The New York herald., 1922-09-07
MINERS TO RATIFY
PEACE IN A Rush
Danger of insurgency APP
parently Is Swept Aside
at Convention.
LEWIS GETS OVATION
Stampede to Pledge 10y
atty to Leader Lasts for
Nearly Hour.
PATRIOTIC APPEAL WINS
Wilkes-Barre Mayor Says Mes
sage From Harding Ended
Coal War.
PATRIOTIC APPEAL WINS

Special Dispatch 70 THE New YORK HERALD
WILKES BARRE. Sept Elm one short
session of an hour and half John L.
Lewis, president of tho United Mine
Workers OF America and District
Presidents w. j. Brennan, Chris Col
den and Thomas Kennedy to-day prac-
tically obliterated the threatened dan
ger Of insurgency in the organization
and were assured that the Pepper
Reed plan for ending the hard coal
strike would be ratified by an over
whelming vote before the end OF the
week.
The tri-district convention, with 700
delegates in attendance, opened at
P. M. An hour and a half later the
convention adjourned to reconvene to-
morrow morning at $50 o'clock.
With adjournment score or more Of
delegates started toward Lewis on the
platform 1t became a stampede, with
men shouting and praising the interna-
tional leader. 1t was an outburst Lewis
had not looked for. He shook hands
right and left and for almost an hour
was unable to leave the building.
After this" he said, Il am more
convinced than ever that the anthracite
miners will adopt the peace we have
recommended"
Patriotic PIen Wins.
1t was oratory that swept the con-
nm .<ff lee. srs,
Kennedy was In the chair. He intro.
ouced Mayor Daniel L. Hart. who made
the address of welcome. Mayor Hart
went over the strike situation and con-
cluded with a patriotic plea. His mes
sage was that the President of the
United States had spoken to the mine
workers and operators and there could
be no further controversy.
John 4. Casey. political leader. called
the Cleveland agreement the greatest
victory labor had won in years. He
pointed out that after Lewis had won in
the bituminous field the downward trend
Of wages stopped. That victory" he
said. turned the pendulum backward.
The steel mills increased wages. The
textile workers invited their strikers
back without reduced wages That
miners victory saved the day for labor
Insurgents. led by Alex Campbell.
member of the scale committee George
Isaacs, vice-president of District No. /,
and Rinaldo Cappillini. deposed ma
tional organizer, have not given up their
fight. but after adjournment they did
admit that their fight looked hopeless.
Enoch Williams, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
District No. /. is openly opposing the
ratification OF the Peper-R Reed plan.
Hsffck to the Ffnfsh,v
Many OF the insurgents came into the
convention with fiery red cards tied to
the lapels OF their coats. These cards
carried this message: "sticlS to the Fin.
;sh. Out to Win
Lewis and the district presidents
claim that when the vote Is counted at
least 400 of the 43t local unions will
cast their ballots for ratification of the
Pepper-Reed proposal.
The regulars were out tonight TO see
that no inroads were made In the dele
cations, while the radicals were preach
ing against the agreement. Their chief
argument was that the contract should
be for two years and that the organiza-
tion fell down in accepting a proposal
that ignored every one of the nineteen
demands formulated at Shamokln.
An attempt will be made tomorrow,
when the credential committee reports.
to unseat Cappillini. It is alleged that
he represents the vote of a colliery at
which he does not work.
After the contests have been disposed
Of, President Lewis plans TO submit the
scale committee report. That will prove
TO be the big fight. When the delegates
have talked themselves out a vote will
be taken. All indications point to an
overwhelming victory for the admin
fstration. but that vote may not come
before Saturday.