The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-01
KNOCKERS ARE
UP IN THE AIR
Mayor Richard P. Morris Cuts the
Ground From Under Them.
Jap LABOR A BOOMERANG
WORK FOR ALL WHITE MEN
WHEN THEY ARE READY.

nRODUCE your white men and they
viii be substituted for the Japan
csc.
This is the challenge that Mayor Rich
ard p. Morris hurls 1T the feet of tho
knockers who have been trying TO make
political capital against him because an
American party sub-cOutTactor has
employed thirty-five japanese 10 work
on the Bic Cottonwood conduit
Neither Mayor Morris nor his admin
istratIOn is responsible for the employ
ment of the thirty-five japanese. They
were employed by Albert Shovel whose
father is one of the most rabid 'Ameri-
cans in the city. Mr.. Shovel the
younger has some sort Of a sub-cOn-
tract under i. J. Moran. =. J. Moran
has the contract from the city to build
the Big Cottonwood conduit, and the
contract calls for the completion OF the
work by July j. next
The contract under which p J. Moran
is working has this clause. No. 5l-.The
said contractor agrees that preferences
shall be given TO bona fide residents OF
Salt Lake county for employment upon
the work. and that all labOrers employed
upon the work shall be paid weekly"
Albert Shovel, the American" party
contractor, claims that he is complying
| with the terms Of the contract as set
/ forth above. He asserts that he has been
4 unable to get home labor; that he has
offered work To home labor in preference
/ to the Japanese; that he has failed to Sc
/ cure the home labor at S. a day: that
/ the terms Of the contract call for the
completion of the work by a certain time
and that for these reasons he was COM
/ PEELED TO take what labor he could get.
/ With a full knowledge of these facts
( the knockers OF the city whose main
purpose is 10 defeat altogether the build
ing of the Biz Cottonwood conduit and 10
defeat the plan for bringing the Big
/ Cottonwood water into the city have
made a cowardly and dishonest assault
/ upon Mayor Richard p. Morris trying 10
/ make it appear that he is discriminating
/ against home labor and in favor Of the
/ Japanese.
/ A dastardly effort has been made 20
I swing the Utah Federation of Labor
against Mayor Richard p. Morris on this
| false issue raised by small bore pOliti-
| clans for selfish purposes. An attempt
was made 10 jam through the Federation
| a resolution cOndemning the administra-
] ton. The attempt was fOiled by sensible
/ and fair-minded working men who We're
not to be carried off their feet by
/ spasm Of emotional insanity. Instead Of
passing the resolution the Federation APP
pointed a committee 10 call upon Mayor
{ Morris and ascertain the facts.
! The committee under the lead of John
/ Spalding and Daniel T. Elton called upon
: the mayor Tley We're c0Urteously re-
I ceiVed and the exact situation explained
/ to them The MAYOR closed the confer
! ence with this challenge;
The Japanese are employed be-
cause white labor could not be Sc
cured. ii the Utah Federation Of Ia
Dor or any other citizens will supply
white Iaborers TO do the work on the
conduit within the contract time, the
Japanese Iaborers will be dispensed
with.
There's the challenge Let him take IL
! up who thinks he can produce white men
! 10 take the place of she thiTJy-tive Japan
/ eSe now at work If the Utah Federation
] can produce the men Mayor Richard B.
! Morris will make good his offer. lt
I they cannot produce the men they nave
{ u1 case.
The fact of the matter is, and IL is
/ fact known throughout the entire city,
that it is absolutely impossible 10 supply
/ tine demand for labor. On every street
the eve is met with calls for men. The
smelters. the railroads, the contractors IN
AN lines of Development Work, the street
department of the city-au are crying out
for men.
/ The knockers and their cheap tools nave
been driven into a hole OF the japanese
labor question. They fiTe0 the wrong euq
/ of tbe gun and now they are trying nara
/ To discover what it was that hlJ JheH.
Their incohereHt cries fool none DuL
themselves.