The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-21
FAIL TO MOVE
The CONVENTION
EFFORT MADE AT L.. VI. w. OF
A. MEETING YESTERDAY
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
West Va. and Colorado Strike Sit.
uations Commented on in
Caustic Speeches.

lNDlANAPOLlS, Ind. Jan. 2O-Two
attempts were made :ate today to re-
move the convention of United Mine
Workers OF America. which opened
this morning. from this city. but both
failed. II Is probable that another ef-
fort will be made when the resolution
committee reports tomorrow.
Delegate Patrick MCGEE. of Pawnee
Ill. tried TO get a resolution before
the convention TO move to another
city but was ruled out of order by
President John =. White. The other
attempt was made by two Pennsylva-
MIA DELEGATES, +. ID. Reed. OF Brown
Vile and William Hynes. OF Fayette
City. Reed made a motion to sus-
pend the rules and Hynes read the
resolution. On a standing vote the
motion TO suspend the rules was lost.
Two delegates. Samuel Montgomery
OF Montgomery. w. Va. and w. X.
ralriey, Pratt City, Ala. started for
Tor the resolution before congress a,l-
thorlzinS Federal investigation of the
copper strike IN Michigan and the
coal strike in Colorado.
The trip was authorized by a reso-
lutlon adopted unanimously at the
morning session.
The other business OF the afternoon
was the reports of President White.
Frank ]. Hayes. vice president and
Nililam Green. secretary-treasurer.
Calumet Disaster.
President White in his report
touch ed briefly on the Christmas dis
aster at Calumet and the deportation
OF PRESIDENT Charles II. Meyer. of the
Western Federation of Miners "It
rs 10 be hoped. said President White,
that the horrible disaster which oc-
CURED on Christmas eve at Calumet.
where scores OF lives were lost by a
false cry OF fire supposed to have been
inspired by an enemy of the strikers.
VIII be thoroughly and impartially in
ished.
The brutal assault on President
Meyer, as well as his deportation
from the strike zone. is another evi.
denee OF the lawlessness practiced by
ORDER
Mr. Hayes detailed the progress of
the strikes in Colorado and in West
virginia and declared that drastic
measures should be taken to amend
or appeal the Sherman antitrust law
so that il could not be applied TO Ia
Dor organizations. He paid tribute
TO the work OF Mother" Mary Jones.
who is under arrest in Colorado be-
cause OF her alleged infiammatorS ac-
lions and speeches. The convention
voted unanimously TO send tele-
love and admiration for your cal.
liant stand for humanity" and de-
manding her immediate release.
BE OF good cheer and rest assured
that justice will yet triumph in cor
poration-owned Colorado" the mes
sage concluded.
/ Union Has 81. 3.ooo. 900.
MT. Green told or the growth OF the
organization and the finances of the
past year. lie said the union now
had SS,OOO,OOO. every dollar of which
could be used as strike defense
fund
Development of the United Mine
Worker in one union field was COM
mented on at length in the report OF
Frank J. Hayes. vice president of
the organization. lie also spoke in
disapproval of labor organization IN
/ West virginia, was caustic on his
comment OF the campaign OF the
/ Colorado mine owners in the western
! coal mining strikes, and was out
spoken in his criticism OF the Sher-
( man anti trust law in its application
TO organized labor and insistent In
demanding its repeal or amendment.
within the last two years we have
added 12l.A26 new members 10 our
union" he said Regarding the West
Virginia situation Mr. Hayes said:
Rossts Gasscock
ihe subserViency OF Governor
Glasscock. tyranny OF the militia. H.
legal imprisonment OF our peoplo.
upsetting Of constitutional govern
ment, Intervention OF the federal
government through a senate commit
tee and final settlement Of the strike
are notable chapters in the life OF
our movement
The West Virginia operators are
awakening TO new order of tbinrs.
and II ! judge them correctly. they
VIII never again invite "A settlement
OF economic difference on the indus
trial battlefield but will prefer TO an
peal 10 the reason and fairness OF our
people. rather than the uncertainties
OF long drawn out conflict"