The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1925, Page 4

“ " Bo Vo 5 Page Four *3re-~—---- TEACHERS SEEK _ MORE WAGES IN NEW YORK FIGHT Governor Smith Vetoed Increased Pay. NEW YORK, July 8.—(FP)—New York City teachers are continuing | their fight for an increased wage scale that will bring their earnings up to the purchasing value of 1914 wages, “ William R. Lasher, chairman joint salary committee, says in announcing the teachers’ plans to go before the board of estimate. The teachers are demanding the scale of the Ricca bill passed by the state legislature but vetoed by Gov- ernor Smith. Representatives of the Teachers’ Union and other interested organizations protested to the board of education in a public hearing against the scale proposed by the superintendents, which gives the al- ready higher paid ‘principals, high school teachers and superintendents salary increases out of proportion to the increases given the underpaid elementary and lower grade school teachers. About 30,000 teachers are behind | the demand for a higher_scale. Germans Buy Soviet Horses. | MOSCOW (By Mail).—A group of | German businessmen has applied to the People’s Commissariat of Agri- culture for permission to purchase and export from the Soviet Union a party up to 10,000 horses for needs of German industry. WORKERS’ SCHOOL PUBLIC SPEAKING GLASS STARTS _ ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON NEW YORK, July 8. — Active preparations for the New York election campaign are scheduled to begin this coming Saturday after- noon, July 11, at 3 p m., when the public speaking class arranged by the Workers School will hold its first session. About 20 comrades have already registered for this course, which has the definite objective of pre- paring comrades for active particl- pation as speakers in the coming local election campaign. The class will be directed by William Wein- stone and will continue for eight sessions. Registration is still open. tf you \ pessess a general understanding of Ea Commupist principles, if you have commathd of the English language and a voice with some carrying power, join the class and become a member of that corps of speakers which is going to carry the Com- munist message to thousands of New York workers this fall. Enroll any time, day or evening, at Room 34, 108 East 14th street, or with the Instructor on Saturday afternoon. LOS ANGELES FAKER WHICH INVESTIGATION PROVES FALSE; JOB SHARKS THRIVING By WORKER CORRESPONDENT LOS ANGELES, July 8.—This woul been for a statement in an article wri treasurer of the Los Angeles County published in the Southern California Labor Press of June 26 in which he enumerate a number of laws which on the statute books, One of these is the law establishing public employment offices, in regard | to which he says: “Since the enactment of this law, private employment ~ THE IN CLAIM id not have been written if it had not tten by EB, BH. Lampton, bi gad i District Council of Carpenters and he claims organized labor has put offices have been compelled to com-+ pete with our free employment serv- ice ., . and now no one need pay for a job.” Same Old Stuff. I took it upon myself to look into this matter and find his assertion to be a lie, What I find is that men are forced to pay for jobs as* much as they ever were. There 18 no sign that private agenvies have suffered from competition from the lonely free | agency, but on the contrary, they are | more prosperous then ever, as.is best | proved by the fact that the majority | of them have moved to better loca-| tions and more spacious ‘quarters, while those workers seeking employ- ment have steadily increased. | There is more or less red tape con-| nected with the free agency in the SOVIET RULE RUNNING SAGHALIEN SMOOTHLY; ANTI-WORKERS LEAVE MOSCOW (By Mail).—The spe- cial commission which took over the Soviet territory in Saghalien has returned from the northern part of the island. They si that all anti-Soviet elements the place long-ago. Alexandrovsk was found to be in good order: the town has an electric plant, water piping, can- alization and a well-run hospital. The task of establishing Soviet administration in northern Saghal- ien was carried thru quite smoothly. shape of registration, etc., which is absent in the private agencies. They are all, free or otherwise, scab-breed- | ing institutions. This is so because Jobs obtained from them are practic-| ally always below the union scale, and conditions are inferior in every) respect. Working Both Ends. vidual started in connection with a pool hall, in the rear of an old build- ing on Spring St., a free employment office. This Nilow used to extol the virtues of the present system from a soap box and boasted of having shined shoes for a living. The main purpose of his spoutings was to advertise his pool hall thru the TRADE Her Wa It is common knowledge that the/¢reg jobs he was able to dole out, and private agencies split the fees with) he never forgot to try to impress the the boss, thus giving him an in-| crowd with his own greatness. centive for getting his help from them, Today he has a private employment even going so far as to firing per-| ofice occupying almost the entire sec tectly competent employes, or