Arizona republican., 1913-12-17
PHOENIX LABOR
 UNIONS SOCIAL
More Than Two Hundred Members Gather at Labor Temple for Social Time as Well as for Serious Business


 A well attended meeting of the joint labor organizations for social and business gathering at Labor Temple last evening was the source of much enjoyment tG over two hund- red members of the Phoenix unions who were present. The meeting had IS it's intent the furtherance of local trades unions and businesses and the welfare of all locally who are inter ested in the actions of the Phoenix unions. Speeches by the members of the various oUganiZa tiOns, and one resolution represented the business side of the evening, while large and rlonteous plates of salad and sand vlches were part of the social inn Ietus of the gathering.
 Music by members of the local musicians organization, and cigars cl local make with the stamp on the box, opened the program. The reso- ! lutiOn drawn at the hands of com mittee appointed some weeks ago. for drawing a resolution relative to trades and union relations in the city was then read
 It was q paper with the promotion of local labor conditions, for the fur I ard for building up those local in dustries employing union labor as it's subject matter, and was adopted by the members present unanimously upon presentation It provided also for calling a general meeting in the near future for the purpose of form ing Home Industry League. and suggesting that the press. manufac- urers. producers, contractors. buiId- | CTS and business mon of the city CO operate in the movement
 The feature address of the evening, and one declared to be the best the cX- ponents of organized labor has ever heard in this city, was that delivered i by John J. Mcbride, former president i of the American federation of labor, now a resident of this city. Mcbride recommended the get together spirit, applying the essence of the spirit to the proposed Home Industrial League, sup porting that movement as one of the most advanced which labor can take. That charity in relation to labor mat
 ters begins at home was one of Me Brides tenets on which he based many of the ideas he propounded, and which he stated was the foundation of any get-toEcther movement.
 R A. Campbell secretary treasurer i of the Arizona state federation of labor 1 addressed his remarks to the members of the unions personally. urging them l to get back of the movement now on | foot for raising the $2OOO with which l the payments on the new labor temple must be met on the first of the year, and he showed in the addres the pos abilities ownership of the stock of the temple offers to the union man. Dave Tickets. president of the bar tenders union rendered a vocal solo, accompanied himself on the piano. Be 1 side the Tickets number several num- bers bv individuals, and by d union 1 orchestra which was present were seat 1 tered between the addresses of the ev- ening. serving to tighten the burden of attention the hearers were called on to give.
 J. w. Ghent, representative of the printers unino, spoke to the assembly ] for several minutes on the present day | important political and economic movement and their relations to the | several trades organizations His ad dress was especially interesting in that it's howed the weight labor brings to | bear on these questions.
 1 John J. Corrigan, president of the l bflCkl3N NcIS QllOn ana pIcSIienl OI the 1 labor temple association, confined his I remarks to the advance of labor in the 1 United States and especially in this 1 city, in the past five years. He stated 1 that five years ago labor was repre- | scented in this city by one union. while | there are today active in Phoenix r such organizations. The greatest | growth in the unions here he further
 stated had been in the past year. in
 | that time the work having equaled the
 i work of the four years preceding. | Corrigan drew the attention of the
 l members to the fact that an organiza- l tion meeting of the temple association
 l will be held tonight, and showed that
 1 the meeting will be one of great inn
 1 portance.
 The meeting was presided over by
 1 President Bert Davis, who carried it iff
 with the best possible order and speed.
 | It was voted q success by all who were
 on hand, and other such evenings are
 l looked forward to by the members of
 ! the assembled unions with anticipation.