AFGWU Local 23 passes resolutions against Idaho Miner proclamation

ARE INDIGINANT

Members of A. F. G. W. U.

Pass Resolutions

OF STRINGENT NATURE

Condemning Action of Authorities in

the Recent Mining Troubles in

Shoshone County, Idaho.

At the regular meeting of Local Union, No 23, of the American Flint Glass Workers' union, the following resolutions were passed by a unanimous vote:

"Resolved, That it is the sense of this Local Union No. 23, A. F. G. W. U., Muncie, Ind., that the recent proclamation to the mine owners of Shoshone county, Idaho, given out by order of the governor of the state, and indorsed by General Merriam, of the United States army, is a blow against the civil rights of the laboring classes of the state, and an unparalleled affront to the workingmen of the whole country, in that it denies their right to join a labor organization and compels the mine-owners to employ none but non­ union men, under pain of having their mines closed.

"Resolved, That this local union con­demns in the strongest terms the action of General Merriam in confiscating the records and money of the miners' union in Shoshone county, Idaho, as worthy of all true union men's condemnation.

"Resolved, That we insist upon the executive of the A. F. of L. investigat­ing the matter; also our congressmen and state senators, to use their influence with the chief executive of the United Slates to right the wrong of those men by a reversal of the verdict that imprisoned them

"Resolved, That we as a body stand ready with our financial mite, to assist in this case whenever called upon.

                                                                                                                        JAMES BURK,

                                                                                                                        B. J. GRANT,

                                                                                                                        WILLIAM FINAN,

                                                                                                                        THOS. MOCKLER.

                                                                                                                                          Committee.

Copies of the resolutions were order­ed sent to the governor of Idaho, Brig­adier General Merriam, and to the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor in Washington, D. C.