Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-26

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ORGANIZED LABOR is TO
MEET AT ST. LOUIS
10 Decide, Upon tho AdvIaabnlty OF, Or
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug! fLTb5 Ia.
tional executive board of the United
Mine Workers adjourned yesterday,
after having issued the call for the
confegencet lOf, organized b labor 10, b
held LlAJ ST. Louis August SO} THE
board rejected the proposition of Che
Pittsburg operators for conference
TO arbitrate the wage dispute in that
district, claiming thatpsuch aaction
would be prejudicial to the interests
Of the miners at large. The board is
ready to consider ovortures for ,the ar
filtration of theissues of the great
strike only when these overtures come
from all the operators in the campetir
tive districts, which include Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, West Virginia, and
Pennsylvania The board has'decided
not to deviate from the established
policy until the result of tho st. Louis
conference is known Tie aggressive
work in the field lwillqb be continued,
and the efforts to spread the strike in
the West Virginia district will be re-
newed.
The success or failure of the strike
hanE b upon the resultof the confer
ence, the call for which has been in
dorsed by Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
and J. r. Sovereign, general master
workman of the Knights of Labor.
They MAINTAIN thai s4ho Fight now,
being waged' by the miners is one Of
common interest to organized labor
throughout the country. AT the St
Louis conference all labor organiza-.
tions will be asked to join issues with
the miners ,,..,......, ,,.,,....f .,
Cali for the Conference.
Following is the call for tina confer.
ence: '''' '''-
''Ths great miners strike has gone
beyond struggle for living wages. Al
crisis in the affairs of the nation has
arrived, in which all patriotic people
must determine whether they will &C.
cept and consent to live under the rule
Of an oligarchy of wealth or whether
the Institutions OF free government,
the rights Of free speech and peace
sbleipdblicl assemblage are to be pre-
served Dl Il % $3.50 tB al
1.-THE tyraunical and un-American
injuAetioAs of then federal and state
courts are revolutionary against the
first principles of free government,
and derpgatory to the inherent rights
of the masses, endangering the public
peace and destroying the personal
society and individual liberties Of the
common people % lG1gn" hWNI
1.-THE courts have desecrated the
temple of justice, and now stand for
the defiant. bulwarl of confederated
capital, Their arbitrary rulings have
set up one standard of rights for the
rich and another for the poor. They
decree that capital is always right
and labor is always wrong. They
have made it unlawful for starving
working people to appeal against
tyrannical treatment, present griev-
ances, or propose just and peacable
terms for the redress Of insufferable
wrongs
"fhe Judiciary has assumed the in
defehsible claims of the operators, and
the struggle is between tyranhical
courts and the whole people. The
courts, although under oath to serve
the rich and po9r, alike, have volun-
teered to defend the sordid interests
of the rich as against the God-given
rights of the poor, and now threaten
70 ttth the Calling guns and the Win
chesterb Off criminals and thugs
against all whodare toprotest against
their despicable- restraining orders.
The Judiciary, prostituted to the bid
ding Of oppressive capital, has placed
the rights ofproperty above the rights
of PERSONS and has Disseminated
against the many in the interest of
the few. HH ~, 30.
"And to the end that a just an d
equitable settlement of the differences
between employers and employed may
be effected, the public peace, the lib
erty Of the masses, the sacred institu-
tions of free government be preserved
and the courts estopped from these
outrageous perversions of constitu-
tional rights, we appeal to that
higher, more humane and patri-
otto court-the great people---who in
times of trouble have always
proven the just arbiters Of differ
ences between diversified interests
and contending elements in the gov.
eminent of human society. We ap-
peal to the liberty loving people of
this great nation to send accredited
delegates to ST Louis, Mo-, where
mass convention will be held Monday,
August 80, 1857. The object Of the
convention will not be merely to pro-
test against the usurpation and tyran-
ny Of tie courts, but to formulate
plans to compel return to the prin-
ciples of free, goYerument,Rnd put said
plans into practical operation"
American stamps for Peru By
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The govern