| Show I MINING SITUATION BY HEAD llAD oj Of STRONG UNION President Lewis on Injunctions Injunctions and Labor Conditions Conditions Condi- Condi lions Generally INDIANAPOLIS APOLIS Jan 20 The O.-The The r re reports reports re- re ports pors of President Lewis Lewil Vive President White Whito and Treasurer Secretary r Ryan were ro read at today's session of the convention con venton of the U United Mine Mino Ine Workers of Am America The credentials committee commito took up contests today nt Lewis' Lewis report was nM in part ns as follows follow al C This This convention on should decide whether or not the tho international executive exec exec- board is the tho hi highest st h authority in in tho the organization when a convention is not in session The sum MIDI of was as expended d for relief of miners in I. I the tho Alabama strike which failed of its is purpose be- be hr- hr the governor o ordered tho state mitia militia to cut down tho the tents tent sheltering the miners' miners evicted families 1 and re refused rl re- re fused to permit the strikers to hold pub lie lic le meetings hol At no time in the history of the countr country have havo there thero been so M many man idle miners as S during the past year rel Under those circumstances it is a matter mater of some somo Mie satisfaction to be able to report that per capita capia tax tan was received at then the n national office for tho the month of D Decem cember cem- cem ber her iOOS 1008 on members It I is is evident ident e from th the decision rendered by r Judge Wright in the alleged alleged al al- al- al contempt case of Samuel Gompers and his associates that the injunction question IK is jJ now to be settled by tho the highest courts of tho the land injunction ton question is not a n new w one In the last two or three decades it has hag been heen made mado an nn instrument of evil cj In its is application to or organized labor Ibor Secretary W. W D. D RY Ryan n in his annual annual an an- nual n report port r recommended commended that the Buck Duck Stove and Range company should the lie lo taken individual off ol the tie unfair l list t and that members should be bf permitted per to use their own ow jud judgment ment mentIn In this connection he said Rid that former President John Mitchell had been sen sn tencel to jai jail by b- Judge Wright for an act committed while Mr r. r Mitchell was presiding at the last convention con of the organization and that the present convention convention con con- should hould thoroughly consider r the tho case Ho Ire read rend a letter leter from Mr Mitchell Mit Mit- lt chell in which ho said enid that the resolution tion adopted by bv the tha convention which had hail brought brouth up upon n him his jail sentence had been adopted without his knowledge and without his participation and he felt therefore that a 1 great reat injustice had been made mado to him I BOSTON COPPER CLOSE James A. A Pollock Co bankers and I brok brokers rs 6 West Second South street furnish fur fur- ur- ur fish nish the following following- received over oer their Jr at private wire I Bid tAsked Dominion Copper 50 5 55 Majestic 73 77 51 10 Giroux S 8 S 16 1 Copper Ran flange go S 78 8 Mohawk G Co 66 Old Dominion s 55 Tennessee Copper 48 54 41 H H 44 1 Daly Dil West est 10 10 Utah Con 44 Boston Consolidated IH 15 1 U. U S S. Smelter com 43 44 H U. U S. S Smelter pfd 46 4 1 c 5 I Cumberland EI Ely ElI Si s 52 Nevada Utah 2 2 16 15 s tl I 3 Consolidated Mercur Ier ber ur 32 35 C i ii 1 i at r Utah Copper 1 4 41 t I 4 t 2 I 14 1 |
