The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-23

The Truth Hurts

We would like put this question up President Frank
harrington presiding at the Illinois Miners Convention at
Peoria
what do you hope accomplish by forcing the with
drawaI Of the DAILY WORKER reporter from the Miners
Conventon?"
There be only one answer BY some far Of
the imagination Harrington hopes to ntimidate the DAILY
WORKER telling the truth about the of the reaction
within the Miners Union He thinks he play the role
of censor.
But the DAILY WORKER will not be inundated 1t will
not be budgeoned into hiding the truth Our reporter
the outside of the convention hall at PEORIA Illinois,
powerful than The DAILY WORKER attacked by Far
rngon the enemy OF progress will become stronger than
ever the wide of the miners union member
ship
1t Albert Sidney Bureson, as postmaster general
during the late who tried crush the labor press that
was opposed to the
BurIeson thought he could make the workers of the
nation back the Wilson war regime if he could wipe out
abor's publications.
So he barred them from mails while the department
OF justice brought indictments against abos editors and sent
some Of them to prison. But the truth persisted. All the
nation knows it capitalist war. The Wilson
regime has fallen. Burleson has been forgotten JMcheI
Palmer and Harry NJ Daughery the war and postwar attor
ney generals, have been swept into the discard.
Instead Of compromising timid socialist movement
of the and days there is fighting courag
eous Communist movement in the United States
One Of the biggest issues at Peoria was the Howat
ISSUE That is the issue on which the backbone of Earring
tons power broken. That the issue that DAILY
WORKER stressed at the indianapolis Convention, last
winter. It is the issue the DAILY WORKER has raised CON
ton at Peoria And this issue that settled in
bF'lsaEt victory for the rank and file.
If the Howat fight had failed Harrington would have
rested his aureIs. If Howat had been back Kan
repudiated by the Illinois miners harrington would have
been satisfied and the chances that the DAILY WORKER
would not have been moested
But the Howat fight The DAILY WORKER
played great part in winning that fight. The crushing
defeat of the whole LewsF arlington alliance Mr.
rngton stark mad He the way of all despots. In
desperation he turned the DAILY WORKER, and in his
wild rage, forced the DAILY WORKER reporter of the
convention hall.
We accept the attack of Mr. harrington the greatest
tribute he could possibly pay the DAILY WORKER. We
have but to remind the miners delegates and member
ship of the miners unon that the kept scrbbes of the
worst capitalist Sheets and the yeowest of subsidized
news agencies allowed to remain in the convention hail.
Those who fawn this cheap edition of Caesar are
tolerated
The fight of the DAILY WORKER for the rank and file
OF the Miners Union will continue Our reports of present
historic convention of the Illinois Miners Union will continue
to be as exhaustive Let harrington
truth cannot be senced by Czarst Decree No matter
how much the truth may hurt Mr.. Farrngon his ay
Mr. Lewis will be told in the columns of the DAILY
WORKER.
And it is the truth all the varied phases of the
tremendous struggle in which they engaged that will
help solve the problems confronting the membership of the
United Mine Workers of America. 1t will help free them
from the capitalist system that holds them ensaved
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