The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
SPLIT PIFFLE
UNSUCCESSFUL
IN GLACE BAY
O.B.U. Earns Righteous
Wrath of Miners
BY JOE NEARING.

80 VIVA OSOAiAy
Sept. 15.-The split propaganda
conducted by Ben Legere on be-
half of the One Big Union of
Winnipeg is m e ting with
greater and more stubborn re-
sistance from the miners here.
Recently a meeting was ar
ranged by Legere at which he
attempted to persuade the min
ers that a split was the only
thing left for them to do.
The audience of about three
hundred listened to him pa
tiently for more than an hour
and then the audience took the
platform and informed Legere
that he and his crazy split no.
tons were not wanted around
the district.
Bruce Floors Bonnie.
Malcolm Bruce, recently returned
from Moscow where he attended the
congresses of the Communist Inter
national and the Red International of
Labor Unions, was at the meeting
and was able to floor Legere and his
split policy. Bruce is able to speak
with authority on the o. B. U. ques-
tion since he was one of the leaders
of that movement in the West in 1919.
Unlike the present leadership of the
0. B. U. Bruce saw that the splitting
of the labor unions of the West was
bringing disaster upon the labor move
ment, and because he openly changed
his tactics he incurred the wrath of
the o. B. U.
A series of large meetings has been
held during the past week with NAL
colin Bruce as the chief speaker. At
these meetings he is explaining the
policies of the Communist Interna-
tional and the r. l. L. u. The meet
ings are very well attended. The
miners are very much interested in
hearing about the progress the revolu-
tionary movement is making thruout
the world. They also are interested
in Bruce since during his last visit to
Nova Scotia the British Empire Steel
Corporation attempted to throw him in
Jail on trumped-up charge of "sedi-
ton"
Legere Is Licked.
So badly licked is Legere in his at
tempt to create a split in the ranks
of the miners of this district that he
is splitting his spleen all over the
pages of the One Big Union Bulletin.
In his TRADES against the Communists
because they are blocking his plan for
a split he stoops to the Shiny state
ment that the Communists are be-
traying the miners into the hands of
Lewis and Besco. This stuff. is
simply digging the grave of Legere
deeper, because the miners know that
the Communists have proven them
selves to be the best fighters against
the Besco-Lewis combination.
The statement of the Trade Union
Educational League urging the miners
to have nothing to do with the o. B.
u. and its splitting tactics has been
printed in the Maritime Labor Herald
and has created great interest among
the miners. All in all Legere is find
ing that he is dealing with workers
who have been thru the mill and who
did not need to wait until the Messiah
from the West came to teach them
what tactics to employ in their strug-
gle against the Besco-Lewis gang.
1t can be safely predicted that so
far as the miners of Cape Breton
are concerned, more than half of the
total number of miners in the district,
that there will be no running away
from the fight against Lewis and his
reactionary administration by means
of split.