The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-27
Election of Omcers Reported and In
dianapOlfs Again Selected for
Convention.
BIG FUND FOR ORGANIZATION
ATTITUDE Of THE MINERS ON "GOV-
EMINENT BY INJUNCTION"
Lengthy Report of Special Commit
tee Is ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Bill Endorsed.

A Pennsylvania delegate with a strong
Irish accent and a voice keyed for under
ground work asked Temporary Chairman
Ed Flynn. Of Alabama, at $40 yesterday
afternoon if the mine workers were going
to work overtime and was answered by
ried, and closed the longest days work of
the fourteenth annual convention.
Yesterday the miners did as much i'm
portant work as any day during the
session and were hard at work from 8
o'clock I'm the morning until noon. and
from 1880 o'clock in the afternoon until
adjournment. During these. hours the
delegates were busy and decided many
important points that have arisen in the
convention and that of great impor-
lance to the organization. The convention
yesterday concluded the following bust
ness:
Declined to create the great defense fund
favored by many miners to be held avail
able for future differences with coal-mine
operators.
Heard the report of the delegates to the
American Federation of Labor without in
terest. and allowed it to be spread of
record without offering any criticism OF
the conduct of the delegates in helping
kill the socialistic resolutions introduced
by Max Hayes, of Cleveland, at that con-
vention.
Ratified the election of officers as In
Dictated in the report of the tellers of the
w tai
Concurred in the report of the constitu-
ton committee, which offered several
amendments to the existing constitution.
Adopted the report of the injunction
committee advocating the anti-injunction
bill now being held up in the United States
Senate.
Modified the rules of the organization so
that more representative vote may be
necessary to declare general strikes in the
union.
INDIANAPOLIS SELECTED.
Again selected Indianapolis the con-
vention city, and decided to hold the con-
vention here in 1904, despite the candidacy
of several other cities of the Central
States
Passed a resolution which will create an
organization fund of greater proportion
than the yearly incomes of some of the
large international trades unions.
How the convention managed to get
through with the work was a puzzle, as
all the propositions were provocative OF
discussions and debates which thoroughly
wearied many of the delegates who left be-
fore the adjournment of the afternoon ses-
sion. President Mitchell. worn out by his
Of
after o'clock and called Delegate Flynn
of the Alabama district, to his relief.
The principal work of the convention
during the day was the hearing of the re-
port of the committee appointed TO take
some action on the recommendations OF
President Michel and Vice President Lewis
regarding the existence of the so-called
government by Injunction" which the
Cured In the recommendations, and in
structed the committee to prepare some
sort of memorial covering their belief
committee, submitted the report, which
provides for the deputation of two repre-
sentatives of the miners union to go tC
Washington and lobby in the interests Of
conspiracy bill, which is now being consid
| cred in the United States Senate. The re
| port of the committee also pledges the
| 900 miners in the union to oppose for re
election any legislators or United State.
senators who do not attempt to bring tn,
| bill to passage and support IL during it!
consideration. The report partially reads
There is no one right for which th'
| English speaking people of the world have
| conteEded with greater zeal than that o.
| trial by jury in all cases where alleged
violations of the law have taken place anC
| the life, liberty or property of any either
has been involved.
THE Declaration of Independence gives
| as one of the causes of the separation from
4 deriving m
| many cases of the benefit of trial by jury.
| The Constitution of the United States ant
/ of the several States guarantee thi
right.
Judges are human and prone to human
| errors. and while many of them may hea
and determine such cases as come befor
/ them with conscientious care, there ar
| those who do not hesitate to stretch, o
| even break, the law In their eagerneSs T.
promote the interests of those who are II
a position to assist them in securing
| wealth, power or notoriety. :.
"All men are more or less influenced b,
/ their associations. Judges are like othe
/ men, they are moved by the same feel
| ings. prejudices or passions that influenc
| ordinary citizens. Their associates are me-
/ of wealth and their social circle Is on
! that few workingmen ever enter. .
| ONE MANS POWER
1.-The broad scope that has recently bee
given to injunctions in labor disputes place
an unlimited power in the hands of on
man. If he has the right to re
strain a thousand men the same right woul
apply to million.
1.-The power that can break the Consti
| tuition to crush the employees of a Goa
/ king or a railroad magnate-that can re
strain the competitors of a trust or a syn
| dicate-can destroy the business and cur
| tail the liberties of any citizen wheneve
| II suits the purpose of that power to do sc
| "Injunctions in labor disputes are usual
| granted against violent or unlawful acts
for which the statute or common law pro
| vides ample remedy, and Is a clear viola
| ton of the right of trial by jury. They z
| far beyond the point of protecting tn
| property interests of the plaintiff and den
| to the members OF the trades union tina
| has been restrained their constitutions
| right OF public assemblage. They proven
US from going upon our own property I
| hold meetings. because il may happen I
| be near to, or within sight of, the propert
OF our employers although IL would b
| difficult TO imagine how IL would be pos
| sible for to own any property that
] not adjacent to some other property
They deny to Us the right to talk [
| our felIow-citizens and endeavor to per
| suade them to cease working for the plain
tiff, and injunctions embodying these oil
ders are granted because IL is alleged tina
| IL meetings are held and the employees ar
induced 10 cease work, the property G
the employer will be injured beyond an
legal means of redress. That their prop
erty is entitled TO the same protection tina
the property of other citizens receives car
not be denied. but when an injunction
issued restraining the members OF a unto
from In any manner interfering with a
employee IL carries with IL the assumptio
on the part of the court that the employt
seeking the order has property interes