The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-20
OTHER MINERS
TO CONTRIBUTE
Resolution of Coincidence For
Park City Victims.
UNIONS GIVE B0UNTIFULLY
WORKING MEN TO GIVE TEN PER
CENT OF THEIR SALARIES.

convention of the United Mine
Workers adjourned at / o'clock this
afternoon, after declaring against a
general strike, providing for the rails
ing of a fund with which to aid the
striking anthracite miners, and issuing
an appeal to the American people for
support
The recommendations brought by the
special committee during the execu-
tive session of yesterday and which
are practically Identical with those
suggested by President Mitchell on the
first day of the convention and unani-
mOusly adopted by the convention are
as follows:
F'irst-That the national treasures be
authorized and directed to Immediate
ly appropriate $4,000 from the funds
OF the national treasury and place it
at the disposal of the officers of dis
tricts Nos. l, and 9 (these are the
anthracite districts)
Second-That all districts. sub-dis-
tricts and local unions be appealed to
to donate from the surplus in their
treasury as large an amount as they
can afford.
Third-That an assessment of 10 per
cent be levied on the gross earnings of
all members of local unions in districts
Nos 6, 8, II, 19, % and Is, and an as
sessment of 81 per week upon all mem
bers of local unions in districts Nos. 2
5, IL, 10. H. Is, 16. 20 and q. The mem
bers of districts now on strike, which
may resume work before this assess
ment has been removed, shall be as
sessed either 10 per cent of their gross
earnings or 81 per week, which ever
the district may decide from the time
work is resumed.
FOurth-The assessment shall he
paid direct from the local unions to the
national secretary and the local unions
will be held responsible for the pay
ment of the. same.
Fifth-An assessment of 25 per cent
wal be levied upon the wages, salary
or percentage received from the or
ganization by all national, district and
sub-district officers ard organizers.
Sixth-The assessment shall begin
with the 18th of July. 1902.
Seventh-All contributions made
from the national office to the anthra-
cite region viii be divided pro rata to
each anthracite district in accordance
with the number of miners and mine
iaborers in each OF them, as shown by
the most recent coal reports.
To Secure Work For Strikers.
1t was voted also that each local
union in the regions that are at work
Reject a committee. which shall secure
work for as many of the men on strike
as possible in the locality where the
local union is situated, and that the
same reports be made of the local
union for American Federation of
Labor. and also that committees be
appointed by local unions to canvass
the business men and other citizens of
their localities for subscriptions.
In accordance with the recommended
lions OF the special committee it was
voted to issue an address TO the pub
lie. This address, as reported by the
committee. says:
when we look upon the enormous
fortunes that our labor has made pos
sible. with the innumerable comforts
and luxuries that it brings to the peo-
pie at large, and then examine the
paltry pittance we receive for labor we
have to perform, the dangers we I'M
dergo, the dampness we must endure,
foul air we must breathe and the pc
culiar rheumatic and lung troubles SUI
perinduced by these, which We must
bear, we only feel that we are being
unjustly dealt with in the small
amount of this worlds goods which
we receive in return for so much Ia
Dor and so many sacrifices.
'The great combinations of capital
which control the coal industry have
become so powerful that no miner can
to secure a just share of the wealth
which his labor has produced. The
history of industrial developments in
the past has shown that when capital
combines the workers must associate
else they will fall, one by one, an I'M
pitied sacrifice in the struggle for ex-
istence. For many years, the ccal
miners of America have been imbued
with the truth of the position.
overbearing Petty Bosses.
1.-The extremely low wage paid to an
thracite miners. the refusal of the Goa
companies to have the coal properl.
weighed or permit the miners to EN-
plOy men at their own expense to SEE
the coal they have mined weighed
measured or credited; the great mum
Der of hours the miner must work ev-
cry day in the most unsanitary condi
tions; the cruel, unjust manner IL
which they have been treated by petty
bosses clothed with a little brief au
thority; the arbitrary assumption b,
the employers that neither the miner:
nor the public have any rights tina
are entitled to consideration by them
has forced us to organize. not for tn
purpose of taking from the operator
that which belongs to them, but foi
the purpose of securing better treat
ment than we have received in the pas
I'VE have sought to accomplish thi
end by conciliatory methods, by sub
hitting disputed points to arbitration
and by a refusal to work upon tn
terms offered us, commonly spoken o
as a strike. when all other means o
adjusting the grievances complained o
have failed. AS proof of our sincerity
we point to the joint convention sys
lem OF adjusting the wages and condi
tons of employment from year to yea
which we have by our persistent effort
introduced and firmly established in
great majority of the bituminous field
of the United States.
For five years we have annual,
made contracts in this manner witt
many Of the bituminous coal operators
and Notwithstanding the allegation
that are persistently made that we ar
an irresponsible body. we feel proui
of the fact that. while it may hav
been to our financial interests on man.
occasions to cast them aside, and W
were under no legal obligations to an.
one, we have filled actually to the let
ter and spirit of every contract W
have made, nor shall we violate ther
now.
All Attempts Failed.
-One hundred and fifty thousand O
our craftsmen in the anthracite re
procure better wages and relief frOT
many CALLING conditions under whie
they have been compelled to labor i
the past They have tried by ever
honorable means known to civilize
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