Utah Labor Before Statehood by J. Kenneth Davies Early Pioneer Day Parade with union participation. The signs on the three horse-drawn wagons read "Riveters, Old Style Machinists."
Lloyd G. Reynolds in his popular text Labor Economics and Labor Relations, in discussing the development of unions, avers that unionism did not first develop among the exploited or the industrial worker, but among the "skilled and prosperous workers." 1 The Utah experience in some measure points to the validity of this conclusion and serves as an interesting case history in the development of unionism within a geographical area. When the Mormon pioneers entered the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they presented themselves as a unique people, engaged in an unDr. Davies is professor of economics at Brigham Young University. T h e photographs in the article, except for the Pioneer Day Parade, were furnished by the International Typographical Union No. 115, Salt Lake City. 1
Lloyd G. Reynolds, Labor Economics and Labor Relations
(2nd Ed., New York, 1954), 43.
