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Show Flowers for dead leaders Mouaifs Over Two Men to Be Secoroted. Another Over a Woman Will Be Covered With Klossoms. Western Federation of Miners Decides to Have This Done in Denver Cemetery. Sessions of tho national convention. WeFtern Federation of Miners, promise to be more Interesting during tho second sec-ond week than they have been during tho first The reports are In tho hands of tho committees, all of tho committees have been appointed and most of tho routine btiness has been disposed of. At yesterday's session a resolution was adopted directing John M. O'Niell, who ! in charge of the hen do.ua rters at Denver, Den-ver, to have tho graves of Mvron Reed. Davis 1 1 Waits and Mrs. William Davis appropriately decorated on Memorial day. Who the People Are. Myron Reed was a Denver minister, knomi throughout tho West for his liberal views and his adherence to tho causo of the worklngman Davis H. Waito was the Populist Governor, who stood between tho armed deputies of tie' nine owners ami tho Cripple Creek miners during the strike of 1PM, and Dually brought the trouble to a peaceable and satisfactory settlement. William Davis was an organiser for the Federation Federa-tion at tho beginning of the last Cripple f reek strike. He was placed In tho bull pen. His wife wns 111 and anxiety over his arrest. It Is claimed, caused her death and the death of her Infant child Davis wis in tho bull pen when those who were of all the world tho dearest t" him were laid In tho cemetery at Denver and the sod alovo them was watered by the tears of men who had witnessed many a pitiful seen,, with dry eyes. Will Take the Crisis. Tho convention adopted resolutions on the recent death of Martin Elliott of the American Railway union. Five hundred dollars was appi oprlated for the relief of the coal miners, who are still on strike In t aition county l no r-enerauTi unanimously decided to pay for I3X) subscriptions sub-scriptions to tho Crisis, a Salt Lake weekly newspaper which advocates Socialism So-cialism and Industrial unionism Industrial Unionism. The opening gun In behalf of Industrial Unionism was llred by President Mover In a lengthy speech yesterday afternoon Ho went far back Into tho history of organized labor, and traced the developments develop-ments which have weakened the. power of tho craft organizations and mad.- an Industrial organization an economic necessity. He declared himself strongly in favor" of the organization of a national system of indiistri''.! unions nn h a.- wlli be discussed at the moetlnK In Chicago Juno 27. President Moyer's position was evidently In accord with tho sentiments of the miners convention, for they i hecred almost every utterance. During tho process of th.i meeting every dele-gnto dele-gnto will bo given an opportunity to express ex-press his attitude toward Industrialism Difference Is Explainod. There Is considerable Ignorance, even among union men, as to tho meaning of rin 'Industrial" as opposed to a "trade" union. Tho difference Is tills- In a trade union tho members are eligible by reason rea-son of their skill In a given trade. If they are machinists, they may work In railroad shops, printing offices foundries, factories and ore mills, yet they all enter tho same union. Under an industrial form of organisation the union would Include only thoso employed In a given Industry, regardless of the part which thej might play In that Industry Tho lailroad machinists would affiliate with all other railway employees In a transportation union: tho printing machinists ma-chinists would enter tho union of the printing trades, Including printers, pressmen, press-men, stereolypers, and every one contacted con-tacted with the publishing business: tho foundry machinist would be one with all tho other employees of that foundry and that line of Industry, instead of with tho mat hinlsts In other Industries. The plan further Includes Interchangeable working cards anil a uniform system of dues, but these QTS only Incidental. In Force Several Years. The Western Federation of Miners, the American Ii-bor union, the Brewery Workers, and some oilier organizations, havo had tho Industrial system In force for several years. It has never been countenanced by tho American Federation Federa-tion of Lihor, which has always upheld the jurisdiction of tho craft union v,lc-ii It came In conflict with an Industrial union. These and other disputes led to tho wlthdriwal of the miners from tho American Federation of Labor In 1886, and to tho formation of tho American Labor union tho following year. Tho local newspapers which speak of tho "t lireatoned withdrawal of the. miners frnm th American Federation' are sev eral years behind the times. The two bodies have been more or less at odds for several years. Deleg-ntes Are Photographed. With tho Mormon templo for a background back-ground all of the delegates to the Weut-Federation Weut-Federation of Miners convention were photographed after yestrdaCa meeting They went to the temple grounds In a body, and wero permitted to sit on the grass at tho south 6ldo of tho temple while a photographer trained bis camera upon them To Visit Park City. There will bo no session of tho convention conven-tion today. Tho delegates have been Invited In-vited to go to Park City as guests of the Park City Miners' union. Those who go will have a chance to see the new Miners' hospli.il. and also some of the groat silver sil-ver mines of the camp. President Moyer and Secretary Haywood said last night that they would bo compelled to forego the pleasure of the trip to Park, but a K iv number of the miners will 1 we on the special train which departs from the Rio Grande depot at 9 a m. and leaves Park City, returning, at 7 P- m |
