Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21
DAN'L MCDONALD
IS ELECTED PRESIDENT WESTERN
LABOR UNION.
ELECTION MADE UNANIMOUS
Western Federation Will Indulge in
Politics-Denounced Gov. Steunen-
berg-Letters Of Sympathy.

O~A6"AOSSSAS Va ~ AAH1sA
Denver, May 1.-THE Western Labor
union is finishing up its routine work
much more rapidly than was antici-
pated and the election OF officers to-day
may be a prelude to final Adjournment.
Daniel Mcdonald of Butte, Mont, was
unanimously elected president and I.
B.. Nash of Spokane, was chosen vice
president to succeed job TroXael OF
Crippel Creek. NJ: l.: Geiger was re-
elected Observation-Disclosures.
A resolution was adoptd providing
for the payment of $500 to Mr., GeiSer
for past services. Members of the ex-
ecutive board will be chosen by rising
here the executive a will go to Butte
to adjust the Hennessy department store
difficulty, and will stop at Ogden on the
way to organize a local union there.
A resolution was adopted by the
Western Fedeation of Miners convex
ton recommending that all affiliated
unions make it compulsory on their
members to exercise the elective fran
chise. Further evidence of the fedora
tons intention of going into politics was
shown n he adoption of the following:
Resolved, That a political committee
be elected by the (eishth) annua con-
vention of the Westrn Federation of
Miners TO confer Il correspond with the
officers of all labor organizations, local
and national, with a view to furthering
each cause of labor through the only
sensible and logical means at COM
mand-the ballot box.
A resolution was adopted providing for
the appointment of a commission to in
investigate the proposition and report
bility of establishing a college for the
PRONUNCIATION of true economic and po-
litical theories SIMILAR to like colleges on
the continent of Europe; said committee
to report to the ederaton at it's annual
convention.
A proposition to increase the a%ppropria-
ton of funds by an assessment of MEM
bers for cooperative mining was reject
ed.
Delegate Rides resolution. which had
been suggested b his constituents, the
Durango CColo.) Mine and Snn~eitermen's
union, looking to the establishment Of a
cooperative smelter at Durango, was
adopted and a committee appointed to
investigated the proposition and report
at the next convention.
A law for the licensing of all engineers
employed at or around mics was adopted
ad w. r. Phelps was Endorsed for or
ganizer should the federation decide to
place an organizer in the field. The con-
vention voted a bounty of $50 d month to
the wife of Pau Corcoran and appropri-
ated $50 a month toward the support of
litt IdIllllleS OF IL OClef union miners
who are imprisoned San Quentin, Cal.
Letters assuring sympathy and aid We're
ordered to be transmitted 20 the prison.
ers' wives. Corcoran was one of the
octive participants in the Occur d'Alene
strike, was imprisoned by General Mer-
ram and afterward sentenced to the
Idaho penitentiary for II years -
The Western Federation of Miners at
Their afternoon session, adopted a reso-
luton introduced by Delegate McCor-
mack of California, providing that on or
before July l, the executive board shall
appoint and send out at least four or
ganiZers, of who mtWo will work in the
states of California and Oregon for a
period of at least six months. 1t was
also decided to take up and make rules
for the regulation and compulsory in
surance.
In reference to Governor Steunenberg
of Idaho the following resolution was
adopted:
Whereas, On the Sd day of May. 1899
Frank Steunenberg, governor Of Idaho
declared marital law n Shoshone county
of said state, which has been continued
and still continues arbitrarily without
reason; and,
Whereas, The said governor arbi.
trarily and without reason decided thai
each person seeking employment in sale
county must make application for {
permit to do so to one of the agents Of
said governor: and,
Whereas, The said governor of Idaho
has by such arbitrary act violated the
fundamental principles of right n jus.
} tice and humanity guaranteed to the
people by the constitution of the United
States. which are the rights to pursue
! life, liberty n happiness without die,
tation from anyone whomsover; there
fore,
Resolved, BY the Western Fedora.
ton of Miners. in convention assembled
!, that we condemn the arbitrary actor
of the sale governor of Idaho as assump
f ton worthy Of the tyrants of the middle
ages, and that such a man is unworth.
of the respect and support of liberty-lov
ing people; and. be it further
l Resolved, That we urge the voter
of Idaho to refuse to support sal
: Frank Steunenberg or any one VIII
: may give support to him to the en-
that the state of Idaho may be purge,
of the unjust, inhuman and freedom
e subverting administration of said Fran
= ~Steunenberg, Bartlett Sinclair and AT
= torney General Hayes, and all who hav
= supported sad administration and it's un
: just actions in said county"
Resolutions We're also adopted calm
upon the Colorado laboring men to wor
e for the defeat at the polls of Justic
: Goddard of the Clorado supreme cour
8 should he come up. h action is o
account of the decision of the Colorad
supreme court on the eight-hour Law
= Letters of sympathy to the Wardnt
| men now in a Quentin prison wei
presented and approved. The Weste1
Labor Union this afternoon adopte
resolutions which go into lengthy d,
tails of the Occur d'Alene difficult,
reciting the story from the miner
standpoint and denouncng Presidel
mckinley, General Merriam. Govern,
Steunenberg. Bartlett Sinclair and othe
for the part taken in the affair.