The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
Pictou, Nova Scotia,
Gets Place on Worlds
News Map for One Day
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY find Pictou Nova Scotia, the map of
the world 1t has been placed there by the yellow press
because provided temporary stopping place for the Amer
lean flyers put by Communist
press because stands for another front where mtancy
fighting reaction in the American labor movement What
widely different reasons!
The world flyers eptoize the latest most ambitious
fete of American mitas 1t has its Warshps of the
air around the earth.
Every American school boy will be asked to 60 around
His country is the ruler of the air. he will Jngosm
will be fostered in his youthful mind He must be prepared
for the next warthe war in the ar-were biggest
the fastest air fleets able to carry biggest
largest quantities of poison gas and to direct the most
powerful death rays against the enemy will win the victory
for the dominant capitalism.
The achievement of the flyers in grdIng the earth will
not be hailed as triumph for human progress It will be
used to symbolic the successful preparations
Imperialism for the great world slaughter deadly
more devastating than the last
1t only these world flyers touched at Pictou,
Nova Scotia that outof-the-way Potou is noticed
yellow press Suddenly the weather conditions about Pctou
become of worldwide interest. American warshps ride at
anchor in Pictou tarbor ready to any
telegraph cable and radio stations beseged by army
of newspaper correspondents The world must be told of this
victory being won in the game of murder
in and about Pctou there live thousands of coal
miners members Of the United Mine Workers OF America
They militant coal miners coworkers with the mtants
in the United States sympathzers with the Russian Revou
ton, struggling for the better day for all labor
These Pictou coal miners, in with those of all
Nova Scotia under the trying conditions have fought
alike against the reaconary rule OF the Lewis regime in
Empire Steel Corporation.
When Lewis arrogany used his power to reorganze the
district and unseat the mitans in office there great
temptation to withdraw from the organization 1t easy
just quit Ben Legere from 1.-THE States with his
Zone Big Union and offered the opportunity Of joining
harmless, isolated Sect
But the coal miners of Pictou fighters better fighters
in their struggles than the world flyers fighters for Amer
lean capitalism is easier to fight with the established
social ORDER with the crowd, than the
frontier of civilization and wage struggle for something
The Pctou coal miners, when they decided to stick in
the Miners Unon when they took stand against splits
and isolation won real victory for human progress They
aided the building of the of labor They did something
constructive for the worlds working class That why the
Communist press puts Picou Nova Scotia days
map of the world The action of the Picou miners
with the militant solidarity ofworkers everywhere
this American continent heralds better days for labor 1t is
the oreunner of greater victories of the workers struggle
against their masters 1t is prophetic of the day the
workers will win all power from capitalism, thru any
victory of air fleets but thru the triumph of Communism
capitalism thru the abolition of the whole social system
of robbery and exploitation of the employers and the
ing in of the new social order the Communist society.
Pictou is the worlds map for a day. But it
will be heard from again and again. in the days ahead, in
the workers struggle for power.