The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-01
MINERS TO JOIN
INDUSTRIAL UNION
Decisive Action Taken by Western
Federationists After Long Debate.
WORD FROM MOTHER JONES
cONGRATULATES DELEGATES ON
THE POSITION TAKEN.

The sessions Of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners yesterday were by far
the most important thus far held dur
ing the thirteenth annual convention.
First there was a congratUlatory mes
sage from Mother" Jones, the miners
friend. then there was something like
decisive action in the matter Of send
ing delegation TO Chicago to attend
the formation of the Industrial union;
resolutions we're adopted to show the
attitude Of the Federation relative to
union labels" and resolutions We're
adopted cOndemning certain manufac-
turerS who are charged with dealing
unfairly by their employees
More than 200 delegates were present
at o'clock when President Charles H.
Meyer called the convention to order
after the recess of Memorial day. The
heat i'm the room, particularly during
the afternoon, was intense, and nearly
all the delegates discarded their coats
and got down to shirt sleeves to push
along the work of the convention The
first business transacted after the
reading of the minutes was the recep-
ton of a telegram signed Mother
Jones, from Deitz, Wyoming, in which
she said.
To the brave officers and miners
IN convention, greeting. May your
deliberations awaken the slumbering
giant from his long dream of ages
In Line For Industrial Union.
Last week a resolution was intro
dUced to constitute the executive board,
as it viii be formed at the coming
election. delegation to the industrial
union convention to be held in Chicago.
June -. This resolution was the sub
Ject Of much spirited debate at the
sessions held since its introduction. in
dSmUCh "A II meant something of a
change i'm the physical condition Of the
order, but II was not until yesterday
that decisive action was taken by the
passage OF the following amendment
to the resolution
That five delegates be elected from
the floor and they are hereby appointed
as delegates to represent the Western
Federation of Miners in convention to
be held in Chicago. June p, 1905. for
the purpose of forming the said in
duStTial economic organization, that
they be authorized to unite the West
ern Federation of Miners as an integral
part of the proposed industrial union
m the industrial department to which
II logically belongs in the general plan
Of organization.
The adoption of this resolution as
amended SundeTS practically the few
threads here and there which might
be said to have bound the Organiza-
ton to the American Federation of
Labor, though it has all along been
maintained that there has been no
alliance between the two orders for
several years. Some of the delegates
Yesterday gOSsiped about the posi-
bility Of Secretary W. u. Haywood be-
ing chosen as president of the new
union From Chicago there comes a
report that Eugene V. Debs will also
be ii candidate If these labor leaders
should enter the arena there will be an
interesting contest, Haywood repre-
Senting the mining industries with a
hacking of more than $4,000 men. and
pens that Of the railroads and other
industries with large force.
True to the Union Label.
The following report and resolutions
were adopted by Il unanimous vote.
Brothers We. YOUR commit fee on rps-
buttons. 20 whom has been referred a
communication FROM the Elastic Goring
W edNtTS Amdlgdmdted association of the
I AlItq states, Of BrOcktOn, Mass stat
ing that It had been reported to them
JliaL the " eStern Federation of Miners was
discriminating against and hostile to all
union label products of unions AFFILIATED
with the American Federation of Labor
ana asking II this charge were true of the
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local in particular. replying to the above
communication we submit the following
ItSplHJlon with a request that a cOuy be
sent 10 Alfred HaUghtou. SECRETARY of rho
FIdSJlc torlnE WeayeTS ANA ga mated
association of the United States BROCK
ton Mass. for the information Of his
local and all others concerned and that
a COPY also be- sent to the Miners Maya
zine for publications
w neTedS- II has been perSiStantTy- III
Hlnred by the enemies Of the Western
federation Of Miners that this orparizs-
non makes practice Of ignoring tho
union labor products Of unions affiliated
win the American Federation of T.+boy-
Whereas II Is a well known fact that
no other organization on the Ama~icst1
comment makes a more vigorous and d
trTmlneG demand for the union Ia beT rFl.r
the western Federation of Miners and
'tdi many eastern factories and Tinfo1l-
composed of their employees owe thefr y
t~Jenyc 10 this demand created nv ON,
members IN the Rocky Mountain and pt-
CHIC coast states therefore be IL
resolved. That we dcuouncp tho aI,,,,-,
mentioned rumOrS as false and untrue i'm
very particular and be il further
resolved, That the thirteenth annual
convention hereby renews its uIe5r1a Tor
me IutErc To all members of orpsr1fzsJ
- DOT regardless of national affIIiarior
the same continuous and inSfsfenr 10
HfHu Tor union label products on 49,.
FdIt OF the members of the Westpr1 Fed
ration OF Miners that they have shown
I'D the past Respectfully Subruifra7 III
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