The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-11
BROPHY REFUTES
STATEMENTS OF
LEWIS MACHINE
"Save the Union" Ticket
Head Answers Lies
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red" remarks since. We knew now
that he did not mean 1t because he
has sabotaged these ideas ever since.
Now we have Just received an I'M
dated circular, which is a pot-pourri
Of half-truths and out and out I'M
truths. the whole being false and mis-.
leading
Fake Local Unions.
The circular purports to be from
ave locals of district two, but a little
observation makes it clear that it is
q national organizers inspiration. We
and on our district books that one
Of the locals, whose officers names
are signed to the letter, consists of
seven exonerated members and one
tax-paying member-an international
organizer; another local since May
has been composed of few exonerat-
ed members and one tax-paying mem
ber-another international organizer;
a third has 1914 members. Locals Of
this character do not represent the
minds Of the men of District Two.
Some Examples.
1t Is impossible in the short time
at my command to refute every mis-
statement of fact expressed in this
circular, but one or two examples will
serve to show the falsity which ap-
pears thruout. For instance they at
tempt to prove that do not even try
to enforce my slogan "Sign for all
the mines or none" in my own dis
trict. "Cunard Steamship Company"
reads the circular, "are permitted to
operate Miller Shaft Coal company at
Portage, Pa, union, and Morrisdale
Coal company Of the same interest
operating at Morrisdale Mines, scab."
The facts of the matter are these:
Over year ago the Morrisdale men,
who had grown weak in spirit from
a long period of slack work and from
numbers of men under direct COM
pany influence who had worked their
way into the local. broke from the
union and went back to work for a
reduction. myself spoke at meet
ings there urging them to strike and
appeared on the picket line after the
break came, traspassing on company
property, being threatened by COM
pany guards, and as each group of
miners appeared at the shaft urged
thcm not to fall for the worthless
promises made them by the company
and asked them not to go to work.
But In their weak spirit they returned
In spite of all we could do, as men
have also done in Districts 5, II, 20,
q and other districts in spite of
everything the officers Of those dis
tricts did.
Shaft Closed Two Years.
At the time the Miller Shaft at
Portage had been shut down for
nearly two years. II was impossible
TO pull Il out on strike for II was al
ready shut down for about two years.
Recently the Miller Shaft Coal COM
pany opened the mine again on the
Jacksonville agreement. Altho the
miners at Morrisdale had been work
ing non-union for over a year and
although the connection between the
Norrisdale Coal company and the
Miller Shaft Coal company is very
vague (the only proof being that the
same superintendent spends part OF
bis time at both) personally appear
cd short time ago to the Morrisdale
non-unionists and told them II they
would strike for the union contract /
would refuse to let the Miller Shaft
resume operations until they at Nor
Tisdale got the scale. They were too
cowardly 70 Join. So this Is case
OF the miners themselves at Norris
dale not even being members OF the
union, 80 how could a much smaller
mine, the Miller Shaft, which had
been shut down for over two years,
be used to enforce the former con-
tract at Morrisdale, These are the
facts not given in this national-in.
Bpired circular, and the other mis-
representations are as far-fetched as
rhis,
Pay For csr-PushIng,
Referring to car-pushing, have al
ways done everything ressible under
conditions I'm our district to have this
evil eliminated, On account of the
unusually thin seams in our district,
his could not be accomplished over
night Because of the fight we have
waged in District against car-push-
ing, we have obtained payment of six
cents a ton whore there is car-push-
y