The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
MINERS THROW REDS BODILY OUT OF CONVENTION, WHEN THEY
 ATTEMPT TO DISTURB MEETING

average S0.5o or S7 day, whereas the
 minimum for outside day men is but $40 a day and for inside day men 50.
 Extremists in the convention made no attempt to block the program of
 John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and there was comparatively little discussion. At the close of the proceedings, Rinaldo
 Copellini regarded as the leader of the radical faction, who previously
 admitted that one of the ejected Eos
 ter agents had called to see him, but with false credentials" proposed and
 obtained a rising vote of thanks for MT. Lewis and his associate officers. The election of Copellini as presi- by William J. Brennan, the incum-
 bent, it was announced by Brennan. Should Copellini be declared elected he will be given a place in the scale committee in the forthcoming negoti- ations, according to a supplementary report of the committee adopted by the delegates.
 Follows Denunciation by Lewis. The attack on the Foster agents occurred after a denunciation by Lewis, in which he charged that Eos ter was seeking to undermine the
 United Mine Workers and the other trade unions of the country, and that the plans of Foster were being f. nanced by gold from the Commun- ists of Moscow and Berlin, $7,ooo, ,ooo of which, he said, arrived in this country recently to be expended by the American Communist party. Lewis attention was called to the presence of Manley and Mccarthy, who were sitting in the gallery, with Alfred Wagenknecht, a Communist party leader, and McCarthy's wife, by a delegate who arose and handed him circular bearing the imprint of the Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers" This is a Foster organization, formed, it is charged, to undermine the U. M. w. and lead it's members into the Com munist fold. The miners international officials recently voted to expel any member having anything to do with it.
 Calls Poster Destructionist.
 "This scurrilous document" Lewis said, lis but one of series issued by this so-called Progressive Internation al Committee, the creation of William z. Foster, who, through his Trade Union Educational League Jand the American Communist party, seeks the destruction of the United Mine Work CTS and the other trade unions of the United States.
 "I note that the circular is signed by Thomas Meyerscough, the same man who so obliged the operators of the Pittsburgh district in 1921 when he attempted to get the miners to agree to a wage reduction Meyers cough is a member of the United Mine Workers, but he will not be for long, nor will any other miner giving aid and comfort to the Progressive In ternational League"
 Convention In Uproar.
 Instantly the convention was in an uproar Delegates leaped to their chairs and booed, or shouted: Throw 'em out" Pale and trembling, Man ley and Mccarthy started down the stairs from the gallery with Mo Carthy's wife between them. Cries of, "Be careful of the woman," saved Mrs Mccarthy from rough handling, so fortunate. Arriving at the foot of the stairs, at the rear of the hall, they were engulfed in a great swirl of en- ragged miners, who rushed them into the street. They were followed by nearly 100 delegates. Arriving at Court House Square, the two started to run, many of the miners in hot pursuit. They were overtaken in the middle of the square, where three or four miners 1eaped at them and started to beat them with their fists.
 Beg Reporters to Save Them.
 While pleading for mercy and with his wife screaming for aid Mccarthy l was struck with such force by one miner that he was knocked over box hedge At this juncture several | men arrived, and the two committee workers ran behind them for protection.
 An appeal by the newspaper men to ''cut out the rough stuff" suficed to l restrain the assailants, and when a | break occurred in the ranks of the l miners Manley and Mo Carthy ran at top speed across the ! square. They were chased into the | Hotel Casey, three blocks away, and later, bruised and bleeding, escaped l in taxicab and thence out of town I on an interurban train.
 It was reported that they planned to hold a mass meeting of miners in but a delegate an- nounced on the convention floor that I the chief of police there had agreed not to permit it. SMALL MINDED