The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
300 Mines Idle in Illinois


and workers perhaps from other in
dustries who have been forced out
because of depression therein.
Every industry in the land is in a
similar condition with UNEMPLOYMENT
The workers have not been paid
enough to buy back their products.
They have produced too much, so they
will have to e-capitalism's cure
for unemployment.
Weed us out; where will we go?
Many of us have been as long in the
industry as any of our officials. Does
the wedding out policy apply to the
otdcialdom also? If so, why don't
they put it into effect? We don't no.
tice any Of them have resigned vet
and what is more. they won't as long
as there is any mazuma in the treas
ury.
The wedding out only applies to the
workers, and a certain kind Of worker.
the militant miners who are exposing
the reactionary oficialdom. We have
to work to live, and refuse to be
weeded out. Rather we will fight on
for an equal share of the availabl;
work in the mines, and still demand
that our officials fight for an equal
division of all work in all mines for
all miners.
CONDITIONS in Illinois have
reached a crisis. Our officials
from the president down thru the
vice president, the district executive
board, the sub-district machine and
field workers, are in panic. They see
the awakened miners arising en- masse
to politically bury them. Their bloody
clutches on the miners treasury are
about to be pried loose. They see
the votes of 100000 miners in the last
election about to engulf them, and
they turn in their agony to their natu-
raj friends and allies, deception and
lying, constitution busting, red batting,
explosions, election stealing, and be-
trayals to the coal operators.
Right and left the workers are los
ing their conditions, lost thru the
traitorous decisions by our officials.
and in their haste to show the com
mon enemy their utter subserviency
to their interests, they even discard
their usual caution and veneer of
common decency in return for prom
ised bossing jobs with the coal opera
tors when the miners kick them out.
In preparation for the wholesale de-
livery many sub-district and district
officials have been supplied with first
class mine manager papers, even in
spite of the fact that some Of them
are totally ignorant and can hardly
read their own names in print, far less
work out problems in mine ventilation
and cubic measurements. And these
are the future mine managers whom
thousands of miners lives will de-
pend on.
rs it any wonder the miners of nli-
L nois are feverishly organizing and
SO much bitterness is shown in the
mass meetings taking place thruout
the state? The miners know what they
want and intend to have 1t. They are
demanding a special district conven-
ton to take up the question Of unem-
ployment and financial relief, and also
the irregularities of the last elections,
and out of this many believe and ex-
pect to see the downfall of the Illinois
bureaucracy.
Aside from this immediate situation
campaign for naturalization of the
mines with workers control, six-hour
day, five-day week, with unemployment
benefits from the industry and mini
mum weekly wage, etc. No one knows
better than the labor takers their
treason to the workers is at an end.
Proof Of that Is found In the fact that
they have received their bossing
papers,
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