The labor standard., 1919-10-01
MINERS TO. WORK
 WITH RAILROAD MEN
United Mine Workers COnven- tion Unanimously Endorses Plumb Plan for Naturalization and Control of Railroads

l The United Mine Workers Conven- tion held at Cleveland, September IS, unanimously endorsed the Plumb Plan for naturalization and democ- racy in the control of the railroads and pledges the support of the miners organization to secure it's enactment. | Glenn E. Plumb, completing two weeks tour through the Middle West, where he had been received by enthu- siastic audiences in the large indus trial centers, had just addressed the convention, explaining at length the Plumb Plan as affecting the railroads, and the possibility of it's application to mining and other basic industries. His speech was ordered printed and distributed directly to all local unions of the United Mine Workers. Big Demonstration
 At the close of his address, $500 delegates gave him a demonstration lasting five minutes. When Chairman Lewis, vice-president of the United Mine Workers, had succeeded in ob- | taining silence, the resolution advo- eating the Plumb Plan was immedi- ately brought forward. A standing vote was taken and every man on the floor of the convention leaped to his feet.
 l "The ayes seem to have it." said Chairman Lewis, dryly.
 l Alliance Between Brotherhoods and Mine Workers
 Later in the day resolution was in- troduced which bids fair to be historic in the annals of American labor. This resolution invited the railroad brother hoods to join with the United Mine Workers in an alliance for action look ing towards the naturalization of both the mining and railroad indus tries, this relation to be later extended into an economic alliance with labor organizations in the other basic indus tries. --E..x.
 Assurances had been given that the railway organizations which last year showed themselves. averse to the idea of conference for cooperation with the miners, were now ready to act with them. The text of this historic resolution reads as follows:
 Resolved, that this convention in struct the resident officers and the In- ternational Executive Board to endea- vor to bring about a conference with the railway workers organizations for the purpose of formulating an alli- ance whereby the organized workers in these two great basic industries may act jointly on all matters of mutual interest such as the democratic admin istration of these industries with the workers having equal representation in the management, under a system of naturalization, and on all other matters where the interest of the workers in these industries may be advanced by joint action; and be it 1 further
 1 Resolved, that in the conference above suggested consideration be given to further alliances between or ganizations of labor in the basic in- dustries with view to strengthening the economic power of labor in the fight that is now being waged and which is destined to continue until the working people of America have been granted that measure of industrial democracy to which they are so justly entitled"
 l World Wide Unrest
 | The preamble recites that the world wide unrest is not the creation of Bol- shevists or anarchists, but in the main the justiiable revolt of workers against evil and well-nigh intolerable conditions. It calls attention to the economic power wielded by the British Triple Alliance of miners, railwaymen, and transport workers, which, it de- clares, is able to paralyze the indus trial life of Britain and is using it's strength to eradicate evil conditions of employment in the industries which it represents, and argues that any similar effort in the United States must be nationwide in it's scope.