making | onq floor in a building on Broadway. life so miserable for them that they| | | are compelled to quit. | In this way both the agencies and the boss are profiting. This dne fact helps one to understand why compe- tition from the free public agency is negligible, why private institutions are doing more business than in previous times and even charging more for the jobs now than they did before the law was passed. All this is well known, but it does not bother Lampton, the provisional class collaborator, very much. If there is no better arguments in fayor| of organization we might as well quit trying to get the unorganized into the unions. | Can it be that the union officials do not want the unions to become strong | and effective? I am suspicious, Pretty Good Proof, The action of Muir atid Huteneson} in expelling 16 members in March, 1924, from carpetners’ locals in this city seems to point in that direction. Anyway, to, my mind, the carpenters) used good judgment when they voted) Lampton out of office in the last elec-| tion. | To show how far from harmful the | effects of the free agency have been} on the private agencies let me men- tion one agency which I know some- thing about, Some time before the war an indl- Farrington Proposes Pian That (Continue from Page 1) tampaign that would result in the complete wreck of the U. M. W. of A., not only in Illinois, but thruout the country. The Illinois unit of the U. M. W. of A. is the strongest numerically and financially, in fact is the backbone of the miners’ union, and this district if broken, would make it easy to destroy the other district organizations that are a great deal weaker in every way. The Farring+on attempt in the John- ston City affair is not something new to the miners in America, they re- member his convention declaration of co-operation with the coal corpora- tions; his advice to reduce the cost of production to be better able to com- pete with the West Virginia miners. Helping The Operators. You will notice in the enclosed let- ter sent to Mr, Texal Berry, secretary of the Johnston City local by Farring- ton, that he considers it wise and ad- visable for the miners to “do some- thing in Illinois to reduce the cost of production and enable the operators to meet the competition of the non- anion fields.” _He further states that he thinks 12c per ton reduction is too much, and Biggests 10c per ton sufficient. However, he aprpoved of a suggest- ‘2d contract/of 12c per ton reduction the details of which is enclosed in the following “copy of contract.” ‘Copy of letter from Farrington to the local follows and copy of contract that has been repudiated by the coal - Miggers. . Mr. Texal Berry, Secretary, Local Union No. 3192, fohnston City, Mlinois. “Dear Sir and Brother—In accord- ince with the instructions conveyed @ me in @ telegram sent me under late of Feb. 13th by Joe Noble and Robert Barron I opened -up -negoti: ions with Mr, D, W. Buchanan, Presi- jent of the Old Ben Coal Corporation soncerning the matter ‘of making an .greement that would allow the coal y to take over the drilling and extensively with Mr. Buchanan, he of- fered a proposal, copy of which is en- closed herewith, for the consideration of your members. I do not know of anything that would prevent us from entering into an agreement of this kind if we thot it wise and advisable to do so and we certainly must do something in Illinois to reduce the cost of production and to enable the operators to meet the competition of the nonunion fields. If the Illinois miners are to get anywhere near a fair proportion of work and maintain their present wage scale, afd if we can work out some plan that will help the operator without reducing the earning capacity of our men, it is cer- tainly our duty to do so. Personally, I think Mr. Buchanan is asking too much when he wants 12c per ton for drilling and shooting, but he contends his examination of a very carefully kept record shows that it has been costing the miners 12c pér ton them- selves to shoot the coal, however, it is my opinion that we can secure a re- duction in these figures by further ne- gotiations with Mr. Buchanan. I think perhaps I could get him to agree to accept 10c per ton, but I do not be- lieve that he could be inducéd to take over the drilling and shooting»for any less than 10c per ton, but I think per- haps, I may be able to influence him to do so notwithstanding the fact he contends and he has the records to prove his contention that it has been costing the miners an Average of 12c per ton to shoot the coal in the past. { Furthermore, I am satisfied that I could induce Mr, Buchanan to write a clause into any agreement that we might make in which the company would agree that a man shall have the opportunity of loading a stipulated number of tons of coal every day he goes into the mine, Sugaring The Pill, For illustration: I think that Mr. Bunchanan would agree that every loader who goes into the mine shall have the opportunity of loading at least ten tons of coal per shift or whatever number of tons we may agree to, This would not mean that a loader would only be allowed to load| years been supplied by Miinois coal] elects to do t Auite’ten tons of coal por shit, % wouldjare