The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
BRITISH LEFT
WINGERS FIGHT
FRANK HODGES
Black Friday Betrayer
Put on Gridiron

LONDON, Feb. 1S.-Frank Hodges,
civil lord Of the admiralty in the Mac
Donald government and former secre-
tary of the Miners Federation Of
Great Britain was recently nominated
at secret session of that organiza-
ton for the post Of international sec
rotary of the International Miners
Federation.
The British T. U. E. L.
The British minority movement,
which corresponds to the Trade I'm
ion Educational League in the United
States is circularizing the miners of
Great Britain calling attention to the
reactionary character Of this notori-
GUS lackey of the employers.
The miners are urged to raise the
question of Hodges appointment at a
national miners conference to be
held on February q. The secretary
of the National Miners Minority
Movement is Nat Watkins. The fol-
lowing circular is being distributed
among the members Of the miners un-
ion:
Fellow toilers in the mines of Brit
ain! According to a report in the
Daily Herald, January rs, Mr.. Frank
Hodges was elected by secret vote
Of members of the executive commit
tee of the Miners Federation Of Great
Britain as the British nominee for the
secretaryship of the International
Miners Federation. This vote was ac-
tually minority vote, Hodges having
only nine or ten votes out of a pos
sible "a or 25, several members of the
executive being absent when the vote
was taken.
Will the Miners Stand for this 5u-
reaueracy?
So far as our knowledge of the af-
fairs Of the executive committee goes
this is the first occasion such a ques-
tionable method has been adopted in
the appointment of any official to an
important position, much less to the
increasingly important position Of In
ternational secretary. We therefore
ask you to challenge their right to
put this decision into operation, and
utilize every legitimate means at your
disposal to prevent this from materi-
alizing, until the question has been
raised and discussed at a national con-
ference and the British nominee elect
ed by ballot vote.
Britain's Quota Towards Upkeep Of
Miners International
Will the British miners silently ac-
quiesce in the payment Of 92,500 an
nually in creating a position for the
man Of black Friday fame? The man
who made possible the noxious agree
ment, following the sad and terrible
weeks Of 1921; the political career
list" who preferred the ministerial DO.
sition Of civil lord of the admiralty
to the secretaryship of the Miners
Federation of Great Britain; the as.
sociate of royalty and their hangers.
on, whose trip in an aeroplane to
Vienna in 1924 cost the British Min
ers' Federation s35 or 940 when he
was in receipt of his ministerial sal
airy, whilst hundreds of thousands of
the miners were struggling to pay
their contributions to their respective
unions out of 40l- per week.
Let every intelligent miner in the
British coal field raise this matter
at his next branch meeting and de-
mand that a resolution be sent to his
respective union, urging them to
press for the matter to be taken up
at the national conference on Febru.
airy % with a view to securing a bal
lot for the position.
Remember that the position of in
ternational secretary is the most i'm
portant position in the miners move
ment and you have the right to elect
the nominee for Britain.