The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-13
RECREATION AFTER WORK.
Members of the Western Labor Union
BANQUET.

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The members of the newly formed West
ern Labor Union celebrated the conclusion
of their toll with an elaborate banquet,
and the enthusiasm of the men of Drawn
arose with the popping of the corks from
the numberless beer bottles which stood
on the table where the love feast was
spread.
1t was joyous occasion, during which
the wielder of the drill forgot his avoca-
ton. and carpenter ceased to remember
the paraphernalia of toll and the black
smith thought not of his anvil. About
$50 were present in all, and they sur
rounded three choicely laden tables in the
banqueting hall of the 1. o. o. F.
Enthusiastic speeches. in which capital
lists were mathematical and laborers eX-
tolled, succeeded to the displacement of
the viands and the bringing on of the
beer.
b. A. Harbour welcomed the guests
briefly on behalf of the Utah Federation
of Labor.
William Hogan, of Montana. discussed
the Laboring Man in Ideal Conditions
His opinion was that there was apparent
ly no ideal left for the workingman to
hold to, but his belief was that the day
it was after most of those present had
gone the way of the majority.
THE Producers Share" was responded
to by Edward Boyce of Idaho. president
Mr.. Boyce was opposed to the present
system of government. He contended
that all evils were due to unjust govern
ment. In his opinion there was too much
government and too little justice. IF
you believe as 1 do, continued Mr.. Boyce,
warmly you would be an anarchist as
am. The producer is gradually losing
his independence in the United States.
There will be no remedy until we abolish
system of government which takes
property from the hands of the producers
and puts 1t in the Golfers of the drones
of society"
Mr.. Boyce was warmly applauded.
He was followed by NJ. K. Mcdonald of
Nevada, who responded to "The Labor
Nevada was the birthplace of labor union
ism in the west, and called attention to
the palmy days of the old Comstock fed
Grafton and the good it had accomplished
by furnishing funds to labor orGaniza-
tons when they were assailed.
The humorist of the evening was devel-
oDed when M. j. ODonnell of Victor,
Colo, described the Bull Hill Strike y
when '1,20 cut-throats" were hired to
hound the Bull Hill miners. and stated
that the flag which foated above the old
hill breaStworkS was still there of the
two miners who were taken prisoners
there. Nicholas Tully had joined the vol
unteers to support the country which
prosecuted him. The reason he himself
did not volunteer was that he wished the
capitalists to try some of the wholesome
diet OF hard tack and bacon the miners
had been used to. so that their yalua BILE
lives might be prolonged. O'Donne1I re-
sponded to loud cheers and calls by recit-
ing a poem about how toilers were going
to triumph IN the end
Dan Mcdonald, the newly-eleeted presi-
dent OF the union. spoke IF Butte the
Gibraltar Of Labor"
II. NJ. Andrews in a facetious address,
alluded to the Labor Press which he
called upon all laboring men to subscribe
for.
virginia City AS She Is and Was was
the subject of a toast by Judge Mack of
Virginia.
w A. Macarthur, editor of the Coast
Seamen's Journal of San Francisco
spoke of the conditions of sailors and the
manifest unfairness of the supreme court
decision which held that seanen have an
extraordinary calling and are in condi-
ton of voluntary servitude. notwithstand-
ing the thirteenth amendment.
Speech-ma king continued until after
midnight. The remaining orators were:
J. A. Ferguson. president of the Montana
State Trade and Labor Council Troubles
of an Organizer: NJ. ]. Conley of Nevada.
Cooks and Walters: John Kirby. Colo
RADIO and Her Troubles; II. p. Cordial.
Salt Lake. THE Railway brotherhood;
Thomas McFarrar. OF the Northwest Ter
ritory. Canada. who discussed Canadian
Labor Unions