Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-13
Western Fedora
ton Has Given
Over $4,000
ORGANIZATION IS GROWING
Report of Acting Secretary
Shows $4,000 New
Members.

Denver Colo, June ia total of
1fty-one new locals organized and an
admittance of over $1,000 new mem
bers by initiation for the fiscal year
ending March 3D. 1907 said James
kirwan, acting secretary and treasur.
er of the Western Federation of Min
ers, in his annual report which was
presented today to the Federation
convention, SIS the reply of Western
Federation of Miners to the Mine
OWr 1rs' Association and their faith
full allies in state officials of Colorado
and Idaho, in their attempt to disrupt
the organization by kidnapping our
officers and charging them with almost
every known crime on the calendar
The total membership is given In
the report as 10000. The total r.,
ceipts for the fiscal year were SEA,
SG5, and the expenditures $l90,096
The contributions to the Moyer-Hay.
wood defense fund have been sS7,7S7,
and the disbursements &9,516
An office has been established at
Trinidad Colorado, Secretary Kirwan
reports, for the purpose of facilitating
the work of organizing the coal min
ers there, but he adds: The intoler
able conditions under which the men
employed in southern Colorado are
compelled to work make it hard mat
ter to perfect an organization there
as members will not remain In that
district any length of time"
Big Sensation is Sprung.
A sensation occurred in the conven-
ton this afternoon when Acting Pres.
ident c. q. Mahopey read his report
1t presages a break between the
Western Federation Of Miners and
the Industrial Workers of the World
and perhaps serious fight in the
ranks of the Federation itself Ma
honey in his report said that reso-
lutions had been adopted at local
meeting of McCabe Union of Butte.
charging him with using funds Of the
Federation to help the Industrial
Workers and also charging Mahoney
with being traitor. Mahoney de-
MED the charges and asked that writ
ten charges be filed before the present
convention and that he be given a
chance to clear himself He said that
If the charges proved true he would
ask the convention to expel him from
membership. The charges are based
on the alleged actions of Mahoney
and some other Federation men at
the last convention of the Industrial
Workers of the World held in Chicago
Some of the Charges.
Vincent St. John, of Goldfeld, Ne
yada, member of the executive
board of the Federation and one of
the four Federation men at the Indus
trial Workers of the World conven-
ton, in his report to the convention
said that the minority in the conven.
ton supported by its officers, stole all
the Offices, refused to make any re-
port of the conditions of the funds and
delayed the meetings in order to tire
out the delegates. st. John declared
that the officers employed thugs to
slug those who protested against these
high handed proceedings. He said
that he, himself was hit with a sling
shot Mahoney, st. John charged, was
present when the thugs were en-
ployed and made no protest. He said
also that John McMullen. mem
Der of the Western Federation
of Miners executive board knew
of the employment of these thugs and
conspired with c. O. Sherman of the
Industrial Workers of the World and
others to steal all the Offices and run
the convention with high hand. Up
to the time the convention adjourned
for the day in honor of the founda-
tion of Butte Union No. /, no charges
were officially filed against Mahoney
or others.