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Show UNITED MINE WORKERS HAVE MANY THINGS TO TALK OVER INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. .11. After a lonjj and earnest discussion the United Mine Workers of America, In convention here today, defeated n resolution to amend the constitution of the organization or-ganization ho as to exclude from its membership national guardsmen nnd the state constabulary. Every member of the union who spoke on the question denounced the use or the national guard in strikes, but the majority contended thnt despite de-spite their feeling of enmity toward the militia it would be a violation of state nnd federal laws and nho against public policy to exclude them front membership. The argument was made that there is no op-position op-position to the militia for legitimate purposes. ! INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 28. After a bitter attack at-tack by E. L. Doyle, secretary of tho Colorado miners, in which he assailed the management of the strike in that state, the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America in convention here today gave a sweeping vote of confidence to John P. White, - president, and Frank J. Hayes, vice president, when it approved by a large majority all thnt the . International officers had done to win that Inlwr I struggle. Later a motion to expunge from the ; record all the remarks of Doyle was carried by ; an overwhelming vote. I I Doyle's attack was one of the sensations of the I convention. The delegates appeared to be so ; eager to vote that Vice President Hayes was un- nble to gain the floor to make a reply and gave , notice that he would make a statement later. ! President While made a heated reply in which ho ; declared that Doyle had done Irreparable Injury to the struggling mine workers of Colorado. .Stand Hy Colorado Strikers. ; Doyle, in opening his speech, admitted the rank nnd file of the organization had nobly stood by the Colorado strikers, and gratefully acknowledged acknowl-edged that $a,G!)r,rl.t had been sent Into the Btnte to help win the strike. He declared, however, how-ever, that some of the national officers in tho summer of 19M did not show the snme zeal in conducting tho strike as they had at the beginning. begin-ning. Ho alleged that W. It. Falrley of Alabama, and Vice President Hayos, had offered a plan of settlement which was unsatisfactory to Doylo and other district officers, that Fairlev burned nil copies of the plan supposed to be in existence, and that later this identical plan turned up as President Wilson's plan which called for a three-year three-year truce. I PriMldent White in his reply declared that It was Idle to believe that the attack on the Inter-1 national organization smacked of sincerity. He I had been assailed, ho declared, in order to bring (discredit upon his administration, but he would l not reveal all he knew about Colorado nnd jeopardize jeop-ardize the llfo and liberty of men in that state. "You can't make me out a traitor and a squealer," he shouted. A report gained circulation circula-tion today thnt President White may not be n candidate for re-election a year hence, as he desired de-sired to retire. White would not discuss the ro-port, ro-port, but it is said he litis not finally made up Ills mind, Alexander Howat "Advised." The mine workers today "advised" Alexander Howat of Pittsburg, Kan., who has been re-elected president of the Kansas minors nnd who is accused of taking money from coal operators in negotiations of a wage scale in the Southwestern bituminous fields, that he refrain from assuming his official duties and participating in scale conferences con-ferences in his jurisdiction until ho is vindicated in the suits now pending in Kansas courts. Howat resigned as president of the Kansas miners after his name had been linked with the bribery accusations in making a new scale for the coal field of Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, and, at the suggestion of President Presi-dent John P. White of the international union, he began court action against his accusers, not only to clear his own name, but that of the organization. organiza-tion. Lust month he was re-elected district proaldent. Tho opposition to tho committee's reiwrt contended con-tended that to advise Howat to stand aside for tho prosent virtually places him under suspicion hy the union and establishes a dangerous precedent. prece-dent. Tlio committee's action was endorsed by tho convention by a largo majority. President White, Vice Prosldent Hayos and Secretary Green favored tho committors action. Howat sjK)k(' in his own defenso, and among others who opposed the committee's advice were John J. Walker of Illinois nnd John It. Lawson, who is under sentence of life imprisonment in Colorado for conspiracy to murder, but is out on bail, pending a new trinl. Says Strikers Took Oath to .Murder. CASTLE ItOCK, Colo., Jan. 28. An oath to burn mining camps and kill everyone not a member mem-ber of the union, was administered to strikers Hie night before the commencement of fighting between strikers and militinmen near Walsen-burg Walsen-burg In April, 19M, according to testimony given yesterday by Elide Oseirk at the trial of four former strikers charged with killing "Major P. P. Lester. Oseirk told the jury the oath was administered ad-ministered at Union Hall in Walsenburg by