Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30
RA1CHFORD'S PLAN.
II is for Every Man and Woman 10
Contribute a Cent q Day
TO RELIEVE SINKING MINERS
Dlsoppolnim nj at Comp r. Abs nee
DtbJs social Democracy May
Gain Full Control.

Debs, OF Terre Haule, lld., M. d
Ratchrosi, Of Columbus, Oito. am
w. d. Mahop, OF Detroit, were amonr
the delegates to the lsb,f conference
VINO arrived this intrniug.
"I'm GU; OF IL to q cerIaiu ex enp
suid Mr.. Debs this morning. NJ am
DO longer sfiiiiAled with any lab !
body, but have come simply IS e gus
Of the conference under the general
CALL"
Mr.. Debs would not venture IN
opinion on the probable outcome Of
thu conference.
"Is there any probA bility OF q sym
p,ihetic s,rik.?o was .keG.
~ hardly think 30; in isoi, these
delegates are not .mpuwereo TO order
strike. They can do no more than Tt-
port back to their respective bodies the
serse the convention"
"GOvernment by ipjuDctlOu," Mi.
Deos went On, "as exeDpllfied IN tbt
great struggle OF the miners. has bten
| carried to the ex RENE and the people
| are revolving. l expect the convention
VIII take some very decisive action IN
| THE IN ,tter."
MIR. Ra oxford has n plan, which he
wi probsbly present TO the o inference,
calling upon every working man aud
| woman In the county to contribute
one cent per day OF their wpg, 8 to u
\ iund for the renef of the striging
miners. Tnis money, he thinks, Will
smcu 1t IT, bstween $1,000 anu So 1000
per ury. Part OF this iuuu will he us. u
o keep M. n Mt work among the strik.
1rs In the P,tleburg district " here thu
| operators pr pose to art their mines
with non. union men. In other W ride,
the camps there will be maintained
| with the nope OF eventually iDhuenc-
Ing those now at work to quit.
| Am ng the other arrivals OF the
morn ng were Jam.s O'CJnneil, rep
seniing the city branch OF the Ameri.
car Federation oil Labor, Oh ,ea {; A.
=. Merrill OF the lnGnstriai Cuu eli,
Kansas Cry; Victor l.. Berger, WITH
credentials from tho Social Democracy
OF Milwaukee,, and FIederick +.
Heath, representing the Street RA,i-
way Men, also OF Milwaukee; W. d
Ryan, vice president OF the UniteI
Mine Workers Of Illinois; Jso b Tez :.
mar who comes from the BrotherhoJd
o Painters, Chicago, and II. p. o.
| ~ M Az W AAibi bA'sb SWIM AhiShtii,
5pfing Valley, H.; Georre Wallace
Scam mon, Kansas, and Juseph Pol
lard of Brilvv,lie, H., oil members oil
minete' CONCENTRATIONS.
Much disappointment Is expressed
at hesOqusrteIs over the nOn.srrivai
OF Samuel Gompers, but 1t is / elievrU
he win be IN ST. Louis this afternoon
or tonight.
As " what the convention would
DO, none OF the delegates ssen this
morning was willing to forecast.
There Is no denying the fact that
"social democracy" movement, head.
I'd Ivy Mr.. Debs, has large following
and 1t would not be a surpr So to see
that new venture gain control of toe
meeting.
An effort viii be made to amalgs.
mate all LABOR bpdies Represented, anu
to this end a resolution looking to the
appointment OF general conference
committee will be presented some tune
during the convention by Mr.. Stein
tiles Oi g.. Louis. my idea is," SAL
MI. Stelnoiss, ''to havs one or two de-
egates from each brsach OF orgsn,zeu
labor from q general conference com.
mittee. While [ hardly think such a
committee, II Appointed by the con en-
| a. C1t VIII w thin
they Will get together later. BY tina,
time our lucas Will have crystaIiz,d
aud tomo ct Il lite platform upon
which q general am algsmst q OF labor
could stand would be formulated. II
10 bound 10 come. We must be unii.
eu."
1t Ia not expected thailth conveDtioN
will do anything lO1ay beyond pet.
fecting organization AMI appointing b
committee on crsdentiAls.
Chairman SteinDiss OF the local
comwi ttee OF arrangements called tue
conference to oruer at 10 o'clock.
About 100 people were scattered abou
tue hall; not all OF them, however
were deiegstse. Mr.. Stein bliss suggest.
ed that as the call for the conve ton
had been issued huTrieGly, and a.
many OF the delegates were yet uuad
vised as to the meeting place and hour
an adjournment be taken I'll ! II
O'Clock. He named . @ mmittse to x
, to the hoteis and inform all delegate
thai the convention was about to ns
seinble AMI q recsss taken.
A WILD RUMOR.
PITrsBURH, Aug. 30.-M. p. Car.
rick, president OF the Motherhood o
Painters anu Decorators OF Amt rici
Gays that q proposition IL TO be- pt
senteu at the st. Luus convention I,
mobiles the army OF unemployed IL
3 The cou ntfy In The vicinity of Pitts