The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-13
|lRGANZED LABOR
\ WITH SOCIALISTS
Nate Federation at Ogden
Passes Resolution to
This Effect.
10 The Tribune.

-oecjal to The Tribune
nGDEN. Sept. 12.-Organized labor
!, tytah today unanimously endorsed
IA Socialist party and pledged itself
uss every available means to dis
..,;nste the socialstic propaganda into
.rsry af6liating labor union in the
.tsfe when a resolution TO this effect
- passed amid considerable enJhusi.
~ Nv the Utah State Federation of
.bor on the closing day of the annual
-,nyention at the Union Labor hall.
por the first time in the history of
h state federation, organized labor
.ra,ted from the former custom of
LAYING official action with reference
a the support Of any political party.
Ia resolution endorsing socialism was
-et With hearty approval of every dele
IL at the convention today, and the
Nv expressions from those delegates
! attsndancc, indicated that the ac-
IA OF the Republican legislature dur
a its session last winter had much
o do with stirring mp the laborlng men
4. support the Socialist party by sol
4 vote in the future.
The alleged KIDNAPPING OF the Mona
|Sras and the refusal of President
"a TO admit Arizona as one Of the
lifted States, until the recall features
ii been stricken from its constitu-
|on. also had something to do with the
>cided stand for socialism taken by
A Federated labor body today, accord
. 10 some Of the delegates.
hxl.- nf mora lpSS
<pepinr nature also were passed at
|ls afternoon IS session. One condemns
.musl Gompers. president of the
|uerican Federation of Labor, of which
4 Utah labor BODY is a member, for
|6Iaiius with the National Civic Fed
1tion.
q Against Boy Scouts.
Despite the address Of the Rev. T. V.
|sher. one OF the leaders of the Boy
|out movement in Utah. delivered be
he the federation yesterday, in which
denied tnat the Boy Scout move
No in Utah tended towards militar,
d. the federation adopted q resolu
ID declaring that the scout movement
1s subtle effort on the part of the
|pitalst class 10 promote the spirit
.militsrism and train the youth Of the
Ia for the soldiery. The resolution,
passed, quoted from the monthly
|1Razine Of the Boy Scouts, in which
Fas stated that the object of the
|oyemeut is 10 "promote reverence
d discipline, 10 create in the members
lcye for their country which was
|nAtrued to mean that the Young boys |
being trained by the capitalist class
be nscd to put down strikes and |
Leg labor troubles.
Delegate W. NJ Knerr OF Salt Lake |
" was the champion of the resolu-
n fayorlng the endorsement of the |
<1elist party, In his address before |
convention he dealt largely with |
complaints that the police. military |
judicial departments OF the state
nation have been constantly used !
tne interest of the capitalists and !
lrst the laboring man, and pointed |
that the labor organizations which |
pose the federation should align
*nselves with the Socialists for their
|-defense,
Resolution as Adopted.
iSso'utlpu " hICH WIS dubDlSu III
fntlrety is as follows:
nereas; In the entire history Of the
,lCah labor movement, the police the |
10y and the judicial department o: |
slhle and national government have |
used IN the Interest Of capital. |
~ tnan OF labor. in the interest Of |
10y rather than OF man. and,
esfsas. This fact has been most |
demonstrated 10 labor al times |
,,or ,spor was struggling TO better its
psress. This attitude is not The fault |
~ american people of which this |
snsnl was formed and for which |
sustained. but is the fault Of can't
"hicn is throttlinE the democracy |
~ polit,ca! institutions 10 maintain |
haus.r'al despotsm. and
'stleas' This hostility 10 labor has |
s1o"n bS governments holding their /
y. nle Will nf each and all of the |
Ssp.,sllst Sst supported parties. and
There ia but one political |
u,,,e nj .oe neid today which stands for
,hsn laoor as against capital and |
en,,ra an nnal complete emancipation Of |
hsrae working class and
||e1iss 'Ihat party Is known as the |
<i3u part be II therefore
|yer,,a' Ihst ne, the delegates IN |
I---.eo.- aSsemolcd. do hereby indorse