The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-19
.FEEHAN MAKES X
WARM PROTEST
Says Pittsburg Paper Is
Knocking Him Hard.
WILL FIGHT FOR SEAT

Thirty Delegates From irwin Olstrlet
Of Pennsylvania Find Themselves
In an Embarrassing Predicament,
owing to Fact That Locals They
Represent Have Never Paid Per
Capita Dues Into international
Treasury Of United Mine Workers
Columbus, o., Jan. 1s.-Greetings
were read before the convention OF
United Mine Workers Of America, IN
session at Memorial hall, from the
16 mine workers in jail in Colorado
for contempt of court, and by a
rising vote the 1900 delegates in
the convention instructed Secretary
Perry to send greetings from the
convention and assure the impris-
oned miners that the great labor or
ganization was standing back or
them in the fight.
President Lewis named committees
for the convention; the auditing
committee made its annual report
and the convention listened to an
address by Charles Hogg, former
member of congress, and chief coun-
sci for the miners OF West Virginia
in the Hitcbman, Richland and Glen
dale injunction cases.
j j. c. Williams and Guy T.. Will
/ liams, representing the Western Fed
/ Grafton of Metal Miners. arrived in
the city and were given warm. well
/ come at the convention.
President Lewis announced that
! the convention would not know the
result of votes for officers before to-
morrow or. Saturday. lie again call
cd on the delegates who were not
1 properly qualified to report to the
| credentials committee.
Protests have been made against
William Green, president pro TEN. OF
the Ohio senate, being seated as a
j., delegate because he is not now en-
! ployed in or about the mines. Many
| officers of the organization, among
them President Francis Feehan OF
the Pittsburg district, who are here
as delegates with credentials from
many local districts, find themselves
ineligible to sit as delegates because
they had nos complied with a pro-
vision which they themselves helped
make at the last convention, requir-
ing such delegates to show that they
were elected By their own local.
| Many of the officers were unable to
furnish proof that they even belong
ed to the miners organization with
out returning to their homes.
Foehan will fight for the seating OF
some 30 delegates from the Irwin
field. lie will be opposed by Presi-
dent Lewis on the ground that the
locals in that district. have never paid
per capita tax into the organization,
Just before adjournment Feehan
asked permission to read an article
in a Pittsburg newspaper of Tuesday
Amid q number of Interruptions he
read the article, which he called a
scurrilous attack upon himself and
the stenographer brought here by the
Pilttsburg delegation. He charged
that the paper had for the past six
weeks been printing similar attacks
upon him and said that 20,00U copies
of the paper had been distributed
free among members of the district
organization.
Members OF the Franklin county
board of commissioners decided not
to permit Emma Goldman to speak
in Memorial hall, of which they are
custodians. 1t is stated their action
was taken at the instance of miners
officials. The commissioners stated
that in their judgment Miss Goldman
was not proper person to speak in
the hall. AS result OF this action
Miss Goldman addressed the miners
} this morning in another local hall.