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FOOTBALL AND UNIONISM.
(To tlie Kiiitor of Un> "Advertiser '')
| Sir.-A paragraph appeared m your if
I sue of Friday last, headed "Non-unionist j
; Footbailer." Tlx.' gist "t thn paragraph <s j
Itli.i1. the committee <>: tlx* JJeudigo branch]
! <?{ tli1 Minor-' As'sociati'-n have discovered i
[that the Far;leluiw]: Football < hill have a j
I man 011 their committee who a lion- j
! m.ionis!. and at last Thursdav's niectillu ot I
'the F..M.F..A. }lr. 0. I'rvor asked what'had j
! Ix en done in 1 lie matter. The president j
.'Mr. T. Un-lrsi said the branch could do 1
'nothing: officially, but if members of th'.'j
j<rmmitteo adopted a certain c.onrsc the i
tiouble would .-oon lx> over. Til eonvci s.;-|
tion with Mr. Hicks on .Saturday he ad-j
n.iltod that the paragraph was correct. ;
though lui had not read it. ile further
stated that IK- could not' attend tlie mutch's
of ;i club that had a non-unionist committee
man. though Ik- had n<> power fo str;
others attending. The eoncludinij part o[
1he paragraph quoted contains a veiled
threat unworthv of Jjiiti.-hers. piovidin<; it
means. as it appears- to us to mean, tiial
tiio Miners' committee should boycott i i»i- l
matches <>|' the football club. We do not |
know if all the 7\ri.".er.-' c.unmit.tee are oi
the same opinion as the president* and!
hesitate to think so. but it ib^es no', ap- t
pear that any of them made any protest I
apairsf* this unjust' proclamation. The |
F.M.K.A. committee should remember that'
t ht» .rate receipt-- of all F.aglohawk pre- |
laiership matched aie taken bv the Ben- j
di^o Football I-cag-no. wliich body by 1ho !
v. ay. was primarily responsible for the .sum-'
oC liemw raised last year in aid of)
the worn-out. mir.crs and their familiesT
The most amusing thins; about the niattc;\j
is that tii" man complaincd of in not a;
uen-u-iionist. thon"h lie i- not a. member
of t!io F.M.K.A. 'lie is IMr. F. W. (icakej
nndei ground manager of the Virginia Co. I
before and after the strike, and who a |
ieir years back was a fircmiuerA player in1
our team During the s.trikc he v.as
never molested, and on the authority of
Members of the strike committee be was
not asked or expeoti-d to cease work. It j
setms !:iV greatest crime was on one niea-j
Hi on to order this Mr (j. Pivor off ihej
lease, and another time, during the ab- ;
senco of the mine manaErcr. and under
! instructions to threaten «,.» <=ci;tl for the
police if .Mr. Jude did not leave ilie lea.se
Since the settlement of the strike the men |
aie working Amicably under ?.lr. Geake.
laud he was nominated for our commit lee
I by one of then;, and received votes out
| of a. possible fJ ill a. meeting containiag
i n large percentage of miners Does it
j l'ot seem a pity that while the men who
j le-t a lot over the strike are prepared to
[work harmoniously with the management,
the committee ,'eein air.vious to take the
. r-ialle-.t opportunity of stirring1 up mud.
Xo doubt thev have a high souse of dut .
as t» the principles of unionism, but
think most wople (unionist, included) will
agre<» that, the F.M.R.A. poinmitt Pi* ;iir
OTOisic-ppiiifif tiio hounds of f.n'r play ami
f-oinnionsonM', ami thai tlioir time would
IK* hotter 'j.-'):loy«i sfr-:*miLr n
'*niir.*c for tiioir own shin. On KaMor F*uii
<lay ni;rj|i tlu- P#orc,u<rh T>an<l are airar.oijjr/
to rfivt' ;i oonivH in r.icl- of ;ho Minor?'
Snsionl at it.ii I'uiici. thai Mr.'
OValir is on 0110 of 1 no ljandV conuniUt1^.
! !< will T>^ intPT<vtin«.r Ii, know if *; IK
ooHin.ii Ico "ivill Javor 1ho ^nihfrin^
v/itli 11tuir pro^nco thaukijiw1 vou in
j anticipation, ar^. on ]K*h;v)f of 111*1
| KfiHohawk Fooiball C'luJi roinniitfi
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