The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-21
CONVENTION OF
MINE WORKERS
8suorts of President, Vice
President and Secretary
Treasurer Read.
Contempt CASE COMMENT
,,oeE WRIGHT CRITICIZED FOR
THE ACTION TAKEN.
CONTEMPT CASE COMMENT

,-l;spapolis. Ind, Jan. 20.-The TWEEN
appus1 convention Of the United
~. workers of America heard today
rsDorts of President Lewis. Vice
1-..isent White and seeretary-Treas-
w. eTeecbes this afternoon, unfavor-
u Comment was made upon the de-
IN of Judge Wright, sentencing
mel Gompers. John Mitchell and
- Morrison. Mr.. Mitchell declares
-a letter TO the convention that though
- presided over the convention U'at
80 the resolution putting the Buck
s. & stove company on the unfair
80 be was in nowise personally re-
-.lr--5.e for the resolution.
Report of President.
President Lewis report was. in part,
o. .Tbis convention should decide
rbe1har OF not the international eXecu-
rive board is the highest authority in
the organize ton when a convention IS
- IN session. ~
sTbe sum of S4O7 800 was expended
s,r RELIEF Of miners in the Alabama
strike. which failed OF it's purpose, be-
rsuse the governor ordered The state
militia To cut down the tents sheltering
tbe miners evicted families, and refused
10 hermit the strikers to mold public
meetings.
AT no time i'm the history IF the
country have there been so many idle
miners as during the past year. Under
those circumstances. it is a matter OF
some satisfaction to be able TO report
that per capita tax was received at the
national Office for the month of Deem
Der. 1908, on 294,746 members.
IT is evident from the decision rem
dered by Judge Wright in the alleged
contempt case Of Samuel GOmpers and
his associates, that the injunction ques-
ton is now TO be settled by the highest
court of the land. The injunction Oues-
ton is not a new one.
in the last two or three decades it
has been made an instrument of evil
in its application to organized labor
seeretsry's Report.
Secretary ". D. Ryan, in his annual
report, recommended that the Buck
Stove & Range company should be
taken of the unfair list and that The
individual members should be permit
ted TO use their own judgment"
In this connection he said that ex-
President John Mitchell had been SEN
fenced TO jail by Judge Wright for an
act committed while Mr.. Mitchell was
presiding al the last convention Of the
organization, and that the present con-
vention should thoroughly consider the
case. He read a letter from Mr.. Mitch
Ell, in which he said that the resolution
adopted by the convention, when had
brought upon him his jail sentence. had
been adopted without his knowledge
and without his participation, and he
felt therefore that a great injustice had
been done to him.
John p. White, in his address, de-
cared that something should be done
to stop publicity of the internal affairs
OF the organization. All of the reports
claimed that, Notwithstanding less than
haif-time work for the men. the organ
izati0n has maintained its strength.
Against a membership of 500, 600 at the
last convention, it has 294.7 this wear.
Il was found IN seating the delegates
mat John Mitchell is not accredited 10
the convention as a delegate by any To-
cal union.