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Show MOVEMENT ALLEGED TO BE SOCIALISTIC I INDIA NAFOUS, Jan. 27.-r-What was Bald to be a. move in the cause of So elali:ni in i lie FuPed Min Workers of America was made In th convention !-day, !-day, wi.en John H. A'alki-. president of hie- TJiiiu-"-- miners, offered an amendment I to the clause in the constitution declaring declar-ing the Mine Workers' Journal shall be ne if-;-.! in polities, making tt read ina.' the JOurnal shall serve the "political Interest! In-terest! of our members and of the labor move ment." Tho proposition precipitated a debate which war. interrupted by adjournment. The method1 of transfer of members of the Western Federation of Miners to the United Mine workers caused a wrangle. Western coal miners pleaded that ihe metal miner- be psimltted to join toe -oai miners on the same terms tiint members of one local were permit-lod permit-lod to transfer lo another. The western west-ern delegates von their contention A donation of $250 ansa voted to the striking garment workers of St. fouls, but the plea ol tl e striking shopmen ol the Flarrlman railroads of Sm Fran eiseo was defeated by the miners. |