The Holbrook news., 1921-07-01
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dLlOH as nS COuClOOC0 HIS OPCCOb
 The official roll call showed that only five organizations yot ed solldly for the mine workers leader. They were the United Brotherhood of Carpenters ano Joiners, International Associa- ton of Macninists. Mine Mill and and Sm-lte Workers, Tailors and the Draftsmen's union.
 Mine Workers Split
 The mine workers delegation split their vote---Frank Earring ton, president of the Illinois dis trlct: R ,bert Harlan. president of Washington district, and AL exander Howat. president of the Kansas district United Mine Workers. casting their total vot- es of 1, 596 for Gompers
 Lewis. who. as delegate. held 593 votes did not cast his ballot.
 Tn railroad organizations. which were reported to have backed the Lewis boom. failed to support.him two of the largest unions--Electrical and Railway Carmen--voting soIidly for Com pers. The building trades un- ions and a majority of the metal working organizations also sup ported the labor chef.
 Cigar Makers for LelOis
 J. MahIon Barnes, of Chicago, of the Cigar Makers union, of which Gompers is a member, cast his sixty-eight votes for Lewis.
 The election of Gompers brought to a close one of the hot test political campalges ever waged in the history of organiz ed labor. The campaigning had gone On relentlessly slnce the convention opened and times proceedings on the floor of the convention were lnterruped by the electioneering.
 Charges and counter charges were hurled back and forth by both sides. Early in the cam paign reports Were published that certain anti Gompers inter ests were operating among the delegates with $1OO.OOO "slUsh fund" Efforts to bring about an investigation of these charges failed. At no time, however, did these charges involve the Lewis supporters. as they were all made against persons outside the ranks of organized labor.
 Delegates to England
 William J. Spencer of Wash fngton. D. C., secretary of the building trades department. and James J. Forester, of Wash ing ton. were elected fraternal delegates to the British trade union congress. Peter J. Brady of New York. who was nominat- ed, withdrew his name.
 John O'Hara, of Danbury, Conn, was elected as fraternal delegate to the Canadian trades and labor congress.
 CiDcinnatti, Ohio. was select ed for the site of the next con- vention over Fort Worth. Texas. by a vote of 22, 482 to A. 221.
 To Reinstote q Union
 Before adjournment the con- vention disposed of several jur- isdictionaI matters. The pro- posal to reinstate the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers, which was suspended in December. 1919. because of jurisdictional dispute, was re- ferred to the executive council. The. council was instructed to take necessarA steps to assure the reinstatement of this organi- zation with it's membership of nearly 100000. No opposition was voiced on the convention floor against the proposal.
 Heated Words Exchanged
 Heated words were exchanged by President P. J. Morrin. of the Bridge and Structural Iron work CTS and President Daniel J. Tob- in, of the Teamsters over jur- isdictional dispute involving these two unions.
 The iron workers contended