The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-30
Brophy's Open Letter

The machine the Workers faces the big
gest fight of it's career
The issues the campaign make the U. NJ W. fight
ing instrument of coal and
Of tool in the hands corrupt ofcialdom
by John Brophy opposing John L. Lewis for the presidency
open letter to the officers members of the
The Brophy raises sharply issues about
which the thinking long time The union is
danger That cannot be denied On all sides by
the capitalists
the unonied fields there systematic and
violations the agreement began the day after
it signed The coal capitalists correctly that the
genemens agreement with jacksonville to the
effect that 100000 miners be driven industry
small mines gave to close their mines
and the of starvation against the union
After this policy followed period which operators
believed long enough the miners submission
ens posted that the mines would the 1917
lower in
The Lewis machine has policy Likewise it
has permitted violations OF the and working until
the operators have established standards pecedents
agreement provisions
policy in the union fields the coal
operators association has encouraged the opening
West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and other
well stimulating production already operating there
This coal has been shipped the huge
quantities. has been sold at lower price than Undermined
the union fields gradually stranged
The solution for the organization of the non
level of the union fields ra.-a r.sn :. see.se
This obviously necessary program neglected almost
entirely by the Lewis machine 1t wasted million dollars
aborye campaign in Alabama which does compete
union fields when West Virginia and Kentucky fields
logical places to concentrate all efforts
Its socaed organization campaigns West Virginia have
been devoted to getting votes for the machine organizing
miners.
The expulsion of militant members of insisted
weOrganzd fight build the union organize
union fields has been deliberate plan consistently
the Lewis machine 1t has fought the
wanted the union prepare struggle it
fought the operators.
The anthracite disgrace Signed years
surrenders the closed shop and replaces it with arbitration
ready the Hudson Coal company largest operators
the anthracite field has challenged the union
ganize miners working in and around its properties
The President Harrington District
$4,000 tool of the operators the merely
members of the union.
shown by the fact that Lewis front with
the harrington machine against the membership
Organization of the unorganed naturalization Of the
mines with workers CONTROL characterization union desruc
ton of the coal capitalist influence union wage cuts when
the btumnous agreement expires anthracite
minous expire the preparation
union for struggle it, build it and strengthen the
ton of labor based the trade unions the
spots touched by BrOphy in his statement
The beginning of the struggle for fighting
which Bropys statement brings into the
Importance for the whole American labor movement
1t is the most carcut challenge basic issues trade
union movement thrown down
still powerful opposition in decisive affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
Every honest worker viii sincere and in
tellgent miner will support the program the