Show RULES IN OGDEN THIS DAY largest labor parade in history of ogden great success attends efforts of committee every feature of days program is commendable the labor day celebration in the city today was a grand success all who contributed to the program 0 events did themselves proud tho committees having the affair in charge worked faithfully to make a showing and their efforts were certainly crowned with success the celebration was gotten up under tho auspices of the trades and labor assembly of ogden following are the names of the most important officers of the day chairman chas A basa grand marshal J B bott aids grant V J Wels gerber and john biye committee on prizes and sports grant bers F J welster ber john frye robt dark E robinson john eklund harry riender shot and C B branting Brantl ng tho parade Is worthy of special mention there have been larger parades in the city but none better gotten up or conducted with more order or discipline ci pline the large representation from the different unions bespeaks the fact that ogden Is a strong union town walking with buoyant step squared shoulders and uplifted up lifted heads the members of ISS various unions chewed by their actions that they were proud of the company they were in the parade was led by grand marshal joseph D bott followed by a platoon of police the fire department presented a creditable appearance next in line the float occupied by a bevy of young girls representing the states attracted considerable attention all tta girls were attired in white with sashes upon which were the jamea of the elates thay represented at the rear of this float two young girls utah and colorado and a boy in military attire told an eloquent story of the labor conditions of the two states the girl representing colorado was dressed in black emblematic of sorrow while the other was dressed half in white and half in black colorado was in mourning while utah was full of sympathy for her sister state the next in order in the parade wera several buggies carrying the member of the city council speakers of thi day officers and singers the machinists and apprentices of local union no presented an imposing appearance there were about seventy of them in line of march beaded by a float upon which there were several machines in full working motion local un lonNo of the brother chood of boilermakers Boller makers and iron ship builders were in evidence about thirty strong they were also headed by a float upon which men were engaged at work on a boiler the showing mado was creditable indeed perhaps the most unique and withal most suggestive uniformed brigade in parade were the railroad blacksmiths who came next they wore upon their heads a piece of made in he shape of an anvil and this with black satin shirts blacksmiths aprons and sledge hammers over shoulders completed their make up the members of the blacksmiths local union no W followed next tn line I 1 local union no of the international order of railroad carmen was represented by many of the members of the order who had gotten off work and appeared in their working clothes A float heading their delegation represented a box ear upon which the various tags used in shipping wera seen after the plumbers ten in number came the electrical workers headed by a float which was a credit to local union no this float evoked much favorable comment from all sides the various lines of work connected with the handling of electricity were shown at the front and rear of the float were two sawed off poles with cross arms from which were strung a number of wires telephone Tele cabled electric tans small dynamos and other electrical paraphernalia were shown in miniature section A acey board operated about two dozen electric alarm bells upon which an operator played this float stands in tor the prize the electric workers about thirty two strong showed up in fine form the second division of the parade wag led by the atty band then followed the tailors union with the carpenters and joiners union next the latter named union was headed by a creditable float carpenters at work the 52 carpentere carp entera and joiners with their aprons on presented a pleasing appearance next n were the lathers 33 in number and the hod carriers with their bode and shovels on their backe the brick and stone masons 25 strong headed by a float upon which a section of stone and of brick wall bad been built it was very suggestive adel tho local teamsters union no were represented by a walking delegation of sixteen and a number of others on a float which headed their union after the teamsters came tho representation sen tation 32 in number of local union no 9 of tho united brotherhood of railway employees the of the parade was headed by fosters military band directly behind the band camo tho local cigar makers union no aba members wore large straw hats and many colored aprons and present ed a pleasing appearance tho retail clerks union no I 1 and the bartenders union no were represented by a fair proportion ot their numbers and were perhaps as well dressed as any other unions in tha parade the float which headed the local barbers Dar bers union was a well conceived and unique affair it was made to represent the interior of a barber shop the barbers officiating at tho chairs were dressed in burlesque costumes