The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-20
FAKE LABOR
SHEET BACKED
BY OPEN SHOP
Pretends Friendship to
PrOgreSSiUeS
BY TOM RAY.

(Secretary Progressive Miners Com
mIttee, District 5, U. N. w. Of A.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, SPIT. 49, All
available seab herding agencies are
being utilized by the bankers, the
steel kings and the coal barons who
have now completely concentrated
their united forces in the long plan
ned effort to annihllate the United
Mine Workers in the Pittsburgh dis
trlet and drive union men from the
territory.
One of the foulest reeking scab pa
pers Of the country calling itself the
National Labor Tribune" published
at Pittsburgh, Pa, and owned and
controlled by the chamber Of com
merce, in its issue of Sept. 10, quotes
parts of the program advanced by
the Progressive Miners Committee of
the district.
Scab Sheet Under False colors.
II quotes these parts as the devil
quotes the scripture leaving out the
central and most important point,
namely, orr call to prepare for an &C
tive fight against tho attempts Of
the operators to enforce the 1917
scale and to destroy the union. This
scab sheet makes its own interpreta-
tons and proposes in almost every
one Of its articles that the miners
leave their union and go back to work
at reduced wages,
The National Labor Tribune is be-
ing sponsored by the Pittsburgh
chamber Of commerce with has
made great efforts to split District
No. from the United Mine Work
ers' organization. The paper is be-
ing paid for by the coal operators and
sent to as many rank and file coal
miners as can be reached. 1t makes
a pretense Of roasting the union Off
Gals while in reality making a dead
~ attack against the union.
Chamber of Commerce Pretends
Friendship.
No thinking coal miner has the
least bit of doubt about the inten-
tons Of the Pittsburgh chamber Of
commerce or for that matter, the
chamber Of commerce Of any other
city. 1t Is the awowsd enemy of the
mine workers and the working class
as a whole organized for the purpose
Of facilitating the exploitation Of the
workers
For the members of District 5, U.
NJ W. is no other choice but to fight
not only this splitting attempt Of
the Pittsburgh chamber Of commerce
hut all its efforts to destroy our
union.
ProgressIves Always For Union.
The stand Of the Progressive Min
ers' Committee has always been clear
1t has constantly worked for more
united and more powerful union. one
that can meet the enemy on equal
terms and that has been the endeavor
of all militant miners.
In this present situation where the
operators try 10 open one mine after
another TO be manned by scabs and
destroy union conditions, we demand
that the union officials take the ini-
alive to make active preparations to
resist the 1917 scale. We demand a
militant night against all the encroach-
ments upon our working conditions
and to inset the attack with an Of
fensive, a read campaign OF organiza-
tion to make every mine a union
mine.
Many Constructive Demands.
We have demanded and reiterate
that measures must be taken for un-
employment relief for the many job
less miners to be initiated by our
oficiaIs. The shorter work day with
no reductions in pay and compensa-
ton to those for whom work can
not be found to be pad out of the
industry and tho funds to be admin
Uttered by the union. We also de-
mand that the union officials cease
their disruptive policy OF expulsion
of militant membars and reinstate
those expelled.
Any union officials who refuses to
help in obtaining or who opposes
these measures which are needed by
the rank and file miners, we brand as
reactionary and traitors to those
whose interests they as officials are
pledged to serve.
But when the Pittsburgh chamber
of commerce tries to utilize our cri-
ticism Of the officials for its own pur-
poses to destroy our union, We de-
clare most emphatically that we have
known the chamber of commerce ever
since its inception to be the deadly
enemy Of the workers and we will
fight until it with all other capitalist
institutions serving to help exploit the
workers has been abolished together
with capitalism itself. A..