Hob Iloho, an organizer. Counsel for the defense brought out an admission admis-sion that eight years ago Oseirk and his father received two hundred dollars from the coal companies com-panies after testifying in a damage suit growing out of nn nccident nt the Tollcnburg mine. Ose-1 Irk testified that he was given a gun by Jack i Uurko, secretary of tlje local union, and Hint the' oath Included a pledge to burn the court house nnd kill Jefferson Farr, sheriff of Huerfano county. The witness said he saw Leo Ncely taking, rifles nnd ammunition to the union hall. Questioning Ques-tioning by attorneys brought out the fact that, Ncely was Farr's opponent for sheriff nt the 1914 election. On cross-examination Oseirk testified tes-tified that the Ludlow battle was not mentioned in union headquarters at Walsenburg and thnt Neely was walking in the rear of eight men, who carried munitions to union headquarters. Hclk Is Released Uy Jury. TRINIDAD, Colo., Jan. 28. Walter Delk. a detective during the recent conl miners' strike, wns found not guilty by a jury late yesterday of i tho murder of Gerald Lipplatt, organizer for the United Mine Workers of America. Lipplatt wasi shot and killed hero August 1G, 191 a. The jury' was out about fourteen minutes. j DEMAND KIGHT-HOUR DAY AND , AN AGREEMENT FOR TWO YEARS i INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 29. The United Mine Workers of America, in convention, decided by a virtually unanimous vote today to ask the bituminous coal operators throughout the country coun-try for a 10 per cent Increase in wages at tho basing point for miners on a mine run basis, a ' 10 pet cent advance for all dead work and yardage yard-age and n 20 per cent Increase for all men paid by the day. In addition, the convention ratified the demands formulated by the anthracite mine workers of Pennsylvania nt a convention held in Wilkesbarre, Pa., last September, nsking for a 20 . per cent advance In wnges, complete recognition I of the union nnd an eight-hour day for labor. , Among the other demands in tho soft coal fields is an eight-hour day from "bank to bank" j that is. the timo of tho miner is to ucirin at the minute he enters the mine until he emerges after his day's work. The working places in the mines of some men nre as far as from one to two miles from the entrance and they wnnt to bo pnld for the time it takes to walk or ride the varying distances dis-tances underground. Weekly pnydnys nre also demanded by the bituminous workers, nnd a further fur-ther demand is made that every other Saturday be nn idle day Instead of working a halfday each Saturday. A two-year agreement Is asked in both tho anthracite and bituminous districts. Attempts to nmend the rcjwrt of the scale committee com-mittee were defeated and tho report wns adopted as presented. The commltfoe on officers' reports recommended recom-mended that a moderate assessment be made upon the membership to nay off an indebtedness of $850,000 to the district organizations. Tho recommendation was opposed and during tho discussion, dis-cussion, In which assertion wns mndo that nn-thraclte nn-thraclte miners had not pnld in full their regular assessments, President John T. Dempsey of Scranton, Pa., revealed that during the great hard coal strike of 1902 tho international organization, organi-zation, in the last three months of tho conflict, allowed tho strikers In Dompse's territory only $2.50 for each man mutwlfo every two weeks, twenty-five conts for each child every two weeks ifonilmied hi paw four ) UNITED MINE WORKERS HAVE MANY THINGS TO TALK OVER (Continual from pago two.) and ?1.G0 for each unmarried man. When the strike ended, Dempsey declared, there was $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 in the national treasury.. Keeling Against National Guard. An attempt was made to incorporate in the constitut.on of the organization a provision barring bar-ring from membership anyone who belongs to or joins the national guard or state constabulary. The effort to amend the constitution In this respect re-spect came up when that part of tho union's organic or-ganic law was reached which bars from membership member-ship mine managers, top foremen, operators, commissioners, persons ongnged In the sale of intoxicating liquors and members of the civic federation 01 boy scout movement. The committee com-mittee on constitution had recommended non-recurrence non-recurrence in the amendment relating to militia, men and the state constabulary. Frank Harrington, president of tho Illinois miners nnd chairman of the constitution cure mittce, declared that It was to the Interests of the union that the committee's report be adopt. cd. He had no love for the militia, he snid, but he would not allow his feelings to carry him I what may be a dangerous position. He saM militiamen did not do the killing in Colornth but that it was done by "hired gunmen." Hi further said that in the anthracite strike of 1902 Pennsylvania militiamen took strikers into their camps and fed them where the organiu. tlon was unable to do it. There was some hissing while rnrrlngton wai speaking. A motion to close debnto was voted down overwhelmingly, and then the adjournment adjourn-ment hour stopped further discussion. Connid-oration Connid-oration of constitutional questions took up mwt of the dAy. Resolutions to reduce the snlnriw of the international officers were voted down. |