The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1926, Page 1

“Save the U on” Program No Wage Cut— Organize *he Non-Union F ields—Clean Out the Corruptionists—Nationalize the Mines—No Surrender of the Check-Off—Short Term Joint Contract for Bituminous and Anthre % OF o, cet Pu, cy Hea $0"ep 25 Yo sib shits “ep Per The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government ¥ Fp Bw Vol. Ill. No. 281. Subscription Rates: JOHN BROPHY REFUTES FALSE ‘STATEMENTS CIRCULATED BY ~ AGENTS OF LEWIS MACHINE (Federated Press) CLEARFIELD, Pa., Dec. 9. ~— John Brophy, candidate for president of the United Mine Workers against John L. Lewis, has released the following statement for publication in reply to statements contained in campaign documents circulated by ad- ministration supporters: Brophy's Statement. . The program which is the basis of my campaign for inter- national president consists of a number of constructive measures which I believe should be the active policy of the United Mine Workers. Mr. Lewis, the Journal and their cohorts have not at- tempted to discuss such issues, however, and their contributions bane Sten By T. J, O'FL4 AERTY Te amass wealth the only thing you | have to do is to get up early in the morning, swallow a cup of coffee | and a hard-boiled egg, get to the job | in time to have the clock punched and your overalls on before the whis- tle blows, owealthy “on this diet ask. Arthur W, Cutten of Chicago, who, with some friends cleaned up $10,000,000 in a taid on Baldwin Locomotive stock last | week. The slayes who are turning outsteel engines for the Baldwin-com- pany coutinue to raid the time clock. Cutten and company can now forget time clocks and think of Paris and other interesting places, ses ea he liked the Balmore spirit ten years ago,. Charlie Schwab, well-known stee] magnate, es: | tablished a plant there. He is so pleased with the result that he is will- ing to borrow money and give it to Baltimore. Schwab expects that city to eclipse Pittsburgh as a steel.center in a comparatively short time. In all probability Charlie will give more than gushy words to the city fathers as their good-will will be needed when his wage slaves some day will ask for more than fine phrases. Schwab made quite a hit with the reading, public after the war when it was learned that he had an expense account of several thousand dollars a month while he was working for one dollar a year for “his country.” oe * gy BARON without money -is not much better than anybody eise (Coutinued on page-2.) 41 ~memy Have If you, haven't grown |, +have been on irrelevant mat- ters, attacks on personalities and pure unadulterated lies. No Wage Reductions. For instance they are spreading jrumors that I have stood for wage | reductions. I have never at any time jentertained that idea, but have in the {past and am now fighting against any | attempt at wage reductions. The coal | operators in District 2 have repeated- |ly asked for conferences to consider the wage question, and every time I jhave refused even to confer with or ‘meet them about til the Teapmatioh- od As long ago as March, 1923, ;When Vice President Murray’s circu- \lar with its deliberate misrepresenta- jtions about me appeared, I exploded this whole plot to undermine my character and at a special district convention at DuBois in March 1923, I received a unanimous vote of cori- jfidence as to my attitude against wage reduction. Not a single opera- tor of this district has ever Violated the agreement without my either striking his mine or doing everything possible to enforce the contract, Any attempt to aceuse me of favoring any kind of wage reduction is a vicious and deliberate lie. Shows Lewis’ Sabotage. They periodically issue the ery of “red,” “Communist” ete., etc., altho records show that in 1921 when Mr. Lewis was aspiring to the office held hy the late Samuel Gompers, he made public statements favoring nationali- zation of railroads, mines, unemploy- ment insurance, etc. When Mr. Lewis talks thus, it is progressive. When any one opposed to him says the same thing they are “red.” Of course Mr, Lewis quickly dropped his pro- Bressiveness when he failed to be- come the president of the A. F. of L. {and no one has heard him make such (Continued on page 3.) 