The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
FALLON MINE
CLOSES AS OPEN
SHOPPERS PLOT
Union Officials Side with
Operators
BY A. w. YOUNG.

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Another mine closed down here on
March II, throwing 225 more miners
out of work and adding 225 more
miners to make up the total Of John
L. Lewis 100000 which must be
eliminated" from the industry. This
means not only. miners but their
wives and children left to starve.
All this comes as a result of the
Jacksonville agreement, perpetrated
by the Sub-Scale Committees and our
treacherous leaders. The mine men.
toned above is the one where the
men were willing to share work with
248 men that had been idle for II
months on account Of their mine clos
ing down. However, we failed to get
a decision handed down according to
contract. The operator said he
! wouldn't let the men share the work
and our executive board helped the
operator in making his word good.
A Contrast Of Action and Inaction.
Local Union 7O5 had to wait IL
months to get decision on the d.
vision of work. But when we appeal
ed to the rank and file to force Far
rington and his executive board to
hand down decision as per contract,
it only took this same board two
weeks to hand down a decision that it
was dual and illegal to organize the
unemployed. And they circularized
this district and advised the members
Of the U. NJ. w. of A. to stay away
from the unemployed meetings be-
cause it was illegal
Fellow workers! How long are we
going to stand for officials at the head
of our organization who hand down
decisions whereby we are branded as
dual and illegal if we congregate to-
gether to devise ways and means to
find relief for our unemployed and
their starving wives and children?
The time has come when we should
defy the enemies of our class, the
tools of the operators.
Class Difference in the Union.
There is something most damnably
wrong, when the officials of our or
ganization eat at banquets and live
in the best hotels, ride in Pullman
cars, and hob-nob with the operators,
while the rank and file have to ride
in box cars on the road and sleep out
in the cold while looking for master
to give them job-and their little
children at home with not bite of
bread in their rented shacks.
John. L. Lewis didn't say half what
could have been said, when he men,
toned that Brother Frank harrington
had received a round sum of money
from w. ]. Lester for a permit to re-
move dirt off his strip mine. And
Frank Harrington made very mild
assertion when he said that his Broth
er, John L. Lewis, had descended to
the level of a louise. They both con-
tended they were telling the truth,
and We have good reasons to believe
them both when they get to telling
Of each others misdoings.
Open Shop Drive Starting.
The Parry Coal company and the
Business Mems association, on Feb.
%, held a meeting in the city hall
They said the purpose Of the meeting
was for the coal company to get the
business men Of O'Fallon to donate
$4,000 to the Parry Coal company to
fight the high freight rates that pre-
vailed within 20 miles of st. Louis
But the coal miners in O'Fallon know
that the "open shop" drive is on and
it is a good time for the coal OPP
orators and the business men to get
together and help John L. Lewis and
his gang of blood suckers to destroy
the u. M. w. of A.
The coal companies are calling on
the chambers of commedce in all cit
les within 20 miles of st. Louis to
raise large sums of money to fight the
high freight rates-so they say. In
1922 the chambers of commerce
raised $4,000 for the prosecution of
the Herrin coal miners because they
had the CUTS to defend themselves
against thugs and bunch Of scab
herders. At that time also a number
OF union coal miners fell in the battle
at Herrin, Ill.
Must Prepare for Struggle.
With or without our officials we
must prepare to fight against wage
cuts The Connelville miners are
striking against wage cuts. They are
unorganized and we're basely betrayed
by Lewis during the last strike. II is
a crime that they are not members OF
our union.
Nova Scotia is striking against
wage cuts, their enemy, the British
Empire Steel corporation, one OF the
most powerful corporations in Amer.
lea.
Everywhere we see the coal operat
crs closing in on US, yet our officials
tell us that nothing can be done, ex.
cept 10 produce more and cheaper