The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-06-01
DIES MONIES TO
! ENJO|N REMOVAL
Abba Says Much Representation
at, 49, Has Gone Out. -.,s,
CITY IS AFTER HEADQUARTERS
Circular Being Sent to Miners of the
State Condemns IN no Uncertain
Terms the Actions Of the
Capitol City Boosters.

lowing circular is being sent to the
miners in the various camps of the
state:
I Much Misrepresentation has gone
out from Des Moines in the Register
and Leader relative to the vote ON the
miners headquarters and why they
should be located in Des Moines. Take
for instance the statement that the
new coal field to be opened in Lucas
county could only be reached by pass
ing through Des Moines. That state
ment is entirely wrong. The Lucas
county field which is to be opened is
but twenty miles west of Abba while
| it will be three times that distance
from Des Moines. That is but one
misstatement which has been made
and is on par with the rest of them.
The issue of the Register & Leader
of Sunday contains the statement that
Des Moines will file a paper asking
an injunction if there is any attempt
to move the headquarters from Oska-
loosa here, in case this city should re-
ceive the necessary votes. All arti-
cles in the Register and Leader have
evidently been written by some young
man who purports to report facts for
the newspaper and who, doubtless, has
never been in mine and knows moth.
ing about the central location of the
district.
In the present case as in all others
in which Des Moines is interested,
there is always the attempt to belittle
any town which dares to aspire to Sc
curing anything that Dies Moines
wants. If at the present time, the
join, it means merely that they desire
to secure the headquarters of the
miners union for this district from
purely selfish motives. Building la
Dor temple in Des Moines and estab-
fishing the headquarters there merely
means that in the course of five years
the miners will be owned by the capt.
alists who hang around like leeches
to make living off the man who lab
ors.
Des MOines has started in very well
for the reputation that she has al
ways held-that of governing the min
ers by injunction. That is the wish
of the capitalists and Des Moines is
the place where they thrive.
Should the headquarters come to
Abba they will be in the very heart of
the mining district and will be where
such men as J. r. Clarkson and Con
gresham Kendall have always been
willing to come forward with advice
and not from the selfish idea that they
could soon control the entire organic
alton with their money or labor
At the last convention it was deter
mined that the miners should have
referendum vote as to the erection of
a temple and the location of head
quarters. Four towns were entered in
the race for the two things. Ottum
wa was dropped on the first ballot.
Oskaloosa on the second and now the
capitalists of Des Moines are taking
every unfair advantage of Abba. The
miners of the district can rest assured
that if the headquarters are located
in Abba they will receive the right
sort of treatment, they shall be vel
come here as visitors to the headquar
tiers, the officers will save thousands
of dollars in the matter of travelling
expenses alone. A $4,000 temple
would be lost in Des Moines, while in
Abba it would be the pride of the cit
hn inn
be just such temple as should be To-
Gated in the largest coal producing
county in the state.
If Abba secures the headquarters
on the next ballot it will not be by
any injunction proceedings, but a fair
and honest effort to treat men and or
gaizations as they should be treated.
The verbatim report over which
Des Moines claims they will start the
injunction proceedings reads as fol
lows:
Delegate Berkey said: move
that the cities nominated be accepted
and referred to referendum vote,
the city receiving the majority of all
votes cast shall be the permanent 10.
cation, and that there be coupled with
it the following proposition: Shall
there be set aside from our defense
fund sum of money necessary to
purchase ground and erect building
or hail. to be known as the U. M. w.
Labor Temple, said hall or temple to
be located in the city chosen as the
permanent headquarters city?% I'm.
mediately upon the vote being count.
ed and the result ascertained the Elk.
ecutive Board shall secure from a
competent architect plans and spec.
ifications for a building and report to
the next annual convention. The city
of Oskaloosa shall remain headquarters
until the permanent location is known,
but should the vote designate some
other city than Oskaloosa, the head.
quarters shall be removed to that city
so chosen"