The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01
pR0GPFSSIVE
MINERSDF U. S.
TO AID BRITISH
Significance Of Big Strike
Told by Reid
81 ALEX REID.
Secretary Of the Progressive Miners
Committee.

ground slaves of the English Isle are
standing with their backs to the wall,
their defiance flung in the teeth of
their oppressors. the coal barons of
England
The threat of the coal barons to cut
wages and lengthen hours when the
miners are already in a state Of semi
starvation finds the, railroaders, engi-
neers, machinists and shipbuilders,
lined up solidly behind the miners in
what portends to be one of the great
est industrial conflicts in modern CAPT
talist Europe. The British railroaders
are also threatened with a cut in
wages.
All Eyes on Britain.
The scurrying of the military and
naval lords back and forth to Down
ing street recalls to our minds the ac-
tons of the capitalists armed forces
prior to Black Friday. Tomorrow the
world will know the decision Of the
mining slaves and the probable re-
suits. The tying up of every coal
mine in Britain, the tying up of every
coal car on the railroad siding, the
refusal of the German and French
workers to ship pound of coal to be
used against the miners of Britain
during the strike. The Saar Basin
miners threw down their tools yester-
day, $4,000 strong and the French and
German miners are pledged to support
hA n,sfff c1, n3Y,n IN.
sibIe.
Premier Baldwin, the steel magnate
and Tory leader, may intervene to
stop the strike. The British govern
ment attempted to stop the last strike
and miserably failed as they will this
time. The miners failed the last time
they struck to get their demands
Their failure was due to the black
treachery of Hodges and Thomas on
what has come to be known as
"Black Friday"
No Treachery This Time.
There will be no Judas, Thomas or
Hodges this time to betray the min
ers, the miners have taken that power
out of their hands. The miners are
determined men in this, their hour of
prospective gigantic struggle. A bond
of common interest has cemented the
workers together, which has caused
the capitalists of Britain to tremble
with fear for their ownership of the
mines and other basic industries.
The unity of the workers in this
strike probably means the complete
overthrow of the private ownership
of the mines In Britain. Many CAPT
talists themselves in Britain have
stated that should the strike mature
it will mean the naturalization of the
mines.
The Royal commission, with Chief
Justice Sankey, investigating the coal
mining industry four years ago, rec
commended the naturalization of the
mines, stating that naturalization is
the only remedy for the mining situa-
ton. The miners have continuously
fought for that ever since, and are
very strenuously insisting on it now.
Fear Naturalization.
Fear of naturalization is seen in
the hurried meetings between the cap
italists, the first Lord of the Admiral
ty, Baldwin's Tories, navalists, mill
tarists, and the threat of Intervention
by the government. These moves at
this time are evidence of the fear of
the powers of England and the rising
power Of the revolutionary miners of
Britain.
The fear of the British capitalists
is intensified by the knowledge that
militant leadership has supplanted
their treacherous lackeys. The left
wing Of the labor movement in Britain
since the Hull conference in Febru-
airy of the present year has made such
rapid inroads on the British labor
movement as whole that today it is
practically debating its policies.
Every real labor leader in the world
today is pledging his support to his
British brothers. Very noticeable at
this time is the support cabled to
Hodges by John l.. Lewis, promising
to support in any way the miners in
ternational desired. The fact that
Lewis is taking this step is further
proof of the rising power of the mill
tant miners In America, exemplifed
in the Progressive Miners Committee
of the u. M. W.lof A.
Progressive Of U. S. Pledge Support.
The Progressive Miners Committee
salutes the miners OF Britain. We rec
ognize their struggle is our struggle.
We pledge you our support in every
way possible.
We stand unalterably for national
lzation of the mines, with workers
control. We greet the workers OF the
world. We acknowledge the greeting
Of our comrades and brothers in Rus
STA.
Long live the international soldar-
lty Of the workersl Long live the unit
ed front OF all workers against all
capitalist exploltationl
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