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out this week by Moran of Iowa and
Pippin of Kansas, presumably to all
labor organizations in the state, state
and county officials, advertising agen-
cies, and patrons of The Bulletin. We
are printing the letter in order that
all the people may know what charac
ter of mental detectives Moran and
Pippin are. Besides, we print it be-
cause the circular has already done
The Bulletin a lot of good, and we
want it to do the publishers more
good. Certainly labor paper needs
money, and this circular is helping us
to get it.
About the "Scab" Circular.
The press committee of the Denver
"peace conference" which adopted the
resolution without permitting any one
present to protest, peddled copies
around to all. the daily papers in the
state, but publication was refused.
However The Bulletin prints the lying
circular on the front page in order
that it may be compared with the ac-
tion taken and official letter sent to
international President White by Lud-
low Miners Union.
Scores of copies of the circular have
been mailed to The Bulletin office with
comment written on the back which
would not bring smiles to the senile
faces of Moran of Iowa and Pippin of
Kansas. The circular itself bears
every evidence of being printed in
scab shop. 1t bears no union label,
no office imprint, and is printed on
non-union paper.
History of the Rupture.
Many requests have reached The
Bulletin Office for an explanation of
why Moran of Iowa and Pippin of
Kansas are acting as president and
secretary of the Colorado district of
the United Mine Workers. Briefly
told, this is the inside and outside
story of it:
For several years and all during the
coal strikes of the northern and south
ern Colorado fields the regularly elect
ed officers of the district were John
McLennan, president; Ed. L. Doyle,
secretary treasurer, and John r. Law
son, national executive board member
Preceding the regular district election
last December nominations of candi-
dates were made by local unions in the
usual way. This disclosed that Law
son had received nominations for pres
ident and for board member, and that
Doyle had secured the requisite num-
ber of Endorsements to be a candidate
either for reelection as secretary
treasurer or as board member. Law
son chose to select the nomination for
district president and Doyle for board
member.
This was not to the liking of John
McLennan, who was then and had been
president of the district for a number
of years. He charged collusion be-
tween Lawson and Doyle to deprive
him (McLennan) of a chance for re-
election. McLennan then issued let
ter ordering. a postponement of the
election on the date set by the union
constitution.
McLennan Files Appeal.
Disregarding the order of President
McLennan, an order without precedent
or union law, the unions proceeded to
ballot for officers under the referendum
plan. When returns were all in it
showed that Lawson had defeated Nc
Lehman for president by vote of ap-
proximately 25 to 1, and that Doyle
had been chosen national board men,
Der without opposition.
Then McLennan appealed to the in
ternational officers to withdraw the
district charter, he still being presi-
dent, thing never before recorded in
the annals of the American labor
movement. Perhaps because Lawson
and Doyle favored John H. Walker of
the Illinois Miners Union for interna-
tional president, and McLennan was
supporting the existing administra-
tion, the charter of District Is was
withdrawn and jurisdiction of the local
unions and entire membership of the
district assumed by the international,
and all of the affairs of the Colorado
union miners directed from headquar-
ters in Indianapolis. Withdrawal of
charter deprived Lawson and Doyle of
assuming their official positions. In