Arizona republican., 1912-01-24
CONVENTION
 Is HISTORY
Union Delegates Adjourn
 After Long Meeting.
 Officers Elected
GLOBE CHOSEN AS
 MEETING PLACE

After deliberating since January 2o. ! and holding sessions day and even ing. with committees working hear tily on the outside at all hours. the Arizona State Federation of Labor at its session last night concluded it's most serious business. and the yari- ous visiting delegates. representing many thousands of other men in all crafts throughout the state. will leave for their homes today. The next convention will be held at Globe.
 Al the evening session vote of thanks was unanimously extended t0 The Arizona Republican and other Phoenix papers which had printed extended notices Of the deliberations; to the United Press and to the labor press of the state.
 In the finals. Phoenix is well rep resented J. (. Provost of the plast- ,rcrs' union of this city was elected president, and Will!am Griffin was elected secretary treasurer. NIT. Grif- fin is e. member of the typographical
 union of Phoenix W. L. Langford of Globe was elected first vice presi- d
 tenders union Sheldon \. Reed of the carpenters union of Tucson was elected second vice president, O. l.. Warner oC Prescott was elected third vice president. and the office of fourth vice president was left for referendum vote. as il was not known just who would be most ac- ceptable to the union men of Navajo and Apache counties, where he will have jurisdiction. C. s. Prostel and Harry Kendall. the former Of Snow bail miners union and the latter of Miami. were elected fifth and sixth vice presidents. to serve at large throughout the state.
 Frank Lightfoot of Phoenix. past president of the pressmen's union. was offered the position of state or ganizer. which he declined. as well as other responsible positions. Nicho- las F. Edwards of Phoenix was then made the unanimous choice of the convention. All of these officers con- Stitlite the executive board. and will serve until the officers now Co be nominated by the convention here and elected by referendum vote, take their seats ten days after the state legislature has adjourned.
 NTessrs. Phebe. Clark. n. Y. Smith. Whims and Lighuoot. were elected as the permanent committee on laws and legislation. and. in conjunction with the executive board. will pass on and recommend all measures in which the federated unions desire to see enacted into laws. These pro posed laws will be passed to the forthcoming session of the legislature for action Failing Of proper consid- eration. it is stated they will be initiated and passed by tn" working men. if possible.
 Messrs. Loan. Blake, DeWinton. Greene and r. Q. Adams were elected the auditing committee. The con- vention then recommended Walter Holm to the governor and legisla- ture for the position of mine in- spector. after long consideration of the needs of the office and the con ditions which exist in various camps Frank Lightfoot was also the unani- nous choice of the laboring men of the new state for the office Of state
 
 position of boiler inspector The gov ernor and all legislative officers will be notified of the recommendations.
 Before passing to the consideration of the city in which the next con- vention will be held in November of this year. the chairman asked for some thing "on good and welfare of the organization"
 Mir Lightfoot addressed the con- vention. and spoke of the services, unreouited. of a man who had made l many sacrifices for the cause of la bor: who had supported 1t unflinch- inglv. and never sent in a bill for services-the official stenographer of | the convention. Frank Harris Bligh- ] ton. Amid applause, NIT. Blighton, who was not d delegate. but simply 1 working in his professional capacity | as a stenographer, addtessed the con vention. and, at tfs c6trmSion of his remarks. it was the unanfrnous wish l of the convention that they be print | ed in The Republican this morning. 1 so that each delegate could take ! back a copy in advance of the regu- lar printed record of the proceed ings. The speech follows:
 MT. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conventi0n-For many years have been a great student of what the philosophers call the phenomena of life. l have noted the mineral life "a rock-which is as much a miracle as a man. in that it cannot be ere ,ated by man. I have seen it as manifestation of life-fiXed and un-