REPORT OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS
I regret very much that serious complications in the mining industry of our country, together with an enormous amount of important matters requiring my immediate attention, makes it impossible for me to keep my engagement to address the Conservation Congress on the subject, "Are we mining intelligently?" I am intensely interested in the subject of conserving our natural resources, but I am still more interested in protecting the lives and health of our people. We are not mining intelligently, as I will explain by letter.
Success to the work of the Conservation Congress! It means much for the future generations of this greatest industrial country on earth.
[Signed] T. L. Lewis
President