being taken away trom us by coal * It is a place where you pay, and pay dearly for the opportunity to go to work. A Business Without Failures, The free public employment office did not put him out of business, nor) has it hurt any other private agency. | It is a business without failures, at} least so in Los Angeles. | If this law had really been of such | great benefit to labor it would have | known to be one of the strictest in | been declared unconstitutional long ago. | A law regarding employment offices to be effective should have abolished them entirely, or made it a severely punishable offence for employers to get their help from them. If such a| law had not only been made, but also | enforced one could perhaps with | some degree of truth say: “. ., now) no one need pay for a job.” | That's Easy. | If it is true no one has to buy a job} because of this law, it is equally tre} {no one has to work below the union) scale of wages. Verily, Lampton is a smart man.) No one has to pay, look for a job, or| even work. We can lie down and die, | —or go to jail. Write the story about your shop | —Order a bundle to distribute there.” DAILY WORKER BRITISH OF BANBKUPTCY Adverse Balance of Huge Proportions LONDON, June 23 (By Mail).—‘“We have come to the point where we shall have to contemplate liquidation of our national assets and live on our national capital.” This is the conclusion reached by Sir Allan Smith,, chairman of the Engimeering and Allied Employers’ National Federation. In a statement issued, yesterday he said that the income available for in- vestment abroad—in other words, our trade balance—was £252,000,000 in 1920, £154,000,0000 in 1922, £102,- 000,000 in 1923, and £29,000,000° in 1924. “In the current year we have come, on estimate, to a position which, apart from war conditions, has not previously been reached. “Estimated from the result of the first five months, the trade balance in 1925 will be adverse to the extent of £ 26,000,000. Adverse Balance. “In this estimate, ‘invisible exports’ are taken on the same basis as in 1924, and with the slump in shipping freights and other conditions, the fig- ure taken is probably too favorable. “The fact of supreme importance is, that there is an estimated adverse balance for the current year which may turn out to be more than £30, 000,000 sterling. “We have thus come to the point | where we shall have|to contemplate liquidaion of our natipnal assets and live on our national capital. “If, therefore, joe is not done to revivify our export trade the result in time must be national bankruptcy. | “Obviously, we canjot €ontinue to draw interest on investments we real- ize.” . Rission | saad Will Be Shown on Pacific Coast The Seattle local censorship board, the country, has passed “The Beaty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls,” and the I. |W. A. commit- tees in several coast! cities are be- ginning arrangements |for the show- ing of these films im their section. The time and place of the Pacific coast showings’ will be| announced as soon as they aré definitely determined. Several hundred citiés| have enjoyed this rollicking Red comedy, but many more have yet made their arrangements. .. The a are avail- able. for-datds-tow ‘at almost any time, and-are alt in excellent condi- tion for running.» Applications for their use should be sent to the Inter- national Workers’ Aid, 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. Fire Kills 30 in Colombia, BOGOTA, Colombia, July 8.—Thirty bodies were found after a fire which swept Manizales 110 miles north of | that all of those in the park had been [MAJOR GRUBB DISAPPOINTED BY + INDIFFERENCE OF OMAHA CROWD TO HIS CALL TO ARMS FOR U.S. OMAHA, Nebr., Tuly 8—July 4th picnickers refused to enthuse over mili- tarization in Omaha, With a park full of people eating basket lunches and popping firecrackers, less than 200 of them could be coaxed to parade with an equal number of soldiers. A special appeal was made to them but they did not budge. They came to picnic, shoot off crackers, drink red lemonade or loll on the grass until the fireworks display. They simply ignored the military spellbinders and the marchers for imperialism. 1,000 Sign Up—330 March, A few extracts from the Omaha Bee and World-Herald shows the utter indifference of the populace. “Because only 330 persons marched in the De- fense day parade at Fontelle park yesterdya, Omaha's observance of the event was said tobe “disgraceful” by + Major D. C. T. Grubb, executive: offi- - cer of the committee in charge, and SOVIET UNION WITH y FINE HARVEST, WILL EXPORT MUCH GRAIN Major General. George B. Duncan, commanding the Seventh Corps area, MOSCOW (By Mail).—With the present condition of crops thruout complained: ‘If Omaha men had as much spirit as the women, we would have had plenty of marchers,’ says ‘the U, S. 8. R. above the average, this y arvest is estimated ap- proximately at sixty million tons. the World-Herald. The little group who responded to Such prospects materializing, it would be possible to export up to the muster day appeal paraded past a throng of thirty thousand persons. 