The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27
CAPPELLINPS
STRIKEBREAKING
EFFORTS FAIL
Miners Refuse to Be
Driven Back
By THOMAS MYERscoUoH.

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Dec. 26.--
Failure crowned the efforts Of Cap
pellini in his fascist attempt to have
the men of the Underwood colliery re-
turn to work" Thus spoke a man who
had attended the meeting at Olyphant,
Pa, where about one thousand miners
had assembled in the Labor Temple,
when l asked him what the result
was.
Too Much Bunk.
Accompanied by VIM. Brennan. ex-
president and two others, all Of whom
spoke in an attempt to have the men
return to work, Cappellini pleaded for
observance of the sacred contract"
but the men have learned thru the
medium of bitter experience that the
more they listen to that bunk, the
more suffering falls to their lot.
In fun page advertisement, the
miners have clearly shown that the
operators are guilty Of the most flag
rant violations of contract, and when
their own supposed" spokesman
come to them with that kind of sob
stuff, it is time to tell them to come
out in the open and declare whether
or not they are representing the in
terests of the miners or those of the
operators.
Like Two Peas.
In addition to the statement of the
miners. the officials and the operators
hovo oIoo n,,hIiebod ot,&o,,,o.-4- -
the latter two can only be distinguish
cd by the signatures attached, so iden-
tical are they. Today, Brennan and
Cappellini are on the same platform,
pleading for the operators profits I'M
der the cloak of sacred contracts"
last year they were at each others
threats, telling the miners of all kinds
Of operators connections the other
fellow had, and only a matter Of two
weeks ago Cappellini practically blam-
ed Brennan for the present trouble.
claiming that he was trying to turn
the membership against him by dirty
union politics, so that he could safe
ly aspire to the job himself and thus
turn the tables for his defeat at the
hands of Cappellini at the last cleo
ton.
Birds of a Feather.
It is nearly two weeks since a secret
meeting was held to delve into these
charges. The noise made by Cappel-
lini prior to that time has subsidized
and now they are found on the same
platform pleading the same cause.
Cappellini has now departed for Phil
adelphia for meeting Of some kind.
but declares that he will carry on his
attempt to break the strike on his
return. The officials sent here by
Lewis have also returned to their
homes to remain until after the holi-
days and, before going, they issued a
statement to the effect that the men
are engaged in an illegal strike and
that nothing can be done until they
return to work.
Grievance Body Busy.
Lewis said the same thing himself
without having been near here, so
the miners are wondering why the ex-
pense of sending commission here
was made.
The general grievance committee OF
the strikers are sending representa-
tives OF their body around to the diff
ferent locals, to acquaint the miners
OF district one with their many griev-
ances and they are arranging for a
joint gathering of all the general COM
mittees for next Saturday in Wilkes
Barre. Tony Pam, chairman OF the
strikers committee, attended the Oily
plant meeting yesterday and his talk
served to defeat the aims OF Cappel-
lini.