The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-31
ADULTS OF BOOKS
SHOW LEWIS GANG
WASTES funds
Figures Certainly Had
Wild Time of 1t
BY JOHN McRURY.
Especial to the Daily Worker)

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GLAcE BAY, NJ. s., Oct. 3d.
Two audits of the books of Dis
rtict No. 26, United Mine Work
ers of America, have been made
in less than seven weeks. The
district charter was suspended
over a year ago. international
President John L. Lewis sent
three men to the district some
weeks ago to make an audit.
These. men were paid SIS pei
day, and took exactly thirteen
days to go over the books and
make a report. This cost in the
vicinity of $500.
The report revealed a high carnival
of money spending-items were
charged against men who had not re
ceived a cent In order TO hide deficits
Glaring mistakes were made in simple
additions, and other items were
tempered with in order to hide the
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Lewis Restores Charter.
Hardly had this trinity reached In
dianapolis with its report, when John
L. Lewis decreed that the charter of
District 26 be restored and the miners
be given full autonomy. Lewis also
ordered that complete audit was to
be made. Lewis restored the charter
because of pressure of the miners of
the district, and because he is unwill-
ing TO be responsible for the coming
wage battle at the expiration Of the
present contract.
The new audit covered the fourteen
month period Of the Lewis regime in
the district-from the time that the
duly elected officers Of the district
were deposed until the Lewis ap-
pointees were discharged, who, be-
cause Of ignorance, ran the district
into such a mess that Lewis gladly
washed his hands Of the whole al
fair.
The second audit discovered a
shortage in the funds to the amount
Of S1,4S151. Louis Mccormack, a
Lewis appointee is being held re-
sponsible for the disappearance of the
money. The case has been handed
over to bond company for collection.
Provisional President Houston is still
in the district and it is reported that
his sole purpose in remaining here is
to prosecute Mccormack. 1t will be
remembered that Silby Barrett, the
first provisional president of the dis
trict, ran into such a mess that he
was finally evicted by Lewis.
Miners are Indignant.
The miners are indignant over the
startling disclosures made by the
audit. While the miners have been
literally starving on two and three
days work per week, the provisional
officers Of the district have been Toll
ing in luxury created by their hard
earned money.
After scanning many pages Of the
financial statement one is amazed at the
'AA-SN-N "a AAoASy Betiu Out " OluCeTS
and field workers, which totalled s45,-
262.57. During the entire career OF
provisional activity not one local un.
ion was visited by one of the so-called
field workers. These and other para.
sites have so devoured the money that
little now remains in the treasury.
Individual loans comprise an import.
ant item when it is shown that the
largest amount was loaned" to Silby
Barrett, one of the first district
wreckers.
These and many other items com.
prise a record that will be handed
down as evidence of one of the basest
deeds ever perpetuated in the history
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