Show lABOR LEADER A MARTYR TO j Pa POLITICAL i I BELIEfS Vice-President Vice of Labor Federation F ion Refuses to toRun toRun toRun Run for Re-Election Re I II I KEEFE NOT A CANDIDATE Says Federation Can Not Dictate Dictate Dictate Dic Dic- tate His Politics or Church to Which He Shall Belong I I DELEGATES ARE THINKING Gompers However Is ReElected Re- Re ReElected ReElected Elected and Convention Cheers Him Madly Denver Nov 21 With With he exception of Daniel J. J Keefe c all the officers of the American Federation of Labor were vere re-elected re today Keefe refused to run rUll because he stood for the principle that the American Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion of Labor could not dictate dictate dic dic- I tate what church or what politics an officer should support K Keefe efe could have been elected without any doubt The big men in the convention refused to make a martyr out of him hinl At the same time his hilS lotu refusal 1 to lo lorun torun torun run for tor places the thu burden of ot 11 proof root upon th the ex executive coun council U which must show In tn a satisfactory wa way that It is still stUl a 0 labor movement The gon general ral opinion of ot tho the delegates Is that thai the American C li Federation of or Labor Is a political nl al movement mO and that It no O longer SP speaks for tho the workIngmen work- work Ingmen in tn an economic sense Voted for Tuft Tart I Keefe c e in his declining said J x I retus to be a can candidate for the cx- cx n ue ou Ull l n c T IHU tu L LABOR SOR LEADER A A- A AMAR MAR MARTYR YR TO POLITICAL BELIEFS I Continued from InRe Inge Outs One council for tho the reason that I 1 to stand for the sentiment nt oCI of oC I This his body expressed ce In the report of the committee I have supported tho the Republican ticket In national affairs 3 for far 3 32 years vears and und propose to do 10 so son In n the r future tUlO as 1011 long as my conscience dictates I refuse to hold any office that carries with It tho the dictation as asto asto asto to how I shall cast casl my vote vole My relations with the tho president of or hod body and tho executive council ago aio most pleasant so far as I lImo Know I pled pledge o this great groat federation my support support sup sup- port and with It m my support of or Its officials for all economic pro progress re s sJohn John Mitchell James Duncan Gompers OConnell O'Connell and tho the other ather big leaders urged urs-ed Keefe to stand They rhey didn't wish it to appear that tho the labor movement h had d been transferred transfer- transfer red to a political movement Grand Old Man Inn i President Gompers's re-election re was one of the tine most remarkable demonstrations demonstrations demon demon- emonI emon- emon I over ever seen In fn a 0 labor con- con For Far 25 G minutes tho delegates dele delo- gates shouted Old Sam Gompers the wand grand old man and other expressions of endearment This moved John I Mitchell 1 to say that taking for tar granted grant grant- ed cd the axiom that there is always some man to take tako another mans man's place who will tal take o Sam Gompers's place The election was as follows Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Gompers president James Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- can first vice Ice president ent John Mitchell Mitch Mitch- ell second vice president James OConnell O'Connell third vice president ent Max MD Morris 1 fourth vice president Denis A. A Hayes Haes fifth vice president William WilHam William Wil Wil- liam Ham D. D Huber sixth vice president i iI I Joseph F F. Valentine s seventh 1 vice 0 I president John B. B Lennon treasurer I Frank Fran Morrison secretary John Alpine Alpine Al Al- AI- AI pine eighth vice president president- Herman and J. J J I F. F Bre Breen n of the Hod Had Carriers Thomas Redding of the Sheet Metal Workers James J J. J Hannahan of af Hoisting Engineers Engineer all nil of Chicago arrived today to attend I the convention of the tho Building Trades which will meet next week P P. P H. H McCarty of or San Francisco also arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived for the tho samo namo convention Fraternal delegates elected to the British Trades Union congress congre s arc John P. P Frey and B B. B A. A Larger delegate delegate delegate dele dele- gate to the Canadian Trades 01 Union con congress Jerome Jones of Atlanta |