Show I 1 CALLS ON THE VOTERS TO DE CLARE themselves claims that labor has no voice in the n r government the united labor party of thia county has issued an address which was arnado public this morning if ia as 1 we come before the public at this time making no excuse for entering the held of politics it Is not only our right but our duty it Is a well known fact ahat the american federation of labor has for years refused 0 o enter arito politics as a body but rather allowing its members to af with the party which in their judgment would bo the most favorable to organized labor and the rights of laboring people in general thus for years have we supported hose who promised much and fulfilled but little thus for years havo we been supplicants at the feet of the powers that be asking in moderation and coming empty handed away therefore wo deem the time propitious for us to arise and stand upon our feet as men and bomeli and demand justice and march to the polls in a solid phalanx as it were to enforce those demands we the laboring people of the united states compose 90 per cent of the population and yet what voice have wo in the administration of its government none wo alao pro duco all of the nations and yet what has been or Is our compensation A mere existence whilo we do not believe in the equal per capita distribution of the wealth of the nation yet we do believe that labor should receive a just proportion of the wealth it creates believing in ilie enactment of just and equitable laws and enforcement of all law we most heartily condemn the tendency of city county and state officials to sell and barter ho peoples birthright to corporate gree for a mess of pottage as shown in the disposition of public utilities and luither luif her wo recognize recognise the common interests of the farmer the mechanic the small dealer and the corn mon laborer in this that they are being ground to powder between the up per and nether millstones of extortionate torti onate trust prices on the one hand and tho of an undue portion 0 the burden of taxation on the other the farmer and alio merchant arc compelled to buy and sell their produce it prices used by tho trusts also tho farmer fhe merchant the me chadic and the laborer are all compelled to purchase the necessities of life at prices fixed by the same power shall we follow blindly the road that led to the downfall of tho roman empire when 3 per cent of her people owned 97 Bercen lt of her wealth tho went she was ho more we find 1 by consulting statistics that less than 1 cent ol 01 our people own 51 per cent of tho productive wealth in bur own land and that in the last fifty years the number of of the united stales has been reduced from 87 per cent to less than tf per cent and many of the latter carry mortgages and this the old parties tell us is prosperity shall we follow further this road that leads to ruin or shall we issert and maintain the proposition that this Is a government of the people for the people and by the people believing in the justice of our cause and in an endeavor to right tho wrongs perpetrated upon the people by and through tho influence of corporate greed we the labor people of the bbate of utah and the county of weber organize and launch this the united labor party and call upon all whether organized or unorganized whether in the shop or on the farm and all who lovo honesty justice and trusts to unite in securing these many needed reforms in order to accomplish this purpose a mass convention is called to meet sept 27 at 2 p m in the county court house for the purpose of nominating a full ticket to be voted for at the coming election A full delegation iia expected from all points in the county by order of county central committee signed W M PIGGOTT chairman L M BARNES secretary address all communications to W M piggott basement first na bank building |