon the union to lend n hand in colorado city neilla trouble by r to switch ore car consigned to alie unfair mills it ii finial clial order to abr mine the corput for put latter may not be fettled for beverl r adya I 1 i JL |