The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-06
ARE FOR HOWAT,
Miners INSIST
ON CONVENTION
Ninety Per Cent of the
Members for HOwat
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others from the ballot puts
their patience to a severe test.
AS the resolution declares,
practically every concession
gained by the miners while
their fighting leader, Howat,
was president of the union
have been given away by the
cowardly lackeys Of Lewis who
now sit at the payroll.
Despite the fact that the demand
for special district convention was
made in compliance with the provis-
ions of the constitution, the officers
failed to heed the demand. In &C
cordance with the district constitu-
ton, when twenty locals demand a
special district convention, the dis
trict officials are compelled to call it
without delay.
More Than Fifty Locals.
More than fifty locals have made
the demand, including all the large
locals in the district. Yet they have
given no indication that they will call
it. In fact they have brazenly defied
the will Of the rank and file and said
they would not call it.
But the membership Of district IA
is determined to have a special con.
vention and all the coal operators in
Kansas will not prevent it, The To-
calls that nominated Alex Howatt
comprise 80 per cent of the member
ship of this district. These men will
fight until the United Mine Workers
Of America is INDICATED and taken
out of the hands of the scurvy crew
of payroll leeches and boss tools who
are now running the district organiza.
ton.
The resolutions unanimously adopted
at the Arma miners mass meeting
read as follows:
Denounee Leaders.
Whereas, the workers of the entire
country suffered for years under the
autocratic rule Of the large employers
of labor, and
Whereas, no class of people suffer
ed more than the coal miners in the
great struggle for industrial freedom,
and
Whereas, the miners of District IA
went thru 4-year strike for recogni-
ton Of our union, years ago, and
Whereas, after that great indus
trial struggle, we resolved that we
would no longer be imposed on by
the coal corporations, as we had in
the years gone by, and
Whereas, after years. of sacrifice on
the part Of the miners, We freed our
selves thru the power and strength
of our organization from the iron rule
of the coal corporations, and
With Iron Hand.
Whereas, today we find the officials
of our own union assuming the role OF
the autocrat, and trying to rule the
rank and file of the miners with an
iron hand, and
Whereas, in the nominations that
were just completed for officials OF
this district, we find our executive
hoard has stricken from the ballot
practically every man who was consid-
cred a dangerous contender for the
positions now held by the district Off
cials, and
Whereas, our district officials know
just the same as we know that there
is not one member of the district
executive board who can be elected
if the names of those who were nomi
mated are placed on the ballot, and
Knights Of Payroll.
Whereas, it is plain to be seen that
the chief concern Of the present Off
cials of our district is that they are
kept on the pay roll. And the welfare
of the miners is given no considera
ton, and
Whereas, all the conditions we
fought to establish during the past
twenty years have been given away
in the past three years, since former
: President Howat and the other de-
posed officials were removed as Off
cials OF this district, and
Whereas, the time has come wher
the miners of District IA must assert
themselves and take a stand against
the autocratic rule of our officials.
Therefore be IL resolved,
That we, the miners Of District IL
in mass meeting assembled condemn
the action Of the district officials in
keeping the names of our members
of the ballot in violation Of the con
stitution. And be II further resolved
That charges be preferred against
the officials of our district in accord
ance with our constitution, and II
found guilty they be Immediately re-
moved from ONCE. And be It further
resolved,
That we urge all locals in the dis
trict to unite in call for special
district convention so that we may
see that the laws of our union are
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