The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-18

shevism." To the same end Lewis
himself jorneys down directly to par
ticipate in the negotiations for a set
Element.
And what of the leadership OF the
strike, the present miners executive?
President Mcleod obtained his Office
by virtue Of support he received from
the militants on the district, who were
led to believe he was sincere sym,
pathizer Of the left wing program and
Of the former Observation-Disclosures
executive, deposed by Lewis.
NEVERTHELESS consciously or
IN unconsciously Mcleod has been
abandoning the road of class struggle
and has leaned on the charity and then
good will of the middle classes and
trade union bureaucracy. He went SO
far as publicly to deny that the pol
icies of his executive and those of the
Maritime Labor Herald under the
editorship of Jim McLachln, were the
same.
This is a one hundred per cent
strike but there has not been a single
mass meeting Of the men called since
its beginning seven weeks ago. The
maintenance men have been with
drawn but there has been no picket
ing of the maintenance men, the cor
poration has maintained.
.DUT the worst action of Mcleod
- and his associates on the execut-
ive-an action tantamount to a be-
trayal--and one, that evoked sharp
protest from the rank and file has
been his behaviour towards the $4,000
that the Russian workers sent in the
name of international solidarity.
The Mcleod executive had allowed
all relief activity to fall into the hands
of the bourgeois citizens committee
formed in Glaze Bay. The Russian
money was sent thru Jim McLachlan
to the miners and when he offered it to
the citizens committee, the gang of
parsons, priests, politicians, lawyers,
etc, who make it up fatty turned it
down on the ground that its accept
ance would hinder the public" from
giving. This was a bare faced piece
of sabotage of the class interests Of
the workers and internationalism. 1t
was an insult and slap in the face to
the Russian workers and the r. 1.
L. U. but neither Mcleod nor any Of
his executive registered the angry and
categorical protest that was due on
behalf of the miners.
THESE actions of McLeod's have
= evoked sharp warnings from the
Communist Party. The Communist
Party would not and will not do any.
thing that could be interpreted as dis
rupting the ranks of the miners at the
moment Of struggle. But that is pre-
cisely why it has not been able to
remain silent without warning the
miners of Nova Scotia against the
poison Of class collaboration and the
example Of Sherman in District IS
who was also once elected on a left
wing ticket and then went over to the
reactionaries.
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ultantly drawing its conclusions from
the moderate" tactics of Mcleod.
Whatever the outcome of the struggle,
the left wing and the Communists
have been thousand times justified
in their program when they demand
ed amalgamation, a clean sweep Of
the yellow bureaucracy from the Of
flee, when they demand Canadian
trade union autonomy, a Trades Con-
gress with real executive power and
international trade union unity.
WHATEVER the outcome of the
" struggle, the Communists and
the left wing continue to make the
naturalization of the mines under
workers control more of an issue than
ever before. The immediate program
that the Communist Party has been
propagating, mines naturalization, a
six hour day, a minimum wage and