4800 MEMBERS ised on the Average $5.00 Each TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER! The Remaining 5200 MEMBERS. Must Raise Their Quota to Win the Fight FOR THE DAILY WORKER! Prompt Action to Give Quick Help Is Needed! Sell the Keep the Daily Worker Certificates! Rush in the Contributions E DAI Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00. per year. VOTE “SAVE TH ntered at Sevond-class matter 8 by mail, $6.00 per year, eptember SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926 1923, at the ost Office ut Chicage 'ds—Honest Elections—Democracy in the Union—Abolish the Operators’ Influence—Union Job Control—Support Formation of a Labor Party-—Hte- Instatement with Full Rights: of lex Howat and All Others Unjustly Expelled joe ait LY WORKE 0, Mlnois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Publish PUBLI =a UNION” T THE DAILY ton Blvd., ¢ ied Daily except Sunday by SHING CO., 1113 W. Was’ NEW YORK EDITION uM Price 3 Cents CKET “Save the Union” Candidates Ritill WINGERS Stop Election Stealing! An Hone. Election Will Defeat the Lewis Machine est election. nan “Save the Union” ticket. election and an honest count. election, these things must be harder it is for the machine election. strong box that can be locked, voting begins. the Pt, Bh ig, aors on. ballots, until the votes are counted, 8. See that the votes are votes correctly, down the count marks it correctly, count is completed, 10, Don’t let anybody “take with him, tained in them, MUST BE DONE. 13. THE RETURN ELECTION, Otherwise the 2. See that honest tellers are elected. ' vote for, Sample Ballot. OFFICIAL BALLOT NOTE: Place an X in the Square opposite the name of the person you desire to United Mine Workers of America For the Term Commencing APRIL 1, 1227 FOR PRESIDENT FOR DELEGATE TO THE The Lewis machine will be defeated in an hon- Vote for One. ; AMERICAN FEDERATION OF The machine knows this and will { ] JOHN L. LEWIS, Springfield mi. | LABOR CONVENTION make every effort, as it has done in the past, to {x] JOHN BROPHY, Clearfield, Pa. Vote for Fight. thwart the will of the big majority of the rank and file supporting the Brophy-Stevenson-Bren- ; FOR VICE-PRESIDENT { ] JOHN L. LEWIS, Springfield, Ul. Vote tor; One. { ] PHILIP MURRAY, Pittsburgh, Pa The interests of the union demand an honest { ] PHILIP MURRAY, Pittsburgh, Pa. [ ] THOS. KENNEDY, Hazelton, Pa {x] WILLIAM STEVENSON, Bay City, [ i ie Wisk Toba "B To prevent election crookedness, or to make it > Ogee eee as hard as possible for the machine to juggle the FOR Pree TARY TREAS. { ] ©. J. GOLDEN, Shamokin, Pa done: } THOMAS Mian sashes pa| { ] WILLIAM GREEN, Coshocton, 0 1, See that every member entitled to vote [x] WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, Scran-| [ ] WALTER NESBIT, Springfield, 1 casts a ballot. The more members that vote he ae | [ ] RINALDO CAPPELLINI, Scran- to “blue-sky ee [ ] CHARLES R. HARRIS, Herrin, Ml. ton, Pa. [ '. FAGAN, sburgh, P FOR AUDITING AND CREDEN-| [ } ”- 7 FAGAN, Pittsburgh, Pa 3. See that the ballots are cast in a good, TIAL COMMITTEE [x] JOHN BROPHY, Clearfield, Pa. Vote for Three. ‘ : SAM. PASCOB, F , Ti 4. See that the ballot box is empty when the [ ] JOHN J. MOSSOP, Bowdil, 0. sang rs Boao wisp We ey t] H, FISHWICK, Springfiel@, Ui [ ] 7. G. MORGAN, Linton, Ind. Bo rien ks. i 6; Don’t let anyone put anything but ballots [ ] ALBERT NEUTZLING, Glen Car- | [ ] G. W. SAVAGE, Columbus, 0. in or take anything out of the ballot box whiie bon, Il, [x] WM. MITCH, Terre Haute, Ind 3 xJGILBERT ROGER, Dowell, Ili. , Watiote: i | JAMES’ MURPHY, Cherry! Tt: {x} JOE TUMULTY, Springteid, 1. against cetciang* of the ballot box with, fake [x] CHARLES AKSOMET, Wilkes- [ ] JOE