The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-20
MINERS HEAR
GIVE.
CLARION CALL.
Urges FGrmer-LGbOr
Party On Contention
BY KARL REEVE.
Special to The Daily Worker)

TGORtHg ttisy way i$s-OC-
cIaring that the time had come
for the workers to assert them
selves in a "reaI live Farmer
Labor Party" Alex Howat, ex-
PEELED Kansas mine workers
president, won the enthusiastic
support of the miners conven-
ton.
Howat spoke for several
hours, sharply criticising the
government of the two old par
ties and the use of the injunc-
ton in strike-breaking, con-
demning the Kansas Industrial
Court Law, and urging the
United Mine Workers union t6
organize the unorganized mine
fields of this country.
Refers to 1919 Strike.
Referring to the strike of 1919,
Howat said that the government had
stepped in with an injunction just
when he believed the miners had the
coal operators licked to a finish.
Howat stated that at that time the
strike was called off. implying that
the International union officials had
sold out
The deposed mine president urged
the miners to select men to represent
us, the rank and file, in the legisla-
tive halls of this country" He said:
We'll always be in the same shape
as long as we go along with the old
parties
Let us refuse to be hoodwinked
any longer" cried Howat, "and de-
ceived by few screaming politicians.
We can only judge by the past, and
we have learned by the past that there
is no hope for the workers in the
class of people who are in the old
parties.
For FL. Despite Walker.
81 am for a Farmer-Labor Party
even tho Brother Walker is discour-
aged by the few votes he received,
and l haven't changed my position in
the least
There must be a start sometime
and the time has come for the work
ers to make that start on a party
of their own"
The former mine union president
then continued that if the capitalists
want laws to be respected they should
make laws the people could respect
He declared that the time had come
when the people should let the law
makers know they want their rights
and are ready to fight for them.
Told of Aliens Folly.
He told how Governor Allen of Kan
sas had the idea he could ride into
the presidential seat at the White
House on the backs of the workers by
putting an end to strikes with his
Industrial Court Law.
Howat related how Governor Allen
I had had fond hopes of passing indus
trial Court Laws all over the country.
1--WE must be aggressive in going
on with the fight" Howat called to
the convention. Let there be no sur
render to the employers of labor.
Some move must be made by the In
ternational organization to see that
the unorganized miners of this
country are brot into the field of the
miners union"
Victim of harrington Deal
Howat was brought dramatically
before the attention Of the delegates
in the morning session when the reso-
luton demanding Harrington explain
the famous graft charges, was before
the delegates.
"The victim Of the Lewis-Farring-
ton deal is sitting in this hall right
now--ATex Howat" cried John Watts,
one of the movers of the resolution.
Tremendous applause greeted the
mention of the honest Kansas fighter.
Check Graft Probe.
The Lewis-Farrington correspond
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