The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-03
BY Alex Reid.

beyond, unwept, unsung. This So
called union like many dual unions
in the past, that was organized to
usher in a new wave of prosperity
for the workers. and to displace the
United Mine Workers of America,
which, according to its officers had
Outlived its usefulness, so the press
reports, has now been totally liquidat-
ed and its few members have return
ed to the United Mine Workers of
America. Peace to its rotten ashes.
Faker Elected President.
FTEIS dual union was organized last
L December in the Fort Pitt Hotel,
Pittsburgh, Pa. w. T. Harris, ex-
president of the West Virginia State
Federation of Labor was elected presi-
dent, and ]. L. Hoffman was elected
secretary. The dual union was in
reality a company union, instigated
and aided by the large coal companies
around Pittsburgh, Pa, with pro-
gram of back to the 1917 wage scale"
to enable the coal owners to COM
pete with the non-union coal, and to
give the miners in the Pittsburg dis
trict more work.
Backward Program.
AS is usual in like cases, the spon-
"A sors of the dual movement had an
elaborate set Of principles, but in this
instance many Of them, to say the
least, were very unprincipled, and
only men who were the willing tools
Of the coal owners, and acting direct
ly for them, and who were the avowed
enemies of the rank and file, at
time when the miners were unem-
ployed and starving, could have brot
forth such an outrageous program to
be foistened onto the shoulders of
the suffering coal diggers.
The declaration of principles set
forth by the sponsors of this dual
movement were many. Unfortunately,
and sad to relate many Of the charges
against Lewis and the burocracy were
true. 1t is not exaggerating any to
say that Lewis and district five off,
cials were largely responsible for the
birth of thus dual union, thru the total
neglect of the miners affairs, and
their bankrupt policies.
Lewis, Pagan Treaehery.
TINE sponsors of this now dead dual
union, played well on the emotions
Of the starving miners, taking advan-
tage Of their long unemployment, dis
gust with the Lewis and Pagan
treachery, to fasten the company un-
ion on their necks, but thanks to the
progressive miners in District Five, it
was a total failure.
AS usual the U. NJ. w. OF A. officials
did little to destroy the dual senti-
ment in the district, but the progress
sive miners at every opportunity
wrote and spoke against it, and to
them, and them alone belongs the
credit of holding the u. M. w. of A.
intact. At the very inception of the
dual union sentiment in the district.
the progressive miners bitterly fought
against it, in all their local unions
and everywhere appropriate to the oc-
casion with GROWING victory-not to
the officials Of the U. M. w. Of A.,
2 but as usual, to the Progressive Min
ers in our union.
Charges Lewis Is Traitor.
THE charges put forth by the dual
lists against the officials of the u.
M. w. Of A. were legion. Among them
was the following:
~ "That the miners leaders
have built matchIess political or
ganization for the sole purpose of
perpetrating themselves in office and
an organization to be bargained, ex-
changed or sold at the within of the
miners leaders to the highest poIit-
iea bidders"
The dualists state the following to
be a quotation Of John L. Lewis to the
naro.