Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-04
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE REPORT.
A mother Labor Conference to Be Held In
Chicago September ga Special
Session of Congress Wanted
the Injunctions-

tions, yet no decisive action was taken
in the principal matter for which the
gathering was summoned-the abolish
ment of government by Injunction
1t was ten o'clock in the forenoon be-
fore the committee on resolutions filed
nto the convention hall, and the dele
gates were called to order to hear its
report. Mr.. Berger, in presenting the
resolutions, spoke of the great task
the committee had before it. 1t said
the report about to be submitted was
the best the committee could do under
the circumstances The resolutions,
after denunciation of the judiciary
for its in functions in the coal strike in
the preamble. are as follows:
Resolved That that we hereby set apart Fri
day, the third day of September, 1887. as
good Friday for the cause of suffering labor
in America and contribute the earnings of that
day to the support of our struggling brothers.
the miners, and appeal every union and
every friend of labor throughout the country
to do likewise.
settled by the Goth day of September, 1897,
and announcement made to that effect by the
president of the United Mine Workers. gen.
eral convention be held at Chicago Monday,
September 81, 1897, by the representatives of
all unions sections branches lodges and kim
dred organizations of laboring men and friends
of their cause, for the purpose of considering
further measures in the interest of the striking
miners and labor in general.
ballot the best and safest means for the
amelioratiou of the hardships under which the
laboring class suffers
Resolved That the public ownership OF all
mines and railroads is one of the most neces-
Sary reforms of our body polite.
Resolved. That most emphatically pro-
test against government by injunction. which
plays havoc with even such political liberty as
workmen have saved from the steady encroach-
ment of capitalism; and be it finally
Resolved, That no nation in which the peo-
pie are totally disarmed can long remain free
nation, and therefore we urge upon all liberty
loving citizens remember and obey article ,
of the constitution of the United States. which
reads follows: THE right of the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed-''
AS soon as the platform before
the convention dozen delegates were
on their feet clamoring for recogni-
| ton.
| Mr.. Osborne introduced an amend
ment to the platform to the effect that,
/ as the country should take of its
! unemployed. the striking miners and
other laborers of the country apply to
/ the authorities of their respective
count ties for admission to the poor
house, but there was no particular at
tention paid to the motion
After much talk without anything
particular being accomplished the con-
| vention took a recess until two o'clock
in the afternoon.
and the afternoon session set in motion
promptly at two o'clock. After con-
! sidera BILE talk, in which Mr.. Williams,
ST. Louis delegate, endeavored to
have the coming convention held in
St. Louis and three four attempts
to change the date of the conference,
it was decided that the matter should
remain as introduced in the platforna(>
and the labor congress will be held in
Chicago, on Monday, September 81
Mr.. Clemens. of Kansas, moved that
the last two resolutions in the plat
form be considered simultaneously.
He favored their adoption Mr.. Web
ster, of st. Louis, wanted to know if
these milk and water resolutions dis
posed of the pertinent matter of gov
eminent by injunction"
The convention broke into wild
cheering, which developed into a spon-
taneous call for Eugene V. Debs, who
had not uttered a word since the con-
, vention opened, but who had not
. missed a minute of its proceedings.
{ When the cheering ceased Mr. Debs
began a speech which was interrupted
at the end of nearly every sentence by
cheering and hand-clapping.
Then there were more amendments
and substitutes, none of which was
adopted, and after an hour or two OF
|
to- as submitted by the committee,
and the platform as a whole was de
:, clared adopted.
= Mr. Mahon offered resolution call
= ing upon the miners now at work IN
Missouri, Iowa. Kansas, Kentucky and
other fields to quit work; and denounc-
ing them as enemies of human liberty
so long as they continued their present
course
notwithstanding the convention
early in the morning had declined to
act on President Ratchford's resolution
= requesting President Mckinley to con
y vene congress for the purpose of dehn
= ing the authority of judges in the mat
ter of injunctions, a resolution to tina
q effect, but authorizing the chairman
Il of the convention to ask Mr.. Mckinley
IL to act in that direction, introduced b,
W. d. Ryan, the Illinois organizer
. went through with whoop and short
1y before seven o'clock the convention
. adjourned sine die