Show MOYER NOW buffs proposes suits against utah fuel company LAWYER mm MURPHY COMING former strikers to aake fight for houses at castle gate and elsewhere ID in the report of t charles H moa moer er president of tho the western federation of miners lu in cession session at salt lake city las ins week and which Is liow pub llred in pamphlet form moyer makes particular reference to conditions obtaining among the coal miners of carbon county he says that after on an exhaustive examination by himself and others it was deemed right to give the strikers etri kere all tho the as abstance si al stance within the power of the federation and to that extent john H murphy general counsel of the order has been requested nested to come to utah to take tho the necessary steps to recover the properties of the miners from the vanh fuel company the f full ull text of this part of mr moyers address deals deal with all the steps which led up to the strikers making application to the goyer governing ning body to be affiliated with it so as to gain the recognition they demanded the report says inthe in the month ot of rebr february uary ire I 1 re calved an application for a charter signed by about one hundred coal coal miners of utah in making their request they sit forth that they had been ordered on strike by the united mine workers of america vh which organization they were that after having stood loyally by the organization fer for mony many months endur log great suffering losing their hemes homes which they had built on company ground and being forced to take up their abode in dug outs ats and hovels they bad had been or dered bock back to work by president mitchell thle in face of the fact that the company had positively refused reused f to employ them as union men and in order to return to the mins L they would I 1 be compelled to hla h la d their union this they refused to do ond and were deserted by the national organization and were left penniless and homeless to exist as beet best they could they had seat sent representatives to skelt brother unionists in othet states who while willing willingto to contribute to their support had been warned by their national officers officer not to do so while the c n of our organization Is very plain in regard to who shall be eligible for membership I 1 decided to first investigate the condition of the applicant applicants and seat sent executive board member who was then in utah to the coal campa camps tor for that purpose sO upon receipt of Schmal zere repert report I 1 submitted the same to the executive board who were ol 01 the unanimous opinion that the fede raton on should charter them and render then them whatever assistance si stance the condition of tho the treasury would admit I 1 then informed them of the condition of our organization and that wing owing to the lane ang struggle in which we had been engaged and the numerous strikes in the jurisdiction at that time it would b imps alle to charter them and f furnish tho the necessary financial support to continue the strike that with this understanding der standing it if it was still their desire to with the federation re ro would give them our moral support cad financial assistance as the treasury would admit they replied that atvas it was their intention to continue the tile fight against the utah fuel company to rejoin regain their homos homes and the right to organize but to continue their with the united mino mina workers they were asked to return to their masters unrecognized as union men er or they might be assisted by that organization in leaving the state sur surrendering renier their property to the corporation amplo employment artent eise else w sture atch letb 9 1904 their af hf r for charter was granted and since that time they have received such assistance as wo were able to give I 1 commend these people to you and say that if it there aas ever a body of men worthy and entitled not only to the consideration of tho the western federation rede ration but to organized labor in general it is abo coal miners of utah deserted by tho the of their craft persecuted by their masters they have unflinchingly faced privation aad and hunger inde in defense of the principle of organized labor I 1 have hune requested attorney M murphy urphy to couie to utah tor for the purpose of taking legal step steps toward j gaining for them homes and I 1 sincerely trust that this convention will endorse the action of your executive th e coard und and that tho the western federation of miners will continue to render them every assistance in their power the cause of general counsel mur paya absence from the convention was due to the fact that he Is at present in st paul defending charles demolli on appeal the defendant striving to obtain ahli release from the penitentiary where ho he ja Is serving a term tr fr misuse of f tab th e united states mails malls Dei became known over the labor world as a strike agitator at the time of tho the troubles in the colorado and utah coal fields he was a member of the executive board of the united mine workers and when arrested it claimed that president john YE mitchell of the ile mino mina work ers em derer deserted ted him after breaking with mitchell bell and bis his friends the western reder rede atlon ration took up the defens defense of demolle and is still lighting fighting for his release tho the charge of misusing the mails malls it la Is claimed by them was trumped up in order to ge get him out et of the way |