The daily worker., 1926-02-10
WORKERS FIGHT
GIVING SUPPORT
TO FRANK SMITH
Hold Big Bloc in c. F.
of L. Against Walker
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knocked out OF MS SdllS. his game
had been shown up. He was exposed
in his true role supporting the party
OF big business. He could barely
speak. 81 did not ask for any endorse
ment" he mouthed as he started to
apologize, stating that he had not
come here for the purpose of boosting
Smith and all that he did was ask
for the floor and tell them what he
thought of the whole thing.
Delegate George Koop, of the Chi
cago Typographical Union No. 16 then
took the floor and showed that If the
Federation delegates thought that any
good could come out of endorsing old
party candidates. they were foolish.
He declared there was no difference
between Smith and Mckinley.
Following Hoops talk, the debate
was ended and the motion of Nockels
making the Chicago Federation of La
Dor the tail of the republican party
carried by 10 against 33. About one
fourth of the delegates at the meeting
voting against this Walker-Fitzpatrick-
Nockels' betrayal of the Chicago la
Dor movement to the republican party.
Two representatives of the United
Mine Workers then were given an op-
portunity to tell of the conditions of
the union miners in the anthracite
fields. These delegates are visiting
different local unions thruout the city
collecting funds for relief of the
striking miners.
Edward Wright, thoroly discredit-
ed reactionary in the Typographical
Union and who unable to be appointed
delegate from the Typographical
Union ran to the Brickmakers' Union,
who do not know him as yet, in order
to be able to be a delegate to the
Chicago Federation, took the floor. to
pull some second-handed red-baiting
stunts.
In his talk he tried to pose as a
delegate from the Typographical
Union and attacked one of the men,
bers of the Typographical Union say
ing that this member had seconded
motion to give the miners $1,000
so that he could disrupt, villify" and
Islander" the United Mine Workers
of America.
Wright, who was at one time a
president of the state federation and
has attended a number of state fed
Grafton conventions and who is now
unable to go as delegate from his own
organization but attends these con-
ferences and meets by the grace of
Fitzpatrick, Nockels and Nelson,
tried to create an impression that the
secretary of the Communist party
leader of the Communist Party" had
tried to destroy the miners organiza-
tion.
Expose Lewis Betrayal.
The member of the Typographical
Union who seconded the motion and
spoke for the motion to give the an
tracite miners $1,000 at the Typogra-
phical Union meeting against whom
Wright leveled his attack had pointed
out to the members of that union the
dire need the miners were in. He had
showed that these miners were not
receiving strike benefits from their
organization. He showed Lewis re-
fused to pay them these benefits and
what little was gotten from the Inter-
national officials had so much red tape
attached to it and as the miners need
ed food, clothing and shelter to be
able to carry on the fight against the
operators they had to seek aid from
other sources.
He also pointed out that these
miners had nowhere else to turn to
but to the organized workers and that
1t was the duty of the organized work
ers to aid the miners in their strike.
In his talk for the motion he had
pointed out that Lewis was hobnob-
bing with the operators and did not
call out the maintenancemen and that
as the operators had large stores of
coal on hand and had the maintenance
men keeping their mines in good re-
pair the operators were sitting pretty
while the miners were starving and as
Lewis refused to call out the main
tenancemen he was making the strike
that much harder to win and that real
union men must support the miners in
their strike so that these miners
would go back the victors.
Wright who solicits printing for the
Homestead print shop in Iowa and
uses business card without the label
showed at the Federation the extent
to which he would stoop in his mis-
representations of statements of pro-
gressive union members.
Painters Aid Miners.
When the reports from various To-
Gals were given, a delegate from the
Painters Union Local 181 declared:
In my local a Communist made a
motion to donate 500. Another Com
munist raised II to 5000. The motion
was carried"
THAT money will not do the miners
any good" declared Fitzpatrick from