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

mediately provide at least four days
work week, the miners walked out
solidly taking the maintenance men
with them. John L. Lewis at once
wired Premier Armstrong that the
withdrawal of the maintenance men
was contrary to the laws and policy
of the U. M. W. But the miners paid
mo attention.
THE strike was on-a one hundred
4 per cent strike but from the very
outset it's leadership has been giving
all true working class friends of the
miners the gravest concern. The bour-
geoisie adopted way Of trying to
break the strike, in accord with a
changed situation. The directors of
Besco itself were unblushing in their
frank avowals of determination to
starve the miners out.
Vice-President McLurg Of Besco in
public interview openly declared
his reason for believing that the
miners couldn't win to be that "they
could not stand the gait" that is, star
walton. But the bourgeoisie as whole
worked more cunningly.
EIRST, there is an election in the
4 offing and military intervention
by the King government, would be
political capital for the tory opposi-
ton thirsting for the fieshpots of Of
flee.
The tories have already exploited
the Nova Scotia situation to discredit
the liberals. Cynical tory politicians
have slobbered all over the miners
and have demanded from King that
he send relief, knowing very we'll thai
he would take refuge behind the in
evitable British North America act
and that they themselves were let
out of dong anything.
NEXT, there is the genuine fear
l. among the middle classes of the
hold and progress of the ideas Of the
class struggle among the miners.
They have real fear and hatred of
the influence of McLachlan, of the
policies of the Maritime Labor Herald,
of the prestige of the, Communist
Party. They remember the applica-
ton for afiliation to the r. I. L. U.
And they remember the militant
strike Of solidarity on behalf of the
steel workers.
So the cry has gone up among them
as expressed by Canon Scott in his
letter to Premier King that the dis
trict must be saved from Bolshe-
vism." The method of capitalist inter
vention that has been adopted there
fore in this instance is not coercion
but throttling the strike with kind
Illness"
A HOWL suddenly goes up in the
1Acapitalist press and forums that
calamity has struck Nova Scotia. Re-
lief must be sent Immediately. The
capitalist game is to represent the
crisis as due to some sort of natural
catastrophe some earthquake or tidal
wave or famine disaster-a pure case
for philanthropy.
There was never word from these
same sudden philanthropists when
the miners of Western Canada were
starving as tbsy still are from the
effects of a FIVE sSonths' long struggle
against the western coal operators.
THE trade union bureaucracy has
l. taken its cue as usual from the
bourgeoisie. On behalf of the Trades
Congress, President Tom Moore dom
ated the paltry sum of $500 towards
relief. He visited the scene of hos
tilities gave it the "once-over" and
complacently returned to report in his
Congress Journal that the days Of
red" leadership of the district we're
over. Other than that S5O0-nothing.
This Trades Congress affiliated with
the Amsterdam International which in
the emergency of the outbreak Of war
is pledged to declare a general strike,
has not even convoked an emergency