The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-18
WORKMEN'S QUARTERS.
A LIBRARY. FREE EMPLOYMENT
BUREAU AND READING ROOMS.
Formally Dedicated Last Night-In-
teresting Addresses BY 81 Number
of Prominent Citizens-A Worthy
Institution.

The lower floor Of the Scandal hall,
on Second South street, east, was for
mally dedicated last evening by the
Building Trades Congress and FEEDER
ated Trades and Labor Council for the
purpose of free reading rooms, library
and a free employment bureau. Mr..
Laurence Gronlund was the principal
speaker of the evening, and short adj
dresses were also made by Ex-Governor
Thomas, Mayor Baskin, LIE Grand
Young and others.
The meeting was called to order by
Chairman j. l.. Frank, who spoke a
few word explanatory of the objects OF
the gathering.
Mayor Baskin, who was present by
request, was called upon for an adj
dress and responded in a short speech
in which he Endorsed the plan and
cautioned them that the good accom-
plished would be according to their
own efforts He also dwelt upon the
rise of great men in the past from
humble beginnings and hoped TO see
good library built up.
John K, Nathan was the next speak
er. and, in a happy but little Speech
commended the objects of the meet
ing and dwelt upon the advantages
and necessity of education for working
men, and hoped to see the library gro"
to useful proportions.
Ex-Governor Thomas was then call
ed upon and gave an instance of the
growth of a similar institution in the
citv of Pittsburg, and hoped this would
do likewise. He believed we had
hard winter before us, and thought
the bureau would be productive Oh
much good in giving work to bona noe
citizens of Salt Lake. He wished the
institution all success possible and ex-
pressed his willingness to help work
ingmen as far as he could.
He was followed by the celebrated
''collectivist," Laurence Gronluno,
SYNOPSIS of whose speech is as FOL
lows:
Labor is, and mas always been, the
standard and measure Of CIVILIZATION
Civilization can be defined as a series
of struggles to raise the work1ngiriah
in the social scale; from a slave 70
serf. from that to wage-earner. But
as such he is discontinued, and ms IS
divine discomfort. He has galneu
Iiberty-which too often means no
erty'' to starve-but he has lost the
all. like the slave and the serf, he re
mains a mere means to the private
greed of others The wage-system is
truthfully called wage-slavery. He
must be raised upon the highest rung
of the social ladder; for this purpose
the wage-system must be abolished;
then our civilization will be perfected.
I fervently hope that the birth of the
new century will find us on the high
H. ,Ior
our country will be the first to realize
it For this purpose a national third
party is requisite, a party that in oppo-
sition to the two old parties will have
for it's war cry: 1.-The dominion of or
ganized capital must be crushed 1t is
here, 1 trust, that history will repeat
itself. Remember that the Republican
party at it's birth was also a third
party; in it's first campaign in '56 it
captured many northern states and
majority of the House of Representa-
tives; it gained power in its second
i'll go and, led on by the logic
of events, it crushed chattel slavery.
May the next two presidential elections
repeat this. One thing is sure: That
the coming national third party can,
with a proper national platform, make
the election of SO a parallel to that of
Sc and the election of 1900 a par
termine what is such a proper
platform, we must remember that the
aim is to crush capitalism and abolish
the wage system. Note further, that
a wrong solution of intermediate prob
lens, even if backed by a million of
bayonets, will be no solution, it must be
a right solution of each to be lasting;
that is to say, it must be in line with
the final solution; must be a stepping
stone ~ final EIar1no 7
the ideal platform of the national third
party should have these three planks:
State productive work to the unem-
ployed, naturalization of telegraphs
and railroads, and government banking
without any admixture of greenback-
ism. On the two last demands 1 shall
speak elsewhere; here a word on the
the unemployed should be separated
into "unskilled'' and skilled" let the
former be set to labor on roads, etc,
but the latter should be assigned to
their various trades-aS much as pos
sible. 1t is just and practicable. When
an employer abdicates, when he shuts
down his factory, because he cannot
make his accustomed profits, the state
has a right, aye a duty, to step in and
say, eff you abdicate your social func-
tons I will step into your shoes, and
perform them for you. :, can. do it,
simply because I care nothing for pro-
fits but only for my citizens. having
steady work at decent wages" An
yed'-meaning one who can
but is not allowed to work-always can
earn enough to maintain himself and
family, and reimburse the state-even
iefray small interest on the capital
which. observe, will be furnished by
he third plank government banking.
1t probably will be news to you, that
here is one state in the Union that for
more than a century has had |
IN it's statute books law to
this effect; that state is Penn |
sylvania, a law, covering three lines. |
saying: Whenever a citizen of this
state is out of work, the overseer of the |
poor shall furnish him with raw mate |
rails, with tools and a workshop" But |
since it is the interest of capitalism to 4
nave reserve army of laborers always !
1n hand, this law of course has never
been executed.
Such the platform should be in order |
to accomplish our first success, to re-
peat the Republican success Of 1856. |
After it, with a majority in the House
If Representatives and several states |