The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-31
BRITISH MINERS
PREPARED FOR
AFINlSH fight
Executive Moves Into
Strike Area
tspeoIaI . The DaIIy wocEerl

especial 10 me Datty Worherl
! LONDON. Oct 2e.-The striking
British miners WILL winI
This statement is not based on out
side opinion but on the expressed de-
termination Of the rank and file who
have refused all overtures and turned
down all advice that counselIed sur
render.
The entire executive of the miners
union has moved into Nottingham
shire. the weakest spot in the organ
ization, in order to be. as A. ]. Cook
puts it, "at the seat Of war"
! The government is pouring police In
to the mining areas and troops are
waiting for orders to entrain for the
strike fields.
! In the following remarkable inter
view to a representative Of The DAILY
WORKER, A. j. Cook, fighting secre-
tary of the miners, gave out the plans
of the miners general stan to carry
on the struggle:
"The Miners Executive, faced with
the decision of the districts, which
confirmed the resolutions passed at
the conference on May and s, have
set to work in real earnest to carry
out these decisions" said A. ]. Cook.
/ Arrangements are being made TO
meet the unions Of the safety men.
outside the Federation, to discuss what
action we can take with regard to the
withdrawal OF their men
at has been decided that the
executive should form Itself Into a
central general staff, or a council Of
| war.
ct has been further decided that
! 1t should utilize the services Of all the
miners M. P.'s and the miners leaders
in the coalfelds and of all those who
are willing to help in this campaign
to secure rigid adherence to the Fed
Feration policy, and to secure the with
drawal Of all the pen who have re-
sumed work.
Stop outcropplng.
They should secure the ceasing and
production of outcrop coal;
and to form once again a 100 per
cent fighting army for the terms
and conditions existing before the
I lockout.
Realizing that Nottingham Is one
Of the blacklist areas, the whole exc
cutive will meet there to do its bust
ness. and to arrange its campaign
right at the seat Of war, to use a mill
tary phrase, to be everpresent in the
firing line The executive will meet
there on Tuesday.
Miners Not Beaten.
This is to be an intensified. cen
tralized campaign to win victory. The
employers have now recognized that
the miners are not beaten, and the
general public, who are being ex.
plotted by paying high prices for coal,
will see clearly the necessity for press
ing the government to recognize the
justice Of our claims, and demand that
the government secure an equitable
settlement or resign"
Praised Russian Workers.
Referring to the return OF the
miners delegation from Russia on the
previous day, Cook said that all OF
them, including his wife, were loud
in the praises of the Russian work
ers, and we're expressing their disgust
at the decisions of the labor party
conference, and the refusal of the po-
liticaI and trade union leaders to rec
ommend the workers to have levy
for the miners.
"As my wife said TO me-" went o.
Cook "Mr Robert Williams has got
his just deserts by being defeated in
the election for the labor executive"
The action OF Mr.. Frank Hodges
and his confreres on the Interna-
tonal." continued Cook. 'in refusing
to allow the Russians to join has com.
PEELED us to consider the question Of
Immediately forming an Anglo-Russian
Miners Committee. We must cement
our friendship in a tangible form so
that we can cooperate in the future
to cary out the objects we have in
view.
we expect our comrades. the rail.
waymen and lockers. to refuse to
blaekleg by handling foreign coal"
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