Arizona republican., 1920-08-11
TWO SPEECHES AND RESOLUTION FEATURE
 K|WAN|S MEETING

A resolution concerning the proposed new city hall-court house building and ] two exceptional speeches were the fea- lures of the weekly meeting of the kiwanis club yesterday. The resolu ton adopted by the club requested statement from officials in regard to developments in the city hall court house building project, and asked if the project had been abandoned. while Jim Osborne, open shop advocate of Ia coma, Wash, and E. c. Phelps of Phoenix were the main speakers of the day
 The open shop movement was the subject of the address by Mir Osborne. who was suspended for 99 years from the boilermakerS' union of Tacoma be- cause of his activities against the out law" strike there last year. In his talk he stressed the fact that he is not opposed to unions or organizations, at tacking only the closed shop system under which man has to be a union member 10 obtain a job. He also as sailed radical labor leaders who. he as- serted, influenced workers by talk and empty promises.
 The good of civic organizations and their work in the community was the subject of an interesting address by Mir Phelps
 Guests of the club for the day were MT. Phelps. Mir. Osborne, George Me- Neil. Herbert Stein and Niles G. Hyatt.
 The resolution adopted by the club was as follows:
 Whereas, on April 19. 1920, there was held at the Water Users Building in Phoenix, public meeting of represen- tatives of all civic bodies of the County of Mallcopa and City of Phoenix. called together by public officials of county and city for the purpose of con- sidering the advisibility of erecting a new court house and city hall, and at said meeting, with the exception or Mesa delegates, who favored the for nation of a separate county, these rep resentatives. by practically unanimous vote, approved of the early erection of new combined court house and city hall and requested our public officials to take immediate action toward the desired end, and
 Whereas, both county and city oft cials then expressed their willingness 10 call an early election for voting of bonds and the choice of a site by the taxpayers of county and city, and
 Whereas. since said date no report whatever of any progress has been made to the civic bodies mentioned, or to the public at large and on the con trary, the City Manager of Phoenix who is generally well informed as to the intentions of the City Council Iast week submitted recommendations for a city bond election at an early date for the approval of bonds to include an issue or $loO,00O for the remodellng Of the City Hall, and :.
 Whereas, thus to patch up our anti quated City Hall will undoubtedly re- suit in the abandonment of the joint pl o3ect Of Court House and City Hall.
 Therefore. be it resolved by the Xii wanis club of Phoenix:
 That our officials both city ana county are hereby respectfully re- quested to make a public report as soon as practicable of what meetings if any. they have held since April 19. with reference to the joint project and what progress, if any. has been made
 That if the joint project has been abandoned. as would seem to be indl- cated by the report of the City Man ager, we respectfully ask when and why and by whom was it abandoned
 3--That copies of this resolution be sent to the City Council of Phoenix and the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County.