[Newspaper]
Publication: The Morning News
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 22, no. 142, p. 8, col. 5
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.
