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Show OBSERVEMINERS' DAY BYREUNION Twenty-Five Hundred in Procession. Excursion to Lagoon Takes Majority of Members to That Resort. What Representative Men of the Organization Or-ganization Have to Say of the Colorado Labor Troubles. IN RIGHT ROYAL STYLE did the 500 miners who assembled in Salt Lake' yesterday morning celebrate ,the second annual Miners' Union day of the Western Federation of Miners?. Mi-ners?. Delegations beaded by brass bands came from all parts of ihs Slate to participate in the grand reunion. Three sections from Park City and thirteen cars from Bingham and West Jordan rolled into the Rio Grande Western West-ern yards early yesterday morning and emptied out their vast crowds, which formed into a double-line procession. At the roll of the drum and the blast of the bugle the vast procession, headed by three band9, started off for the business section of the town. They were joined by the Eureka delegation which came in over the Oregon Short Line, and in a solid body these 2000 brawny miners marched around for one and a half hours. They marched up Second South to West Temple, south to Third South, thence to Main street, up Main street to tho Brlgham Toung monument, thence back to Second South, to State, and thence to the Federation Fed-eration hall. Hero they were greeted by President Horace Cromer of the American Federation Feder-ation of Labor, who placed the Federation Federa-tion hall at their disposal. President A. W. Charter of the Utah union of the Western Federation of Miners made a neat little reyponse, in which he thanked the local members for the kindly treatment which had thus far been accorded the visitors. During the course of the meeting it was reported that there were over 2000 men present from outside camps. The Eureka delegation dele-gation numbered 450, the Park City contingent con-tingent 1000, and Bingham was there with 700. The valley smeltermen, with about 100, brought up the rear. ' Excursion to Lagoon. During the afternoon the visitors took in the sights of the city and visited the near-by resorts. The regular excursion ex-cursion was to Lagoon and as a result the majority of the visitors spent the rest of the day at the popular northern resort. The feature of the day's programme pro-gramme was the ball game between the Eureka and Park City teams, but other pastimes, such as dancing, boating and bowling, were not forgotten. The reception committee In charge of the day's programme was composed of Messrs. Cromer, Hnrt, Watkins, Lavery, Robinson, Smith, Osborne and Ostby. Men from the Utah mines who were In the' city yesterday discussed without reserve the troubles of their fellow-unlonlsts fellow-unlonlsts of Cripple Creek, invariably expressing the opinion that the Citizens' alliance was wholly to blame for the outrages perpetrated and that the union would yet prove Us Innocence of wrongdoing. wrong-doing. Blames Citizens' Alliance. "The Citizens' alliance has all along been trying to goad the union men Into committing some overt act which would give it an apparent excuse for calling upon the too-willing military authorities authori-ties to drive the strikers out of the camp," said J. McMullen of the Bingham Bing-ham Miners' union. "Members of the militia, under the direction of the alliance, al-liance, have committed outrages upon union men and their families which would drive any free American citizen to do violence, and yet the miners have all along carried on the strike with on absence of disturbances which should command attention. I do not believe that the union was In any degree responsible re-sponsible for the recent dynamite outrage. out-rage. Of course, with all the machinery machin-ery of government, including the military, mili-tary, In the hands of the alliance, they will probably be able to 'prove' anything any-thing they want to; but the truth will come out some lime. The Citizens' alliance al-liance Is showing by its present actions that it is the organization of anarchy. T wouldn't be at all surprised If the trouble ends in civil war In" Colorado, and I wouldn't mind going- there myself to help fight It out. "Personally, I am" riot in favor of strikes as a means of settling labor troubles. The ballot is the proper argument, ar-gument, and all of our difficulties could be settled right at the polls if the men would only stand together in politics as they should." Lawlessness Not Unionism. N. Andrews, a representative member mem-ber of the Park City Miners' union, said : "Lawlessness Is not unionism. There Is no union principle which would ever justify an act of violence. It Is our "policy to improve our condition wherever wher-ever possible by argument and reason, and the proper presentation of our grievances, griev-ances, when we have any. I do not believe be-lieve that the Cripple Creek outrage was perpetrated by union men. It Is very difficult at this distance from the scene of trouble to even guess what the outcome will be, but the union will eventually be exonerated. The Citizens' alliance has everything Its own way now und it may rule for a time. But It Is committing, acts of lawlessness which cannot be tolerated In a free country " |