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Show WILD DISORDER IN CONVENTION Delegate Accuses Gompers of Drunkenness Drunk-enness "Liar" Retors Gompers. Indianapolis. Scenes of the wildest wild-est disorder marked Friday's session of the United Mine Workers of America. Ameri-ca. Duncan McDonald, secretary and treasurer of the Illinois miners, charged that Samuel Gompers, president presi-dent of the American Federation of Labor, was "gloriously drunk" during dur-ing the Seattle convention and on other occasions. Gompers denied the accusation from the convention platform. plat-form. He called McDonald a "liar" and a 1 "slanderer." Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, reiterated the charge that if the Michigan copper miners' strike failed it woul be because be-cause of financial assistance not given by the American Federation of Labor. |