The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-26

settlement on the operators
terms.
Demands for Relief Increase.
The breakdown of the local capital
list enterprises which depend upon
miners trade is proceeding by geo.
metrical progression-each week sees
double the amount of business cessa-
ton over the previous week. Among
the miners the number of appeals for
relief is increasing rapidly.
There can be little doubt now that
the coal barons intend to starve the
miners into submission. They hope
that as the strike continues there will
arise by economic pressure and pro-
paganda enough sentiment for their
terms to enable them to get support
for them from the miners themselves.
Officials do Nothing.
The union officialdom is doing little
if anything to counterfeit this disrupt
i've campaign. An incident which oc-
CURED in Local Union 1857 of Wilkes
Barre is Illuminating in this respect.
The strikers are now attending the
local meetings in large numbers, when
these are held-in itself evidence that
the rank and file are now taking a
deep interest in the strike.
At the local meeting in question a
resolution was introduced calling for
the organization of an international
strike relief fund, the sending out Of
a call fer assistance to all organized
labor bodies the prosecution of the
fight for the full demands of the
miners with renewed energy, the re-
lection of all arbitration proposals,
the calling out of all maintenance men
and a general strike in the whole coal
industry.
The local union membership was in
favor of the resolution but the travel
ling auditor, J. B. Gallagher, was pres
ent, and after the introduction of the
resolution he issued an instruction
that no more meetings of the local,
which has 1000 members, be held.
The local officials seem to be eager
to discuss everything in the world but
the strike.
Do They Pay Organizers for This?
At the last meeting Of Local 1862, a
large local with about 1900 members,
some 500 were present. The officials
showed up late accompanied by an
organizer named Gleason. Gleason
spoke in favor of the drive for the
community chest"-a class collabora-
ton charity movement-and urged a
days pay assessment for this fund
which is administered by the local
parasites, to be taken from the third
pay of the miners after the strike
was over He also asked permission
for the local officials to attend the
banquet which was to wind up the
community chest" campaign.
Both of these motions were repeat
edly defeated by the members but the
chairman finally declared them
carried.
In Local Union Isl some IS famil-
les have been given relief and one of
the coal companies was allowed to
employ 30 miners to repair a shaft.
The relief committeeman in this local
who examine each request for strike
pay receive $40 per day.
Always the mo Strike" Clause.
As this strike continues and the
defeatist propaganda of the operators
and their agents is intensified-many
Of these stoolpigeons even urging a
10 year contract with a no strike
clause-the fact becomes clearer that
the left wing, the Progressive Miners
Committee, has the responsibility for
the prevention of the loss by the
union Of the gains 1t has made since
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