The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-04
.KLAN KLEACLES
SPREAD POISON
AMONG MINERS
Union Official Makes
Vicious Proposal
BY J. SNYDER.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Nov. 3.-The
United Mine Workers Of Iowa were
advanced sixteen years ago toward
the industrial idea of organization.
They were backing up many different
kinds Of movements and many Of the
camps were carried by the socialist
party at election time. MiIitantcy in
the union had to.b be tolerated by the
leaders.
Gradually there has come race div
ision, religious intolerance and red
batting" fostered by narrow-minded
preachers, teachers, labor leaders and
Ku Klux Khan knight gown brigades.
Now comes the anti-Klan organizer,
and in order to be good American"
he boasts that he helped put such
men as Alexander Howat out Of the
miners union.
Anxious for Message.
The camps used to be visited regu-
larly by travelling speakers of the radi
cal movement but now such speakers
seldom appear. The Workers Party
should have more field men out among
the miners. They are ready and anx-
ious to hear the real Interpretation of
the class struggle as it exists today.
With unemployment in practically
every camp in Iowa, the miners are
coming to see that something must be
done of more radical nature thaS
merely joining the merchants in the
slogan BUY Iowa Coal"
A United Mine Worker vice-presi-
dent suggested the other day in one
of the camps that the men pay fifty
cents each and insert an ad in in the
daily press to urge the public to buy
the operators coal. This the miners
refused to do as they felt that the OPP
orators were well able to do their
own advertising if they really want
ed to open up the mines.
Plot Against Union.
They are onto the fact that con-
spiracy exists to shut out the miners
unions and to turn all advantages to.
ward the non-union mines. Word has
reached them that freight rates in
West Virginia are reduced something
like 81 per cent per ton on non-union
coal, and has been raised about the
same degree in the central west,
where union miners are strongest.
The miners are also learning that
the coal operators were paid by the
government for opening up new mines
during the war, and that now these
new mines are being used to play
quits when any bunch of miners show
any spirit to fight for better cond1
tons. By having twice as many mines
as are needed, this is easily done. So
scarce has work become that when an
inspector thinks of shutting down a
dangerous mine, even some Of the min.
ers beg him not to do it as then they
will have no work at ALL Now they
are averaging only about fifty days a
year.
Strong Discomfort.
A spirit of discomfort, near to rebel
lion is arising in some quarters. There
is no dissent to the Workers Party
claims against the capitalist system,
nor to the claim that the government
from town marshall up to the United
States president is under the thumb
of capitalist organizations such as the
mine owners association, the mer-
chants and manufacturers associa-
tions, the chamber OF commerce, Mr..
Ford's enterprises and other great
combinations of wealth.
The miners are ready to listen. They
are ready to read and they need must
think and with the proper propaganda
they will act in unison for complete
change in the industrial, social and
political affairs of this nation and the
entire world.
1t seems to me that we must devise
some way to get more Communist
propaganda among the miners.
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