Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-26
MITCHELL NAMES
HIS commit Tees
President of United Mine Workers
Makes Announcement at Open
ing Of Second Days Session.
DELINQUENCIES OF LOCALS IN The
ANTHRACITE DISTRICTS CRITICISED
Short session-Mitchell 1Counscls
Moderation i'm Speech and Conserve
atisn in Action In Annual Address
Report of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 20.-At the
opening Of the convention of the United
Mine Workers of America Tuesday
President Mitchell announced the stand
ing committees.
1t was announced that the creden-
tails committee would be able to report
probably Wednesday afternoon. The
time limit for resolutions and proposed
amendments to the constitution was
fnxed for Wednesday night.
Delinquencies Cause Criticism.
The delinquencies of locals in the
three anthracite districts is the cause of
much criticism among bituminous min
ers. While only three locals in the big
Ohio district were reported in arrears by
the credentials committee only two ar
rearages were found in the whole Pitts
burg district, and not a single arrearage
In the Indiana bituminous districts.
Almost third of the locals in the
three anthracite districts were reported
as in arrears for two or more months
and not entitled to vote in convention.
Some OF these have settled with the
credentials committee, and will be rep
resented in convention, but there
still remain large number of anthra-
cite locals in bad standing, and the three
districts will not have nearly the vot-
ing power on the floor that they had
two years ago just preceding their
strike.
The scale committee Tuesday evening
began the work of formulating the min
ers' demands to be presented to the pp-
orators of the central competitive dis
trict composed of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois
and western Pennsylvania. at the joint
wage conference which begins Jan
uary %.
The convention was addressed in be-
half Of the union label by o. P. Smith,
general organizer of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor; John Witzil, of Louis
Vile, KY, on behalf of the tobacco
workers, and John Guild of the Bakers
and Confectioners' International union.
Adjournment was taken till Wednesday
morning at nine o'clock.
Recommendations of Mitchell.
Moderation in speech and conserva-
tism in action were counseled by Pres
ident Mitchell in his annual address
Monday afternoon. Vigorous. support of
the anti-injunction bill and the eight
hour bill now before congress is urged,
and of federal inj4nctiops the report
says: THE evils which have grown
out of the iadiscriminate issuance Of
federal injunctions, the insidious at
tempts on the part of some of our fed
eral judges to deprive us of right of
trial by jury, are so well. known as to
require no elaboration in this report"
Condition of Order,
Secratary- Treasurer Wilson then
made his annual report, in which he
said he had hoped to report larger
amount of money on hand, but the
large number of strikes requiring aid
from the national organization had
been great drain on its resources.
There has been received from the an
thracite strike assessment and in do
nations listed as the defense fund, $751;
SAG, and from the ten per cent. assess
ment, $258,351 There has been paid in
donations to assist various districts
and other unions needing help, $685.
7s0. The receipts for strike purposes
haye exceeded the expenditures by 81.
als, while the net increase in the funds
Of the national organization for II
months ending November 80, is S79..
07s. On that date there was in Indians
apolis banks belonging to the organize
ton 31.l29. 1877. The paid-up member.
ship Is 2ss.s36. The total Membership
il approximately 100000. To avoid the
loss OF revenue from these O.000 mem.
bers not paid up which would amount
to $4,000 annually, the stamp system
is advocated In the report. !.
Negro Education q Curse.