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Show BUTTE, Ju.y 19 President C. H. Moyer read his annual address today at tho session of the convention of tho Western Federation of Minors at tho Auditorium today. The executive board of the federation, federa-tion, hv ItM rlinlfmni r"linl TJ fPon. ner of Jerome, Ariz., reported the result re-sult of Its deliberations in Butte during dur-ing last week.. Encouraging words were spoken upon the lockout sltua tlon In tho Black Hills, whore it was Btated 3000 minors lost their Jobs on Thanksgiving ove, 1909, through the establishment of a card system by the Homostako Mining company. It was stated that a number of determined deter-mined union men are still on the ground nnd It was bellovod that tho lockout would in a few months bo a thing of the past. It was stated that during tho past year 3000 had been enrolled In tho state of Missouri It was advised that work be pushed along the line of organizing the Mexican Mexi-can workers, as there Is a growing tendency to replace American or white labor with Mexican labor The attempt of unions In Ontario to secure an eight-hour day has been unsuccessful thus far. Tho employment of convict labor on tho roads and other public works was opposed. It was stated that this movement, if encouraged," would lead to absolute peonage For Defence of the McNamaras, The proposal to raise a fund for the defense of the McNamara brothers by assessing each member of every union 25 cents was taken up today. The communication to the convention In regard to the matter from Secretary Secre-tary Frank .Morrison of the American Federation of Labor was read. He urged tho necessity of funds to be available Immediately, and It was suggested that, If possible, there should be no delay till the assessments assess-ments are collected, but that tho amounts might be advanced from tho treasury funds of the unions and the collections made by the unions themselves them-selves afterwards. As regards tho fund needed to be raised by organized labor throughout the counirv. Vice President Mahoney oxpressed 'the opinion that $100,000. or even :?500,000, roifjht bo found inadequate, in-adequate, as if the accused officials ot the structural Iron (workers' union should be acquitted In Los Angeles, there wero plans, It was declared, to continue tho prosecutions In their home stales and other places in the country. Mr. Mahoney suggested thnt the convention might bo able to act more expeditiously in the matter If It was referred to n committee May Stop Every Wheel of Industry. Dclogate Corra of Burtfe, Idaho, suggested that, besides giving financial finan-cial aid to tho accused labor leaders, action should he taken similar to that resorted to by organized labor In France, when a loader thore, Brand, had been condemned to death. A throat to stop every wheel of Industry Indus-try throughout the country on the following fol-lowing day unless the condemned man was givon his liberty had tho desired de-sired effect It was declared that the freedom of the McNamaras at Los Annnlos mlcht bo effected by similar dotrminod action and a threat of a strike upon tho part or organized labor la-bor throughout tho whole of this country. coun-try. At this point President Moyer introduced in-troduced Ed Crough as a visiting union man from Los Angeles, and ho mounted tho convention platform and gavo a very interesting account of his exporloncos as a member ot a committee com-mittee of seven representing the labor la-bor unions of Los Angeles that Investigated In-vestigated conditions In and around the ruins of the Los Angeles Times building immediately after the disaster disas-ter of last October. Ho said that he and his follow members on that committee com-mittee offered to work, in conjunction conjunc-tion with a committee of experts namod by Mayor Alexander of that city, but" the offer was Ignored and tho labor committee was not even granted permission to go In the ruins to make an Investigation. |
