The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14
WILL ORGANIZE
FOR ALL UTAH
Federation of Labor viii Be
Formed at Convention to Be
Held Here April 6.
EXPECT MANY DELEGATES
BELIEVED THAT FULLY TWO
HUNDRED WILL ATTEND.

A state Federation of Labor is to be
organized in Utah, along lines follow
ing as closely as possible the plan in
effect in Montana. Heretofore, while
there have been some futile attempts
at state organization, there mas been
in this state only the individual unions
and the local central bodies.
At last nights meeting of the Utah
Federation of Labor a call was drafted
addressed to each union in the state to
send delegates to meeting to be held
in this city on April 6. The call will
be sent out under the seal of the Utah
Federation of Labor, which, il should
be understood, is not a state body, but
exercises jurisdiction only in Salt Lake
City. This, despite its misleading name.
1t is expected that about POO dele
gates will be present from the various
unions in the state. The apportion-
ment of delegates has been 50 arranged
that the unions of great membership
will not, because of that fact. have all
of the say. The basis of distribution
is: One delegate for unions having q
membership of twenty-five or less; two
delegates for unions having q member
ship of fifty; three delegates for unions
having a membership of 100, and an
additional delegate for each 100 after
the first. Delegates are expected from
Salt Lake, Ogden, Park City, bling
ham, Eureka and other places. The
convention will probably continue for
four or five days.
Straightens Out a Tangle.
The impression has been more or less
general heretofore that the Utah Fed
Grafton of Labor is a state urganiZa-
ton. Such is not the case, and when
request came from Frank Morrison, the
national secretary, for the organization
of state body, the Salt Lake central
body took the matter up, With the re-
suit that the call for the state meeting
has been called There seems to be Il
disposition among many of the dele
gates representing locals in the feder-
alton to change the name to u more
appropriate name, such, for example,
as the Salt Lake Trades and Labor
Council.
Alex. Fairgrieve, president ~ the
Montana Federation of Labor, who was
a visitor at the meeting last night, ex-
planned the workings of the system in
his state. The state federation holds
conventions only once a year and acts
as central organization, not only for
the promotion of the cause of labor in
general, but as well for the settlement
of disputes in which locals are in
voIved
Mr.. Fairgrieve told of some of the
work done by the State Federation in
Montana, which could not have been
accomplished by locals or by city Or
county central bodies. He referred 10
the success achieved in the passage of
the initiative and referendum bill, the
employers liability law, the ease with
which the State Federation settles To-
cal controversies and its influence in
politics. in the way of seeing to it that
only the right kind of men are elected
to office.
In the course of his talk Mr.. Fair
grieve/ reviewed briefly the situation
with respect to the electrical workers
strike, and declared that the fight was
on more strongly than ever in spite
tiOns that there was no longer inter-
ruptiOn to its service in Montana
Sullivan Is Hopeful.
NJ. ]. Sullivan. district vice president
of the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, who has charge of
the Bell Telephone strike in this dis
trict, was also present and made a few
remarks. Mr.. Sullivan expressed il. as
his firm conviction that the situation
is in better shape now than it has ever
Deen DeIOfe tne SIf1ke started III 100,
urged the organization of state feder-
atoms.
The reply of Utah's representatives
in congress to. the effect that the
matter of sending recruits for the
army to Japanese restaurants had
been referred to the war department
and by it explained that only TWO res
taurants out of fourteen which had
been asked for bids had responded. One
of these was the Japanese restaurant.
The committee having the matter N
charge was continued for further IN