BOSONE, Billings, Mont. : {x] HARRY WADSWORTH, Daisy... |. } JAMES MORGAN, Cheyenne, Wyo. 7. Don’t let the ballot box out of your sight town, Pa. [ ] WILLIAM J. SNEED, Herrin, m. { } PAUL HINDLEY, Centerville, ‘Ia. counted correctly. WILLIAM GILLEN, Bicknell, Ind. WILLIAM STEVENSON, Bay y { J x See that the teller reading the ballots reads ithe { ] MICHAEL BERNOSKE, Exeter} City, Mich, See that the teller marking Boro, Pa. [x] WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, Scran- [] P. J. SHOVLIN, McAdoo, Pa. ton, ‘Pa. 9. If the ballots cannot be counted entirely [ ] ZIGMOND A. HANCZYC, Dupont, J. H. MORRIS, Albia, Ia right after the yoting is over, see that the ballot Pa. { 2 Ae ] DAVID WATKINS, Buffalo, 0. box 1s guarded by honest members “untilithe FOR TELLERS [ ] J. J. MATES, Williamstown, Pa Vote for Three EICO. g the ballots home” ADOLPH PACIFICO, Shadyside, O [ ] THOMAS HASKELL, Shawnee,0.}..-4 3, HINDMARSH, Riverton, Mil 11. See that the return sheets are properly f 1 ep he poaea: Mebene, Be T. G. LAWTON, Terre Haute, Ind signed and the correct count of the votes Js con- [x] THOMAS MOREY, Springfeld. m.| DAN L. THOMAS, Belleville, 111 12. See that the recording secretary ‘puts the [ ] JOHN WITKUNAS, Alden sto ] T. RADALJ, Rock Springs, Wyo seal of the local on the return sheets, THIS tion, Pe. [ ] J. GHIZZONI, Homer City, Pa [x] E. i eee West Frank- W. T. ROBERTS, Bridgeport, 0 SHEETS MUST BH pie wee FK, J. BENDER, Zanesville, 0 MAILED IN WITHIN TWO DAYS AFTER THH PR ae COONRY,. Jeanan,, Fe. WILLIAM STINSON, Oakland yotes will not be [ ] STEVE OWENS, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. tie WM, FOSTER, New Eagle, Pa sity, Tas Sone, | MACHING SECRETARIES HAVE ’ ; THOMAS CONNOR, Weet Frenk.| [ ] GUST FRITZ, Bellevite, m fort, Tl. { JOHN F. HOLLISTER, Shamokin, EE Pie A ies Tate The \\_ /SUPPORT THE “SAVE THE UNION” TICKET We Stateme O* Tuesday, December 14, the mem- bers of the United Mine Workers of America will be called upon to render a decision which involves the life of their union, The “Save the Miners’ Union” ticket, hdaded by John Brophy, is asking the support of the miners on a program which will enable the miners to recover the ground they have lost thru the re- actionary policies and leadership of John L. Lewis and his machine, John L, Lewis and the reactionary bureauctats who stand with him are fighting for re-election. Lewis and his machine offer no program to rebuild’ and strengthen the miners’ unton, They stand on the policies thru which the union has lost ground and has been greatly weakened in the fight against the coal barons to secure a higher standard of life for the work- ers. The Situation of the Miners’ Union, HE results of the policies and lead- ership of John L, Lewis and hig, machine are best indicated in fact that whereas)@ few years ago 70% of the coab produced in the United States NOT SENDING IN THD RETURNS WITHIN (Continued on page 3) ited Mine Workers’ Union Elections by the Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party | was mined by union men, today the situdtion Is reversed and 70% of the | col produced is mined by non-union miners, The members of the United Mine Workers of America have fought many splendid battles’ for a higher stand-| ard of life and >to maintain a unjon which could protect the miners against the greed of thecoal barons, Thril these struggles they succeeded in bringing nearly two-thirds of the work- ers employed injthe mines into their union, thus building an organization which could whip the coal barons on the fleld of battle, .