Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-04
JOHN LEWIS AND
HIS EXECUTIVES
AGAIN UPHELD
Plan to Rob Officers of Power
to Make Wage Contract
Fails.
SALARIES ALSO GET o. K

Another effort to discredit President
John Lewis and his administration in the
United Mine Workers convention failed
today.
Local Union No. 1 of Braidwood, Ill,
obtained the Endorsement of about three
hundred other locals to a resolution d.
vesting the scale committe and interna-
t-onal officers of the power to nego-
tate a wage contract unless it carries
the full demands of the membership. The
convention voted this resolution down
and thus retained to the officers and the
committee their power to meet the OPP
orators in conference next March.
The convention also upheld the union
executive board in fixing the salaries Of
international officers. This action main
tains the salary of President Lewis at
$S,000 the salaries Of other officers rang
ing downward according to their position
NEXT MEETING IN
JANUARY, 1924.
Provision was made to make the next
meeting smaller and less unwieIdy by
amending the constitution so as to per-
NIT no local union to have more than
one delegate unless it has more than 500
members. The convention decided to hold
the next meeting on the fourth Tuesday
of January, 1924, to have each succeed
ing meeting on the fourth Tuesday of
January. This Is the system that former
y prevailed in holding conventions.
Delegate Hurst, attending the miners
convention here from Lisbon, Ohio, died
at an Indianapolis hospital today from
paralysis
The convention yesterday afternoon
adopted q number Of resolutions on rec
ommendation Of the resolutions commit
tee. These included one asking the
American Legion to set its house in
order but avoiding any criticism Of
the legion as a whole.
The committee on resolutions declared
that In some places individual members
Of the the legion were guilty OF law v4o-
IationS. II said that the question Of the
mine workers stand had been discussed
with officers Of the legion and pointed cut
that thousands Of mine workers are mem
bers Of the ex-Service organization
The question resulted n considerable
debate from the floor In which activities
Of individual legion members in strike
disturbances were cited.
FAVOR ALLIANCE WITH
RAIL BROTHERHOoDS.
The convention also went on record ia
voring an alliance with the railroad
SrOtherhOods and authorized steps to be
taken toward that end.
Other resolutions declared for the ma
tionalizat.on Of mines. for self deter
minatiou for Ireland and Russia; de-
handing the election Of officers Of the
American Federation Of Labor by ref
erendum protesting against the confne-
ment of Tom Mooney and Warren X.
Billings in San Francisco; recommending
that district organizations use every ef-
fort 10 have laws enacted to protect en-
ployes from eviction from company
houses; demanding the release Of po-
litiCal prisoners; declaring for unemploy-
ment ana health Insurance; pledging
moral and financial support to the Miugo
strikers, asking that President Harding
bring about an investigation OF the West
Virginia situs ton. and asking for the
enactment Of legislation to make unlaw-
ful the employment OF guards By OPP
orators.
TAKE NO ACTION
ON PROHIBITION.
The convention refused to 20 on rec
ord on the subject Of light wines and
beer. holding that prohibition IS neither
an industrial nor an economic question.
and therefore had no place IN the conven-
ton The delegates refused TO concur in
a resolution favoring the one big union
idea