and made of the affair a regular vaudeville performance tho cooks and waiters presented a neat appearance in their working costumes of immaculate white the local typographical union was represented by a delegation about thirty strong tho laundry workers came next in a tallyho tally ho outfit followed by the local broom makers union no the float in the lead of the broom makers showed union men at work making brooms while in the rear of the float a man in convict stripes represented convict labor one was labeled fair and the other unfair labor A large float made in the shape of a battleship with rolls of paper for cannon deck etc was a well gotten up affair those responsible for this were members of local paper hang era union the last float in the parado was ona advertising the columbia club per cigar which was gotten up in nice style after traversing the principal downtown streets the parade ended at lesiter park there the committee on prizes awarded prizes for the following floats electrical workers 10 machinists 10 carpenters barbers thus it will be seen that the first and second prizes in each case were divided between two contestants te at lester park a program ot songs speechmaking speech making etc was carried out miss irene strong sang the message of the violet in pleasing manner and was encored followed by airs mary parley who rendered anchored in a creditable manner she was also encored george then read a speech which was to have been delivered by hon frank J cannon who Is absent in following Is the speech my fellow citizens the right of capital is the right of labor the right of labor Is the right of capital whenever any policy Is pursued by labor which is a wrong of capital then the policy Is an incorrect one and whenever any policy is pursued by capital which is a wrong of labor the policy is incorrect it has become the fashion in recent years to make special dicta concerning the rights of capital and concerning the rights of labor setting one off against the other by a claim of antagonistic right it must be certain that the right of labor cannot be the wrong of capital otherwise it ceases to be the right of labor it must be equally certain that the right of capital cannot be the wrong of labor otherwise it ceases to be right it has seemed to be the interested it not the malignant purposes of some writers and speakers in recent years to make confusion on this idea and yet the most ordinary appeal to our common sense and reasoning faculties disposes of the whole matter that which is the right of one class to enjoy cannot be the wrong of any other class with this basis I 1 may loin with you in hoping to see the day when the struggle of labor to secure its right and the struggle of capital to maintain its right will not be divergent but harmonious to that end the education the enlightenment the voluntary unionizing of labor are all important contributions surely ignorance Is not capable of making the refined discriminations which will be requisite in securing the right of labor without entrenching tren ching upon what would cease to be labors right by committing wrong upon capital and surely the individual boweter enlightened will not be as powerful for good in behalf of his claib as he may be when he Is one of a union coined in fraternity aad good purposes to achieve desired ends thus intelligent unionism becomes the means by which labor will not only determine what its rights are but will secure and maintain those rights you will observe that I 1 have spoken of cla ayes for many years it was an abhorrent word to me for in this land of equal birth and equal rights it had seemed a denial of the essential doctrines of our governmental institution and our social fabric that the population should be divided into classes but whether right or wrong the division has come and it Is folly to decline to recognize the fact it la not for me to attempt to define all the rights of labor however it will not bo deemed any impropriety to mention some of the distinct and to my mind self proving rights of labor to longer deny which is a menace against the progress of humanity first of all it seema to me that tt is the right of labor to organize into unions without unionism for libor the struggle would have been almost hopeless hope leso for living wages fair hours of employment security in the employment proper liability of cc for unnecessary hazard to life limb and health and excellence of workmanship A mere enumeration of these subjects demonstrates that they contribute quite as momentously to capital as to the advantage of labor and therefore there foie it la just to call them the rights of labor unionism has been so generally accepted and recognized in this country that against it is limited to a few choso whoso ignorance and cruelty refuse to accept facts in this enlightened time aad with tho gereral acceptation of unionism as a conserving force of thal rights of labor and tho rights of capital making the rights of society there are only a few narrow or elfish people who would deny the efficient operation of unionism and nullify its efforts at progress to my and the chief menace of unionism today froni without ie the effort to establish by dangerous aegis judicial and othal moans what lg called but wrongly called open I 1 recognize abo absolute right