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Show 1NES FI1ISI HHSE TOTAL American Congress Holds Convention at St. Louis November 17. ST. LOUIS. Sept. l:. During the last ' five years the mins and oii wells of the United States have furnished exactly ex-actly 5$ per cent of the tonnage originating origi-nating on United States rail mads. The producers of the ba.sie mineral wealth of the country employ approximately i,oj)u,-)) i,oj)u,-)) men. This is largely skilled labor. : These facts iurn:sh ;i b;.p s for tlie interest in-terest aroused u monp mimns men in the grave problems .-"nfrontiiis tiie nation, na-tion, involving transportation, wages and present low percentages in production. The recognized danger of continued industrial in-dustrial conferences, sporadic in character, char-acter, during the national crisis has brought a warning from the mining men and lias resulted in calling a general mining and Industrial convent ion m this city during the week of November 17, where all conflicting interests can get together for the purpose of consider. ng a concrete business program to be placed before the congress of the United States, backed by the nation's leading industries. Already the American .Mining congress, which has called the convention as a feature fea-ture of this twenty-second annual meet-1 meet-1 ing. is at work upon the most comprehensive compre-hensive plans yet devised for a meeting of this character. There will be frank and open discussion of labors' plan to nationalize industry and the effect of labor la-bor control of railroads and coal mines upon all national activities will be shown. The relation of mining to industrial prosperity and the close connect ion between be-tween the present low per-man production produc-tion and the extraordinary cost of all , commodities will be discussed. There wiil be national conferences of gold and silver producers, coal operators, oil shale and petroleum men... state geologists and economists, with special programs for each. War mineral producers and those in-tei in-tei est ed in tariff for American mineral and chemical products are being called together and advocates and opponents of b!ue-sky laws, leasing bills and conservation con-servation will hold special conferences. The invitations are signed by Governor Frederick D. Gardner of Missouri, by Buikeley Walls of Denver, president of the American Mining congress; by Mayor Henry W. Kiel of St. Louis ar.d the combined com-bined commercial bodies of this city. |