The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-15
HARRINGTON IS
WIZARD With
LEAD PENCIL
Padded Expense Bills
His Speciality
BY T. ]. O'FLAHERTY.
(ArticIe Three.

reputation of being handy with
the pencil. Give him some
pointed lead and writing paper
and he will make the earnings
of Henry Ford look like the
weekly savings of a prison stone
crusher.
Franks noble heart almost
bursts with pity for the suffer-
ings of the poor coal diggers Of
Illinois who have neither work
nor the prospect of work and
who are living from hand to
mouth, hoping against hope
that a turn will come for the
better some way or other.
Harrington thunders against the
progressive elements in the union who
are carrying on a ceaseless propa-
ganda against his reactionary ma,
chine and who offer platform that if
followed would put the miners in the
way Of solving their problems.
The notorious capitalist henchman
who has grown wealthy at the ex-
pense of the rank and file thunders
against the progressives for spending
their own money on educational work
that should be done by the district
office instead Of using the money to
pay for junketing trips
Talks Like Fink.
He uses the jargon Of the govern
ment stool pigeons and the finks of
John L. Lewis in charging the radi-
Gals in the union with getting money
from Moscow But his expense ac.
counts have become so notorious that
even the takers in the international
Office at indianapolis look on them
with envy.
During the year 1918 while he was
member of the International Exc
cutive Board his expense account
reached the enormous total of
$4,O1S.25, exceeding the expenses of
the international President and Vice
President.
The official figures are:
Expenses Of F. harrington ....$4 ,018.25
John P. White $2,26S.43
Frank ]. Hayes 1,667.2O
Total for
White and Hayes,-.---......--$3, 953.63
Spent by harrington more
than White and Hayes S64.63
Expels Honest Men.
1t is not surprising that the noble
labor leader should like to browse in
the fertile pastures of the United
Mine Workers Of America. It is not
surprising that he should have men
Of the type Of Duncan Mcdonald
suspended from membership in the
union, just as John L. Lewis drives
out men like Alexander Howat and
Tom Myerscough; men that cannot
be bought with the boss's gold or the
emoluments of office, in return for
loyalty to the machine.
Further evidence of the squander-
ing of funds by harrington will be
given later on in this series. The
above believe is proof sufficient that
Frank has lively imagination when
it comes to figuring out his railroad
and hotel bills. y
Long Distance commuter.
1t might be added, however, in ex.
tenuation, that during the year in
which Harrington drew the above sum
for expenses that he spent part of
the time in Seattle, where he had his
headquarters while handling" a
strike in Vancouver. He commuted
between Seattle and Springfield, iii.
nois, and the hotel Illinois, to be exact
This took the heavy load off his inn
agination, while performing the mira,
Gle on his expense account.
In Role Of Strikebreaker.
/ II any Of our readers ever enter
tanned the thot that harrington had the
interests of the workers at heart, the
story Of his handling Of the Vancouver
strike should be sufficient to dispose
OF the illusion. No thug OF the coal
operators ever dealt more merci.
lessly with his masters slaves than
Harrington dealt with the striking
miners in Vancouver.
From his luxurious headquarters in
Seattle he rained denunciations on the
heads Of the men who braved the guns
Of the armed forces Of the capitalist
government He jibed at them for
getting arrested. He Knocked them
for their sufferings in jail. He
threatened other workers who were
ready to declare a sympathetic strike
to help out their embattled comrades
OF the mines.
Shocked Hearers.
In speech that startled and
shocked seasoned trade unionists Far.
ringnton told the Nanimo. b. G.
Trades and Labor Council. that they
should keep their hands on the strike.
The following report Of Farrington's
speech before the Trades and Labor
Council on the last Thursday OF Au.
gust 1919, taken from the Nanaimo.