6,000,000 tons (over 300,000,000 poods) of grain from the Union. Only a small percentage of these in- terrupted their picnics or their fire- crackers to witness the procession. “Altho one thousand persons sent post cards to defense day headquar- ters agreeing to march, there was not a man over 350 in the parade,” said Major Grubb in the same item. “Halt of those who did appear were from the army corps headquarters. “I suppose the truble was that the day was a double holiday, defense day and July Fourth, and too many preferred to go to the country on picnics.” === trees as spectators. About 20,000 persons, men, women and children, were in the park at the time of the demonstration. At 8:30, Charles Gardner attempted to lead the spectators in singing “America.” He met with response s0 feeble that it barely could be ek den aM Ne MANY BRANCHES | PASS MOTION ON GITLOW DEFENSE Promise Aid In Fight For Class Prisoners | NEW YORK, July 8.—The Dows Town English branch of the Workers (Communist) Party, New York City,’ has unanimously passed a resolutiont of support to Benjamin Gitlow in his‘ fight to win his freedom from the supreme court decision which wily send him back to Sing Sing if carried out. in party The resolution states, “Whereas Comrade Gitlow has r fused a pardon which would ieee Nfted the indictment under which h@ is now out on bail for violation of the criminal anarchy law of this state, and whereas Comrade Gitlow hag taken this step in order to make 4 test case before the supreme courg of the United States in order to ine validate the syndicalist laws unde® which various political prisoners ar@ under indictment thruout the coun try. “Be it resolved, that we congratue late Comrade Gitlow on the Communes ist fight he has waged and that the Down Town English branch pledge [twin Gitlow our ‘fullest supporg to win his freedom.” é (Signed) William S. Fanning, rev cording secretary. ee Similar resolutions were passed byt heard above the playing of the band. however, The major pointed out, welcomed thru previous newspaper | stories to parade in the defense test, without formal enrollment. Reviewing Stand Empty. The notables expected in the re- viewing stand did not appear, and General Duncan, Mayor Dahlman and a few friends deserted the stand to watch the parade from the side lines. General Duncan, the principal speaker at Brown Park, and John Lee Webster, the orator at Fontenelle Park, both pleaded for preparedness as the best means of defense against future wars. Bands and Singers Fall Flat. According to the Omaha Bee re- port, standards were abandoned be- fore the retreat parade began at 7:05, the standards of 10 units, scheduled to march, were abandoned, because there were no volunteers in them or because the number was so small that several units had to be combined to form a marching column. The Sev- enth Corps area staff outnumbered the rest of the marchers. The Moose band played the “Star | Spangled Banner” as the skimpy col- umn stood at attention and saluted. Then, the sunset gun was fired and the flag run down. The Moose: band, augmented by three members of the American Legion drum corps, which was to have been an imposing body at’ the head of the column, led the par- ade past the reviewing stand. Altho urged by army officers, the thousands of men in the park refused to join here. the march. They sat under shady Max Eastman Is Expelled from the Workers Party Statement by Central Executive Com- mittee, Workers Party of America. Just prior to his leaving for the Union of Socialist Soviet “Republics some three years ago, Max Eastman became a member of the Workers Party of America, and secured: cre- lentials as a member of the organiza- tion, Eastman has not maintained any connections with the party during the period of his stay in Russia and his membership in the Workers Party has therefore lapsed. The Central BExe- cutive Com@ittee of the .party feels it necessary, in view of the books written by Eastman, malingning and attacking the leaders of the Russian Communist Party and the Communist International that Eastman maintain not even the remotest connections with the Workers Party of America. Therefore, although Eastman has func- tioned as a member of the) Workers Party ‘f more than two years, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has adopted a resolution directing the branch of which Max Eastman was a member to expel him from the organization. Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America. } Wm. Z. Foster, » 4 Chairman, | C. BE. Ruthenberg, / Executive Sec'y, tunity of loading if he could load that much or if he desired to do so. The object in having that kind of a clause in the agreement would be to guaran- | tee the loaders a day's work at load- ing coal, when they went into the mine. Moreover, I am sure that Mr. Buchanan will agree to amend the tentative proposal that is enclosed herewith, so as to relieve the miner | of any responsibility for repairing any and all damage that may be done in a loader’s working place because of bad shots, I mean by that, that any damage that was done to a man’s working place by bad shooting, would have to be repaired by the company, or at the company’s expense. The Boss Is Worried! I have gone into the matter quite carefully with Mr, Buchanan, and I am satisfied that he would agree to amend