The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-11
BY WILLIAM E. dunno.

OulLSu ny G4Alo DodA16SJ JUL udllS
who received his training on the CAPT
talist press and who Is not now and
never was member of the United
Mine Workers, there appears two arti-
cles attacking the Save the Union
bloc in the .. M. w. A. which is OPP
posing tha.Lewis machine and its poll
cies.
One of the articles, signed by Vice
President Murray, attempts to prove
that John Brophy, president of Dis
trict 2, who is running against Lewis,
is inconsistent-tha he does not prac-
tice what he breaches. This article
will probably be answered by Brophy
and as all the Inconsistencies charged
have been carried out by Brophy un-
der orders from President Lewis, they
are of importance only as proving the
Ihypocritical character of the election
| literature put out by the Lewis ma
chine.
THE second article, unsigned, and
4 therefore in all probability written
by Ellis Searles, is entitled, Warning
to Members and is directed princi-
pally against the Communists.
The writer of the article referred to
carefully avoids any discussion of
policy-either the policy advocated by
the Communist members of the union
of the policy of the Lewis machine.
There are probably two reasons for
this, the first being that the editor of
the United Mine Workers Journal
does not know what the policy of the
Communists or the present policy Of
the United Mine Workers is, and, sec
ond, that if he does, he would not
dare to compare the two item by item
because he would be making propa-
ganda for the Communists and the left
wing.
For deliberate misstatements, half
truths, distortions and actual lies, this
article is hard to beat. The first state
ment is:
A gang of Communists and other
reds recently published a paper at
Springfield, H., which they called
The Coal Miner. The purpose of
this gang and their paper is to so
weaken the United Mine Workers of
America that this union may be
gobbled up by the Communists and
the Workers Party and turned over
into the hands of the BoIshevists of
Russia.
THE only comment necessary on
4 this statement is that if the Com
nunists really wanted to weaken the
United Mine Workers they would not
be fighting John L. Lewis and his pol
icies. A loss of 100000 members in a
little over two years and the destruc-
ton Of the union in West Virginia is
enough weakening in this space of
! time to satisfy anyone who really de-
sires it.
The Communists fight the Lewis
machine for the reason that it is de-
stroying the union and placing 1t at
the mercy of the coal operators.
THE next statement of any moment
L is that
a. The Coal Miner is the paper
Albert r. Coyle, editor of the
5retherhood of Locomotive Ens-
neersI journal, said in his notorious
letter to, Powers Hapeood, would
soon be started with $4,000, which
would be furnished by wealthy
friends"
The verbatim report of the A. f.
Of L. convention proceedings, giving
this letter as it was read there, re-
fers to The National Mine, not The
Coal Miner.
AS for Powers Hapgood, he is a
member Of the United Mine Workers,
employed in a mine at Gallitzin, Penn
sylvania. The Coal Miner is financed
solely by subscriptions and donations
and query to Mr.. Guynon, the printer
in whose shop The Coal Miner is pub
lished, results in reply that the pa
per, a modest eight-page sheet. one
half newspaper size, owes him in the
neighborhood OF $400 dollars.
This would seem to dispose OF the
wealthy friends" issue.
THE further statement occurs:
= They insolentIy declare that their
purpose Is to "Save the Union"
aItho they are we'll aware that the
policies which they preach would
destroy the union within one year
and make II an easy victim Of the
Russian 5olsheVlsts.
1t will occur at once to every coal
miner, that granting, for the sake OF
argument, the childish statement that
the Russian Bolshevists" want to
take over the United Mine Workers
Of America, the danger to the U. NJ.
w. A. just now is from the coal bar
ons-that portion OF the American cap
italist class which is directly inter-
ested in destroying the union.
Two questions to the writer OF the
article will make this clear:
Who and what destroyed the U. M.
W. A. in West Virginia, Kentucky.
IT,. Al. RI.