The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-19
MINE WORKERS.
CONVENTION
Indianapolis Rapidly Filling With
Delegates.
MITCHELL'S WARM WELCOME
MONSTER PARADE SCHEDULED
FOR TODAY.
NITCHELL'S WARM WELCOME

Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 1S.--The four
teenth annual convention of the United
Mine Workers of America will open
! here tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock
Every train today brought delegates
! from every part of the United States.
President Mitchell arrived shortly after
4 o'clock. He was met at Greenfield
by a reception committee, representing
the central labor union OF Indianapolis,
and including several prominent eiti-
zens.
a. large crowd assembled al the depot,
despite the fact that the weather was
raw and cold and the train an hour
late. Carriages were in waiting, and
he was driven Immediately to his hotel.
/ He was greeted with cheers the mo-
ment he stepped from the coach. and
they were repeated constantly along
the route to the hotel.
1t was expected that President Mitch
| ell would be accompanied by President
| Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor. Mr.. GOmpers did not ar
rive. however. and probably will not
/ find it possible to attend the conven-
| ton at all. Among those who accom-
/ panied Mr. Mitchell were Professor
Frank Warne. instructor of political
economy of the University of Pennsyl-
vania: Harry S. Remington of the
/ Boot and Shoe Makers union: and
John Fahey president OF district No.
9 of the anthracite workers.
+ Welcome to Mitchell
/ After the arrival of the president at
! the hotel many of the delegates and
/ officers called to welcome him and to
extend their greetings At o'clock a
/ dinner was served al the hotel for Mr..
Mitchell and tho reception committed
After the dinner President lowering
/ of the Columbia National bank well
c"r'o4 President Mitchell IN brief
speech.
"a responding. Mr.. Mitchell spoke
emily few minutes. and said:
tie live up TO the measure that has
( been set for me by the people of the
/ United States is indeed a difficult one.
) The greater number are prone to be-
lieve that a man whose name has APP
peared in the press daily for. the last
I few months. and whose picture has
been printed in the newspapers from
/ one coast to the other is great orator.
/ To be q great orator and TO be able
( to make eloquent speeches has been my
/ wish I am just plain talSer.
at have perhaps been honored by or
ganized labor as much If not more,
/ than any one OF its many leaders to-
day. Whether I deserve these honors
or not / cannot say I have tried to
do my duty toward the men who have
I chosen me as their leader
Leader Returns Thanks.
/ IT heartily thank the people Of In
! dianapolis for the welcome they have
! extended me. I believe that they have
4 the right conception of the purpose of
organized labor. The majority Of them
( believe differently than they didF five
/ years ago, when the unions of the coun-
I try were blamed wholly for the many
strikes and lockouts in factories and. in
the coal fields.
II am not here to speak of the mer-
/ its Of the controversy between the
operators and miners in the anthracite
/ fields Strikes and lOckouts. however.
are foreign to the purposes of organized
labor I do not believe in strikes
regard them as horrible and the Gre
ators of suffering. But I do believe
that the laboring men of the country
/ should never surrender the right TO
strike and to protect themselves against
organized capital.
81 for one do not regard the inter
ests of capital and labor as so much
lopposed to each other that they cannot
/ be reconciied. 7 have abiding faith in
! the citizens of this country and believe
I that they can solve the great labor
problem which, confronts US, and solve
tx right. The labor principles IRE con-
sidered more lofty now by that class
of the people who heretofore did not
understand the purposes of trades
unions. The anthracite strike will re-
sClt, / believe, in the establishment OF
proper relations between employers and
The Late Strike.
The convention will be called to order