Bisbee daily review., 1921-06-26
SAMUEL GOMP[RS ONCE MORE ELECTED PRESIDENT 4. I. l.:
 EASILY DEFEATS JOHN LEWIS
Veteran Labor Leader Gives Way To Emotion After Winning Hottest Political Fight In History Of Organized
 Labor; Says He Will Not Give Way To Hearst
The mine workers delegation split

their vote-Frank Harrington, presi- dent of the Illinois district; Robert Harlan, president of the Washington district. and Alexander Howat, presI- dent of the Kansas district. United Mine Workers, casting their total votes of l,569 for Gompers.
 Lewis, who as a delegate held 595 votes, did not cast his ballot.
 The railroad organizations which were reported to have backed the Lewis boom, failed to support him, two of the largest unions-Electrica Workers and Railway Car Men-vot- ing solidly for Gompers The build ing trades unions and majority of the metal working organizations also supported the labor chief.
 J. Mahlon Barnes, of Chicago, of
 the Cigar Makers Union, of which Gompsrs is a member, cast his 6S votes for Lewis.
 The election of. Gompers brought to a close one of the hottest poll icai campaigns ever waged in the history of organized labor. The campaigning
 had gone on relentlessly since the convention opened and at times pro
 ceedings on the floor of the conyen- tion were interrupted by the election eering.
 Charges and counter-charges were
 hurled back and forth by both sides.
 Early in the campaign reports were
 published that certain anti-Gompe,s interests were operating among the delegates with $100,000 -siush fund.-
 Efforts to bring about an investigation of these charges failed. At no tune, however, did these charges involve the Lewis supporters, as they were all made against persons outside the
 ranks of organized labor.
 Charges Fly Thick William J. Spencer, of Washington, D. C., secretary of the building trades department, and James J. Forester, of Washington, were elected fraternal delegates to the British Trade Union Congress.
 The history of Samuel Gompers is
 largely a history of organized labor.
 Since 1881, with the exception of enc
 term, he has been president Of the American Federation of Labor, which he was largely instrumental in organ
 izing
 Friends of the veteran lahcr leader
 say he is the most active man in the , United States despite his Fl years. He travelled an aveRRge of 100 miles day during 1920, one trip being made by airplane to keep an engage ment. Hardly meal is eaten with out conference going on simultane- ClN ha icfa statements as he ate.
 During the past year he has writ ten four books and fifty pamphlets, Another book is in the hands of his publishers
 |, Throughout the war he was active in preventing strikes and assuring la Dor cooperation in war work. Twice he visited Europe, making speeches in behalf of the war and participating in the peace conference. The slogan, No Peace Without Victory" is creo- tied to Gompers. He was chairman of the labor commission Of the nation al council of defense during the war, president of the American Alliance of Labor and Democrary and chairman of a commission international labor at l the peace conference.
 In addition to his administrative work as president, Gompers edits the American Federationist, monthly l publication, directs labor's efforts to | obtain favorable legislation at Wash 1 ington and keeping in touch with la bor activities throughout the country. With the exception of this year and 1894, when John Mcbride, a mine worker, was elected president, Com