There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
Thursday June 14, 1906
Denver, Colorado – W. F. of M. Stands By Imprisoned Officers
From The Evening Star of Independence, Kansas:
THEY STAND BY MOYER
——Western Federation of Miners Virtually
Re-elect Old Officers
—–Denver, Colo., June 13.-The Western Federation of Miners Virtually re-elected Charles H. Moyer president and William D. Haywood secretary-treasurer, by making no nominations for these offices. According to the constitution the present incumbents, who are in jail in Idaho awaiting trial on the charge of complicity in the murder of former Governor Frank Stuenenberg, will hold over until their successors are elected. C. E. Mahoney, of Butte, was elected vice-president.
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The Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Western Federation of Miners, having begun on May 28th, was brought to close on June 13th. The newly elected officers are as follows:
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SOURCES
The Evening Star
(Independence, Kansas)
-June 13, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/92338764/
Official Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Convention
Western Federation of Miners of America
-Held in Odd Fellows Hall at Denver, Colorado
-May 28-June 13, 1906
https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8A3AQAAMAAJ
IMAGES
Moyer and Haywood from Darrow Collection
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=1384
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=1385
Western Federation of Miners, Convention Ending June 13, 1906
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=Q8A3AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA2