Show I U UNITED MI MINE t tW W S f Mt I Fifteenth Open With a n Thousand Delegates I I l Present t MITCHELLS ANNUAL REPORT I Urges the Ille Members to be he Io erale I In anti and In I ii Action II Indianapolis Irni Inti Jon 18 Thc Ut nf of tho Iho United Mine Mino of or America opened nl In III Tomlinson oll hilll with 1000 1001 dele delegates gates Hutel from roin various purls I n o IC tim tho country I and represented Mayor lIolU Holtz mn welcomed the Ihl hc delegates und inI IrH Mitchell responded Late this af nr afternoon iho hC work ork of nC lh Ih ho credential committee was concluded In his hIM annual report Mit Mitchell It chell urges that the convention he ho mod In speech aud conservative In i n Ill at lion aiMing adding We Wo should keep in i mind that the on en nf ot labor and the thc of lit trade unionism m as represented by h thc Ilic association and anU the tho Citizens alliance are eer e rendy to make out oat of ot the tho th small mull ept lt Indiscretion to 0 magnify out of ot all 1411 reasonable blo proportion iho tha mistake that trado unionists na naThe The report rny of ot tho Iho situation in the anthracite II field fidd the of or the strike the relation of operators and miner have grown more cordial With very ver few exceptions exception the tho th award of ot tho thoc commission c hall lias ha ben been riskily rigidly observed and an era eri of or comparative and contentment had ia In that terri tern territory tory Of Ot o central Pennsylvania the Iho report Bays During tho the month of ut March tho 4 miners and opera ol of or the central dIH of ot Pennsylvania report approximately mon loon In Joint conference In lit Inthe Inthe the city elly of oC and consummated an nn agreement which secured to our a n Increase In wages and for Cor the tho first time limo In tho th lit hl tory of or that Held established tho the eight hour Work vork lay The Importance of ur this achievement cannot be overestimated Mr lr Mitchell refers reters to the tho extension of ot the conference method of or adjusting of d wage difference Into West Veat Virginia Kansas Cansas Missouri Arkansas und lint th the ti Indian Territory which he hc prom a ft long period of oC Industrial peace to tl and operator Mr lr Mitchell MitchIll says In nil all other dis dill districts In which mining processes have heretofore been heen regulated by hy agree agreement k bent ment Increased aRel were wre secured and other concessions obtained Lf while In lii many wages have havo 1 not nol advanced In proportion to the thu In r creases crt secured In the tho central tivo coal coni fields nellis on the whole we Wc have hlo I every wery reason to feel fairly well satisfied C I With tho the gains linin during the year 1003 1 03 I The extensions of or organization Into Inlo Canada Laid and are ure mentioned and tho the report says BaS the tho or hns hn In 4 from In to In 1003 1903 1 which does not Include kilo hili hilior I or IC on strike Ill If fays Mr Mitchell every local I union would report In lii UH it full tuU member hiP there them would not bo bi lets less than 30 40 00 members The Tho report Unit t tho the con constitution n jill committee Investigate tho the nd au of or discontinuing tho thu present method of ot collecting dues ducs and adopting i i tile the stRait system I Of sot tho the Colorado Colora o shiIte Mr tr Mitchell 1 The Tho strike In district 15 l hUll hue been und and andI I is lis a n source of or heavy hel vy expense o to our or organization orL L but our people an art standing I firm and much as nH wo vo desire lI an on tunic amic amicable t i able and tutu honorable the un nil attitude of or the companies gives us tie no Ito choice hut but to 10 continue the tho tl I contest until fair terms oC at nrc 1110 reached ll or our people go lon Ilon In detent defeat President Mitchell advises that tho the of ot the lie convention be IKI repeated mat and that the tho scale scab corn com committee be to 10 make mak an ef itt effort fort to have the tho Interstate agreement formulated upon a 11 Tho rho Increase In III I ii machine mining in ug Is I known novit to havo huso been leen from frum ruin 14 Hiler per lr cent of nt the tho ti total production In 1896 to 26 per ter Ier rent In Iii 1002 thu report assorting that In I n d In which vIi cit the t tie differential d Is In widest machine mining hits lias Id II disproportionately Hi Ill urged that thata a 1 of oC thu tho bo be Insisted upon Hu lie suggests that thaI not more than two delegates be bo Kent Hoot to the tho mining congress at lit larIH May Mil 23 urges support of the tho union label hittel and recommends that thul each local devote 10 JO of each meeting to II a 1 of or the tile question lIun of ot goods u Vigorous support of o the thu Mil and the th bill now nov In COli Con IH hi urged I President Pre Mitchell hI earnest earliest of nt f toil thin boys IJU tinder 10 Iii years arl lit eif ago aJo front from being ul ni lowed owe l to tf work I In III the mines and aska tho the convention to 0 It In III clo dos E jug Ing congratulatory IH It IIII do I 10 the lie li 0 that bitt I huts has existed cx between our I lion ion t I rind the tilt operators 1111 In III nil liB status I und districts hI et nc I H I In it which tv ii ichi till Iho I he wages ages and conditions of lit employment tire are fIr regulated 1 ii II lid tie by h t mutual inn t agreement t |