ot tho laboring wan to sell his labor in any market and the individual rights ut tho laborer to join a union or to refuse to join a binlon aa ho may please I 1 also recognize ho right of an employer ta with nonunion non union labor it he sees alt and in belling and buying individual and nonunion non union services both employer and laborer roust be protected in person and property from violence at tho hands of union labor but so surely as we allow all propositions just BO surely must wo allow that it Is the right ot union labor to declare whether it will work with nonunion non union labor or not experience peri ence has demonstrated to union labor in many trades in specific localities that tho right of labor cannot be maintained it halt the labor Is union and halt Is nonunion non union As union labor has no right and must not attempt to exercise any brute power to coerce or prevent nonunion non union labor from exercising its prerogative to work employment may be found its only recourse Is to refuse to work with that nonunion non union labor I 1 am fully abaro of the gravity of the statement which I 1 make in expressing a profound conviction against the doctrine of open shop in taking the position which I 1 have here asserted I 1 am running counter to the ideas of employers generally but I 1 apprehend that the view which they entertain Is one more ebullition of that effort which capital has constantly made to its own disadvantage tb retard the progress of unionism there are many trades in which union labor may be unable to declare against open shop such for instance as a trade in which conditions are as yet so imperfectly settled and unionism so lacking in strength as that demoralization of the union itself or demoralization of capital in that particular trade or in that particular locality would ensue but in such case it is only fair to assume that the situation will be corrected by lapso of time and that unions will be able to declare tor what Is called but wrongly called the closed shop in quite all the trades of the country before many years shall elapse A declaration for closed shop is not an illegal or a selfish deprivation of tho right of a nonunion non union laborer to work it an employer prefers non un loa labor he has his remedy all that a declaration for a closed shop from the union viewpoint should mean is this this shop meaning this trade in this locality shall not be part union and part nonunion non union it the employer desires to operate with union labor ho must use union labor alone it he desires to operate with nonunion non union labor he may have nonunion non union labor alone we who are making the battle to elevate all labor will not work with those whose determination against unionism is used as a weapon by the employer to destroy the effectiveness of our efforts to elevate all labor the condition of capital is very much safer and therefore the right of capital is better attained under unionism than it could be if unions did not exist an examination of the labor conditions of other ages and the labor conditions of our own times Is a proof that unionism has done quite aa much for capital as it has done tor labor itself therefore capital should be as ready as labor itself to lecog alze the right of labor to declare or closed shop the very argument for the open shop Is a tribute to the greater efficiency of union labor in the broadest sense we have open shop in that the employer can have nonunion non union labor alone or union labor alone but what the advocate 0 the so called open shop really means Is that he wants the privilege of employing union labor under nonunion non union conditions it nonunion labor was as good as union labor he would not ask for the privilege of employing union labor along with nonunion non union labor that he Is not willing to stand with nonunion non union labor alone Is a proof that he knows the superiority of union labor and musi have it in his business I 1 have already mentioned that it Is the right of capital and nonunion non union labor to operate without physical interference ter ference in speaking ot this matter i come to the greatest danger which menaces unionism from la duct BO far aa antona encourage physical violence or prevent nonunion non union labor from the enjoyment of ita righta to work and wadea in so for unionism Is degrading its hight mission in the world it union labor Is better than nonunion non union labor as here contended then violence against nonunion non union labor Is not only a crime but a tolly and wherever union labor attacks non union labor with physical violence alon labor Is thereby falling into an error quite as great aa that heretofore pointed out concerning the capitalist and js moat emphatically expressing a fear that nonunion non union labor will be found equal to or superior to union labor in proportion to wages paid summarizing then capital admits the superiority of union labor when it attempts the so called open shop and union labor admits the equality or superiority of nonunion non union labor when it uses violence against that nonunion non union labor As 1 have chown the general proposition of union labor ta one concerning which there Is no intelligent controversy at time and therefore I 1 have passed 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