The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31
TAKES SIS 1000 JOB
FROM PEABODY COAL COMPANY
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nearly ten years of careful consideraA
ton have decided to do So A proper
announcement will be made at the
proper time"
Admitted Signing Contract.
Harrington then admitted that he
had contract with the Peabody Coal
company in his pocket. Jack Peabody
and I signed the contract in New York
City on July End, the day before !
sailed for Europe" said Harrington to
a newspaper interviewer. Il had an
offer about ten years ago practically
identical with the present one, from
Frank S. Peabody.
Must Think Of Family.
Il have been working for theAmin-
ers for more than 20 years now and
have been president of the Illinois, dis
trict for ~ years. I am getting a2sal-
airy Of $4,000 year. am SO years
old and have wife and three chAl-
dren, the youngest of whom is two
years old. Naturally I must consider
my family and the future
However, my accepting the execu-
tive position with the Peabody Coal
company, in which my duties will be
chiefly concerned with relationships
with the miners and their problems.
firmly intend and expect to be able to
continue by efforts to ameliorate the
position Of the workers and to pro-
mote clear understanding and good
will between the men and the own
ers.'
BIames John L. Lewis.
Harrington lays the blame for the
present exposure on the shoulders of
John L. Lewis, international president,
tho it was Lewis that saved Earring
ton from being ousted by the member
ship of district IL. About two years
ago District Of the Workers Com
munistl Party, published pamphlet
entitled "On a Labor Faker's Trail"
which exposed Farrington's connec-
lions with the Peabody Coal Company,
with Frank L. Smith, now under fire
for accepting election brides to the
tune of S150,000 from Samuel insult,
and Farrington's expulsion of local
unions for coming out on strike to
save Tom Mooney from the gallows
in 1919.
Threatened Local Unions.
This pamphlet was circulated
among the bituminous coal fields and
in the election that took place in De
cember 1925, Harrington threatened to
lift the charter of any local caught
distribu ng the pamphlet.
Farrin gson in a public statement
to reporters in his luxurious quarters
in a Paris hotel declared that wages
Of the American miners were too high
This $4,000 a year company tool
and $4,000 year union official thinks
the miners could accept cut of $3.50
day, so that the union operators
would be in a position to compete
with the non-union operators. Hi
nois coal miners now know what to
expect from their dearly beloved pres
ident when he openly appears as ia
Dor reconciliator" for the Peabody
Coal company.
Will Spill More Beans.
That Harrington will tell more OF
the truth about Lewis is beyond doubt
Lewis sold out the miners in the So
merset, Pennsylvania coke fields in
1921. He has wrecked the interna-
tional union, until there is little left
of It now. BY attacking Harrington
now, he expects to dodge responsible
ty for his own treason. He believes
that the miners will be so outraged
against the treason of harrington that
they will forget about the man who
had Alex Howat James B. MaeLach-
Ian, Duncan Macdonald and other
courageous leaders expelled from the
union and the districts they had build
up either wrecked or turned over to
company stoolpigeons.
harrington Betrayed Howat.
Harrington who once aided Howat,
but merely as a move in his own fight
on Lewis, supported the latter in re
fusing Howat voice at the last min
ers' convention in Indianapolis.
And when William F. Dunno, then
editor OF the Butte Bulletin, and de
legate from the Silver Bow Trades
Council to the Portland convention ex
posed Harrington from the floor, II
was William Green, secretary-treas
urer of the miners union who paced
the platform while delivering a ra
bid speech against Dunno that ended
in the latter's expulsion from the con
vention for telling the truth about
the two fakirs, Harrington and Lewis