Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-21
His Majority Over William L.
Green of Ohio His Only Op-
ponent, Was 23,597.
F. J. HAYES VICE PRESIDENT
Rivers of Alabama Stirred the Com
vcntion TO Very High Pitch
OF Excitement.

lnuldnapOllS, Ind, Jan. 21.-IBonaS
L. Lewis OF Ohio was reelected presi-
dent OF the United Mine workers OF
America over William L. Green of Ohio.
his only opponent. by 23.597 majority.
according to figures announced at the
miners convention here today. Frank
j. Hayes OF Illinois was elected vice
president by a majority of 3,237 over
the incumbent. E. s. Mccullough of
Michigan
The report of the tellers was read in
the convention today but the anti
Lewis party succeeded In postponing a
vote on its adoption until after noon.
The convention was in a tumult be-
fore and after the report
The insurgents" supporting William
Green attempted to delay the report un-
til an inquiry could be made into pro-
tests against counting the votes of GER
tain local unions of central Pennsyl-
yania. After noisy demonstrations on
both sides and cries of put him OUT
directed against the speakers, 1t was
determined to hear the report first and
the protests afterwards.
After the report was read Green de-
manded the vote by disticts in the
anthracite region of Pennsylvania and
district No, 26 of Nova Scotia Tho
tellers had in hand only the totals and
in an uproar the chairman adjourned
the convention until after noon
Edwin Perry was chosen secretary
treasurer without opposition.
CONVENTION EXCITED
A man named Rivers. of Alabama,
stirred the convention of the United
Mine Workers OF America to a high
pitch of excitement today, though he
was not present. If he had not left
the city, President Lewis said he
probably would go now" for he was
"a secret agent OF the operators of
Alabama
XIII himl" shouted a delegate.
There was a laugh at this. but no
laugh when there were general cries
OF Throw him out"
He has vamoosed," said President
Lewis.
w. r. Farley, executive board MEM
Der for Alabama, said Rivers attended
last years convention as a delegate
and had with him a deputy sheriff
from Alabama. IAN officer that has no
business In miners meeting"
Rivers was a member of the local
union at Carbondale. Ala. before the
great strike in that state. Farley said,
and since has been, he declared, at IN
tervals in the employ OF the operators
of the state as a confidential agent
PLAY FOR MERGER.
a definite plan for the projected
merger OF the organized metal and
coal miners of the United States and
Canada would be laid before the con,
ventlon by a committee representing
the coal miners of the Western Fedora
tlon of Miners.
President Lewis OF the United Mine
Workers today named its conference
committee as follows:
T. L. Lewis. president: John II Walk
er. district 10; ]. r. Lawson, district
10. f. s. Mccullough, district "a; C. P.
Gilday, district Z; Jacob Ritter district
13; Patrick Gilday. district g
The conference committee OF the
Western Federation of Miners is as
follows:
Charles H. Moyer. president; c. E.
Mahoney. vice president; William Da-
wilson. executive board member: James
Devlin. Daniel Holland, 81. j O'Con-
nor and J. D. Common.
The two committees Immediately will
take up the work OF framing a coali-
ton contract that will bring about 9th
er an amalgamation. with one set OF
international officers and one treas
ury. or an offensive and defensive
working agreement that Will vet per-
nit the Independent existence of the
metal and coal miners organizations
The joint conference of the btumin-
Gus coal operators and miners OF west
ern Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana,
viii be held in Indianapolis instead Of
Toledo, on Feb. /. IL the operators VIII
agree to a proposition to be made
by the national officers of the union
and the presidents of these three Iis-
tricts and Illinois II the operators
decline to meet the miners In this city.
the miners representatives will go to
Toledo.
A committee to lobby for the bill to
establish a governmental bureau OF
mines and mining now proceeding he
fore Congress was sent to Washington.
a resolution TO this effect being passed
today.
The resolution declared mining
bureau would also be an essential step
toward eliminating possibility of dis
asters similar to that at Cherry. III.