The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
Miners Head
LAUDS MANLEY'S
ZIEGLER SPEECH
Constructive Program
Offered Workers
BY KARL REEVE
(Staff Writer, Daily Worker)

paIgn manager of the Workers
Party, in Ziegler recently has
done much to crystalline the
sentiment of the ZiegIer miners
for unemployment relief, into a
definite plan of action, Henry
lCoFblshley, president of ZiegIer
Local Union No. 992 and dele
gate here to the Peoria conven-
dion, told the DAILY WORKER
today.
Manley, who spoke to 1900
people In the Ziegler City Park,
under the auspices Of the Zieg-
Ter Central Trades and Labor
Council, stressed the unemploy-
ment crisis.
ssYour unemployment problem here
as not a situation restricted to
ziegieE, or to the Southern Illinois
miners" Manley told the Labor Day
crowd. Unemployment has reached
huge proportions, not only in mines
all over the country, but in all the
Industries as we'll In Chicago and
all the other big cities, hundreds of
thousands of workers are walking the
streets looking for work.
sThe workers must demand that the
industry itself, In the case Of the
miners and the coal operators, must
bear the burden Of unemployment and
must pay unemployment benefits. The
trade unions must demand that indus
try, rather than permit workers to
be unemployed, must shorten the
work day so that there is enough
work to go around. Conferences of
the rank and file in the trade unions
must be called to discuss the prob
lem, and the government must be
called in to grant unemployment re-
lief"
Represent Wall Street.
Manley declared that Coolidge and
Dawes represented Wall STREET and
not the workers. He dismissed
Coolidge, whose only bid for fame was
that he broke the Boston police strike,
with a word. The so-oalled Dawes
Plan, .Manley continued, is a
means for the ensIavement Of the
German nation by American bankers,
headed by J. P. Morgan. The Dawes
Plan will lend to future wars between
the capitalistic nations in q struggle
for the world markets. 1t is signifl-
cant, that Ramsay Macdonald, the
English La Toilette, served as Nor
CANS lackey in helping to put the
Dawes plan over on Germany. The
Dawes plan gives the American bank
ers a strangle-hold on the govern
ments of Germany, Belgium and
France, and means that the so-called
labor government of Macdonald is
working hand In glove with the CAPT
talistic fnanciers. Macdonald has
sold out English labor to ]. P. Nor
gan"
No Real Difference.
Manley declared that the Demo
cratic party, headed by Davis, the
Morgan lawyer, was different from
the Republican party only in name,
both parties being under the thumb Of
Wall Street. "LaFollette, in reality"
Manley said, Represents the small
business men and the independent
manufacturers. notice some of you
are wearing buttons with rs printed
on them. LaFollette is a trust busting
advocate Of the Teddy Roosevelt type
But it is impossible to bust the trusts
Roosevelt made a pretense at it, and
failed. The Sherman antitrust laws
are violated or ignored. Some years
ago It was said, ''the Standard Oil
trust has been busted" But has it,
Today poor Mr.. Rockefeller is worth
over two billion dollars and the
Standard Oil trust is stronger than
ever before.
mo, you cannot bust the trusts, and
the days of 1875 are gone forever.
The workers and farmers must take
over the large corporations, take over
the trusts and run them for the use
of the workers instead Of for profit.
Manley presented the program OF
the Workers Party, which favors the
formation of a workers and farmers
government. He declared that the
Herrin conference Of coal operators
was a phase Of the effort OF the EN-.
ployers to break up the trade unions.
Gave Constructive Program.
"Manley's speech gave the ziegler
miners a constructive program to
solve their problems" Corbishley told
the DAILY WORKER. "Altho Ziegler
has elected only one delegate to the
Peoria convention, / represent sew
oral hundred militant miners. Il must
be remembered that tho the very To-
cal unions which most need unemploy-
ment relief, which need help and at
E=ntion, are those unions which be-
rause OF the unemployment have no
money TO send delegates TO the con.
vention. II Is these local unions
which we must think OF in our delib.
erations. Otherwise the strong senti.
ment among the miners for withdraw.