Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-17 | Page 6 | Miners to Go into Politics

oo MINERS TO GO INTO POLITICS Indianapolis, Jan. 17. One great union of local and metal miners in tho United Stntes and Canada must be formed If mlno workers aro successfully suc-cessfully to corabai mlno operators' corporations, declared Edward Young of Great Falls, Mont., representing thc Western Federation of Miners, in an address before the United Mine Workers of America today. Ho urged that the national coal miners' organization organ-ization absorb the metal miners' union un-ion and said he believed a merger plan now going forward would be successful suc-cessful within a few years. A referendum vote Is to be taken among the metal miners of tho ' Western Federation of Miners on the I question of combination with the coal miners and J. a. McKInnon of Den- vcr reported to "tho convention that I indications wero the proposition would ( be approved by a largo majority. "After we have united on tho In- i dustrial field we will uulto on tho po- i Utlcal field and then the-' men that I dally risk tholr lives in mining coals ( and metals will get that which bo-longs bo-longs to thom.'said Mr. McKInnon. I -oo