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port showed that Besco had done not
too bad. There was profit of some
thing like S2,250,000, but that trifle
would hardly permit Of an increase on
five dollar a day wage rate with a
working year of $50 days, according
to John w. Mcleod, Tory president of
District No. 26, U. M. w. Of A. Johns
policy was to have the miners agree
now to sign up the present wage con-
tract for another year, and he would
try and induce Wolyin to give the
lower paid men few cents on the
miserable day rate now paid them out
of the unearned millions that Wolvin
had collected during the year as a
result of Tory wage cut in this
country and Tory lockout of the
miners in the old country. At this
proposition the Sleepy giant" growled
and turned it down by a vote of four
to one. The day after Scott reported
the press carried a statement from
Roy Wolvin that the Dominion Steel
Corporation had made net profit Of
che and three-quarter million dollars.
Coal had been sold to the steel works
at Sydney for less than the cost of
production and SO piled up millions
for Wolvin. All this the "giant" read
and knew while in session in New
Glasgow, but was unable to rise up
and do battle for a share of the
wealth that he had been tricked out
Of. The best that he could do was to
prevent Mcleod and the cries from
tying him up now with a new wage
contract and put that event off till
future convention which is to be
called in January next for the pur-
pose of drafting new wage policy.
Fat, Flabby and Fifty
The mighty John L. Lewis had
personal representative at this con-
vention in the person of the Inter
national Board Member from Frank
Farrington's district. his guys name
is Dobbins, he is fat, flabby, fair and
fifty. He could not talk very well
about Harrington selling out to the
Peabody Coal Company at $4,000 per
year, nor about the traitor, John L.
Lewis, stealing the recent interna-
tional election, however, his heart was
bad from over-eating and his wind
was bad from over-drinking, and the
| Communists were bad and these three
bad things constituted the three heads
of his sermon. and between each SEN
tence he would sandwich in the slogan
Of all fat boys: God bless you, God
speed you" The giant" again
growled at this piffle and passed a
resolution demanding the Information
al Executive Board to set up special
commission on which one-half of the
members shall be appointed by John
Brophy to recount the vote cast at the
last International election, believing
that Lewis stole the election from
Brophy. =
Let Communist Question Drop.
The constitution of District No. &c
provides for general holiday on May
l each year. John w. Mcleod made
q motion to cut May l out of the
constitution, and substitute June II
instead. June II is the date that Bes-
co thugs murdered William Davis at
New Waterford power plant and Nc
Leod like the Tory trickster that he
is tried to use the Davis case to cut
out May Day. The vice7president was
in the chair and had refused to &C
cept a motion to divide the uestion
and take vote on each day separate
ly.
This put the convention into tur-
MOL and the giant" woke up again
and threw the vice-president out Of
the chair and made both days a holi-
day in future by vote of five to one.
There was still the big uestion to
come up Of expelling the Communists.
There were few Communists at the
convention as delegates and were in
the forefront of every forward look
ing move during the week, after this
last set back for Mcleod and the fat
boy representing Lewis, they deemed
it wise to let the Communist ques.
ton drop, it might be The end of
District No. &c to expel them just
then so that constitutional matter"
was never touched after Dobbins'
"God bless you" speech.
Spirit of Battle Underneath.
District No. rs is pretty dead, but
beneath the surface one can find if
one looks for it the old spirit of bat
tie. The hatred for the Lewis ma
chine shoulders and may burst into
flame any day over some trifle ard
the freedom to battle for bread
wrenched from that machine which
has gagged and expelled all who re-
fused to bow the knee to it. The an