Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-22
NO GENERAL Slk|AE.
Miners al indianapolis Adjourn After
Declaring Against 1t.
A FUND TO AID THE STRIKERS
Various Recommendations Of SDe
cial Committee Appointed by the
Executive Session il Almost
Unanimously Approved.

indianapolis, Ind, July 21,-Thc CON
vention of United Mine Workers adj
journcd after declaring against n gen
eral strike and providing for the rails
ing of Il fund with which to aid the
striking anthracite miners and issuing
an appeal to the American people for
support.
The recommendations brought in by
the special committee appointed i'll the
executive session and which are pr;ic-
ticaiiy identical with those suggested
by President Mitchell in his address
on the first day Of the convention ANA
unanimously adopted by the convell-
ton are as follows:
THAT the national treasurer be au'
thOrized and directed to Immediately
appropriate 100000 from the funds of
the national treasury and place it at
the disposal of the officers of districts
Nos. I, I and 9 (tle anthracite dis
"trictS).
'"rhat all districts. %subdistricts and
local unions be appealed TO to donate
from the surplus in their treasures as
large amounts as they car afford.
"ThAt an assessment of 10 per cent
be levied OH the gross earnings OF all
members of local unions in districts
Nos. 6, S, II, 10, % and - and an AS
scssmcnt of 81 a week upon all mem
Ders of local unions in districts Nos. 2,
5, II, Is, II, II, Ii, 20 and u. The
members of districts now on strike
which may resume work before this
| assessment has been removed shall be
gross earnings or 81 per week, which,
ever their district may decide, from the
time work is resumed.
As to the Assessments.
The assessment shall be paid direct
from the local unions to the national
secretary, and the local unions will he
| held responsible for the payment of
the same.
AN assessment of 20 per cent viii
be levied upon the wages, salary OF
ton of all national, district and sub
district officers and organizers.
'Thp assessment shall begin with the
10th of July. 1902.
".All contributions made from The
national office to the anthracite region
will be divided pro rata to eacl anthra
cite district in accordance with the
number of miners and mine hborer'
N each of them as shown by the mos
recent coal reports"
M%itcheIIs Address.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre say;
President Mitcllell's address at the In
dianapolis convention, in which h.
urged that immediate aid be given tn
anthracite strikers. was we'll received
throughout the Wyoming region. Th
strikers now feel confident that wit
the assistance they receive from thel
bituminous brethren they will be abb
to hold out until the coal operators ar
forced to grant the demands.
1t is reported that the coal compa
MES will take the aggressive II Il,
tempt to operate one of the collieries.
At strike headquarters the report 1
not credited. 1t is claimed that no sill
gle company can secure a sutticien
plumber of men to operate a collier
and that now that the national CONVEX
ton has pledged support to the striker
the latter will be more ~steadfast tina
ever
Secretary Treasurer Wilson has mad
a calculation of the amount of none
that the several assessments woul
bring in, and his figures showed that
the assessments We're promptly pal
the sum would aggregate nearly 5000
600 a week, or nearly double the est
mate made by President Mitchell. Th
convention ordered Wilson TO set apal
$4,000 of the funds in the treasul
for the immediate use of the anthr;
cite strikers, and President Russell {
the IllonoiS district announced on b'
half of the Illinois mine workers tn;
he placed at the disposal of the nation
al treasury 100000 for the strike fun
President Haskins of Ohio said th;
Ohio would give 100000 for the anthr;
cite strike fund.