The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-05-25
The Western Federation Arayed
Against Old Parties.
THEIR GRIEVANCES SET FORTH
senator Boyce OF Idaho VIII Start at
Once TO Organize Unions in the
Western States.

Denver, May 19.-The convention OF
the Western Federation of Miners con-
cluded its session today. Senator Ed
ward Boyce of Idaho. was made organ
izer for the body, and as soon as the
executive committee maps out a plan
of work for him, he will start on his Ia
bors. 1t is claimed that on the second
Monday of next May, when the fedora
ton is to meet here again, that the MIN
ing districts will have been so thor
oughly banded in union that the conVen-
ton will be the largest labor gathering
ever held in this city. p. p. Clifford was
made delegate to any labor conventions
in the country to which the federation
may see fit to send a representative.
He will attend such meetings as the
executive committee may choose.
George e. Pettibone of this city was
made an honorary MEMBER of the organ
ization on account of his sacrifices and
services for union causes in Idaho. Inc
election of officers resulted as follows:
President, Samuel Roberts, Butte,
Montana; vice presidents, James Leon
ard of Cripple Creek, and John BeVin
of Granite Mountain, Montana; secreta-
ry-treasurer, w. II. Eddy; executive
committee, Thomas Graham. James
Maher and Richard Thomas, all or
Montana, and Charles Alexander OF
South Dakota. 1t was decided that
Butte, Montana, should retain the head
quarters of the federation.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The resolutions adopted by the feder-
alton are as follows:
1--WE hold these truths to be self-eVi-
dent, that men are created equal; thai
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit.
of happiness; that to secure these rights
governments are instituted among men
deriving their just powers from the con
sent of the governed; that whenever any
government becomes destructive u
those ends it is the right of the people
to alter or abolish it and to institute
new government, laying its foundation
upon such principles and organizing it
powers in such form as to them ma!
seem most likely to effect their safet.
and happiness.
Whereas, Recent events have show
that the policy of the dominant politica
parties has reduced the industria
wealth-producing masses of the natio
to poverty, want and degradation, caus
ing commercial catastrophe, industris
stagnation, desolated homes and dc
serted squares, perennial agitation. UNI
versal discomfort, persecution of toiler
by the military arm of the government
strikes, lock-outs, class hatred and IL
will, bearing bitter fruit, year afte
year, by class legislation, demonetizin
silver, contracting half the circulatin
medium of the nation, placing the ns
ton on a single gold standard basis, tn
issuing of gold single bearing bonds
time of peace, thereby leaving the peopl
at the mercy of foreign bondholder'
therefore, be it,
Resolved, That we will not supper
either of the dominant parties whic
have, by unjust legislation, brought un
versal stagnation upon the industri'
of the nation and reduced the toilin
masses to abject slavery, but will giN
our undivided support to the party az
vocating the principles contained in II
Omaha platform"