The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-13

GIVE MNAMiR4 BROTHERS
PLEDGE OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Promise Moral and Financial
Support; Against Employ
ment of N0nunion Men.

Unqualified opposition to the ''boy
capitalists are seeking to train the
youth of the land so that they Will be
ready to shoot down working men IN
case of serious labor troubles, was
voiced in a resolution adopted yester-
day by the recently organized System
Federation which has for a week.
through nearly 100 delegates, been
holding n convention in Salt Lake City
most of the sessions being executive
and secret.
John Scott. the secretary of th.
System Federation, said last night.
speaking as chairman of the publicity
committee:
Most of our members are Social
lists, aud as such we are firmly opposed
to affording the boys an opportunity
of military training which is incul.
available to shoot us down in times of
labor troubles.
Support Mcnamara Brothers.
Other resolutions adopted pledged
the moral and financial support Of the
federation TO the Mcnamara brothers
who are charged with the dynamiting
of the Times building in Los Angeles
and who are now awaiting trial on the
charge of murder in the firse degree.
and condemned the employment Of
nonunion labor at any time or place
where it was possible for the employer
20 secure union worlsmeu,
This System Federation. which rep
resents the boilermakers and helpers,
the carmen. the blacksmiths and help.
ers, the International Association of
N ,.,- l..
and the steamfitters who are employees
of the Hartman lines west of the Mis-
souri, river. includes in its membership
several thousand workers. and while
affiliated In a general way with the
American Federation of Labor, has its
own independent organization and will
act on its own initiative in all mat.
ters pertaining to such labor questions
as arise among the crafts under its
control.
Two lengthy sessions of the System
Federation were held yesterday at
Federation of Labor hall, both morn
ing and afternoon being occupied with
the discussion of various problems
growing out of the relations between
employers and employees
To Avoid Disputes.
Secretary Scott explained that vir-
tually all of the matters under consid.
Grafton had no public interest, being
largely technical in their nature He
SAID, however, that the general SEN
timent was that controversy should as
far as possible be avoided and that the
adjustment of disagreements between
employers and employees should as far
as possible be settled by committee
of the System Federation selected from
the locality where the trouble existed
The advisory board held brief ses.
sion last night at the Wilson hotel. but
did nothing more than 90 over and ap.
prove the work Of the mass convention
accomplished during the day.
After the adjournment of the feder-
alton meeting at Labor hall in the af.
ternoon the carmen g section held n
meeting AT the Cullen hotel at which
they endorsed the work of ] J.. Suth.
ems, their organizer, and John Scott.
their secretary, and presented both
men with handsome tokens of their
appreciation and esteem.
a number of the delegates left the
city last night, but a majority will re
main here for day to visit the various
resorts or attend the outing of the
union miners at Wandamere.
The next general convention of the
System Federation will be held in Den.
yer. on the fourth Monday In May,
1913