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Show AT NO TIME IN HISTORY SO MANY IDLE MINERS Indianapolis, Jan. 20. The reports ol President Lewis. Vice-President White and Secretary-Treasurer Ryan were read at today's session of the convention of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America. The credentials committee com-mittee took up contests today. Preside-at Lewis' report was in part as follows: "This convention . should decide whether or not the international executive exe-cutive board Is the highest authority in the organization when a conven, tion Is not in session. "The sum of $407,500 was expendcJ for the relief of miners in the Ala-., bama strike, which failed of iti'iCP-poye, iti'iCP-poye, because the governor ordere-f the state militia to cut down the tents Fheltering tho miners' evicted families and refused to permit the strikers to hold public meetings. "At no time in the history of the country have there been eo many idle miners, as during the past yetir. Under Un-der these circumstances, it is a matter mat-ter of some" satisfaction to bo able to report that per capita tax was received re-ceived at tho national office for the liionth of December, 1908, on 294,746 members. N "It is evident from tho decision rendered ren-dered by Judge Wright in the alleged coitempt cases of Samuel Gompers aud his associates, that the injunction injunc-tion question is not t be settled by the highest courts Qf the land. The injunction in-junction question is "not a new one. "In the last two '07sthrce decades, it has been made' an; Instrument of evil In its application to organized labor" la-bor" ' " Secretary W.' R'Ryan, In his annual an-nual report, record mended that the Buck Stove & Range company should be taken off the, unfair list and tnat "The individual members should be 1 ermitted to use their own judgment." judg-ment." : In this connection ho said that ex-President ex-President John Mitchell had been sentenced sen-tenced to Jail by !Judge Wright for an act committed while Mr. Mitchell was presiding at the last convention of the organization auJ that the present convention should thoroughly consider consid-er the case. Ha read a letter from Mr. Mitchell, in; which he said the resolution adopted by the convention, conven-tion, which had (brought upon him his Jail sentence, h,fld been adopted without with-out his knowledge and without his participation nnd ho felt, thereforo, ihat a great la justice had been done to him. John P. White, in his address, declared de-clared that something should be dono to stop publicity of the Internal affairs af-fairs of the Organization. All of tne roDorts clalihed that notwithstanding less than h;ilf time, work for the men the organisation has maintained its strength. (Against a membership or 300,000 atthe last convention, It has 234.74G ttois year. It was' found in seating the delegates that John Mlt-rhell Mlt-rhell Is ot accredited to the convention conven-tion as : delegate, by any local union. |