The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-18
BUSINESS MEN
FORM ALLIANCE
Prominent Citizens of Salt Lake
Arrange For Organization.
STRIKES TO BE DISCOURAGED
LABOR UNIONS ARE SCORED By
ORGANIZER FROM COLORADO.

/ RALT LAKE has Citizens alliance.
"a It's object is to discourage and dis
countenance strikes and lockouts
to the point, when necessary, Of fight
ing organized labor with brain, muscle
and coin. 1t sprang up as if by magic
at a meeting Of representative business
men held in the mining exchange last
night and upwards of seventy fin ate
tendance signed applications for mem
bership.
The organization has its duly-elected
executive committee, whose member
ship is as follows: r. S. Campbell
chairman; Joseph A. Silver u. A.
Wall. w. S. Mccormick, James C.
I LeaTy, +. J. Moran, George TT. Robin
son, Frank Knox. Charles Read, W.
c. B0gue, III. II. Walker and O.. s..
Burton The president, vice presi-
y dent and secretary viii be named from
this committee and announced at. a
second meeting, to be held within a
few days.
Forming of an Alliance.
There had been no public announce
ment of the meeting held last night
and except to the few who were iu-
vited by committees quietly at work
during the afternoon the action came
/ as complete surprise. Tt was how
| ever the result of a conference held at
the Commercial club on Wednesday
night at which j. @. Craig. president
Of the Citizens alliance of Colorado
and vice president OF the national al
lance. was the principal factor
At this meeting AIr- Craig stated the
conditions which in his opinion made
such organizations necessary and stat
ed the objects thereof He advised the
( thirty business men present to perfect
/ a Citizens alliance, and they accepted
this advice by preparing an outline Of
/ constitution and bylaws and COM
plete lists of committees. a. quiet i'm
VItati0n was sent out In the business
district yesterday and a good repre-
I sentatiOn was the result when super
intendent Joseph ii. Young of the Rio
Grande Western called the meeting go
order last night. John j.. DoOly was
/ elected chairman and O. P. Mason ac-
cepted the secreIaryship after Fisher
Harris had declined that honor.
Attacks Organized Labor.
Mr.. Craig was then called upon to-
( address the meeting on the objects ~
the Citizens alliance He trained his
guns on organized labor at the outset
and was sensauOnaly direct in his
speech, which was replete with red-1or
opinions of unions and uniOuism. The
speak explained that he was NOT
present as an organizer, but at the re-
quest Of a number of Salt Lake Dusi-
ness men. TO advise with them. The
theory of organized labor he considered
not Objectionable as 1T existed iu the
days of King solomon, but the Master
I MasOnS of that time would turn over
i'm their graves. he believed. could
they witness the methods employed by
labor unions today
I aNNna TTnfnnG This
l country nowadays" declared Presi-
dent Craig. that they VIII stop at
nothing. They attempt by coercion
and intimidation to control the govern
ment, judges Of courts. peace officers
and governors, and all other OrEauiZl-
tons. They want not only to stop
work themselves. but to stop others
from working. and these citizens all
iianCes that are spriugiug up all over
the country are not going to permit
it any longer CApplause)
Outrages by Unions.
There is no need to recount to. you
the many outrages perpetrated hy
unions i'm this country. They have
/ usurped the powers of government In
all parts of the nation. They have
gone from peaceful persuasion to muir
: der. Yes murder Hundreds of muir
Gers in cold blood are charged to labor
unions i'm this country. Look al my
I own ELaLE-LL enDALN UH EaLiHl UIlNL.
Colorado. Bleeding Kansas. that we
used to hear about is forgotten by the
contrast.
over there they openly urge mem
I bers to acts of violence and IawIess-
/ ness And that is why we found
( citizens alliance imperative. Ir
reached the point where we could not
convict a law-breaker if he belonged
TO a union. They controlled even the
/ courts And this condition existed UNI
til we were 5000 or 5000 strong. when
finally we prevailed upon the officers
TO protect the rights of citizenship.
CAS- an example of the criminal
methods Co which Unfonisrn win stoou.
] wish to cite the strike at Idaho
Springs. Colo. We have collected evi-
l dence that shows conclusively the exc
istence of a plot among members of the
Western Federation of Miners TO send
kegs Of powder down a hin into the
shaft house of the sun d Moon Mining
company to blow up the shaft house
and slaughter thirty OF forty nom
union men at work there.
Powder Was Exploded.
The diabolical plot would have sue
| ceeded too had not the key contain
ing the powder been 6Werved from it's
! course by striking a rock. Tt went off,
though. and killed one of the con-
spirators, in whose pocket union card
Again at Telluride a Union leader In-
sisted upon the management ab0lishing
the contract system. as under IFS pro-
visions he could not make good wages.
. Forty murders were the appalling result
The strikers ordered 80 gums from Den-
Ver-and the order isl on recprd-ard
marched iu body ON the SuugElcr
mine and shot down I'm cold blood SIX
men at work there. After rCbbi1C the
dead bodies the murderers marched the
inon-union men fifteen miles over che
E snow-covered mountain barefooted, and
when some OF them gave out they were
shot I'm the back. This is unlollsm SIS ir
b exists I'm Colorado
President Craig scored Former Govern
or Orman Of Colorado Tor his sub
sequent action SIN sending Socialists ami
labor representative to investigate COM
ditiOns. their reply being that troops
were not needed on the ground.
Praises Governor Wells.
Thank God" exclaimed the speaker
"yOu have a governor here who has Che
courage 70 protect your lives and prop
erty tn YOU get no further at this meet
Ing. endorse Governor Wells and y0u Ve
accomplished much.
The speaker said De believed there wai
loss need for a Citizens alliance here
r than any other place. but advised his
hearers not 20 forget that labor aSitators
were busy and there was no telling how
soon the necessity would come TIC
praised Kramer for refusing TO employ
. union labor. and declared that To cals
there has never been a strike OrgauizeG
hv the Miners Federation that did iot