The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-10
MANN TELLS OF
MINERS SOLID
BATTLE FRONT
Veteran English Rebel
Writes About Strike
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work and to the members Of other
unions who were pump men, mechan-
les or specialists in any way to con-
tinue work to keep the mines In order
ready for a start when a settlement
should be arrived at, but as the fight
grew in intensity the South Wales men
at the delegate conference urged that
all safety men should be drawn out
spd all outcrop work stopped, too
They called also for an embargo on
the handling of COAL and a special
conference Of all unions to give ma
tional decision in favor of this.
Conference Called.
The new General Council Of the
Trade Union Congress, which is very
little different from the old council,
has been approached by the miners
executive asking them to take definite
action, and they have agreed to call a
national conference of union execu-
| lives on Nov. (about the time this
should appear in The DAILY
WoRKER). It is not too late even
now to take action against touching
coal, to obtain levy from all at work
equal to e15o,OOO a week, to resort to
effective pieketing to clear the mines
of safety men and conduct the fight
with the necessary militancy.
Minority Movement.
We Of the minority movement are
putting every available man in the
field to help the miners, well knowing
that government as well as the mine
owners and capitalists generally are
intending to make an onslaught on
other sections of workers should they
drive the miners to submission. Little
did they expect to find the miners
after six months fight to be as fxedly
resolved to continue, full of confidence
that they can last out and come out
on top at the finish.
The Miners International Fedora
ton has made a paltry show, and with
the ex-secretary of the British min
ers as secretary OF the Miners Inter
national we have the pitiable spec
tacle of this same person leading the
international in hostility to the British
miners, himself using arguments en-
tirely favorable TO the boss class, as
tho he were secretary of the owners.
Notwithstanding all this, plus very lit
tie financial help coming from the
United States, the miners and their
wives are fighting cheerfully and spir-
itedly. There is very little moaning,
even where there is serious poverty.
Miners Enter Elections.
In some districts the miners have
shown the good sense to get returned
to the public bodies, such as the
county councils, the boards Of guard
ians, the education committees, and as
members of parliament, and so they
not only check the 'mischieYous beha-
Yior of the boss class but effectively
control the public institutions in the
workers interests.
This struggle will serve and is now
serving to educate millions of workers
economically and politically, the les
SON being well rubbed in that, big as
this fight is, 1t is only one in connec-
ton with the great class war, and any
settlement made cannot be of a per-
manent character; 1T must be made
with consciousness that every coun-
try is going thru similar struggles and
must continue so to do until we have
finally wiped out capitalism and estab-
lished communal ownership and con-
troll of all industry. May that day
come quickly for the workers of all
landsl