The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
MINERS DISTRICT
CONVENTION 0 N
IN SIN OKY CITY
Takers Ready to Spill
The Red Paint

Especial 70 The Daily Worker)
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 25.--
About $50 delegates, representing
! approximately $4,000 miners assem-
bled here today in the district No.
convention. Attic little was done
in the opening session, it is expect
ed that lively debate will be the
order.
Progressives Go to Bat.
This was promised when Jimmy
Oates arose Immediately after the
preliminaries and demanded that a
report of the credentials committee
be submitted before any business
was transacted Oates declared that
he was opposed to any aye or nay
vote deciding things, until the con-
vention was organized and it was
fully determined who was entitled
to cast such votes.
Oates also opposed the selection
of John Tuck on the rules and or
der committee, declaring that the
local Tuck is representing, is of the
non-existant variety. However. the
protests were ordered made in the
proper place, and a bitter battle is
expected when the protests reach the
convention floor.
David Hicky, president of the
Pittsburgh Central Labor Union,
opened the convention He then in
troduced to the convention the Rev.
]. J. Hughes of Hills Station, Pa,
who invoked the convention with
I prayer. Father Hughes played
very prominent part in the strike
of 1922 and when the Pittsburgh
Coal company began its eviction Of
the miners from their homes at
that place, he opened up his church
n which to store their furniture.
Green to Sling Red Paint.
At noon adjournment nothing but
a partial reading of the report of
the executive board had been heard,
IN addition to the protests of Jimmy
Oates.
1t was announced that Interna-
tional Secretary Green would adj
dress the convention at the after
noon session.
Green, it was stated, is on his
way to New York to attend a meet
ing of the Mitchell Memorial Com
mittee, and this was his only
chance to address the convention.
The progressives are expecting =
flow of Red Paint.
Boo, Hiss Green.
Referring to the ."Old Testament
to discover the word Ass. Billy
Green, International Secretary-Tr Treas
urer, in addressing the convention Of
District 5, United Mine Workers of
America, today used the name of the
occupant of the stable at Bethlehem,
and applied it to the delegates who
booed and Kissed him when he was in
vited to the platform to address the
convention.
Referring to the Progressives as,
advocates of a new, strange and un-
tried philosophy, Green declared that
they should get hall of their own
and expound their ideas there and not
come into conventions of the miners
to spread such poison and attempt to
destroy the United Mine Workers of
America.
He further stated that the progress
sives were like the Presbyterians who
were fomenting trouble in the Metho-
dist and Baptist churches by endeav-
oring to get those of these faiths to
desert their own and to accept that
advocated by them. Declaring that,
Instead Of going out to the sinners
OF the world to seek new recruits, they
were more contented in the work Of
corrupting the Saints.
"Why don't you go into the fields
of West Virginia and Western Ken
lucky" he yelled, "and if You can
establish your ideas and PHILOSOPHERS
there, then we viii be ready to accept
your plan"
Pleading for harmony in words and
driving it away in action, Green made
poor showing among those who have
some understanding of the Labor
movement.
Murray Vents His Spleen.
| Vice-President Phil Murray follow
ed with speech of like tone and was
so vicious in his remarks that a dele
gate who admitted that he was a
friend Of both Murray and Green pro-
tested against his tactics. OF course
they refrained from mentioning the
things that organizers of the district
and international union are spreading
in every district where the Union has
jurisdiction. Outside of the speeches
there was little done. The report Of
the Executive Board was read and re-
ferred to committee for action, after
which 1t will be discussed by the dele
gates.