The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-18
DAWSON ASKS
WHY;AND Gets
MANY REASONS
Remind Faker of a Bare
Faced Fraud

Cal LOuge accuses international Of
ficials Of being responsible for de-
frauding the lodge out of thousands of
dollars and reinstating crooks into the
organization over the protest of the
local lodge.
Keystone Lodge No. 1910, Of the In
ternational Association Of Machinists
at Harrisburgh, Penn, answers E. C.
Dawson, secretary-treasurer of the
machinists organization, to a COM
munication sent by him, Dawson
to lodges that did not nominate him
asking the reason why. This local
lodge gives the reason why they did
not nominate Dawson, and further
more gives the reason why Johnston
was not nominated.
This letter is being sent to all the
local lodges of the machinists' organ
ization, giving two specific cases why
they are opposing the present official.
dom. Only one of the cases mention
ed is enough for honest members of
the machinists' organization to rise
in their strength and expel the official
dom, not only from their present Of
fees but also from the organization.
They are personally responsible of
defrauding the local lodge of $4,000
and members and former members of
the lodge to the amount of $4,000
and the Central Labor Union to the
amount of $4,000. The letter is as
follows:
Keystone Lodge No. 1910, l. A. Of
NJ, Harrisburg, Penna.
An open letter to &. c. DAWSON.
Harrisburg, Pa, March 18th, 1925.
"Mr. E. C. DAWSON, sec'y.-Treas.,
Machinists' Bldg, Washington, o. c.,
Dear Sir and Brother:
''In reply to your letter of February
18th, 1925, in which you ask why Key
stone Lodge No 1910 did not nomin-
ate you for general secretary-treas-
urer, beg to say that from the ex-
perience we have had with you we
consider you totally unfit and untrust-
worthy to fill the important position
you now hold and to which you seek
reelection. Following are a few spe-
cific reasons for the above opinion.
1--WE charge you with being mainly
responsible for the loss to our lodge
of $4,000, to our members and former
members of between $4,000 and s14,-
900, and to the Central Labor Union
of Harrisburg of $4,000 by encour-
aging the purchase of stock in the
Columbia Credit corporation of Wash
ington, d. c., which had their Offices
in the machinists' building, and in
which you were a stockholder. We
understand that some of the other Of
ficers of our organization had been APP
preached to buy stock in this corpora
ton and declined, and were later Of
fered some stock gratis for the use
of their name among the railroad
men. They refused to allow their
names to be used in this scheme and
you, or any other officer should have
done the same.
"You will recall that a committee
from our lodge was sent to Washing
ton to see you and President Johnson
and after interviewing you, they came
back and reported that they were
satisfied that you were a stock holder
in the Columbia Credit corporation
and that it was sound. We charge
that an officer in your position should
know the character of concerns that
they recommend to our membership
and had you at that time warned our
committee we would not have pur-
cased stock in the above corporation
and you would have saved our lodge,
our members individually, and the
Central Labor Union members several
thousand dollars, besides a loss OF
faith in organized labor.
1--WE recall that representative OF
the above named corporation came to
our lodge in Harrisburg and showed
in the presence OF Brother Tom Cor
rol and our members, moving pictures
taken in Washington. ID. c. with the
officers OF the Columbia Credit corpo-
ration, yourself, and President John
son mingling together, which seemed
to us proof that there was close con-
nection between the corporation and
our organization and therefore was
a safe concern.
Further than this, we we're told by
the representative that they were on
the inside Of all that was going on in
our association and that they could
help us, and they did on one occasion
have printed in our print shop, some
red paper bricks to sell for stock pro-
motion, which our lodge did not au-
thorize but had to pay for. At any
rate we lost everything, including our
confidence in you and our information.
al president.
1--WE further condemn you for rein
stating A. +. speese to the grand
lodge. We dropped this man because
we had found him TO be crooked.
When you wrote that he wanted TO
a