The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
UNION COMMIT HE WILL CALL ID GET
 STE|NER'S VIEWS
Various Organizations Repre- sented In Meeting Being Held In Labor Temple.
 Speakers Heard

Appointment of Q committee to wait on Gen. R. E, Steiner and secure from him statement as to the future coprss to be pursued by the military in< the mining region was the principal busi- ness transacted by the special conven- tion of the Alabama Federation of Labor at it's meeting yesterday
 This committee will meet with General steiner at 10 o'clock this morning. as certain his position. express their views snd report back to the convention what occurs and what results attained, if any
 The committee is not instructed 10 make an appeal, but simply to ascertain for itself in behalf of the federation pre- 'cisely what the military situation is and IS going to continue to be as guidance for action of the convention in reference to the strike Of the miners.
 COMMITTEES.
 This committed consists of George Jones, Mobile. chairman; R. E. l.. Con nelly, Birmingham c. II. Harden, Shelf field; J. R. Kennamer. Birmingham, and Il. k. Trammell, Anniston
 Other resolutions were referred to the . N~''N-"~'S''f' %oifhiiiitttC, WuiCH Will TepOlt today. This committee consists of w. A. Chubb, chairman; H. c. Hutchinson. l.. (. Turner. A. H. Liston, C. R. Harden, John K. Winstanley, H. F. Tramme.l, William Wendt. w E. Henry, J. C. Payne and J. B. Poole.
 The rules committee consists of J. E.. Blair, T. M. Gwin, D. S. Litton George ". Jones and w. J. Cronier. The cre- dentials committee is composed of Lewis Boweny Hunt and Barganier.
 The credentials committee reported 52U accredited delegates. About fifty to sixty of the men in the hall were ne- groes, many of them mine representa- lives.
 MEETINGS PURPOSE
 The meetings was opeend in Union Tem. pie on Fourth avenue by w. L. Harri- son. state president and international or- ganizer of the mine union. Address of welcome was extended by Robert Moore, president of the Birmingham Trades Council a
 The call for the convention was then read. following which MT. Harrison de- livsred his address. He declared an is- sue vital to organized labor had arisen in Alabama through the mine strike, and that the convention had not been ealled by him as international organizer for the mine union, but by the executive com mittee of the State Federation of Labor, following urgent appeals from locals all over the state asking that this be done. He hoped the convention would weigh the matters before it calmly and act with judgment. He said the gathering was not composed of radicals, but the men had come to consider a question of -consummate importance to all the or ganized crafts.
 When free speech and free assem- blaze are dened,' said the speaker, sit is time for organized labor to take ac- ton, because it's very existence is threatened"
 STRIKE HAS EXTENDED
 He declared that the mine strike had extended beyond the mines and affected every worker in the state. The military situation was several times referred ta said Mir. Harrison, is the result of the denial of collective bargaining.
 He charged that the operators had re- fused to bow to the will of the President; had declined to appear before the coal commission, and had refused to put the awards of the commission into effect. /
 The speaker then went on to speak oi the "gunmen" that had been employed by the operators. The .gunmen had failed, he said, and then the troops had been sent The speaker had no word to say against the soldiers as individuals but he roundly condemned the action oi the commander in breaking up meetings and the like. He declared that the sol diers exercise watch over fraternal meetings and religious gathers. As 3
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