The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-10

living wage for all miners regardless
of output. They have raised the issue
of a six-hour day and fve-day week
for the anthracite miners; they have
raised the issue of the labor party;
they have started move to make the
struggle effective by getting all the
maintenance men to quit their posts
and join the striking miners; they
have raised the slogan against check
off settlement; that there can be no
settlement without wage increases,
and many other demands of vital inn
portance to the miners.
NUMEROUS meetings were held by
~ the Progressive Miners Commit
tee and the Workers Party, which is
supporting the progressive demands.
Leaflets with these demands have
reached miners in the thousands thru
out the district. The workers were
beginning to seriously consider the
proposals presented to them. The OPP
orators and the reactioRary officials
of the United Mine Workers became
alarmed. The capitalist press began
to scream againsts the reds. The au-
thorities began to smash and break
up meetings and the reactionary cor
rupt officials headed by Cappellini,
president of District No. 1, the largest
district of the United Mine Workers
in the anthracite with membership
of 10000 raised a howl against the
militants and insisted upon having
the meetings of the progressives and
the Workers Party broken up and
those responsible for them prosecut-
ed. The reactionary officials of the
United Mine Workers are in back of
the persecution of the progressive
elements because they realize that
the progressive movement must not
be allowed to get a foothold if they
are to put thru their deal without any
objections from the rank and file in
selling out the strike for the check
off.
Let us examine some of the out
rageous activities of these corrupt
officials. When hearing was held in
Scranton on Monday afternoon on the
arrest of the four militant miners, the
following officials of the United Mine
Workers of America were in the court
room: ID. w. Davis, International
representative of the United Mine
Workers of America, and James Glea-
son and John Boylan of the execu-
tive board of District No. l.
MIR. GLEASON made a vicious talk
Az against the militant miners I'M
der arrest. He said the men came
for the purpose of disrupting the min
ers' union He informed the court
that Patrick Toohey, who had sue
ceeded in joining the miners union,
| had been relieved Of his membership
card in the morning. (This, in spite
of the fact that Toohey has been a
| good loyal member Of the organization
for the last eight years) This is a
| gem from the lips of Gleason, the la
Dor leader of the miners. In the court
room against members of his own or
I ganization, Mr.. Gleason made the fol
| lowing statement: These men are
| seeking to undermine the principle of
our country's constitution and the
government itself. There is no room
for any of them in any organization
| of the. United Mine Workers, whose
constitution provides that any man
known to hold membership in a radi-
cal order shall be dropped from the
rolls of the union" This Gleason who
is doing everything in his power to
send fellow miners to prison because
they are fighting in the interests of
the workers wanted to know from the
authorities who was financing them
in their nefarious work. Gleason is
a good Lewis lieutenant and his SEN
timents were approved by the other
two reactionary Lewis officials. who
were in the courtroom to use their
influence in railroading innocent loyal
and devoted members Of the United
Mine Workers to prison for a long
time. Better hckspittles and flunkies
than these the operators cannot find