Pittsburgh, Mar. 3.---In the news of a few days ago there appeared a meager line saying that the Pittsburgh miners' convention had voted to erect a memorial to the memory of Patrick DOLAN. A life-story with a world of human achievement and pathos reached its culmination in this act of the miners. It was belated justice being done to "Pat" DOLAN by the miners to whom he gave his life. It work is a pitiful commentary that the vindication carried with this act could not have come to cheer the last sad days of DOLAN's life. The resolution, passed unanimously by the miner's convention, provided for the erection of a suitable memorial to the memory of Patrick DOLAN "in view of his valuable and splendid services rendered to the mine workers of this district and of the entire country in blazing the way through the wilderness of unorganized miners, and his untiring efforts and self-sacrifice." The chapter in DOLAN's career which wrought his undoing as their leader was therein forgiven if not forgotten. It was an accident arising in the inter-state wage negotiations in 1906 at Indianapolis. It had been generally conceded that the existing scale of wages was to be renewed. Trade conditions were actually worse than when that scale had been established three years before. When the operators' ultimatum for renewal was before the joint conference DOLAN voted for acceptance. The miners' leaders from the other states rejected the proposition and the inter-state conference broke up. Some time later the Pittsburgh Coal company management, looking to trade advantage, led for a small wage advance. All other operating interests stood out against it and strikes started throughout the bituminous coal fields. Some of the strikes were quickly terminated, but in Ohio and some other fields they dragged throughout the summer, bringing many concerns to the point of bankruptcy. But this was DOLAN's alleged wrong to his people, which ambitious opponents seized upon as the instrument to thrust him from office. While he maintained his standing in his one union he was kept out of district and international conventionals largely through his enemies' fear that in his aggressiveness he would "come back" in very truth. The unjust stigma of all this broke "Pat" DOLAN's heart. But now the hearts of miners have gone out to him anew.