The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-04
STATEMENTS MAUt
 AT THE CONFERENCE E
Continued from First Paoe)

CTS Organization wSs composed of young men and boys between 14 and 20 years of age, and he declared their minds were being poisoned with the most dangerous. anarchistic, distorted, wicked views and erIo ors concerning the rights of citizen ship and property that any one can pos sibly conceive of all through the teach . ings and practice of the officers, organ izers and apostles of the United Mine Workers association"
 He maintained that the consequences of | the existing conditions were fraught with the gravest dangers to the stability and perpetuity of this country and It's institu- tons. Finally he declared that while he , was not an enemy of organized labor where 1t promoted the real interests of the laborer by lawful means, he felt it his duty to resist and combat with all his mental and physical powers the ayowed and evident object and purpose of this United Mine Workers association as exemplified in the anthracite district of Pennsylvania today and as taught and defended by its officers and other opponents of it's we1l-known and so- called purposes and principles"
 'eThe same condition" he concluded ''exists today in Tennessee and Alabama, where the members of this organization have but recently gone on a strike. The same condition existed in Kentucky for about two years where this organization was in control and where its members practiced the same unlawful methods as are being followed in Pennsylvania to- day. Mr. President we firmly believe that any adjustment of this matter as has been suggested here today will only result in perpetuating conditions that are utterly abhorrent to any good Ameri- can citizens and most intolerable and damaging to the interests which l repre- sent. We cannot, therefore, concur therein"
 object of Miners Union.
 Mir. Wilcox in opening his statement, explained the details of the organization of the United Mine Workers whose object he said lis so far as possible to regulate the supply of labor engaged in the oc- cupation of coal mining throughout the country and the terms of employment thereof" It's ultimate object, he main tained, is to control the entire fuel sup ply of the country, and he declared 1t was the most extensive combination and monopoly in the country. Tt habitual- ly enforces it's orders and directions" he continued, "by whatever means may be most effectual, including strikes, boy colts, picketing, besetting and the like, not confined to it's own members won, but in which are compelled to join, as far as possible, all other citizens similar ly employed. Its violent methods have already received the condemnation of the circuit court of the United States"
 MT. Wilcox then declared that the pres ent anthracite strike had been ordered in accordance with these objects, and claimed that non-union mine workers had been killed by those acting in sym pathy with the mine workers organiza- ton.
 asIe maintained that on that account the association was not within rules re- garding ordinary labor organizations and that 1t constituted a combination or con spiracy which was held to be unlawful under the Sherman act as it greatly in- 1ured interstate business. He further claimed that the present came clearly within the Debs case where the govern ment instituted suit to prevent the or eanization of universal association or railway employees to control interstate commerce and then enforced the inJune- ton obtained when 1t was disobeyed, by use of the federal army, the government being upheld in it's action by the courts.