The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07

present TO stand by their leaders IN
the present struggle. The Reverend
Harvey J. Barney Tor some such
nance Of the United Brethren church
next graces the exercises, reading
from several closely written pages an
effusion Of consummate hypocrisy,
characteristic OF the hidebound piri-
tanical bigots who infest this region.
Speaking in an affected, sonorous,
funeral voice, this scintillating genius
opines, that religion is a prerequisite
to thinking and that accumulation of
surplus wealth. curse of society to-
day-is caused by the unregeneracy
of the human heart. Such snivelling
balderdash as this brot forth consi-
derable applause from the audience.
Cappellini speaks few words in
fulsome and fawning praise of Lewis,
followed by Fahey, who drivels about
the early days with Mitchell and other
pioneers, about his own present sick
ness and his many meetings with
Mitchell, Mcbride and others. After
brief speech from Secretary-Treas-
urer Kennedy, wire is read from
Phil Murray in Pittsburgh apologizing
for his absence and then President
Matte of District No. takes the
stand, having been brot to the stage
from the audience to speak in Muir
rays place.
THIS speaker proves to be the
L buffoon of the program, the house
being frequently in an uproar during
his talk. At every reference to any
event in the history of the union since
1886 Matte assures the audience that
Il was there, too, mind you" This
speaker does not seem to be in good
grace with the official family, espe-
cially when his remarks seem to in
dictate a demand for full strike pro-
gram, with all the maintenance men
pulled out in the anthracite, and if
necessary that a general strike be
called.
AS Matte wakes eloquent along
these lines, Mr.. Lewis and Golden
look at their watches and Lewis par
ticularly begins to squirm in his seat.
However, after a while Matte desists
from his inopportune remarks and
President Golden makes a spread
eagle speech introducing Lewis as
"the greatest labor leader in the
world" a statement Lewis survives
without a flicker of an eyelid.
TT is now eleven forty a. m. and the
4 theater (Which on this occasion has
been donated by the management who
refused to permit the miners to hold
meetings in any of their chain of
theaters during the 1922 strike), must
be vacated before the time for the
afternoon show. The meeting is well
managed so that no rude interruptions
may interfere with the well-oiled pro-
gram. AS Lewis advances to the front
of the stage the band strikes up the
Star Spangled Banner the audience
rising meanwhile, and aft some per-
fHnctory applause for "the greatest
labor leader" Lewis speaks.
Dealing entirely with past history,
Mr.. Lewis omits any reference to the
problems suggested by comments of
the strikers previous to the meeting
The address is merely rehash Of the
speech delivered by Lewis at Halle
ton on August rs before the "suspen-
sion" commenced. With meticulous
care he relates the PROFESSOR non
progressed the negotiations with the
operators committee, interspersed
withe reference to previous struggles of
the miners since 1920, and to his inter-
views with President Harding in
respect to arbitration, etc."
T EVILS charges that the present
- strike is the result of deliberate
planning by the operators in an at
tempt to break the union and reduce
the miners to conditions of serfdom,
and to enable the operators to sell
their stocks of low grade coal at pro-
fiteers' prices. Mr.. Lewis asserts
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