The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-28

BY vote of 10 to IA the Federated
Trades at a meeting held last night de-
cided TO. turn itself into Lannanite
aid society Jack" Daveler led six
Tribune employees up to the meeting
and ran things pretty much to suit
himself. The net result was an en-
dorsement of the fight being made on.
the candidacy of Arthur F. Barnes and
the placing of the Federated Trades on
record against the candidacy of F. D.
Hewlett for the council on the Repub-
lican ticket in the First precinct.
Daveler, although chairman of the
Republican committee in the Fifth pre-
cinct, was perfectly willing to knife
Hewlett in view of the fact that he had
already succeeded in making good his
boast that he would force the Federated
Trades to endorse the action of the
clerks union president. The session
was a long and stormy one. 1t began
at 7:90 o'clock and was not finished
until nearly midnight.
Result Long In Doubt.
The result was in doubt until the vote
had been taken A delegation of
clerks, headed by Joe Cottle. was on
hand. Joe is rather proud of the way
he has worked the clerks and he was
anxious to play the same game with
the parent organization However,
much to the disgust of Joseph, Daveler
took charge of things. 1t was too i'm
portant matter in the eyes of Jack
to trust to such a blunderer as CGttle
is on ordinary occasions.
Daveler must have made at least
dozen speeches before the vote was
taken. If he had been paid attorney
he couldn't have talked more zealously
in favor of endorsing the clerks. Incl
dentally the Lannan men claimed that
Thompson was the best friend of union
labor that ever hit a race track. while
Barnes, on the other hand, had always
antagoniZed it.
Jack was listened to with earnest at
tention. 1t couldn't have been other
wise, for he talked so loudly that those
inside the room could hardly hear
themselves think. AT times he was APP
plauded by the Storm Starter crowd
and thus encouraged he talked longer
and louder than ever. There were
speeches on the other side, and good
ones, too.
Talk By Britain.
James H. Britain, who represented
the carpenters union. and who was on
the committee that was appointed by
the Federated Trades to Investigate the
charges made against Mr.. Barnes by
the clerks, favored vote of ceasure
for the latter organization. He said
that the clerks had acted hastily in
passing their resolutions before tDe
committee had had chance 20 report,
and that BY their action they had over
ridden the higher organization.
Others spoke along the same line and
it looked for a time es if the talk for
and against the clerks would i,c pre-
longed for two or three days. Finally.
however. a vote was taken. 1t was at
first viva voce, but the ayes and noes
were so nearly together in volume that
President Graham decided TO ask for
rising vote. This resulted as stated,
10 in favor of sustaining the clerks and
IA against.
Next motion was made Hedging the
Federated Trades to use Its best efforts
to secure the defeat of Hewlett for the
council on the ground that he iurs a
non union shop. Daveler expressed
himself as being heartily n favor Of de |
personally would do everything he
could against that candidate. arr! the |
motion to go on record against him was
carried unanimously. An adjournment |
was taken Immediately afterward.
Will Have No Effect.
The effect of the endorse ment of the ]
pins, in the opinion of delegate who !
the meeting. II am person !
ally for Barnes he continued, and L
shall do all 1 can for him. Those of US
who were for Barnes will continue to
be for him just the same, regardless of |
the action taken tonight Those who
were against him will be against him
just the same.
L am sorry to see the Federated |
Trades going into politics at the behest |
of Daveler and CGttle and that crowd. !
1t has been the history of all labor or |
CARNATIONS that the minute they go /
into politics they are doomed to dis |
ruption. 1t seems a great pity that |
the clerks should have allowed them
selves to be played for rank suckers ,
by Cottle and other schemers in the !
party. 1t would have been I
just as bad, though, if Democrats had |
to work the same dodge"
As showing how much weight an en-
of the Federated Trades car !
ries. it will be remembered that Arthur t
Graham received the unanimous en-
of that body last year for
the position of county clerk. Yet David 7
L. Dunbar defeated him in Salt Lake |