The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-10-03
MINERS To WORK
WITH RAILWAY MEN
Convention Endorses Plumb
Plan: Provides MaChin-
cry for Cooperation

the nlted Nine W OTkerS Con
veutjou held at cleveland. Septem-
her rs. unanimously endorsed the
Plumb Plan for naturalization and
democracy in the control of the
railroads and pledges the support
OF the Miners organization to Sc
cure its enactment.
Glenn T. Plumb, completing two
weeks tour through the Middle
West. where he had been received
by enthusiastic audiences in the
large industrial ceutcrs, had just
addressed the convention. explain
ing at length the Plumb Plan as af-
fecting the railroads. and the pos
sibility of its application to mining
and other basic industries His
speech was ordered printed and dis
tributed directly to all local unions
of the United Mine Workers.
ut the close of his address, $500
delegates gave him a demonstration
lasting five minutes When Chair
man Lewis. Nice-President of the
United Mine Workers. had succeed
ed i'm obtaining silence, the resolu-
tion advocating the Plumb Plan was
immediately brought forward A
standing vote was taken, and every
man on the floor of the Convention
leaped to his feet.
THE ayes seem to have it" said
Chairman Lewis. dryly
Later in the day resolution was
introduced which bids fair to be
historic in the annals Of American
labor This resolution invited the
railroad brotherhoods TO join with
the United Mine Workers i'm an al
lance for action looking towards
the naturalization of both the min
ing and railroad industries, this re
lation to be later extended into an
economic alliance with labor organ
izations in the other basic indus
tries.
Assurances had been given that
the railway organizations which
last year showed themselves averse
TO the idea of a conference for CO.
operation with the miners, were
now ready to act with them. The
text of this historic resolution reads
as follows:
"RESOLVED. That this conven-
ton instruct the resident officers
and the International Executive
Board 10 endeayor to bring about u
conference with the railway work
crs' organizations for the purpose of
formulating an alliance whereby the
organized workers in these two
great basic industries may act Jointly
on all matters of mutual interest,
such as the democratic administra-
tion of these industries with the
workers having equal representation
in the management, under system
of NATURALIZATION, and on all other
matters where the interest of the
workers in these industries may be
advanced by joint action; and he it
further
"RES0LNED That i'm the confer
ence above suggested consideration
be given to further alliances between
organizations of labor i'm the basic
industries with view to strength
ching the economic power Of labor
i'm the fight that is now being Wagod
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"
The preamble recites that the
worldwide unrest is not the crea-
ton of Bolshevists or anarchists,
but in the main the justifiable re-
volt, of workers against evil and
Well-nigh intolerable conditions. It
calls attention to the economic
power welded by the British Triple
Alliance of miners, railwaymen and
transport workers. which, il de
clares, is able to paralyze the in
dustrial life Of Britain and is using
it's strength to eradicate evil con
ditions of employment in the indus
tries which it represents, and ar
CUES that any similar effort in the
United States must be nationwide
in its scope.