Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-14 | Page 1 | Plan to Amalgamate the Nation's Miners

PLAN 10 AMALGAMATE THE NATIOfTS MINERS Move Made for Union of Coal and Metal Miners as Federation Fed-eration Meets in Denver. DENVER, July 13. The opening session of tho sixteenth annual convention conven-tion of tho Western Federation of Miners Mi-ners today was devoted to the appointment appoint-ment of a comimttco on credentials aud two short addresses, one by George IJal-loy, IJal-loy, president of tho Colorado State Federation Fed-eration of Labor, and lho other by W. S. Burns, a member of tho miners' union at Virginia. Nevada. Both men declared that the two organizations should work inoro in harmony, if not together. It is stated by those in authority that tho two addresses were but tho begin uing of an open movement, the ultimate object of which is amalgamation. amalgama-tion. It was also said that President Thomas Lewis of tho United Mino Workers of America is on his way to Denver, and will appear before the convention con-vention either Wednesday or Thursday, and that an unofficial conference will result with a view of amalgamating lho coal and metalliferous miners. Already Al-ready there is an interchange of cards. Should such a union be effected, tho organization will probabh be known as tho United Mine Workers of America, the coal minera to comprise the coal department and tho Western Foredation the metalliferous department. The following is the commiLteo on credentials: Charles R. Waters, Silverlon. Colo.; Edward Long, Butte, Mont.; J. C. Scott. British Columbia; James McDonald, Tnrcy, South Dakota; C. B. Burr, Uarf.. Nevada; William Jinscrson, Flat Bivcr, Mo.; A. E. Bigley, Mullin. Ida, President Moyer will deliver his annual an-nual address after tho permanent organization or-ganization has been effected. The credentials commitee will recommend recom-mend that William II. Haywood, the former secretary-treasurer, bo given a seat in tho convention with complete delegate authority, though he is not a delegate or an officer.