Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-18
EIauT-IIoUR LAW IN UTAH.


day, the report of the special committee
on convict labor, which was presented
yesterday, was brought and the recon-
mendations of the committee adopted
after discussion. The committee on ex-
ecutive councils reported that the mat
ter of dispute between the federation,
the National Federation of Steam En-
gineers and local union No. 6S01 of Bos-
ton had been mutually adjusted to the
fun satisfaction of all concerned. The
report was adopted.
Several spirited speeches follwed the
introduction of n resolution pertaining
to the situation In Cuba. The report
declares that II is the sense of this con-
vention that the United States Con-
gress should waste no more time in
debate and diplomatic negotiations, but
should take such immediate action as
may tend to end the indiscriminate
murder of the common people of Cuba
by the Spaniards A resolution was in
troduced declaring 1t to be the sense of
tbs convention that Cuba should have
absolute freedom.
motion was made to table the sub
Jeet, ana the question was brought up
whether or not the subject included the
original question. 1t was ruled that 1T
did not and the chairman subsequently
reversed his decision. An appeal was
taken from the decision of the chair
man. President Gompers then took the
chair, and when 1t was discovered by
reference to the minutes that Delegate
Elderkin had reversed his decision, the
appeal was Withdrawn, but a member
OF the opposite faction rose and APP
pealed. a vote was taken after an
hour or more had been consumed and
the convention adjourned to hear the
resolution at the evening session.
resolution declaring that this con-
Nention demands the government own
ership of the telegraph lines of this
country and the officers of this fedora
tion are hereby ordered to do all in
their power to assist the International
Typographical union to attain this
end, ~ was adopted A resolution pro-
testing against anti-scalping legisla-
tion by Congress was adopted. The
convention adopted a resolution look
ing to the appointment of factory in
sspectors in each state that at present
mas no such officers.
;, me vote was 954 for and194 against
The question of the substitute of'
ierred by Mr.. Lubin, declaring that
CUBA should have industrial freedom
from which 1t will receive political
freedom, was then called for and
brought before the convention The
,ote was taken and the substitute was
lost. Q. IL. Warner made a motion re-
iteratins the position taken at Cincin-
ihtl, winch was voted on and carried
and the Cuban matter ended.
Ihe Federation adopted resolution
demanding an amendment to the Con-
stitution OF the United States depriving
the supreme Court of the United States
and supreme courts of states of power
TO set aside laws made by the people,
resolution reported upon in regard
to affirming the position of the Fed
eration towards the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, was re-
ferred back to the committee. the re-
port stating the resolution was un-
necessary, the matter having been COW
cred at previous meetings,
resolution pledging the moral and
financial assistance of the Federation
to the British engineers was referred
without further action.
In regard to eight hour-day legisla-
ton, the committee reported q substi-
tute covering the case of women and
children, and the substitute was
adopted
The contest in Utah by the unions in
that State for the constitutionality of
the eight-hour law was explained at
length by MIR. Whitaker. and the
recommendation of the committee that
the Federation help pay the EXPENSES
of the fight and indorse an appeal from
the unions of Utah for assistance, was
adopted.
ganizers are hereafter to be under the
control of the president and be APP
pointed by him, and it was also ordered
that the members of the federal labor
unions be confined to wage-earners In
the strictest sense.
The presidents advocacy Of high
duties was concurred in by the COM
mittee, but 1t held that the time for Il
defense fund" had not arrived, and
that the question be submitted to the
aililiation organizations, which report
was adopted. The report Endorsed the
presidential views of the division along
| sectional lines, and commended his ac-
ton in re~ard to the miners strike. 1t
was ordered that II representative be
appointed to stay in Washington and
watch legislation, and the declarations
stand against the repeal of the COM
pulsory arbitration was reiterated The
proposition to create a national depart
ment of labor was Endorsed.