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Show STRIPE AMONG MINERS GROWS MOKE BITTER INDIANA rOIJP. Ind.. Fob. X Although Al-though the announcement of lhe re-elcc -lion of President Lewis by a majority of lC.'jnU votes was loudly, rheorod at today's session of the United Mine Workers' convention, con-vention, bitter feeling was shown belwoon thc Lewis and Walker factions. Speaking of an unsigned loiter received by some of the loaders, rha.rglng that Ohio union offkor had "sold out" to the i operators. CJ.-W. ftnvuge, secretary of the j Ohio district bitterly nrralgnod "certain I parties thai not being In power themselves them-selves would destroy tho organization so ! as 10 destroy those that aro In power." j Tho leader of the antl-ndmlnl.lr;Itlon faction. President Walker of Illinois, dc-i dc-i clared he. too. had beep the victim of , libelous statements, one being that ho ; had purposed to steal 510.000 from tho treasury of the Illinois miners, to be used In his election us national president President Lewis said that tho Ohio letter let-ter was thc last link In a conspiracy to disrupt the organization because he happened hap-pened lo be its president. |