The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-23
MAKES TALK FOR
UNION OF UNIONS
Secretary W. D. Haywood Addresses
Western Federation Of Miners.
CONVENTION BEGINS WORK
FIRST DAY is TAKEN UP WITH
PRELEMINARIES.

we cannot set our rights IN the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor" said Secretary
w d. Haywood of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners last evening at the social
gathering rendered to the visitors by the
local labor organizations at Federation OF
Labor hall we should be united all
along the line. VIC should be broJ her union
men lh every sense o. the W'fu anu III IL
III we get moving along ihat me ld3uI
viii never be able to maintain ITS right
full position in this country We. nave
been dOubie-CroSScd 10y the National &c
iC Federation but there Is q movement
on foot for meeting to be held i'm Chi
CaEo for the perfection Of an industrial
unIonlSm- and when that Is accomplished
Jnen we may believe that our hopes ana
aspirations are coming towards the end
We have SO earnestly prayed and hoped
for
Suppose that i'm q county in Arizona
band Of MeNicanS was permitted TO roam
at Will. destroying property and denying
the authorities. How long do You sup
pose the nlted states government would
stand for it, Why. in 4 few hourSc the
troops OF the government would be IN
there and law and order would be res
tored- I'm another way that IS just where
the industrial classes of the country stand
at present Our position has been largely
misunderstood. for the reason that our
opponents have by the weight Of their
capital and influence. placed us in a false
position Take the troubles in Cripple
Creek last year and those i'm Chicago at
Cripple Creek were, and those now en-
gagged in the strife in Chicago are only
STRIVING to get that which Is the birth
right of every man who has to exercise
his brain and his Drawn for the right TO
exist
Must Come Together.
Tho day is now here when telegraph
erS. bollermaN ers, teamSter-. conductors
and in fact every man who II engaged in
industrial pursuits will have to recognize
that they must come together ON a com
moDbaSlS for the common good. else they
viii fail i'm their endeavors- The work
ing classes should control an economic
conditions affecting their existence and
the only WAY To accomplish that j. to
get away from SCCtiOnaiiSm and 10 con-
common good To that end a resolution
VIII be Offered at this convention of the
1 Western Federation Of Miners to make
All union cards interchange BILE wherever
this federation has Jurisdiction. In other
words a uuIOnlSJ employed in distant
part OF the country viii be able to come
INTO our territory and by simply present
ing MS card VIII be able to Obt ain proper
/ recognition from the officials of any and
all crafts in the country over which we
nave any control BY doing that labor is
put on a more permanent basis and in
nImlcal interests existing will be brought
into harmonious whole
This brief address Of Mr.. Haywood
marked to a certain extent. the climax of
| the FIRST day session of the annual con-
EentIon Of the Western Federation of
Miners The opening meeting was begun
at o. clock Yesterday morning at Odd
Fellows nall in Market street. and there
were present nearly three hundred dele
safes from all over the United States and
British Columbia where there are mining
interests Later in the day there We're
additions made to the roll by men from
the extreme east and southeast and this
morning II is expected that the last of the
delegates VIII have arrived.