Arizona republican., 1912-01-21
State Organization Came Into Existence as the First Fruit of State
 Convention.
COMMITTEES WERE
 NAMED YESTERDAY
Convention Will Probably be in Session Until Tues day Closing With an
 Entertainment.

Delegates from all over Arizona claiming 10 represent approximately 9.G00 union men, met in O'Neill hall yesterday and organized the Arizona Federation of Labor The temporary officers were made permanent until such time as a referendum vote can he taken for the naming of perma- nent officers They are F.. E. Siman- ton or the Globe miners union. chair man. and Harvey P. Greene of the Phoenix typographical union. secre- tary. Various committees were ap- pointed. among them the following: On constitution and y-laws-Hipple (chairman). Griffin. Provost. H W. Adams. Phebe, Smith. Langdon. Sim ons, Stromberg, Blake. Leith. Light foot; resolutions-Reed Cchairman). Kendall. Lightfoot. Murphy, Edwards; laws and egislation-De WintOn tchairman). Clark, Schweizer. Berdu- so, Kesling.
 Many communications were read by the secretary and referred to the proper cornmitters for later action. and adjournment was taken to 9 o'clock this morning, when the con- Vention will assemble tO receive the reports of committees, which must be submitted in writing After adjourn ment the committees met for or Eanization and work. and as most of the members were on one committee or another. the delegates were busy all afternoon and last evening.
 Previous to adjournment il was set lied that the entertainment to be given in honor Of the visiting dele gates should be postponed until the evening of the last days session, which il is believed will be held on Tuesday There is a world of busi- ress before the new federation all ready. and it proposes to remain in council until it wades through it.
 Order Of Events.
 The movement for the formation of q state federation was begun some time ago. after conference with MT Adams. the local representative Of the national federation. The local unions of Phoenix endorsed the idea and appointed an advisory committee consisting Of Nicholas Edwards, G. W. R Kane. J. C. Provost, F. O. Adams and C. Phebe, which commit tee has had charge of the campaign for calling the convention and as sembling the delegates, with W. G. Griffin as chairman and Harvey Greene as secretary.
 This committee called the cOnven- ton to order and effected the tempo rary organization, after which the credentials and other committees usua! in such cases were appointed. Chair man Griffin delivered an address breathing the sentiments of union men and urging closer organization by d state federation. Secretary Greene followed with a report Of all tine work that had been done from the beginning of the federation move ment to the assembling of the con vention.
 The afternoon session was rather an exciting one. marked by several heated controversies. but all was set tied tremendously and in good feel ing Something of a fight arose on the report of the credentials commit tee. It had been provided that dele gates should be allowed votes in pro- DtTllOn to lIlt LII VA Ai4S hi''p4A" they represented Then as the Phoe- nix unions were represented by the delegates, it was suggested that mem- bers of the advisory committee should be seated only as honorary visitors without votes, on the theory that they were already represented by their union delegates. This. however, seemed hardly the right thing, as they were the leaders in bringing about the or ganization and among its supporters, and it seemed but natural that Of all delegates they should be most concerned in the proceedings. It was finally settled that they should be seated with voting privileges and the decision was received with warm outburst of approval
 There were forty-three delegates present in person. and in addition proxies were admitted for numerous others. the credentials committee re- porting the following apportionment