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Show BOMPERS NAMED lOMDENC! lENERABLE LEADER REELECTED FOR THE FORTY-FIRST TIME WITHOUT OPPOSITION Elaht Incumbent Vice President of Body Are Chosen to Succeed Themselves; Lewis Boom Falls to Materialize Cincinnati, O., Samuel Qompors j'riday was roeloctod president of the Vmerican Federation of LnV,r without PPosltton. The ofTort of a coalition of railroad rorkors, minors and others to forco 3ompers out oolapsed oarly and no )thor candldato r president was lomlnuted. Gompers' election was tho forty irst tlmo ho has boon chosen to head ho federation, ho having hold tho fflce during tho entire llfo of tho oderation with tho excoption of ono ear. James Duncan, hoad of tho Granite iTnt WUB ClCt0d "rSt v,ce prosI" Eight incumbent vice presidents alio al-io woro rclectod. ' , The only contost developed when rnomas p. Flaherty at Washington opresontlng the postofflco clerks' jnlon, was nominated to oppose tho eelection df Jacob Fischer of Indian polls, president of tho Barbers' un" on, as sovonth vlco president Fischer, howevor, was returned to )fflce. In a socond nnd minor contost Dan-el Dan-el P. Tobln of Iiidiannpolii, prosl-lont prosl-lont of tlio teamstors' union, won reaction re-action as treasurer, ovor Joseph S. franklin of Kansas City, Kan., prosl-lont prosl-lont of tho bollermnkors' union. Tho eloctlon of officers wus competed, com-peted, excopt election of fratornal negates, by tlio roeloctlon without pposltlon of Frank Morrison of Wush-ngton Wush-ngton ns secretary. Ho Is n member )f tho printers' union nnd has hoea locrotary for twenty-flvo years. Portland, Oregon, was choson over Houston, Toxns, ns tho seat of the lost convention of tho American Fod. srntlon of Labor which will bo hold n October, 1023. |