The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-15
DIST. |, MINERS
MOVE TO imp ACH
PRES. CAPPELLINI
"Outlaw" Strikers Win
Wide Support
BY THOMAS MYERscoUcH.
Especial to The Daily worker)

WILKSBARRE, Pa, Jan. 14.--Un-
less a special convention is called by
Wednesday, Jan. IA, impeachment
proceedings will be started by the min.
ers Of District One, United Mine
Workers of America. The above, in
substance, is the ultimatum given by
a joint general grievance committee
meeting; held here last Saturday night
and which lasted nearly four hours.
To ascertain if such a special con
vention will be called by the district
president or the executive board by
that time, a committee consisting OF
the chairmen Of four of the general
bodies will visit the district office in
Scranton and failure to receive salts.
faction, will be the cue to start an.
other special committee.
Good Standing Locals to Impeaeh
cappellini.
This committee, consisting Of two
men from each of the good standing
general bodies, is already selected,
and if they are not assured by Wed.
nesday that a convention is being
called. they will begin to prepare the
charges on which to impeach the off.
Gals.
That they have a clear cut case is
evident from the fact that about
seventy locals have made a request
for the convention, Cappellini himself
having informally admitted that such
is the case. This means that the
charges will be for fragrant viola.
ton of Article Z, Section 2 of the
district constitution" which reads !:
Especial conventions Of the district
shall be called by the president upon
the written request of five locals, who
shall state the object Of the conven.
ton In their request"
District Nine Offers Solidarity.
No immediate general strike was
spoken of at the Saturday session,
but various reports were made to the
effect that the miners of District
Nine, the Shamokin district, at a
meeting there a week ago, voted to
give aid and their "full moral support
to the miners of District One in any
move District One miners might make.
Stanley Edmunds, former president
Of Local Union 500 at Edwardsville,
Pa, the first local in this district to
have its charter revoked for alleged
outlaw striking, spoke for half
hour. He recited efforts to bride him
OF the part of both coal company and
Miners Union officials, of invitations
to banquets, all for the purpose of per
suading him not to encourage strikes
that were necessary to save the con
ditions existing at the mine he worked
in.
Lewis and cappelIini Stand Pat.
A letter from John L.NLewis was
read, in which he stated that he would
take no action in this affair until he
received a report from the special
committee of investigators, who were
sent here at the beginning of the
strike. This and statement earlier
in the day by Cappellini, that there
was only one grievance of the Penn.
sylvania men that was good enough"
to present to the Cancellation board,
moved the delegates. to the decision
they have made.
Cappellini was not present at the
meeting, altho he was invited to at:
tend. He did, however, attend the
meeting Of the Hudson general body
earlier in the day, but that was prob
ably because they threatened to call
out the twenty thousand men OF that
company Immediately, unless he did.
so and agreed to take up their griev-
ances within a week
Grievances Two Years Old.
With members OF the executive
board he appeared and harangued
the delegates and argued the merits
of their complaints for nearly six
hours, but finally agreed to take up
their troubles with the company with.
in a week. A report OF this session
made at the later joint meeting brot
out the fact that many grievances
supposedly taken up two years age
were still untouched.