« HSE gains of the miners’ union have been lost by Lewis. Under his | leadership and thru his betrayals of the interests of the miners, the union has been cut down to a shadow of the powerful organization it was in the past, Lewis made no real effort to or ganize West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, when the coal barons shift- ed production to these flalds in order to break the power of the union, Lewis botraye@ethe miners of the { ] JOB8HPH NIXON, Linton, Ind. | Connellsville coke region in the settle-) ment of 1922, altho these miners had jshown a@ splendid solidarity in coming out on strike, altho unorganized, with |the organized miners. Oi emo EWIS made a settlement of the an-| thracite strike which forces upon | the union compulsory arbitration, thus | robbing them of the right to use their, organized strength to enforce their de- mands tn the future, Lewis carried on a ruthless policy lof expulsion against all those miners who dared point out where his polictes were leading the United Mine Work- ers and to demand a real Aight in |the miners’ interests, Lewis expelled Howat because he dared fight against the efforts of the Kansas industrial court to rob the miners of the right to strike. Lewis “reorganized” and practically destroyed the miners’ union in Nova Scotia because it stood for a militant fighting policy and while it was in the middle of a life and death struggle against the coal barons of Canada, The continuation of Lewis" rule and (Continued! on page's) Pa. THIRTY KILLED AS DUST BLAST SHATTERS MINE 20 Severely Hart in| ™ Princeton Explosion (Special to The Daily Worker) FRANSISCO, Ind. Dec. 9.— At least 30 miners lost thelr lives when a violent dust explosign roared thru the mine of the Fransisco Coal Manu- facturing company early Thursday morning where 69 miners had enter- ed a few minutes before to begin the day shift after some 200 night work- ers had left, Twelve of the 69 have been res- cued uninjured. Twenty more were brot out seriously burned and have been rushed to a hospital at Prince: ton, nearby. Those still entombed are 286 feet below the surface and rescuer workers despair of recover- ing any of them alive, Tells Story. Jake Shafer, one of the last of the miners who reached the bottom, 300 feet below the surface, just ahead of the explosion, today, from (Continued on page 3) * ment strike, _ JOIN BOSS. WAR OH NY. UNION Sigman Supporters in Rand School Meet (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—The American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Asso. ciation representing the contracting cloakmaker employers of New York, have locked out 20,000 members of the Internationa! Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union on the same day that right wing officiais of 35 New York unions met in the Rand School to declare war on the left wing leaders upon whose. shoulders, as leaders of the gar- rests the battle against the new declaration of war by the em- ployers, Repre and union organ izers bo the same in the old agree- jment, or organi of all shops with fourteen machin: or more with a presinion that bu: ss agents have to visit shopss affected by a clerk of the tracto same ted t s of counci! of also included the prov ts cannot by a clerk The tor. ald inclu ents to vi tion, de clar union representat was im nent with the present un ation bhe- soause they were and wanted verything in black and white. He stated it was different with the “Sig- man bunch” and if it were not for the factional situation he said he would make public the fact that the Sigman administration was always ready to make an agreement that would sound good to the workers, but was, in fact when enforced, favorable to the manu- facturers hosses' in @ state (Continued on page 2) TAFT FLAYED IN HOUSE FOR ACCEPTING ANNUAL ‘DOLE’ FROM CARNEGIE (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Sharply criticizing the acceptance by Chief Justice Taft of an annuity of $10,000 a year from the estate of Andrew Carnegie, Representative Rainey of Illinois proposed to strike from the salary bill the provision to hie salary, Rainey told the house that much of the income of the Carnegie e® tate is derived from bonds of th® Stee! Corporation, ‘canon of ethics” pra pared by Taft himself, In which the chief justice declared federal judges should carefully guard against be- ing placed under obligations te Great corporations. association,