The daily worker., 1925-12-01
Whole Working Class
Must Realize Anthracite
Coal Strike Is Its Affair
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the mine barons whistle for courage at the threat
of the mine workers that the soft coal fields will come
sympathy with anthracite strikers entering
fourth month of battle At first John Hays Hammond,
leader of the anthracite mine claimed the strike
of the $4,000 Pennsylvania hard coal ggers could easily
be broken thru the of substitutes especially oil and BIZ
luminous coal Now the mine facing soft coal
strike put up the bluff that enuf buminous coal be
mined in the nonunon fields to supply the demands Of the
entire nation.
There are two big facts that the mine barons do not
admit publicly even tho they may realize among them
selves These Fff
First: That great masses of mine workers in the
ganized fields ready to strike In fact the coal miners
in West Virginia have been wagng brilliant struggles dur
ing the past year; struggles that still continue
Second: Coal supplies useless unless they can be
hauled the railroads the market bitunnous coal
strike would furnish opportunity develop sodar
y between the raroaders and the mine workers; in spite
of the officiaIdom.
In fact the anthracite strike that was called to better
working conditions of the $4,000 miners in small in
Pennsylvania may develop into nationwide labor struggle
Of great proportions
President John L. Lewis of the miners union forced
the mine owners into their present attempted bold front
Of the soft coal miners. 1t is said that Coolidge still
considering the letter from the mine workers president;
that he will have reply make to it. It is not expected
that this reply will be conciatory in the least.
AS usual Governor Pnchot of Pennsylvania, is again
trying trick the anthracite strikers into position where
they will accept compromise to the liking OF the coal
profiteers
Thus the anthracite strike developing into class bat
tie of major Importance The holiday atmosphere that was
claimed tor IT, early september, comPetey uSSpdLeu
the grim clash between the mine workers and mine own
rushes toward its full implications The so-caIed sus-
pension" becomes a strike of the first magnitude.
In this instance it is we'll remember that it the
miner mitants, of whom sent to jail by the ju
dca stool pigeons of the coal interests who urged the
that inevitably be taken in the strke it is to
become effective the calling of the thousands of main
still work. and the spread of the struggle to
the coal fields AS the strike continues the
tionary officials of union who join the bosses in
their redbatng campaigns against the Progessves will
be forced to espous of the demands that have
been by the mants since the beginning of the stug
ge
Thus the anthracite strike becomes more and more
the affair of the rank and file and less the affair OF the Off
ca who have permitted meetings of strikers and given
them practically opportunity their views poll
ces to followed 1t will also become the affair OF
the whole American labor The Atlantic City
convention of the American Federation of Labor passed
resolutions of sympathy. That almost two months
ago. Sympathy will not help the anthracite strikers very
much What they need the cooperation, in every possible
way, of all American labor in order to win the present con-
ict matter what its proportions become and then
press greater trumphs