The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-08
COATES SPEAKS
AT PARK CITY.
Colorado Leader Discusses the
Labor Question.
DENIES STRIKE STORY
SAYS SYMPATHETIC MOVEMENT
Is NOT CONSIDERED.
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Park City. Utah. Sept. This morn
ms the various labor organizations of
the town participated in & great street
parade, there being about 1900 mems
bers of organized labor unions in the
procession. which was headed by the
Park City Military band.
Immediatg's after the procession the
crowd assembled near the Morsac
mill, where a stand had been erected
and a short programme rendered J.
p. Langford, president of the Miners
union, Ia a neat opening address wel-
coined the assemblage in the name of
n organized labor Of Park City and
in a few w~eli-chosen remarks intro
duced David c. Coates, eX-lieutenant
governor of Colorado, as speaker Of the
day.
Mr.. Coates opened his spesch with
"a history OF the organization Of labor,
showing hat such organizations ex-
listed in a meager degree long before the
time Of Christ and that from time inn
memorial there has been more or less
Of a struggle between capital and Ia
Dor. The great struggle. though, has
been going ON in earnest for about
sixty years. or since the beginning Of
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Coates stated. the factory system was
inaugurated and one machine operated
by a child ten years OF g displaced
ten or twenty skilled laborers. From
then on the struggle for bread has
been so great that a working man was
reduced almost TO a condition of servl-
tude and slavery.
The Federations of Labor have been
working and are still working with
great success 10 better these conditions.
Mr.. Coates stated in the course of his
remarks that great efforts have been
made from time to time TO disorganize
the labor declarations, but that the sue
cess with which the effort had met was
plainly evinced by the marching army
of from 100000 30 5,O00,o eco working
men and women who had marched
shoulder TO shoulder today ia the vari-
Gus cities of this broad land.
According to Mr.. Coates the labor or
CARNATIONS viii go on in their natural
course Of evolution. from strictly forces
on the Industrial field to WELD a mighty
influence in the political field and win
change the present system of industrial
feudalism to lei an extent that man
kind viii be living i'm happiness and
prosperity until the brotherhood of man.
will be the underlying principle of the
world.
From a government statistical report
Mr. Coates showed that every working
man. woman and child IN the United
States produced ten dollars worth of
wealth daily. and then he inquired of
the assembled union men how many of
them got their ten-each day. And from
this he launched into a lengthy discus
sion OF the respective merits of the ma
chinery for manufacturing and went. on
to show you it was as hard if not hard
er for the laboring man to enjoy the
comforts Of life than IL was many
years ago.
At this point in his remarks Mr..
Coates took up the present labor cOndi-
Sons in Park City. The carpenters"
he said. ARE only demanding their
rights when asking for a 9-hOur day
and the only fault that ne had to find
With them was that they did not ask
for eight, and 50 be on an equal soSt-
ing with the others who labor in the
state Of Utah. The statements that the
miners of Utah would go out on a
sympathetic strike with the Colorado
miners. Mr.. Coates said was absolutely
without foundation. Why" said he.
you ave an eight-hour day IN Utah
and that is what we are striking for.
No, we don't want a sympathetic strike.
We want you to work SO that we in
Colorado may still receive financial aid
from you"
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Mr. Coates injected several ideas of
government ownership of the industries
of the country. claiming that in that
way whenever a worker was willing
TO work he would have a right to work
and have an opportunity TO secure en-
ployment and the shirker would have
no play.
In closing the speaker said. Govern
ment is organized for the welfare Of
fnn nnnnlp and has the RIGHT ro| nhrnnr.
any system or law to that end. We
see this feature carried out every day
IN regard to public health. etc. Coy
errnaent throws restriction around most
everything wkieh is done. erection of
buildings. titles TO lana locations Of
slaughter houses and other delete-ious
institutions. but how insignificant to
the general welfare are these TO the
great blessings which would exist by
a right system OF Industry. where the
god Of justice would reign. fin place Of
the almighty dollar"