The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-05
TUMULTY FACES
TWO ASPIRANTS
FOR PRESIDENCY
Fishwick, Harrington
Man, Enters the Race

MuU, EHLGTS me race
EDITORS NOTE: Todaye In.
stallment Of 1.-THE Shady Record Of
Frank harrington" appears on page
four. In view Of the attempt Of
John L. Lewis to make political
capital out Of Farrington's $4,000
contract with the Peabody Coal
company our readers should not
miss these articles and read Of
Lewis completely with harrington
In helping to betray the Interests OF
the coal miners to the operators.
Especial to The Daily Worker)
SPRINGFIELD, H., Sept. 8 With
the entrance of Harry FlshwIck into
the race for the presidency Of tho
Illinois Miners Union In the elections
which will be held next December .
lively three-eornered contest Is pro-
missed.
The two other candidates are Jo-
seph Tumulty, Of Springfield, prog
ressive, and William Sneed, of Her
rim, reactionary, and friend of John
L. Lewis, international president.
Fishwick is a close supporter of
Farrington's and has filled the office
Of president since Harrington was
ousted by order of the executive board
after it was learned that he had ac-
cepted a position with $4,000 a
year salary from the Peabody Coal
company.
Members Of the executive board say
that the office OF vice-president left
vacant by Fishwick's elevation to the
presidency may be filed soon but by
whom is a question. It is reported
that Sneed was offered the position
but in view Of his ambition for the
presidency 1t Is not believed he will
accept.
Walter Nesbit Of Belleville, secre-
tary-treasurer will be a candidate to
succeed himself.
The officers elected in December
will take Office on April 1, 1927, the
same day on which the present wage
scale with the operators expires.
Lewis Posing AS Angel.
John L. Lewis is taking advantage
Of the exposure Of Farrington's sell
out to pose as the personifcation of
purity in the United Mine Workers Of
America. The progressives however.
have list Of crimes against Lewis
Just as lengthy as the list Of Earring.
toms misdemeanors.
They point out that Harrington and
Lewis made an alliance against the
forward-looking elements in the ILL.,
nois Miners Union, when Farrington's
machine was unable to stand up
against the opposition alone. Far
rington, who had supported Howat
against Lewis, deserted his friend and
lined up with Lewis against the Kan
sas mine leader at the Indianapolis
convention.
Now Come On Frank
when thieves fall out, honest men
get an earfull" said a well-known
! progressive in the Springfield dis
trict to The DAILY WORKER re-
porter. I'VE are all anxiously waiting
for Farrington's next blast against
Lewis. Those boys know more about
each other than they have yet reveal
ed. But what they won't tell we will
and before the ballots are counted
next December every coal digger in
Illinois will know that Lewis Is just
as crooked as Harrington; that in fact
his conduct has been more inimical to
the welfare Of the union than even
Farrington's because while Harrington
was chiefly interested in wrecklng
District IL in the interests of the Pea
body Coal company Lewis wrecked the
international in the interests OF his
own personal career and the operators
in general"