The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-08-29


the Miners Union. The laws of the
United Mine Workers have been
made by the miners themselves, and
under these laws, which govern our
local unions, no action can be TAX
en- in support of any secession or
dual organization. No member of
any dual union can remain a mem
ber of the United Mine Workers of
America
The Miners Union fought hard,
and fought alone to organize this
District. 1t is an industrial organ
ization embracing every man who
works in and around the mines. 1t
is not going to surrender any of its
jurisdiction now and permit any
other organization whatever to op-
crate in the mining industry of Dis
trict No. 10. Regardless of the in
structions of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, we now instruct our
local unions to stop any and all ac-
tion in support of the organization
known as the One Big Union, which
is a secession and dual organiza-
ton.
We advise all locals and members
that they must enforce the Consti-
tuition that they themselves have
adopted, and any member of this or
any other dual movement, including
the l. w. W., cannot, under our
laws, remain a member of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, AND
MUST BE EXPELLED. Division
will bring only ruin and disaster to
our hopes for progress and better
ment; and We herewith serve no.
tice that all the power and influence
of District No. 10 will be used to
the uttermost to enforce the laws of
our organization, and to stamp out
secession and dualism and thus rid
our movement of the enemy from
within who would destroy 1t by
preaching disruption. Our members
when they Joined our organization
voluntarily assumed an obligation
which binds them upon their honor
TO ABIDE BY THE LAWS OF
THIS UNION; TO BEAR TRUE AL
LEGIANCE TO AND KEEP INVlO-
LATE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
UNITED NINE WORKERS OF
AMERICA; TO HAVE ALL NINE
WORKERS JOIN OUR UNION. We
call upon every loyal member to
now carry out his obligation and to
lend his full support to the end that
we, the Miners of District No. 10,
stand solid and united; and that we
jealousy guard and protect our af-
filiation with the great Information
al Miners Union of America;
wherein lies our only hope of secur-
ing for our members and their fam
lilies that measure of material ad
vancement and economic justice to
which the service they render to So
ciety amid the dangers of the un-
derground entities them.
Within a few short weeks our
Union may be called upon to make
the greatest fight of its history, for
fundamental economic changes vi
tally affecting the welfare of our
membership. At this hour, con-
fronted with this possibility, and
with the need for solidarity greater
than ever before, the man or group
of men who lend. encouragement or
support to division or dualism ARE
TRAITORS TO THEIR FELLOW
WORKERS, and more dangerous
than the combined efforts of all our
enemies on the outside. Self
preservation and a sense of loyalty
to the hundreds of thousands of
men, women and children whose
homes for the future are linked UP
with the effort that will be put for
ward by our International Union in
the very near future compel us to
insist that all efforts to establish
dual union in the coal mining in
dustry be put down firmly and
completely by those members of our
union who are in vast majority, and
who realize that the United Mine
Workers is the only organization
that can bring to the toilers of the
coal mines of America better condi-
tions of labor and life.
ROBERT II. HARLIN,
President, District No. 10.
BEN FARRIMOND,
Vice Pres, Dist No. 10.
ERNEST NEWSHAM,
Sec. Treas, Dist. No. 10.
The five packers" will tell us
what we shall eat and what we