The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-07
STATE MEETING
Of FEDERATION
Constitution and Bylaws Are
Adopted and Committees
Appointed for Service.
ANOTHER SESSION TODAY
POLICIES AND PLANS WILL BE
DISCUSSED.

Yesterday the state organization WAS
perfected of the American Federation
"f Labor, which organization comprises
. membership of 5000, 600, composed of
organizations which, according to the
declarations, discourage strikes, except
as last resort. The meeting yester-
day vas of the newly organized Utah
State Federation of Labor. which is
gathered for a two days session. The
body will meet i'm Salt Lake annually.
and some other point in the state semi
annually, in May and September.
The meeting WAS held in the Fed
Grafton of Labor hall, and delegates
representing thirty-five organizations
In the state were present. John n.
Spaulding, president of the organiza-
ton, who is also the state organizer
for the state federation, was i'm the
chair, and Austin Davis, secretary
treasurer, took note of the proceedings.
a constitution and bylaws were
adopted. and today the legislative and
executive and other committees will
get together to formulate a plan for
the state campaign of 1908. All of the
delegates were enthusiastic to the last
degree.
A number Of addresses were made
In talking with the newspaper men aft
erwards, Austin Davis, the secretary
treasurer had this to say about the
general sentiment expressed in the ad-
dresses:
Sentiment of Addresses.
THE meeting of the state federation
today marked a new epoch in the great
industrial movement which has been
observed from time to time all over the
country, in strikes and walkouts and
various ebullitions of misled men, guild
ed by leaders with various misconcep-
tiOnS as to their mission in the labor
field. The experience of the knights of
Labor, which was at one time the
largest Industrial organization ever
gathered together, containing all of the
various cults of social unrest, which
ranged from a delegate from the Sun
day School union 10 the vicious dele
gate mounting the propaganda devised
by such leaders as Herr Most and men
of his ilk. The vagaries of BakOnOuine, |
the nihilist from Siberia's teppees, to |
the deep-toned breathings of social phil |
losophy as eXpOunded by Carl Marx, |
were brought 10 a new and virgin land, |
where all men were equal, where free |
dom of speech existed, and where by |
such teachings mountains were made !
of mole hills.
In the advent of the American Fed |
Grafton of Labor. by the strenuous la |
Dor of love of the opponents of a sim |
pier social philosophy, which excluded /
all of the drastic teachings born on |
foreign soil under king, emperor and |
untoward conditions. things have
changed and a saner idea and simpler
view of the objects to be arrived at has |
been expounded from rOstTum and pull
pit and by the press.
Coming into existence at a period of |
great financial depression in the United
States, following in the wake of great |
and serious mistakes made by such Or
CARNATIONS as the knights of Labor, |
led by POwdeTly, and the American |
Railway union, led by such demagOgic |
leaders as Debs, the new organization /
mad d hard fight to be properly under
stood and to fulfill its true mission, /
which COMFORTS in action and idea eX-
pressed by the best citizenship of the |
land"
Constitution and Bylaws.
The constitution and rules were
seriatum, and afterwards as a |
whole. quickly and tremendously. The
chief points in the constitution are the
of American Federation of La
Dor laws as adapted to local conditions.
Nothing was allowed TO creep in which
does not cOmport with the general laws
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laws in particular adopted was the
ORA wing of cards from public libraries
for the dissemination of education
among the workers, and the recon-
menda tiOns that all union men insist,
i'm towns where free Libraries exist,
that library boards furnish books on
the social and economic condition of
the present day and of past and pres
ent industrial crises. Among the de-
cIaration of principles is that munich
palities do not give out contracts, but
perform the labor themselves, and that
the party i'm power be held responsible.
Committees Are Named.
The committees named yesterday
were:
Resolution and legislation-Dennett
Salt Lake City, chair
man: Kneass. Salt Lake Federation of
Labor, Salt Lake: Turner, Bartenders
ogden; Ellis Carpenters, Salt Lake,