The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-29
TRIPLE ALLIANCE
OF Mine, RAIL And
MARINE WORKERS
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anthracite and the miners are deter
mined to fight for the wage increase
demands formulated at the recent Tri-
District Convention.
In this prospective industrial bat
tie of the anthracite miners, the field
of battle must be enlarged to include
the bituminous field. The social and
economic conditions of the bituminous
miners are even worse than those of
the hard coal men
Never in the history OF the mining
industry has a better opportunity pre-
scented itself for united action. The
miners of America are starving. The
British miners are on the verge Of
general strike The miners of Belgium
and France have declared their soli-
darity with the miners of Britain. A
meeting between the British, French
and Belgium miners is being called
on Thursday July %. to consider joint
action in the International struggle.
The British miners have arranged a
working agreement with the British
railroad men, transport workers, engi-
neers and shipbuilders for the pros
pective strike of British miners.
Demand No Scab Coal to Britain.
The American Miners leaders or
their representatives must be forced
to join this conference. We, the prog
ressive miners committee of the U.
M. w. of A., call upon the workers of
America to line up with their brothers
in this impending struggle of the work
ers Of Europe and America for better
living conditions. Already the state
ment is made by the American coal
mine owners that they will exploit the
situation created by the British strike,
and they are preparing to ship coal
across the sea to defeat the British
miners should the strike mature. This
must be defeated by all means and the
coal mine owners must not be per-
mitted to ship any coal to defeat our
brothers across the sea.
From far off Siberia comes the first
pledge to the coal miners of Britain
and the world. The Russian miners
promise that no coal will be shipped
to defeat the miners in any place, and
pledge to aid in every way the strik-
ing slaves of the picks.
The anthracite and bituminous min
ers of America, Canada and British
Columbia must stand ready to aid in
every way at moments notice. This
pending struggle is the concern of all
the workers in America and Europe. it
is an international struggle of the
workers of the world against capital
list exploitation.
No Compromise Of Anthracite
Demands4
The progressive minors committee
in the hare coal fegi5S demanded 25
pet cent increase III wages to better
their living conditions, $500 per day
increase for day labor and change in
several working conditions designed
to make life little less hard in the
mining industry. Coal is at present
produced at the mine for $500 per ton
and sells for $500 per ton on the
market, and the progressive miners
committee have produced the coal
companies statistics to show that
these demands are very conservative
indeed. The hard coal miners wage
averages about $4,000 per week.
Militant leadership of the progress
sive miners is developing and must
continue to develop for the carrying
out of our program, and the class CO.
laboration officials of nthe United
Mine Workers of America must not
be permitted to compromise our de-
mands as they have done before.
The government is threatening in
PREVENTION. We remember the inter-
vention of Judge Anderson and the
surrender of Lewis-"We cannot fight
against the government a time
when victory was in our grasp. We
remember the Boston police strike
and we know that the present govern
ment threat is but another instance of
the iron heel of capitalism.
For An lnter-Union Fighting Alliance.
The progressive miners committee
stand true to their ideals and program.
We will fight for solidarity in this
struggle that threatens the workers of
the country. We are the ones who do
all the suffering in these strikes, the
starving and the dying. We are the
ones who have to work and starve
while the owning class never knows
the pangs Of hunger. This strike must
be made national general strike of
the miners.
The bituminous miners must not be
permitted to scab on the hard coal
miners. "An injury to one is an in
jury to ALL"
We demand an immediate confer
ence of the miners, railroad and ma
rine transport workers to negotiate
an agreement for mutual aid during
the strike.