Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — MINE WORKERS RE-ELECT WHITE [ARTICLE]

MINE WORKERS RE-ELECT WHITE

Edwin Perry Is Chosen Secre* tary-Treasurer. SOCIALISM IS TURNED DOWN Berger’* Bill for Old Age Pension* Is Endorsed, ; and Author Is Invited ito Address Convention. Indianapolis, Jan. 19.—A resolution to endorse the Socialist party as the party of the workingmen was voted down in the convention of the United Mine Workers of America, in session here, and the attempt of the socialistic element in the organization to capture the convention came to naught. The movement for the secession of the organization from the; American Federation of Labor also was voted down, but the convention adopted a resolution declaring in favor of the industrial form of organization to take the place of organization by crafts. The convention also indorsed the bill introduced in congress by Congressman Victor L. Berger, the Socialist member from Milwaukee, providing for government pensions for men and women who have reached the age of sixty years, and invited Congressman Merger to come here and address the convention. The vote on the question of indorsing the Socialist party was a defeat for the Socialist movement in the convention. It stood 515 to 155 in favor of adopting the resolutions committee’s substitute for the resolution Of indorsement. The report of the tellers was submitted and John P. White was shown to have been elected president by a majority of 45,424. Lewis received 58,591 and White 104,015 votes. Frank J, Hayes was elected vice president and Edwin Perry secretary treasurer.