The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-03


Inc company offers to sign Individual
contracts with the men, TO hold good
Tor one year or more, as the individuals
all the conditions of the contract
signed on the 18TH of July with the
men as members OF Unity lodge of the
Amaigamated association No answer
has yet been made to the company and
u cannot BE- learned when one is to be
expected
From towns all around Pittsburg
come adVices that Labor day was cell
epfated with greater demonstrate
man ever known, and that President
ShafIer and the Amalgamated associa-
ton received hearty endorsement gen
orally. @Ehe one notable exception was
AT Johnstown. Pa where the $4,000
people employed III the various big in
dustrtes celebrated Labor day by
working. Only two organizations. the
Bricklayers and H0d Carriers unions,
observed the day and not many OF the
members Of these unions Joined in the
celebration
Speeches by Leaders.
The labor meeting and picnic at the
grove was somewhat married by rain,
but a crowd of between 1000 and 5000
men bfGved the elements to attend
The early part of the afternoon was
gwen up 20 amusements and sports.
sllo - was after . o'clock when the
speech making began The principal
addresses were made by President
Shaffer and William J. Brennan. coun-
sci for the Amalgamai ID association.
NJ. Brennan preceded Mr.. Shaffer in
an address that wrought his hearers up
10 high pitch of enthusiasm. He ad-
vlsed them % guard the ballot as the
ark Of labOrerS' covenant" and told
them that II was their ultimate saliva
tion. The old ways of fighting by la
boring men viii have 20 be abandoned.
he saiu, and up-tO-date methods en-
pioyed- He reviewed the present
troubles. and closed by proposing a
remedy. This remedy he denOrninated
as labor's Injunction which. he said.
l. lawful and equitable "Enjoin and
restrain the ranks from lOaning your
money to the TRUSTS" Giving mass of
sta-s-scs. he said:
"Of the e.fG7. GOO depositors in the
banks. One-third of them at least must
be union men ard friends of labor.
w oen labor commences a run on the
oanNs- Ar. Morgan viii know that
there is something to arbitrate Six
~ Mons OF dollars cannot be paid with
sLoJ0OOo.O0G of gold: s.. 500 COO O00 can
not be paid with 81 ,00O. coo 600 of gold:
S-.SyO.OOO.Oo OF loans cannot be paid
win $iocO.0cee00 of gold. Demand your
money Have every friend of labor de-
niand his Deprive the trust of its life
money. Be united to a man, and the
trust VIII cry for quarter within a
President Shaffer followed Mr.. Bren-
phiiosophic student of the economic
situation. and have never posed as an
Interpreter Of the economic principles
involved in the struggle. My study
mas been from wOrl1ingman's stand
point. and It is a wOrkingman's pre-
seatation that I wish to make
No Proper Reward for Labor.
We look about and see that if the
original command to humanity. that
~ the sweat of thy brow thou earn
thy bresd.' is still true. many men are
liable TO earn their bread. despite the
tact that they are willing to do so.
There are times when they are not
permitted to fulfill the command They
cannot earn their bread because they
are not properly remunerated for their
Men are eager to find employment
which Will improve them physically
mentally and morally, and they cannot
get it. We find men. women and little
chlldren starving for want of the nee
essaries of life.
why Is this pitiable state of affairs
The principal trouble is that some men
nave too much OF this worlds goods.
more than they could have earned hon
estly in a lifetime.
1t is time for men to stop saving.
when they see the Troublesome condi-
tons that are confronting the world
Il told you So It is time that men
should do some hing, should try to
find a remedy Tor The trouble They
SHOULD quit looking back on the past
and the mistakes of the past What
We need today is not the men who will
recall the mistakes or Irons and Debs
Don't let us say with some of the news
papers that Shaffer will go where
Dehs and Irons went
This remark was the signal for pro-
longed applause.
What is the remedy for these tro1-
bles? It IS in combination. Let the
workngmen combine Let them use
their ballots in their own behalf Let
them vote as they marched today.
10 nc care If YOU call this socialism
or what you call It. just so when cleo
ton day comes around you will remem-
Der today and march up and cast your
vote LOT Worklngmen, no matter on
what ticket they are runnii z
For years we have been treating
with the employers on these questions.
When the trust came we wanted to be
conservative but when the combine
ton Of trusts came we saw that we
must be vigilant
Trusts Labor's Enemy.
Il cannot go into the details Of the
deliberations, but suffice II to say that
he trust decided to extingoIish our
organization when in last March it
told the workers in the Devices Wood
plant at Mckeesoort that they would
be discharged if they organized. We
asked the trust 10 sign the scale for all
its mills. Its answer was. We win not
SIGN, for If we let you organize all the
mills the Amalgamated association will
be too strong We must have enough
non-union men to hold the -vs,lance of
power.
What is a non-union mill2 IT is a
menace to wages II helps to lower
the wages OF the workers. 10 enrich the
rich man in Wall street.
They say that we broke our con
tracts when we came out on this strike
As the head of the Amalgamated asso-
ciati1- in the United States. am here
To say such statement is as false
a5 the heart of the man who made it
our scale book is our contract and we
are willing TO work for the wages
agreed 20 therein There IS nothing in
our contract to compel US to continue
working for the trust throughout a
year.
1T has been said that the strike is
already lost, and that a wise general
- always ready 10 retreat If by so doing
nc can save his army from humiliation.
All | have to say to this is that Shat
ter's motto is. A speedy death is pre-
fsrable 20 starvation IF We yield to
the trust now they viii steal more
mills. and soon we shall be I'm their
power ] would rather 90 down with
the Amalgamated association in de-
struction than be its president with its
members starving
But the Amalgamated ssociation is
net going TO be licked. Inc trust and
the newspapers viii have their inning.
but there viii be few of US left al