The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-15
THAT 3-YEAR
AGREEMENT and
ITS NET RESULT
Militants Must Unite for
Struggle
BY ALEX REID.

The three year agreement by and
between the coal trusts and their
employees of the U. M. w. of A., was
made for the sole purposes of stabili-
zing the coal mining industry. If any
doubling Thomases think otherwise
let them peruse the financial jornals
of Dec. 1923, and Jan. 1924, and ample
proof will be found recorded therein.
Every financial sheet was and is
screaming long contracts with the
unions that cannot be busted, and to
further their end, the Wall Street re-
representatives., "The ex-Britisher,"
Davis Of the department of leisure"
famed for his efforts to return work
ers across the sea who dare question
the methods he and his kind came by
their millions in blood money, came to
the miners convention to help make
more easy of accomplishment the
plans of his masters in Wall Street.
"the long term contract" to enable
the enemies Of labor more time to
throttle the aspirations of labor.
But to the everlasting credit of the
miners delegates, he was accorded the
scathing, rebuking welcome he so
richly deserved, and lined up with
this crew was the labor bureaucracy
even DESTROYS Of a longer contract
than that finally agreed upon.
Now, after one year Of the desired
sterilization, we ask, has the policy
shown any signs of success? Is the
miners lot easier? Where is the
promised prosperity? What are the
actual results? ~
Ask the miners whose digestive or
gans are "starvalized" about this sta
bilization. One thing is certain, they
have steadied the industry, fixed it,
so much so, that even the movement
of the hosting wheels have become
stabilized, steadily fixed, in one posi-
ton and revolved no more.
Miners travelling the country vainly
looking for work attest to the wis
dom Of the stabilizing process. Strikes
on every hand, open shop drives, and
militant membership explosions com
bined, are the sum total achieved for
the year.
One main reason for a three year
contract was and is the desire to
freeze out 100000 Surplus" miners,
and incidentally in the freezing pro-
cess it was and is the intelligent and
militant members who must be fro
zenl
II one year is not enough to freeze
them out, thru it becomes necessary
to have an extention of time without
contractual handicaps, three or four
year contracts that will provide space
to accomplish the end and get the
progressive miners out before they
succeed in opening the eyes Of the
miners to the reactionary policy OF
the leaders and thereby endangering
the fat salary and expenses Of the
bureaucracy.
William Green, the Gomper's econ
omist, lecturing to an eastern univer-
sity informs waiting world that be
guesses everything on the labor field
is o. X. and the unemployment ques-
ton he guesses, will right itself, and
further states his guess is as good as
anybody's.
This is a remedy "a guess" for an
outgrown economic system, for un.
employment of millions who have not
been paid enough to buy back what
they have produced. And this from
Green who owes his position to the
miners, the man now head Of the
Wall Street, A. F. OF L. Is 1t any
wonder we are the laughing stock OF
the workers throughout the world?
Brothers. organize in your locals,
show the membership the reasonable
policies Of the officials, educate them
TO the only sane policy for the indus
| try Naturalization and workers
control" OF the coal mines.
No help will ever come from your
leaders, they admit they are policy
bankrupt, you must help yourself.
Organized Organize your fighting
mine eommltteesl