the enclosed proposition as herein stated, but I do not believe we could get him to agree to anything more than I have told you in this let- ter. Mr. Buchanan seems to be rather hesitant and fearful about the com- pany taking over the drilling and shooting of coal because the company is assuming considerable risk as it would be a new practice and one which the company does not know much about so far as the cost of do- ing so is concerned but he has told me that if we enter into an agree- ment’on the basis herein outlined, that he will start up Mine No. 18 and do the best he can to make the propo- sition a success and the matter is therefore, referred to your members for their consideration, if they should instruct me to enter into an agree- ment on the basis herein outlined. I shall do everything in my power to protect the interests of our members in any agreement we may make, It is not my desire to influence your members on this matter but I think { should say to you that every day the proposition of the Illinois Mine Workers is growing more desper and work in Illinois,is growing le and less and markets that have for mean that he would have the oppor-/ coming from nonunion fields. Yester- day, the Peabody Coal Company shut down twelve of their mines in Illinois and that is only an example of what is occurring all over the state. At the present time we have hundreds of idle mines in Hlinois and this is the period of the year when we should be hav- ing our best work and the only reason these mines are not working is be- cause the operator cannot find a mar- ket for the coal and every day I hear of an instance where some Illinois op- erator has lost his contracts to the nonunion fields. And I fear the com- ing summer Will reveal the most des- perate experience the Illinois Mine Workers have gone thru, Therefore, if we can do anything that will enable the Illinois operators to go out and recover their lost mar- kets without reducing the earning ca- pacity of our members, it is certainly our duty to do so. ¥ Would Wreck the expense men to be known and desig- nated as drillers, and shooters shall have all qualifications required by the state mining law for shot firers, It is agreed that the operator shall be the sole judge of the qualifications of the men whom he shall employ as drillers and shooters, and also of -the number of men he shall employ. He shall be free to remove any man or number of men, from-this work at any time without explanation or cause, and to replace them at any time with any man or men he may desire, but any man or men from any local shall be considered as having prior- ity for.such a driller’s and shooter's position, and it is agreed that no mem- ber or members, or officers, of any local or district of the U. M. W. of A., shall object to any man or men being given drillers’ and shooters’ positions, and no such person, local or district shall in any way hinder the accept- I shall be glad to consult with and advise your members in any Way that they may desire concerning this very important subject Yours truly, (Signed) F. Farrington, President. Drilling and Shooting Coal. Fifth (a) It shall be at any time optional with the opérators to select whether the drilling and shooting of coal shall be done yy the miner or shall be done by tho operator in ac- cordance with the plan hereinafter outlined. Where the drilling and shooting is done by ‘he operator none of the provisions o the fifth section of the present sta agreement shall apply. And it \s ais wnderstood that all other sections ” the past agree- ments or records made pursuant to the provisions of sich section five, and which are inconsistent or in con- flict ofthis revisin of the fifth sec- tion of earlier &raments, shall be construed not t0 apply in any way to mines operatin: wnder the provis- jons of this revive) section five hereinafter provid.’ Breaking Ui The Union. (b) In all of the coal , ance of any man’s transfer card thru delay, thru attempting to charge ex- cessive transfer fee or placing of fines, or in any other manner not spe- cifically mentioned. The miner shall continue to be responsible for the care of the working place or places in the same manner and to the same degree that they have been liable in the past, and as provided in the state minii law. Should any miner absent him- self from his working place for any cause on any day that the mine at which he is employed works and the coal in his working place has been shot down ready: to load, then if in the judgment of the operator it is necessary for the safety of the work- ing place or for the economical opera- tion of the mine, to load out such coal, he shall have the right to do so in any manner he may elect, employ- ing the coal in payment, but in such his option at the scale provided, tak- ing the coal in payment, but in cush event the operator shall furnish the miner a working place the next day the mine works, Where the operator elects to do the drilling and shooting as hereinatter provided, he shall fur- nish and be free to, select and use whatever kind or kinds of explosive he may deem best ‘suited to the work to be performed a Re Rae - Operator to Have Own Way. (c) The operator may at his option determine and provide