Show MITCHELL ELL Will SURELY SIM Y RETIRE Does Not Desire to Hold Any Office in Union of United Mine Workers ADDRESS BY HAYWOOD HAY WOOD HARSH LANGUAGE IN REGARD TO COLORADO Indianapolis Jan Ja 1 27 President Mitch Mitchell ell eli announced to the convention of the United Mine Workers of America today that he did not desire to hold any of office 0 lice flee in the organization after his retire retirement retirement retirement ment as president on April 1st This will vill stop a movement to have him placed I at the head hend of an advisory board He asked that his friends give their I loyal and undivided support to his suc sue successor successor cessor While I have been president I have been president in fact as well welt as asIn asIn I In name and my successors have the tho same opportunities to carry carr out their pol policies polIcies ides he said W V D flay Haywood Hawood wood of the Western estern Federation of Miners ad addressed addressed I dressed the convention He referred feel feelingly feelingly I to the appreciation and feeling of I Moyer Moer Pettibone and himself toward the labor element of the country which had I contributed to their defense Plea Haywood attributed all of the strikes and troubles in the western lead leads coal and gold mines to the operators owing to their failure to keep contracts with the miners He charged the operators with the destruction of property by the use of explosives in order to prejudice public lUbliC opinion and lay la the Che blame on the miners He lie painted graphic pictures of the bull pens established by the state slate and military authorities who he said have been subservient to the operators Colorado said he is as mean as all the other states boiled down Corpora Corporations Corporations Corporations control the courts there debauch the legislature and run the elections to I suit themselves Mr Haywood pleaded for a closer re relationship relationship between the Western Vestern Federa Federation Federation Federation tion of Miners and the United Mine lIne MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers of America He asked not only for the financial support of the mine mineworkers mineworkers mineworkers workers but for their moral support as aswell aswell aswell well He asked that all coal miners have their contracts expire at the same time so they can give each other mutual sup support support support port Mitchell Opposed President Mitchell addressed the con convention convention when Mr Haywood closed He declared himself to be opposed to sym pathetic strikes I have hae watched labor lalor l or and conditions as closely closey as W Wan man an he ho said and sand I J have not seen an benefit accrue from sympathetic strikes striker Should the Western estern Federation of or Mill Millers M Mers ers ask sk us to go on a strike to aid th strike we would ask naturally WIl WI t will we get out of it What good 11 I accrue to us I do not see that it would do us any good to have the ous miners on a strike if Ir we coal miners miner were out on a strike Coal can be mined when gold miners are not working but gold Id cannot be mined if there la Is r lit lital r r coal al Mr Mitchell admitted that in extrema i c cas ps sympathetic strikes would verY Verv materially assist in the accomplishment of or labor purposes and In such cases he h would advocate them He thought clos relationship should exist between tir United Mine Workers Yorkers of America and ani the Western estern Federation of or Miners ant suggested a commission to define what w f t these relations should be Mr Mitchell urged the miners to continue the con tract system D A Sullivan rt PY the Ohio miners and Alexander Howatt Howat president of the Kansas miners were elected delegates to the International Mining congress which meets at Paris |