The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06


| not only deny them the check
off, but would make an effort to
totally destroy-the union.
Out to Crush Union.
The statement now made by the
spokesman for the hard coal owners,
that they will not accord any fur
Their recognition to theI union, and a
categoric denial of the other points
offered by Pinchot as d lbasis for set
Element, places the owners squarely
before the miners as determined to
wreck their union.
Let it be said now that the accept
ance of the Pinchot offer by Lewis
and his gang of treasury Ieeches in
the anthracite was a blazen effort to
cover up the results ofsa treacherous
policy that has aided the operators
against the miners themselves.
Nova Scotia Repeated.
The policy pursued in Nova Scotia
the keeping of maintenance men on
the property during the strike, which
action aided the Beast of Besco" to
defeat the miners, is again doing the
work, this time in the hard coal,
where the maintenance men are re-
pairing and caring for the coal COM
pany property.
This has placed the operators in a
position to be able to notify Pinchot
and the Lewis gang that they re-
pudiate any offer of settlement on any
basis other than their own.
The progressive miners pointed out
sometime ago that Lewis must pull
out the maintainence1 men in the an
thracite and call national strike to
save the union, and we venture to say
now, that had the union officials done
so, the Pinchot proposition would
have been more favorable to the
miners and would have been gladly
accepted by the hard coal owners.
Lewis stands in position today as
the head of labor organization with
an opportunity seldom given to any
labor leader Lewis has the power
at this moment to make the United
Mine Workers organization the great
est fighting unit in America,-the
power to concentrate the full power of
the miners of America in one gigant-
ic struggle for the miners wages,
working conditions and union to
break the open shop drive and organ
ize the unorganized = miners in the
United States. 3
Is Lewis a geader?
Is he big enough to meet the emer-
gency? Some honest but sadly de-
luded miners feel he is, and think he
will bring out the entire industry to
support the hard coal diggers and
save the Jacksonville agreement.
Had the miners militant leadership
at this time, which would call ma
tional strike, one of the greatest vic
tories known in the history of Amer
lean labor would be the result.
Would Bring Out Non-Union Fields.
$4,000 hard coal miners supported
by 100000 union soft coal miners
would not be on strike "a hours until
the non-union fields were with them
and victory assured. And what vic
tory would be, the organization of
the non-union fields of West Virginia
and Kentucky!
Lewis stands at ihe crossroads.
Will he take the road to victory thru
national strike, With browning glory
for himself, or the road to defeat and
contemplate, well.deserved oblivion
thru a partial strikea and arbitration.
The progressiveT miners demand
that Lewis call a national strike. We
pledge our one hundred per cent sup
port to make it a. success.
We demand no arbitration
We demand a national strikel
We demand a strike of the main
tenence men &S