The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-05
Henchmen Visit Mines
To Keep Anti-Lewis
Men from Meet
BY TOM MYERsCOUGH

PITTSBURGH, Pa-On January
gard, 1884, the Regular Biennial
Convention Of the U. M. w. A. viii
assemble In Indianapolis. If evidences
already found In the field can be
taken as q criterion, the Lewis forces
are very much on the Job, trying to
make it regular" from their under
standing Of the word, by trying to
have local unions turn over their
credentials to the District officials
who promise TO have the locals rep
resented and at the same time save
ths local the expense Of sending their
own delegates"
In Central City, Pa. (Somerset
County, the district officials have
made this overture, according to re-
liable information, and this in spite
Of the fact that Article II, Section 10
pg the U. M. w. A. constitution reads:
mo appointed emplOye of the or
sanitation shall be a delegate from
any local union other than his
own"
Talk about Expense"
The officials have informed several
ocais in this field that they can be
sxunerated from sending their own
DELEGATES and are encouraging the
local union leaders to apply for ex-
oneration, because of the expense
Involved, asking at the same time
that credentials be turned over TO
them when they will disregard the
constitutional provisions covering
delegates as well as the amount OF
miners money they will spend to
finance the delegates" they will
select. Particularly are they anxious
TO have such locals as are outspoken
against Lewis exonerated from the
need to send delegates. They know
that the miners in Somerset County,
rs well as those from WeStmoreland
and Fayette Counties, have not for
gotten the Lewis betrayals Of 1922.
Fail to Remit
AS a further means of keeping such
feared delegates out OF the conven-
ton. the officials of District 2 (Cen-
Central Pennsylvania have failed to
remit to the local unions this very
nominal share of the dues collected
and turned over to them by the coal
companies for the past month and
a half, on the more than flimsy ex-
cuSe that Everything is iumbled up
and they don't know which money
Ia from which local union" etc. The
foregoing alone, should compel the
locals to fight for compliance with
Sections No. IL and Is Of Article Ia
which specify who should collect the
-iues, as vel as make the apportion-
raentS Of same.
Az a result of the discovery OF the
reason for these tricks, several local
unions in Central Pennsylvania are
now fighting for the right to send
their own delegates, despite Their
previous acquiesence to the officials
desire that they apply for the assured
generation.
Political Rights
Another thing which must be fought
foe In the approaching convention Is
the right to ones own political free
dom, as guaranteed" in the very first
article OF the constitution wherein II
says, among other things neither
shah utilization herewith interfere
with the religious or political freedom
OF individual, members" ano
which is nullified in tie third ra~n-
graph of Section No. q, Article IA
wherein members Of the Communist
Party are prescribed from holding
membership.
Originally this paragraph barred
those holding membership in the Ma
tional Civic Federation, but, because
good plurns" can be plucked from
this orEanizationai tree (ask Matthew
VOID it was quietly washed in the
blood Of the lamb workers" made
''Holier than thou" and removed from
thu list Of organizations whose mem-
pers shall be expelled" and the Conay
rnunigt Party listed as one whose
members cannot belong and this de-
spite the fact that the Communist
Party Is the best champion and the
best fighter for and defender o.
workers rights.
Miners, guard your rights. Go K
Egne convention and so prepared &c
faxht to make the UM.W.A. the kind
al miners union its founders Ia
asnded It to be, a union that VIII fign'
for all that Is yours by right.
For further information, write x
noom 7O2, e2e Fifth Ave-. Pittsburgh
or 30 editor Of this paper.