The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
Mules Do Not Lose Jobs
When Electricity Enters
Coal Mines of Kansas
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY electrical equipment dspaces II mules in the Kan
prison coal mines. Some Of them had spent
than decade working and living in the dark passages
underground
The Associated duly wires the country its
constituents that these working mules have been brought
to the surface introduced to the light of day. giving most
attention to their reactions follows:
black that below the surface
Justify
Urging failed bulge Tony until
him
"Duke years protested loudly; Shorty
calm and philosophical and jerry Of five SERVICES
ousy and shifted the spring air."
These working may we'll be happy. The electrical
equipment that has replaced them in the mine has not put
them out Of job They going to work the prison
farms. They will not join the army of unemployed.
There is another kind Of working mule" however
Workers often refer to themselves in jest working
mules This is serious reflection however, on the mule
The mule works he is forced to do, complaining bitterly
nevertheless He Of the most stubborn animals But
heard of mule being out of work. being forced
to hunt for JOB He is we'll taken care OF by his owner
sheltered and fed.
The working mule" in human form accepts easily
the life that forced upon him. He hasn't got the kick
against conditions that the real mule often displays.
Reductions in wages, the Iengthening of the wokday
and the too Often of unemployment easily
cepted In the mines, when there work the coal miner
Is out Of JOB his stop and his family begins to e.
Shorty Duke Jerry and the rest fed and housed
when there is no work for them.
Yet the human working mules" of Kansas have waged
many brilliant battles Under the militant leadership of
Alexander HoWat they have fought not only the mine
but also the traitor officials at the head of their
organization.
They have been forced wage against the capital
s state ITSELF that to the aid of the mine
When former Governor Allen put thru his state industrial
court act to prevent the mine workers from organizing and
fighting for their interests the miners stood together and
fought together until Allen and his slave act both In
the discard Howat and others to jail But they
their fight and they at liberty ready for future
battles 1sih1 ~ yror t7
If the coal miners of all other states militant
If they put their heads together and all heels toward the
enemy with the unity that displayed by the Kansas
miners then victory against oppression would be
"Work wages!" is slogan advanced against
employment Every employer halls that demand as pure
Boshevism But its complete fuIment would only put the
human worker mule basis. fse
provide for himself after him.
When out of work. mule gets living just the
would get than the mule receives.
is we'll for workers under capitalism consider thoro
y this huniating condition. Then they will only unite
soIidy in support of the demand Work rwages but they
will fight abolish the capitalist system that gives them
less consideration that bestowed beasts of burden They
will decide to out Of the dark pits of oppression and
greet the daylight of their emancipation.
Look at the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia for
instance They have decided to free themselves from this
capitalist depotsm. They have trumphed in their struggle
to become real human beings not to remain working
mules" forever.