Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — LEWIS’ ENEMIES WIN A VICTORY [ARTICLE]

LEWIS’ ENEMIES WIN A VICTORY

A Unified Organization of Both Mining Unions Planned.l SCALE COMMITTEE IS NAMED ■ ■ w Delegates Defeat Proposition to Pay Organizer Delegates' Salaries from National Treasury Charles H. Moyer Suggests Amalgamtlon of Unions and Addresses Convention.

Indianapolis, Jan. 21. —Following a bitter and prolonged struggle the United Mine Workers voted against the payment from the national treasury of the salaries of international organizers who are attending the convention as delegates. A unified and aggressive organization of the metal and coal miners c( North America is the design of the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners and of the United Mine Workers of North America, presented t« the convention of the United Mins Workers in this city. Committees of the two organizations will draw up a plan of alliance, which will be either an amalgamation or a working agreement, and it will be offered to this convention for ratification.

Charles H. Moyer, president, and C. E. Mahoney, vice president of the Western Federation, chiefly of metal miners, headed a delegation from their organization were introduced to the miners’ convention and made speeches urging an offensive and defensive league of all miners as the only solution of their “problem.** The projected merger was unanimously approved by the convention. The committee to represent the coal miners in the conference with the metal miners’ officials will be announced today. Moyer asked the convention to take a stand against William Randolph Hearst, whom he charged with having been influential in “locking out” organized miners in the northwest. The federation leader also denounced the courts, cilting his experience in justification of the attack. President Lewis of the coal miners announced the committee when the convention opened. That on wage scale will formulate the demand of the bituminous coal miners for an increase of from 10 to 20 per cent. The committee consists of twenty-two members, with W. P. Rollins of district 11 as chairman.