Show Ir ts OF STATE AND I tV II I CITY jy ORDINANCE ORO AREt AREc ARE t c MED ATTACKED BT BY I. I W. W I W t It I Mo Morgan Declares Utah Forces i Accused to Prove Himself Innocent e Members of or the I. I W UT W TV the Socialist Social Social- let party part and tho the labor unions gathered at 8 o'clock last nl night ht nt at Unit Unity han hall to I protest too the action ol ot the tho police and city authorities following tho the local ex excitement of or two weeks ago Tho The pe petition petition pe- pe titian of tho the Salt Lal Lake e Federation of Labor asking tho the mayor or and city commissioners com com- commissioners missioners to repeal l tho ordinance prohibiting pro pro- street stroet speaking was ratified after scathing comments against tho the or ordinance or- or in tn particular and aud tho authorities author author- f ties lies generally by y J. J F. F Morgan l Fred 1 Kilter and Murray lurra KIng editor of or the Intermountain Worker George Georce Childs presided at al the mooting Morgan was tho the first SaIng SalIng SayIng Say Sal Ing that he ho was weak from the tho loss of ot s f blood ho sustained he passed by theriot the tho f riot and turned his attention to the I work of ot tho thu I. I W V VV W V generally If U we were half halt as bad as the newspapers news news- papers claim ho he said wo we we would bei bo be i unfit to live l but we t are only working for foT the tho betterment of tho the condition of of labor It and so we wo are aro disliked I have boon beon In this state throe three months Of or that time I h have havo o spent sixty eight dasIn days das In n Jail for different alleged offenses Tho The sentences were unearned b by me mens as ns they generally aro are by us Tho They tn talk of ot bloodshed and all that eort sort of ot thing in connection with the L W W W. TV W. but it will bo bl noticed that in most moat cases It ItIs Itis Is IH the blood of ot the L W. W TV W. worker that Is IB shed and n not t tho the others Tells TeU of Sabotage Morgan spoke of ot strikes strikebreaking strikebreaking strike strike- breaking sabotage and picketing relating ye- ye re relating lating many man Instances in his experience Sabotage was described not as destruction destruction destruction tion or but a as a Q cutting off ort of ot the profits of ol the tho employer r. r Examples were shown to Illustrato illustrate this as as for Instance in a a. San Francisco restaurant where the strikers congregated In tho the eating place which cat catered ed to trade bought coffee and high class doughnuts and passed the tho whole holo noon hour eating these simple and inexpensive sive while moro more profitable customers were crowded into the th theat at streets I Q Morgan thon then reached re his peroration and oud denounced many Institutions Tho The is all glorious If It flag he lie said very you caro to look at it that way a but we wo weare aro are fighting for the necessaries of life Ire You can oan buy all aU the tho nags flags you want for 10 Hi cents each Tho The laws of ot Utah The confounded laws of Utah are what lost us the tho Bingham strike The laws of Utah are such that I if you advise lse a n. man manto manto liable to bo be sent Bent to go o on strike you ou are to the penitentiary That Is ls the sort Gort of state wo we aro in Show me an any statute of Utah that favors ors tho the working class Therefore I eay ay we c cannot can There Thero Is none eat snot s- s not be blamed for tor breaking tho the l lIf laws break our own laws we should If It we but not for tor breaking laws laws be punished whose whoso making wo we had bad nothing to d do with Will the L W TV TV W be bo driven out of Utah 7 It Is impossible The object of ot the Utah statutes is s to crush all aU la Ia- labor bor her but ut it cannot annot be bo done Utah's Lows Laws As As for my own case cas I am m going to tobe tobe tobe be on trial because of the tho recent riot I must mast prove my Innocence In Utah ono is not believed Innocent till he can prove p roo It it Murray King editor of ot tho the Intermountain Intermountain Intermountain Inter- Inter mountain Worker Yorker thon then propounded a l series of or ten questions which ho he said the city officials should answer if It they could Among them were l If the I I. I TV IV 1 TV W broke tho the laws be before before be- be fore tore the riot why w were not charges p by the city officials Tho The officers Wore flayed for their sudden zeal after tho riot and not t no- no o- o fore forc Tho The second question was as an al allegation al- al legation that the tho officials knew durin during tho day of ot the riot that Axel Steele was going to start tho the attack and that three reporters know of It It and wore told to bo be present present- That knowing this thle as tho they must have havo known the tho of officers officers ot of- of tho the law aided and abetted lawlessness from other othor officers Why ho asked did the authorities make moko no move o when they knew the tho as assault assault assault as- as sault was to happen Why did the police arrest the tho men knocked down beaten and kicked kicked- meaning our members and members and not the th men did who did tho the beating and kicking Vh Why was 3 a man who was beaten half to death charged ell with assault with a deadly weapon while the armed man who started tho the trouble was allowed to togo togo togo go free trec Why did the newspapers excite ex- ex cite public opinion against us and sn say threats were wera made by our members against Steele s 's life Anyone who t made mado such threats ought to be sent to an ana a asylum to Join the tho other lunatics Why w was BO so much made of ot the few rew minutes of ot trouble on Second South two weeks weeks' ago o r 13 Is the that cU city so hard rd pu put t to I it t for tor protection that It t cannot properly handlo han han- dlo things thinS'S when Then a lIttle excitement starts Those are arc questions that concern not on only tho the I. I W. W W. W but the tho city S at large Wo We are said to bo be apostles of violence but It seems that violence has been done us b by persons persona who havo torn aside the tho ma mask k of civilization and talon t ta onon on en on tho the mask of or violence Fred Freel was the last speaker and his talk followed tho the general trend trend of the tho others protesting against the tho alleged In co Jj t co of oc the tho wh whole 80 Social lal fabric against the labor Jabor element clement IIo Ho was not ho however evor n nearly so vehement bement as Morgan MOlgan whose whose most moet phrase was was- asp They The call us the tho Tl I I Wont Won't Works Yes It Is 18 true wo YO do not work for some Bome folks They call us 1 i V Want Yant ant lI helt That chat may he be true Thero There are man many things w We want and lack |