The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-22
HARRINGTON HAS
WORKING CLASS
REPORTER BARRED
Let's Capitalist Scribes
Stay To Boost Him
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vention was not properly reported.
He objected to the statement that
Howat had defeated Harrington.
The case against the representative
Of the Associated Press was then
promptly dropped. No motion was
made to unseat him. 1t had served
its purpose. The drive on the DAILY
WORKER then started.
Delegate Sage, a Harrington man,
got the floor and made motion that
the representative Of the DAILY
WORKER withdraw from the con-
vention.
Admits He Is PayroIler.
Delegate Freeman Thompson inter-
rupted and said: "Is not Delegate
Says the very man who is complained
of in the DAILY WORKER as an ap-
pointee of President harrington?
Were you not appointed a member
Of the scale committee by Earring
TONI" continued Thompson.
"Yes," admitted Sage.
Crooked Count Suspected.
When Harrington announced that
the vote was 234 to 1863 there was
demand for a roll call from delegates
who felt that harrington had mis-
counted the votes.
The motion to ask the DAILY
WORKER reporter to withdraw was
not in order because the question for
discussion on the floor was a reso-
luton asking for change in compen-
sation laws.
The DAILY WORKER reporter
withdrew. Capitalist reporters were
allowed to stay and continue scrib-
bling for the operators.
Green Discusses Unemployment.
In the morning session, William
Green, international secretary-treasur-
er Of the mine workers, said he stood
appalled, at the specter of unemploy-
ment among the coal fields. He men,
toned as one solution the Inaugural
ton Of a six hour work day basis,
but he admitted there is no practical
solution for this depressing period of
unemployment.
He said he hates to stand by and
see stern economic laws, over whose
working we have no control, make
many Illinois mining communities de-
serted and poverty stricken.
"The situation" he said, sis in part
due to the over expansion of the coal
industry during and after the war
We will have to suffer until our organ
ization can think of and work out a
solution, as the unemployment prob
lem must be solved. Our ills are not
due TO the mine workers, but due to
the lack of organization in the non
union coal fields"
Wage Reduction Won't Help.
Green spoke Of the past accomplish
ments OF the union, but admitted the
impossibility of further organizing
non-union fields and solving unem-
ployment. He said he is committed
to the belief that a reduction in wages
Of the miners will not bring about a
solution Of the unemployment prob
lem.
A substitute OF the resolutions COM
mittee for the resolutions presented
by local unions on a new Illinois
compensation law to be like the Ohio
compensation law is now before the
House. The substitute ignores the
good Ohio law and merely urges the
legislative department to try for the
enactment Of better compensation
and state insurance law and com.
mends them for securing the rotten
Illinois compensation law.
harrington again denounced all the
|newspapermen and threatened their
expulsion. Green, like Lewis, Murray,
Walker and the others, admitted their
bankruptcy. They dwelt on past
achievements and pleaded for peace
and harmony. They said in effect:
he satisfied with what's already ac-
Icomplished," but we're pessimistic
about the future.