The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-20


threat of the defeated machine.
Joe Angelo, secretary of the dis
trict committee, likewise urged IN
miners to stand firm with their bro
theirs in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Spread the strike" was the keynote
of the meeting. Rank and file enthu-
siasm rose to the highest pitch. Min
ers cheered at the mention of Alex
Howat, KANSAS militan leader anu
Corbishly. Allard and Rukavina, OF
the district Save-the-Union Commit
tee were likewise received enthusiast
tically.
Support was pledged to the Goal
Digger" organ of the Committee.
The miners were urged to elect del
egates to the National Conference at
Pittsburgh, April l,
Conference Supports Progressives
TOMBSTONE CITY, H., Marcn 10
-Seventy-one delegates from twenty
locals representing ,wenty Thousand
miners of southern Illinois held q
conference here yesterday morning
and voted to support the program O.
the Save-the- Union Committee. Amid
such enthusiasm as has no; been
shown in years at the prospect of a
new union dedicated to militant strug-
gle, resolutions were adopted calling
upon the Illinois miners o come out
on general strike in support of the
| panOcxrlxy min (0bio ,o,,,,a,.S
/ Fifteen delegates to the April l.
ave-the- Union Conference were
chosen and program was adoptec
to carry out he steps which viii
make the plan a success.
! Great Movement at Springfield.
f, SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, liarch 18. (By
MaiD .-One of the greatest mas
movements of the miners in recen,
years was dramatized here in Save
the Union meeting held Friday even
ing at which John Brophy, one of the
leaders Of the progressive forces, adj
dressed hundreds of miners on tn,
tasks before them to save the union.
Led by George Voyzay, who was
counted out by John L. Lewis of his
majority vote for the presidency OF
the organiza ion in 1924, hundreds o.
pringfield miners marched from the
Court House on the City Square to
the Slovenian Hall, to hear Brophy
speak. Voyzey presided at the meet
ing.
/ The Court House hall previously
engaged for The meeting had beer
closed to them in the last minut,
through the influence of the reaction
airy union district officials. The
Springfield Arsenal which had also
been requested for the meeting wa,
refused, evidently due to the SAINT
influence.
"Come on out, get organized anc
become real union men," some miners
shouted from the ranks CT tn.
marchers as they passed the Wabasl
freight offices and no iced a number
of clerks peelzing out their heads tC
see what the parade was about.
Keep Up the Fight.
Arriving at the hall the speaker.
John Brophy, Joe Angelo and JOIN
j. Watt mounted a table and tolt
the assembled miners of the cond..
ticns of the industry, of the uniol
and urged them to keep up the flgn
against the union smashing temp.
OF the operators and to free the unio
from the company influences exer
| nj nv I, nfF al II
| Bropny made searching analyst.
into the pre-. ent situa ion of the in
dustry and the union and very clearAS
put forward the program Ct tn.
-ave-tne- Z Mon Committee. He
sta ed that the acceptance of the
settlement in 1922 by Lewis coverin,-
only some parts of the field and Ieav.
ing over 100000 miners, who a shori
! time before had joined the union ane
/ had come out on strike with it, Il
shift for themselves was the greatest
betrayal ever perpetrated upon the
miners. These men, together with /,
total of 100000 other members, ha>
since been lost by the union due t.
the treacherous policies pursued.
at is to cover up these wrong
policies that the Lewis administration
from the top down is now trying
desperately to prevent by any ant
all means any discussion by tn.
miners of their union situation" sale
Brophy.
Lewis Political Traitor.
| Dealing with the Lewis politica
policy Brcphy asserted that during
he last presidential elections wher
even the A. F. Of L. endorsed the La