Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-07
SURVEY OF NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL
 CONDITIONS TOALLAY UNREST |S
 |NAUGURATED BY MINE CONGRESS
Plan Promote Industrial Peace Definitely Formulated At Most Important National Convention in History of American Mining Congress; Radicalsm Denounced
 Epitome of Action Taken By Mining Men.

the~most important gathering, in poin of concrete achievement, of mlnin; men ever held in the United States the national convention of the Ameri can Mining Congress, recently con cluded in St. Louis, has left a recor' frausht with far-reaching and hope full significance to every mining dis triet in the country, as we'll as to tn national labor situation In general.
 At this annual convention, held il St Louis from November 17 to 21 in elusive, the mining operators or tn nation placed themselves squarely ol record as opposed to radicalism in al it's, forms while suggesting con structive plan for the betterment o labor conditions and the allaying O the spirit of labor unrest.
 Resolutions Passed
 The work of the convention may b. epitomized in the following reso lutions. unanimously passed by tn American Mining Congress on the con cluding day of the sessions:
 lfsC dRHOtfiNiiShl VT
 an industrial relations committee
 of the American Mining Congress,
 calling for a nationwide survey
 of industrial conditions and sub-
 hitting a unified plan to the
 Board of Directors for a referen-
 dun vote by employers.
 Protesting against the Iaxity of
 the State Department in pro-
 tecting the lives of Americans in
 Mexico.
 Uurging the active prosecution
 and deportation Of anarchists,
 BoIshevists, I. w. w., and other
 radicals
 Suggesting the passage of laws
 prohibiting strikes and lockouts
 until every means of conciIiation
 had failed.
 Advocating an excise tax on
 gold used in the manufacture of
 jeweIry and the payment to opera
 tors of gold mines of bonus of
 S1o per once for gold, as a stimu-
 Jus to production.
 Urging increased production to
 reduce living costs.
 The. Warren District played a pro portionately prominent part in tn convention. Three delegates attend ed from this district They were: T O. McGrath of the Shattuck ant Denn; Ira Joralemon of the Calume and Arizona, and J. k. Curry, secre tary of the Arizona Chapter of tn American Mining Congress.
 Bisbee Man Addresses Congress
 One of the interesting addresses be fore the convention was by Mir Nc Grath. on Protection Against Unjus Taxation"
 Walter Douglas, president ot tn, Phelps Dodge corporation, was autho of the resolution urging on the Stat, Department the necessity for bette protection of American mining mel in Mexico, which was unanimousl, passed by the congress.
 Seven nations were represented a the convention. Thees included Rus sia, Canada. Sweden. France, Belgium Mexico and the United States. Ther, were many speakers of national re pute. including congressman, senators governors of states and United State' officials who played a prominent par in the conduct of the war. The con vention marked the twenty-seconC annual meeting of the American Min ing Congress.
 To Conduct Industrial Survey
 Fruitful and lasting results for tn, betterment of the present situation O industrial unrest are expected, iron the various resolutions passed Tn, resolution for the appointment of { committee to make an industrial sur vey is comprehensive. It provide: that the survey shall be conducted a the expense of the American Mininl Congress, and shall investigate tho various methods in use in plant. where labor troubles have beer slight or nil. with the purpose of for mulating program for promoting in dustrial peace. The proposed program is to be unified plan fair alike tC employer and employe, to be submit ted to a referendum vote of the em ployers.
 Declare War on 1. w. w.
 The resolution opposing w W.-ism and Bolshevism in the United States declared the spread of these radical doctrines is fast becoming in tolerable and must be stopped by viz orous means. It placed the congress on record as emphatically opposed tC "anarchy, BoIshevism. l. W. W,-ism and all other doctrines subversive oi law and order"
 One of the most important resolu tions was that of President Walter Douglas of the Phelps Dodge corpora tion. for the protection of American mining men in Mexico. This resolu tion declared that many mining ensi neers. operators, emPloyes and other American citizens who lave greatly