Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-06
SAY LEADERS SHOULD
HAVE GONE TO JAIL,
Radical Element Of Miners Show Opposition to Settle
lnent, Workers Chiefs Replying That Continuance
Would Have Meant Revolt Against Government

President >-'e
h ,f,Nr any Green dec!arid thore was no
d Ja,Sdna,!H .: and that they had simply
while protesting in our hearts AGAINST
w st we believed TO be tho unjust att;-
lude Oh our government"
10 have done otherwise would ,,ayc
ne revolt against the ;;ovcrnmcnt,
Delegates Piled Lewis with questions
~, ~ c wne,hcr the II per cent advance
ntS hi.ai ana what effect ia LITIGATION of
inc action of the officers uuou In, sct :
Element might have
I'LL IN reply Lewis declared that he be-
lcVcu the commission Of three mon
APPOINTED by the President TO consider
Increase III wages and Improvement OF
working conditions OF tho miners, to be
iaii anu ABOVE rcproach.
Relieve VIII Get FaIr Deal.
tnin< we can prove 60 the COM
ms, that VIC are entitled TO a fur
n ro, '"Ireasn saih Lewis, and II wo
declared.
Lewis explained that the decision OF
inc. commission would be made the
basis for the new wage contract aud
would supcrSeac and absorb tho IL per
cent; advance, which is only to hold
good for sixty days, during which time
tue commission ia to make it's report,
Complaints from many Districts. par
ticuiar!y the Oklahoma fields. where
1t is alleged the miners havo not re-
ccived the full benefit OF the IA per
cent advance. Lewis explained would
DO considered by the commission
John +. White, miners representative
present at tho opening of tho convcn-
tion today. bu, took no part in tho
proceedings.
When tho convention recessed To-
ing tho motion Of President Murray,
Pennsylvania. was still under discus.
SION Lewis refused TO recognize mo-
tons to table the resolutions, dccla sing
that he wanted to Sirc every dcic,satc
an opportunity To talk. 1t is not inn
promtb!c that the discussion may last
Wonld Have PrecipItntea Ruin.
In support OF his motion to approve
ihe action OF the officers. Murray de-
would have Drccipitatcd the ruin OF
the United Mine Workers organization,
because we would have been arraycd
crnmen, in the world. Wien the Pros
idcn'. in his great wisdom dccrecd that
VIC were revolving against tho govern
mcnt ny the STRIKE, there was but one
thing TO do, and that was tho thing
which was done. We have good cnse
and We believe that upon tho prescnta-
tion Of the facts VIC will be given more
substantial relief than IL We had con-
tinucd tho strikc."
u. l.. Wcincl. OF Illinois. was tho
FIRST 81 the radicals to oppose tho in
r'arcd the officers Should have conc
20 jail like Gene Debs and all Sim
ccrc Americans"
\ delegate from Indiana declared he
believed the organization had lost the
right to strike because OF tho applica-
ton OF the Lever act. He predicted
thar when this act expired there would
he another similar law
Cox Addresses Miners.
That thc miners strike would have
bcen settled in Ohio and settled right"
IL Washington officials had not acted
when they did. was tho assertion OF
Governor Cox. OF Ohio. in addressing
the miners convention today.
The Governors declarations for the
principles OF collective bargaining,
evolution in government as opposed to
'adicalism and revolution, and his
statements on Amcr!canization. were
received with great enthusiasm. Tho
convention voted to have This speech
printed and mailed to every local
union.