The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-15
FACAN WRECKINC
DISTRICT ) OF
MINERS UNION
Out for New Betrayal of
1000 Strikers
BY TOM RAY

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NC DONALD, Pa, Oct. 1S.-The
strike of a thousand miners at the
Jamison and Star Junction mines in
Fayette county, Pennsylvania, against
the attempt of the operators to en-
force the 1917 scale will be lost by
the policies of the district oficialdom
led by Pat Pagan. who is without
doubt the most INSCRIPTIONS traitor
that ever served as district president.
The strike was progressing nicely
until Pagan appeared on the scene two
miles below, at the Banning mine,
where the Mellon interests-which is
the Pittsburgh Coal company is at
tempting to operate under the 1917
scale. Led by E. S. Mccullough and
Mike Halapy two arch traitors that
formerly protested to be progressives.
Desertion Of the Coke Miners E
When Pagan entered that field some
of the active miners leading the
strikers of Star Junction, visited Ban
ming No 2, where demonstration was
in progress against scabs going to work
under the 1917 scale. This was, of
course, all right, but what must be
made clear to all miners, is that the
dirty work in the way of betrayals was
the result of the Cleveland peanut set
Element of 1922, when the miners of
Fayette county received no considera-
ton whatever. ai
Bad as the Cleveland settlement
was, if Pagan had been a man worth
mentioning, he at least should have
considered the coke region miners,
where the operators owned mines in
what they called 1.-The old and new
union territory"
The settlement in District resulted
in a split in the district executive
board. International Board Members
OLeary and Bill Hines, pulled away
from Pagan for a short time, on ac-
count of the miners of the coke re-
gion being left out of the settlement.
A Fake Opposition
However this split lasted only till
The progressive miners made their pro-
ram public at a meeting called by
he takers in Pittsburgh, while the
akers were at one another's throats,
including O'Leary, Hines and Bill
Feeney, who intended to lead rebel
movement against Pagan and largest,
which movement had the endorsement
of the king faker, John L. Lewis.
A little later two yellow socialists,
Bob Norman and Peggy Delbare, we're
very anxious to have a conference
with Tom Myerscough and myself, SO
that we would be brought into the
rebel" movement that sailed under
the leadership of O'Leary, Hines, and
Feeney-quite trio of takers.
Real Progressives Fight Takers
But the two Toms refused to betray
the interests Of the miners to get jobs
in bankrupt union-as explained SC
well by William z. Foster in his
pamphlet The Bankruptcy OF the Am
erican Labor Movement Myerscougl
was selected to lead the fight OF the
progressives against the thieves who
stole the election, but we would mo-
change place with them, or play pol
itics against our fellow miners, in as
much as we knew other evils thai
were committed blythe takers, such a:
Pagan and other relative to the Cliff
tonville march of the Avella miners
in the 1922 strike.
Six miners are still in prison, while
the takers not only have not served
a day, but have deserted these victim.
OF capitalist dictatorship. How Ion,
are the coal miners going to tolerat,
Lewisism, with its Farringtons and Fa
gans and the murders It lie responsible,
for at zeigler7