The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-12
Once Miners Official;
Also Batter of Radicals;
Now He Fights the Union
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY should not be difficult for the workers to est
mate the worth Of some Of their misIeaders by judging
Let US consider the case of Thomas Haggey, formerly
America representing District No 2 Central Pennsylvania
In the days before the war Haggey was one Of the bio
guns of the Miners Union He active participant in
all the international conventions He was given important
in the key Of West Virginia nearly always placed
in his hands.
But there the day when Haggerty dropped out of
the Miners Union Just as former international President
New River, West Virginia mine
When Haggerty ceased his membership in the union he
went to West Virginia, like Lewis but he became himself
nonunion mine in that state How long he had
in league with the open shop mine before actually
his actions since indicate that he serving we'll the inter-
ests of the enemies of the miners union long before
ceased being an official OF the coal dggers-
Haggerty red batter in his day, before the
workers and peasants power Soviet Russia and
made BOshevm living issue wherever labor gathers He
good friend Of Frank harrington president of the
Illinois Miners Union and H. Walker, member Of
the Miners Union but president of the Illinois Fedora
ton of Labor who spend most of their time attacking the
Communists When harrington and Walker give voice
their ISLANDERS against the mitants in the labor movement
we'll to remember what happened to their friend Hag
gerty.
This Haggerty, who now runs the New Export Coal
Company campbeI's Creek, in the Kanawha Field, in
West Virginia in the words of the United Mine Workers
Journal has been fighting the union in every possible
ner'' ever since he left it. To continue:
that hardbed field
on Of the S wage Re s even went So M as s b.: own
notified them that they accepted the they would be
required to move out Of their houses"
This document should be rather historic, the eviction
of former miners union official his present help
less non-union slaves sample therefore reproduced
cNco, Virginia, July 1924.
d ~I S.tst. t. b d @ @ it
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hereby notified the occupied
. D0 @ o S s s
possession Of without further notice and without further
Dated this the 18th Day Ct July, n 1924 g..
Inc T TaU 14s' EA eSsE eH1Tp'""
General Manager and Hereunto duly authorized
The of Thomas Haggerty exceptional In the
American labor is rather the rule for reaction
aries who have influence among the workers. especial
in the trade unions sell that influence to the enemies
Take good look at the radical batter Of today and you
twas 7. " o'connor, former oompers' lieutenant and
ex-presdent of the International Longshoremens Union,
the DAILY WORKER pointed out yesterday who led the
labor delegation including President John l. Lewis,
of the Miners Union to the Labor Day luncheon at the
White House. in Washington to advance the candidacy of
the strikebeaker president Cal Coolidge oconnor now
head of the United States Shipping Board.
Il is George l. Berry, still president Of the international
Printing Pressmens Union, who gives labor complexion
to the Davs-Bryan ticket.
To this list might be added large number Of other
similar examples But our space is limited.
In fact, the Coolidge Davis and LaFolIette candidates.
have had difficulty in rounding up support of officials of
labor. This official labor support united PROPOSE
tot opposed 100 per cent the Communists to every
militant program of progressive action in the labor
ment.
When capitalist political candidate for office boasts
of the support of labor officials and parades their hostility
the Communist candidates asset let the workers
and farmers remember Thomas Haggery the ex-oca of
the miners union evctng helpless non-unon coal dggers
from his company shacks along CampbeIs Creek in
West Virginia.
The labor official who fights Communism fights the best
of the workers the poor farmers. He is
enemy of the whole working class.
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