The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-25
4. Q. U. W. MESS.
Msssachusstfs Body Disrupsed-The
 Rupture Expected.

AhAt@7@oSahN 1sAS ApuuE EisEWPeSA- kic Rupture Expected.
 Boston, Feb. 24.-As an outcome of ! to-day's election at the convention of the Massachusetts Grand lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the state body is at least temporarily dis rupted, and the contest between the two factions has reached point where I it is predicted that the quarrel will be carried into the courts.
 The division came to-day, when John Symonds, of Lynn, was elected grand master workman over A. L. Bateman,
 of Norwoed. Symonds was the candi- date of the party supporting the action of the state body, which last November voted to withdraw frofn the Supreme lodge. Mir Bateman was the candidate of the minority who favored a recon sideration of the action taken last fall. The vote was BOA to 169.
 Although the rupture has been re- garded as almost certain, it came rath- CT suddenly tonight. The business of 1.-the organization was nearly completed with the election of officers this after iiOOlls 1O-ill3lAt3 WAACil GtilC dShdA Ailo- tion to proceed to the installation of officers was made, Supreme Workman William H. Miller, of St Louis, declin- ed to install the newly-elected ones or to permit any other supreme officer present to do so, on the ground that the Grand lodge was guilty of insubordina- tion in refusing to vote in favor of con- tinuing the guaranty fund He there fore declared that the Grand lodge was in revolt, and asked those who were loyal to the Supreme lodge and it's offl-
 cers to leave the hall and go across the corridor into an adjoining hall with
 him, which they did.
 Here meeting lasting more than an
 hour was held, at which speeches were
 made by Supreme Workman Miller, Hugh Keenan, past master workman of Connecticut; John Gallagher, of the
 committee on laws of the Grand lodge of Connecticut, and others.
 Supreme Master Workman Miller as- sured those who had followed that the full strength of the order would be
 guaranteed those who had the action he asked and that their certificates would be protected by the 430,000 members
 represented outside of those who, he claimed, had by their action seeded from the order.
 Meanwhile the majority of the repre- sentatives who had won in the elec- tion proceeded to transact business as I a corporation under the Massachusetts charter, which governs their action. The Massachusetts charter had been
 carried out of the room by friends of
 the supreme officers when the secession occurred, the members present being urged by the partisans of the supreme
 officers to follow your charter" The newly elected grand master
 workman, John Symonds of Mystic lodge of Lynn, took the gavel which had been dropped by Grand Master Workman Carlan A. Brown, and the
 business proceeded.
 The corporation meeting, as it was
 then called, proceeded to re-elect the of-
 ficers. chosen earlier in the day as fol- lows: Grand master workman, John Synonds; grand foreman, J. w. c. Webster; grand overseer, J. J. Reedy of
 Cambridge; grand recorder, Charles c.
 c. Fearing of Boston; grand eceiver,
 Thomas F. Temple of Boston.
 A resolution authorizing the corpora tion to proceed and conduct the busi- ness under the Massachusetts charter of the grand lodge, regardless of any ac- tion of the supreme lodge, was then adopted, and the gathering resolved it. self again into a meeting of the grand lodge, and authorized the payment by the grand receiver, Thomes F. Temple, of the expenses of the delegates. Both factions adjourned about the same time.