Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1904 — MINE WORKERS MEET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MINE WORKERS MEET.

Fifteenth Annual Convention Begins Sessions at Indianapolis. The fifteenth annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America opened in Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Mou-

day morning. Approximately 1,000 delegates were present from the various districts of the country, Canada being also represented. The convention was to continue for ten days and be followed by the annual joint conference betweeh the miners and coal operators of the States of Indiana. Illinois, Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is at the joint conference that the wage scale for the ensuing year is fixed. It involves 300 operators and 150,000 miners. Illinois, with 350, had the largest single State representation. Early Monday morning there arrived the Michigan del-

egation, 100 strong; district No. 5 of Pennsylvania, with 100 delegates, headed by Patrick Dolan, the district president, and district No. 1, with 150, headed by T. D. Nichols. The convention was opened with an address of welcome to the delegates by Mayor John Hcdtzmnn. which was briefly responded to by President Mitchell, who then announced the following committee on rules ami order of business: G. W. Lackey, district No. 11; Edward Cahill, district No. 12; Adam Rescavnge, district No. 1.

The report of the committee A credentials was then called for. The committee, consisting'of John J. Mossop, North Lawrence. Ohio; Patrick Fitzsimmons, Olphant, Pa., and William Blackley, Lintoii, Ind., had been nt work on credentials for three weeks.

TOMLINSON HALL.