The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-17
Break Injunctions" Cry
At A. f. IL. Conference
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threw him out, amidst threats from
the Lewis and Pagan supporters.
Weak Decision.
The single realistic touch in the en-
tire proclamation, adopted by the con-
ference as reported in by the commit
tee appointed from among internal
tional union heads by President
Green, is an equivocal, yelled admoni-
ton to the strikers to violate the in
junction of Judge Schoonover in the
federal court here, ordering them not
10 picket except under impossible cir
cumstances, and prohibiting the col
lection of funds with which to fight
dispossession orders.
And this is a substitute for the To-
cal unions delegation demand that
the A. F. of L. heads at the confer
ence call for mass violation of the in
junction and come themselves to lead
the picketing.
The A. F. of L. decision is a bit
of advice to the miners to care for
''the full observance of the law as
prescribed in the American constitu-
ton and to pay no heed to power as
sumed by those who are unauthor-
lied under the law to limit, circum-
scribe or repress their rights as citi-
xens."
Delegation Sees Fisher.
When the official delegation from
the conference today laid before Gov
ernor Fisher at Harrisburg the re-
quest for an investigation of coal and
iron police brutality, he merely waved
it aside with promise to look into
any new" specific instances of po-
lice brutality.
Fisher A Terrorist.
Governor Fisher has already an
swered another demand from union
labor for an investigation of charges
Of violence against the coal company's
coal and iron police Company thugs
uniformed and armed by the state
but paid by the coal operators) by
appointing one Mock, a captain of the
state constabulary to Investigate"
The captains report cleared the po-
lice of all their crimes, but made a
series of framed charged against the
miners themselves. Moreover, Lewis
himself declares Fisher to be a d.
rector in the Clearfield Mining Cor
poration, which is carrying on VIC
ious campaign of terror against the
miners in its territory.
Otis Militant Speech.
In spite Of the rough treatment of
Minerich, John Otis, delegate from
the Pittsburgh Central Union and the
machinists' union held the convention
for 20 minutes with a forcible speech
on the necessity of organizing the
unorganized miners on a national
scale, and not merely locally in Penn
sylvania, as recommended in the re-
port of the committee that was fin
ally adopted.
The speaker pointed out the neces-
slty for mass violation of the injunc-
lions, declaring that even Samuel
Gompers stood for violation and he
demanded that the whole conference
go out and break Judge Schoonover's
injunction against picketing.
For Labor Party.
Otis pointed out the immediate
need for organizing a labor party and
the complete bankruptcy of the A. F.
of L. system of supporting individual
candidates of the old tickets in the
face of the complete capitalist con-
troll of both old parties and the whole
machinery of government.
Green and Vol Reply.
His advocacy of a labor party met
with such applause from among the
rank and file present that Vice Pres
ident Matthew Vol of the A. F. of L.
and President Green of the A. F. of
L. both felt themselves forced to
make lengthy speeches in reply.
1t was after Otis speech that the
report of the special committee ap-
pointed Monday was brought in, re-
port in complete variance and contra
dictory to the loudly applauded speech
Of Otis. But it was the miners pres
ent as "visitors" without votes who
applauded Otis, and it was the high
official delegates from international
unions who voted on the report-the
same delegates who threw Minerich
out of the convention.