The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19

OF MS OWN LreaCueTy.
The miners in the Springfield ter
ritory are bitter and ready to go to
the mat with harrington and his worm,
Walker. The resolution is as follows:
Springfield, H., Aug. 9, 1925.
To the Officers and Members of All
Local Unions, United Mine Workers
Of America, in a regular Meeting Of
Local No. 1858, Greeting:
WHEREAS: desperate attempt
is now being made by the Peabody
Coal Company, assisted by the official
dom of the United Mine Workers of
America, District No. IL, to take from
the membership of Local Union No.
1853, the checkweighman they have
elected to serve them, a right given
them under the joint contract and the
state laws Of Illinois, and all for the
purpose of taking from the member
ship a man who has ever been watch
full for the interests Of the miners of
Local Union No. 1858, and who in the
performance of his duties as check
weighman did discover the company
weighman attempting to steal from
the miners employed at Peabody No.
6, and as result of his watchfulness
in detecting this scoundrel the Mine
Workers officials did agree that Joe
Loda was to be deposed and that an
other must take his place, another
presumably more suitable to the coal
company and less watchful for the in
terests Of the rank and file, and
A Conspiracy.
WHEREAS: We know of no more
desperate frame-up than was Matched
against Joe Loda, for example, Joe
Loda was charged with using abus.
i've language against the company
weighman whom he caught red-hand-
ed in the act of stealing from the
miners, Joe Loda denied the charges
and the company presented two COM
pany sucks the company top-boss,
who strange to relate happened to be
present when the stealing was at
tempted, and the company weighman,
both of whom testified as the company
directed; Joe Loda a United Mine
Worker and the check-puller a United
Mine Worker denied the company's
accusations, but regardless to that in
a very few hours after Joker Young
and Dan Clark had handled this case
it was turned over to commission
who were ready waiting for 1t and Joe
Loda was deposed by actions of this
commission.
I'VE cannot recall where such hasty
action has ever happened in this board
member district in unloading Joe Loda,
especially when other cases Of long
standing prior to the Loda case had
never been handled and thus this hasty
action in getting Loda's case into the
hands of commission within few
hours after the board member had
handled 1t, and the commission agree
ing to the removal Of Loda within a
few hours after receiving this case,
lends color to the accusation OF a
frame-up in Loda's case. and
Violation Of Agreement.
WHEREAS: After the decision
was rendered to depose Joe Loda as
check.weighman. the mine superin-
tendent, Mr.. McMurdo, did make
an agreement with the mine pres
ident and mine committee. to the
effect that Joe Loda could remain on
the tipple until such time as the min
ers could arrange for a meeting, and
thus by his making OF that agreement
TO allow Loda to continue at work, he
violated and abrogated the agreement
that was reached by the commission
that deposed Joe Loda and the miners
successfully turned the tables on
framer.up McMurdo and defeated him
at his own game. But McMurdo who
was hastily called up over the tele-
phone and told Of the blunder he had
made and he hastily attempted to
break his agreement that he had
made, but to no avail, as the mine
workers, the other party to the agree
ment, refused to break the agreement
and without the miners consent the
agreement could not be broken, so
Maadsrda instead Of using the courts