The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-27
aid THE NOVA
SCOTIA MINERS!
APPEAL ISSUED
Call Goes to Labor in All
Lands
CONTINUED from page y

action by the Canadian Trades Con
gress, have made the fight keener and
harder in every respect.
All Aid to Nova Social
The miners must be supported by
the Canadian workers of all trades, to-
gether with the workers of the U. S.
Their fight is our fight and if they
are defeated It will be our turn next.
A militant struggle properly con-
Quoted must be continued and to con-
tinue it must be financed. All work
ers are requested to send financial
aid to the address given at the foot
of this article.
Masses and Mliltincy VIII Win.
Mass meetings must be arranged
thruout the district, the progressive
miners must desires the issues, and
call upon the officials to properly and
militantly lead the miners in the
struggle. Mass demonstrations, pa
rades," must take place thruout the
district, and militant, mass organiza-
ton of pickets thrown around the
miners in each locality.
The white colIared scabs tending
the pumps, representing the company,
must be stopped from working. And
it is common knowledge that no pick
cts can stop scabs from working by
merely smiling at them going past
Workers Lives Come First.
The company's property is not the
first consideration of the pickets, their
first consideration must be to win
the strike. The wages, conditions, and
the lives Of the workers themselves
| depend upon a successful outcome,
and human life is the first considera-
ton.
No aid can be expected from the
U. M. w. Of A. officials. We have at
hand a copy of the Miners Journal.
Nowhere in its yellow pages does it
even refer to the Nova Scotia situa-
ton. The miners can go to hell, as
far as John L. Lewis is concerned.
Lewis ParaIyzed.
While in Canada, John L. Lewis
kowtowed to the government officials,
complimented them in every way, but
failed to do anything or say anything
effectively for the miners.
The morale of the strikers is good,
but the tremendous pressure brought
to bear must eventually have its ef-
feet. The miners, with their wives
and families are starving, the com
pany stores are closed against them
and the smaller flores have likewise
closed and no rel i from that source
is obtainabIe. xaa
Mass demonstration, "parades" and
militant speaking at meetings will
help to keep up the morale of the
miners. ~
Soviet Unions Token of Solidarity.
The present disgraceful attack on
the Nova Scotia miners has brought
the sympathy Of the world to their
aid from far off Soviet Russia, the
unions have donated and forwarded
S5,O0O.00 to help feed the starving
children. This is a glowing tribute
to international understanding and
class unity, and brings the Russian
workers out prominently as the
worlds leaders In the cause of the
working class.
The present strike in Nova Scotia
against the 10 per cent reduction in
wages is one of many attacks by the
beast of Besco during many years.
and has resulted in the past, in de-
graduation, disease, starvation, malnu-
triton and death.
Die FightIngI
The conditions of the miners prior
to this strike was deplorable in the
extreme. Their living conditions were
down to zero, and as one militant
progressive miner said, at is better
to starve to death fighting for justice
than to starve to death working and
yet be unable to make living"
Thru all the years of bitter strug-
gle in the Nova Scotia field, the many
bitter betrayals of the miners by the
bureaucracy, the 1treacherous expul-
sions Of our old fighters, Jim McLach-
Ian and his colleagues who have stead
lastly stood in the fight for justice
to the miners, find them today in the
midst Of their Industrial battle, de-
termined to win, their slogan no "sur-
render to the beast" no wage reduc-
ton, has cemented them together in
a comradely bond that brings forth
the open admiration of the workers
Of the world. p
Send all donations to Joseph Near
ing, Box $50, cIace Bay, NJ. S., Can.