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Show LEWIS STILL HEADS the inn Re-Eleetion of Former President Presi-dent Accomplished Without Serious Opposition. VICTOR SAYS OPPONENTS HAVE AIDED OPERATORS Plans for Merger of the Coal and Metal Minors Take Definite Shape. INDIANAPOLIS. Tnd., .Ian. 21. At tho close of today's session of the convention con-vention of tho United Mine Workers of America, tho report of the tellers of the balloting for international officers was declared to be final. Protests by opponents of Thomas L. Lewis, re-elected presideut. that the votes of certain local unions might be of questionable validity wore unt pressed. The new ofliecrs. who will take charge on April 1, follow: President Thomas L. Lewis, Bridgeport, Bridge-port, O. Vice-president Frank .J. JTayos. Springfield. Til. Secret ary-t rcusurcr Edwin Perry, Oskaloosa, Ta. Rap at Opponents. President; Lewis, in accepting reelection, re-election, declared that his political enemies en-emies within, tho organisation wcro succeeding suc-ceeding only in sunplyiug ammunition to tho operators, wiion'i the bituminous coal miners arc to meet, on February 1 to negotiate a new wage, contract. A man named Rivers of Alabama Continued on Pago Two. LEWIS STILL HEADS THE MINE WORKERS Continued from Pajjo One. sfcirrod the convention of tho United Mine Workers of America to a high pitch of czcitcment todaj', though he was not present. If ho had not loft the city, President Lewis said ho ' 'probably would co now," for he was a secret agent of tho operators of Alabama. ' ''Kill him," shouted a delegate. 1 here was a laugh at this, hut no laugh when there were general cries of "Throw him out." "ITc has vamoosed," said President Lowia. W. 11, Fnirley. cxocuth-0 board member mem-ber for Alabama, paid Rivers attended last year's convention as a delegate and had with him a deputy sheriff from Alabama, "an officer that has no business busi-ness in a miners' meeting." Rivers was a member of tho local union at Carbondale, Ala,, before the Croat .strike in that state, Fairloy said nnd since has Jicon. he declared, at intervals in-tervals in tho employ 6f the operators oi the stato as a confidential agent. Plans for Mergor. A dcfinito plan for tho projected mcr-ger mcr-ger of tho organized metal and cSIl miners of tho United States and Can idjuis to be laid beforo tho convent on : by a committee representing the coa minors of tho Western Fedoration of Minors. President Lewis of tho Unitod Mine "Workers today named its conference committeo.as follows: T. L. Lowis, president; John H. Walker, district 12; J. R. Lawson, district dis-trict 25; E. S. McCullough, district 24; C. P. Gilday, district 7; Jacob Rit-tor, Rit-tor, district 13; aPtrick Gildaj', district dis-trict 2. Tho conforenco committee of the Western Federation of Minors is as follows: fol-lows: Charles II. Moyer, president; C. E. Mahonoy, vico-presidont; William Davidson, Da-vidson, executive board member; James Devlin, Daniel Ilollaud, M. J. O'Connor and J. D. Connon. Tho two committees immediately will take up the work of framing a coalition coali-tion contract that will bring about either an amalgamation, with one sot of international officers and ono treasury, treas-ury, or an offensive and defensive working agreement that will yet permit per-mit tho independent e.vistenco of the metal and coal miners' organizations. Only One "BROMO QUININE" That Is LAXATIVE BROSIO QUININ'E Look for the algnaturo of E. W. GROVE Used the world over to euro a cold In onp day. Hoc |