The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-17
HUGE BROPHY
VOTE CAST AT
SPRINGFIELD
Young Miners Boost the
Save the Union" Ticket
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is divided as to the motives of Walk
er's action.
Machine Asleep.
The feature of this election is the
determined fight and intelligent acti-
vity of the young progressive miners.
The machine seems to have been
caught mapping. Most of the indus
trious politicians in this election, the
lads standing on the. staircases, in
couples, passing out marked ballots,
the personal cards OF candidates, or
handing out tiny slips of paper with
the sub-district candidates numbers
upon them, are progressives.
Young Miner Busy.
The walls of the polling places are
gay with the red Brophy-Stevenson-
Brennan stickers. Hundreds Of
marked sample national ballots have
been circulated during the last few
days, mostly by energetic young fell
lows, for the first time many of them
awakening to the fact that they have
a stake in the future of the union,
and that honest elections and pro-
gressive votes guarantee that future.
Young Stands Alone.
The only member of the Fishwick-
Lewis machine Quilt by Harrington
and inherited by the other two) to
appear very prominently on the scene
in this election is the notorious
slower" Young, present member of
the district executive board from this
sub-district. In the miners union
board member is very important
official. He not only acts in the board
itself as a court Of last resort for
eases appealed from subordinate parts
Of the organization, but is one of the
important negotiators deciding eases
between employers and individual
unionists with grievances. Joker"
decisions are favorable to the boss
in 30 per cent of his cases.
On election day Joker" released
another decision that didn't look
funny to the members here. The pro
Gressives had made strenuous fight
to elect honest tellers, and in many
cases had succeeded. But the presi-
dent of Klondyke local read a letter
from Joker on election day by which
he was granted authority to decide
what tellers should count each ballot
Then he decreed that all the honest
ssllers should be concentrated on the
Bub-district count, while he and his
rats counted the district ballots. The
result Of what most miners here hope
is the "Joker's" last ruling was an
angry jangle, in which for hours the
tsIlers and the local officers argued
nercely behind closed doors, and the
votes remained uncounted. A NUT
,tsring crowd Of rank and f1lers ap-
plauded the declaration of one of tell
ers that they had enough Of Joker"
and his rulings, and would count their
own votes.
Keep OF chaIlenssrs.
The sub-district constitution per-
mits the. candidates to maintain chal-
Iangers at the polls to see that the
.subdistriot ballot Ia properly counted
In spite of this clause, the officers of
Old Citizen local union refused to
wdmit challengers. It is certain that
khere Is a majority of "Save the
Union votes in this local, but, due
10 the treachery OF supposedly pro-
Kzcssive teller, the machine captured
nhe entire vote-counting machinery
here. and apparently intends to steal
Ehe election II they do their vote win
be contested
The machine IS also expected to
Eh1ow out on technicalities all the
favorable locals It can The Spring
Geld evening paper calmly prognosti-
Gates complete victory for the pres
snt (machine) officials, state and ma