The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-18
LEWIS IS VICTOR
Mother Jones QuietS Factions
as Result Is Known.
HOwat Charges Bought Votes
Will Return to Jail Soon.

Indianapolis. Feb. 1S.-John L.
Lewis, international president of the
| United Nine Workers, triumphed to-
day over Alexander Howat's insurgent
faction in the miners convention.
The union chief was victorious in
a test of strength with the fiery leader
of the Kansas OUTLAW" miners, get
ting, according to complete unofficial
returns, 2,059 votes as against 1856
for Howat
| Mother" Jones interrupted a
tumultuous demonstration by support
ers of Howat, Lewis and other officers
when she appeared at a moment
charges of padding the list were
| being hurled across the hall as the
| absentee vote was being called for a
test of strength.
The aged woman, who for more
/ than half century has been more
than a guiding light in the mine move
ment, told the miners to quit fighting
among themselves.
THE enemy is boring from within
! today. '1 can raise hell
with any that are not true to you and
viii. Now, I want you to get down
to work and not fight yourselves.
Il have been in Kansas was
! there fifty years ago. I had a blind
| horse with its ears open and an old
! blackboard. I started the organiza-
ton. know Alexander Howat am
| fully acquainted with the work and
want to say this so that the whole
world Will know: l wish there were
a million Alexander Howats"
| THE eyes of the world are on Won =,
she told the 1000 delegates when she
/ ilnally succeeded in silencing them.
! wherever the electric current
touches the world is watching. You
are wasting your time here, spending
money that ought to go to. your babies
and families. Your officers are honest
! tcr1es of no interrupted herr and
| they deserve your support"
With only the matter of ratification
or rejection of the scale committees
recommendation that tho miners stand
pat on the present wage schedule,
| PRESIDENT Lewis, expected the conven-
ton to go over until Monday or Tues
day.
Jail Awaits Rebel Kansan.
Pittsburg, Kan, Feb. 1S.-An-
nouncement of the defeat of Alexander
Howat, deposed president of the Kan
sas union miners, in his attempt to
! obtain reinstatement in the union at
the indianapolis convention, created
little stir in the Kansas mining field.
That action at Indianapolis was
! worth million dollars to this district
| yes, several millions" one of the
leading operating officials of the dis
| trict said this morning. TT means
that we will be enabled to go ahead
and mine coal and we could not have
! done that had Howat been reinstated.7 -
| Unless Howat changes his an
nounced plans, he and August Dorchy
| the deposed vice president, will be
! back in the Jail at Columbus to serve
/ the remainder of their six months
: sentence for violation of the Kansas
! industrial court law within a few days.
! Howat and Dorchy were released
| from Jail last week when they gave
bonds for an appeal
I Kansas Labor Welcomes Howat Back
! Alexander Howat will be welcomed
back to Kansas by organized labor,
/ w. Z. Freeman, president of the state
federation of labor said in a statement
! here today. This is despite his defeat
at indianapolis, Freeman said.
/ His suspension eliminates him as a
leader in the fight against the Kan
sas industrial court law, however,
Freeman said. That does not change
the attitude of the federation, which
is opposed to the law" he added
4 Il am satisfied that the fight on
| John L. Lewis, miner president, is Just
| begun, and that HoWat and Earring
ton, Illinois mine union head. will con-
tinue to oppose him." Freeman said.
1T is not anarchy to oppose laws
and institutions" he said. but the
question is whether the government
shall be the servant of the people or
the reverse. If it were not for opposi-
ton to existing conditions we would
still be living in the stone age.