rules and regu- lations which govern the time of start- ing, the placing and firing of shots and all details of work to be done by the drillers and shooters. No such rules and regulations are to be inter- preted as inconsistent with the min- ing laws concerning shotfirers, and it is understood and agreed that nothing shall be done by the U. M. W. of A. to abridge this right of the operators or to interfere in any way with putting inte effect by the management of the mine of any such rules and regula- tions as may be advisable within the judgment of the operator. (d) All bug dust or machine cut- tings, when free from impurities, may be loaded out with the snubbings or other coal so as to produce a mer- chantable mine run coal. The above does not contemplate any change in the present method of handling bug dust or machine cuttings in Franklin County or at any other mine where it is necessary to load same out before shooting the coal, as a protection against explosions or fire. Where the operator desires the bug dust loaded out separately this shall be done by the miner working in the place during his regular shift at the regular tonnage price, and the com- pany shall furnish cars to load same. “It is further understood and agreed that the miners shall properly snub their places before the shots are fired and that all places must be properly squared up by the miners before they are cut by machine, The miner shall take up the bottoms left by the ma- chine, and the records and decisions now existing relative to taking up bot- toms shall apply the same as tho the miner had drilled the holes and placed the shots. Can Shift Men at Will, “(e) In order to better enable the operator to furnish to each miner an opportunity to load the turn of the mine, the mine management may at the Finnish branch of Frederick, S. Dakota (Emil Niva, secretary), an@ by the Ytalian branch No. 1, of the Workers’ Party (Gustavo Sgarra, seo retary). ™ Yow] Basket Picnic at Braeside Beach on Sunday, July 12 A novel way of raising funds t@ carry on their organizational camy paign in the many printing and book binding establishments in the loop has been discovered by Working Area Branch No. 1 of the Young Workers League. It will be a basket picnic to.be held on Sunday, July 12, at Braeside, Ill. Admission ticket for every girl coming to the picnic will be a well prepared and attractive lunch basket, Admission for the boys will be wil lingness and means to share the food with the girl who prepared it. In business like English, biskets will be donated by the girls and sold to the boys. \ The crowd going to the picpic will meet at 9:30 a. m. at the “L”)station at Wabash and Adams and from there proceed to Braeside. Braeside is a beautiful bathing beach near Evanston. ; Everybody is invited and urged to come. Watch for further~announce ments of entertainment and complete directions for stragglers, though everybody is expected to be at the Place specified above at 9:30 so as to insure a full day of enjoyment. rs’ Union ment will not move miners from one Place to another unless in his judg- ment of the management it is neces- sary to do so in order to furnish the men an equal turn or prevent men from being out of coal, the only mit that shall be placed upon the num- ber of men working after one mining machine of any type shall be the ca- pacity of the machine, and nothing shall be done by the miners either di- rectly or indirectly to limit the num- ber of men working after a machine. “(f) Where the operator assumes the work of drilling and shooting the ential of twelve cents (12c) per ton of mine run coal for all coal so drilled and shot, and in addition thereto shall be entitled to a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent in the yardage on all yardage work, and the remaining two-third of the yardage rate when paid shall in all cases be divided equally between the machine men and the loaders.” Farrington’s Treachery, The foregoing is but a sample of the Farrington treachery to the IIli- nois miners, and the militant rank and file who have refused to be be trayed are marked for expulsion, When the deal ‘was proposed, Free- man Thompson and John Watt, illeg- ally removed officers of sub district 4, Dist. 12, hurried to Johnston City and laid bare the treason of the pro posal, the miners immediately after- wards repudiated the proposal, and sent it down to defeat amidst their contempt and scorn, Thompson and Watt have been re- sponsible many times in blocking Far- rington’s treacherous proposals, and are rewarded todey by being expelled by Farrington and his board, The militant rank and fife in Mli- nois must rally to Freeman Thompson and John Watt, or the expulsion will be carried into every local union in the District and every member who dares to criticize Farrington, or his machine, or refuses to comply with his option move men from one work- ing place to another, as in his judg- ment of the management, it may be necessary, but it i8 expressly under- stood and agreed that the manage- the dictation of the coal company will be expelled, and no recourse will be had thru the organization as long as the Farrington gang of takers rule the union, " coal he shall be entitled to a differ. °