The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-21
HOUSE CLEANING
CONFERENCE ON
FOR DISTRICT 5
Wreckers and Robbers
Threaten to Expel

~ oDOIIOI1s Fd,.-- progressive
miners in District No. 5 are out to
clean house of the reactionary Off.
cialdom. A conference of the progress.
sives held in Pittsburgh last Sunday
decided to urge the locals to initiate
a special impeachment convention.
About seventy delegates represent
ing the largest locals Of the district
responded to the call to protect their
union and help the men that are i'm
prisoned at Moundsville, West Vir-
ginia.
The gang had half a dozen drunken
plug-uglies to intimidate the dele
gates. They were told either to come
in and behave because the progress.
sives have nothing to hide, or get
out, so they took the latter tip and
, got out.
The offcialdom is so determined in
keeping themselves in office even to
the extent of wrecking the whole or.
ganization, that they sent out circu-
lar to every local threatening the in
dividuals that participate in the con-
ference with expulsion and the re-
voking Of the charter Of the locals
sending delegates.
The last district convention was
packed by bartenders' organizers, and
any one the oficialdom could secure.
A resolution was passed denying the
membership right to meet and dis.
cuss their grievances. The worst
criminal syndicalist laws have nothing
on this gag law And on this basis
they hope to discredit some of the
best fighters in the organization.
Wreckers and Robbers.
After thoro discussion on the in
activities Of the officials and the part
played by them in wrecking the
treasury of the district the confer
ence urged all locals to initiate i'm.
Placement proceedings by demanding
a special district convention.
One delegate after another gave
proof of various irregularities, from
grievances of the working conditions
to handling of the organizations
funds. One of the fragrant betrayals
that was pointed out is the desertion
of the miners serving in the Mounds.
vile penitentiary, who are incarcer-
ated for the organization and are be-
trayed by the officials.
No Reduction of Wages.
In very strong miners language the
conference went on record against
anyone advocating revision of the
present wage agreement based on con-
templated reductions. Everyone pres
ent was determined to fight to the
very end the operators and anyone
else who tries to lower the wages of
the diggers.
In order to prove what class the
government supports, the progressives
demand that the governments action
OF 1919 be reversed and applied to the
operators. In the miners strike, the
department Of justice declared the
fight of the miners for a living wage
illegal, and ordered them back to
work, with which Lewis complied.
Make the Government Open the
Minesl
Today, the miners want the same
department to order the mines open
ed by the operators and rive work to
thousands of miners that have been
thrown out of work because no profits
were coming to the coal barons.
A publicity committee was elected
to carry on the campaign for the re.
lease Of the Moundsville prisoners.
Every miner present was determined
to let every miner in the district
know the result Of the conference.
The following day the capitalist
press, in an article on the conference
Of the progressives, quotes Pagan as
saying that those participating in the
conference will be expelled. This does
not brighten the progressives any.
they are the more determined TO 60
after the officialdom.
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