The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20

position to Glass Collaboration"
THE fruits Of class collaboration are
4 to be found in the recent convic-
ton of eight progressive miners in the
trial at Zeigler in Southern Illinois.
The party members have distinguish
ed themselves in arousing large num-
bers Of non-C Communist masses work
ing in the coal fields to the great
danger that confronts them in these
convictions.
We have a long road to travel yet
in order to achieve our goal OF con-
vincing these miners that it is high
time that they kick out the harrington
machine which is as much responsible
as the coal operators or the govern
ment of the county for the conviction
of these progressive workers. But the
fact that our party was at the very
center of these activities is the best
guarantee that increasing support will
be developed to secure adequate de-
Tense for these miners who have been
sentenced to serve in the state peni-
Tertiary from one to fourteen years on
the charge of assault with intent to
kill.
1t must be remembered that the Eel
gler trial is one of the most signif-
cant events in the recent develop
ments IN the American labor move
ment.
"Forty Miners Entrapped in
Burning Mime"
TNHE party has been strengthening
4 its influence among the coal
miners in Western Pennsylvania. Re
Gently when certain non-union miners
went out on strike. it was only party
speakers who could appeal to these
workers and succeed in getting these
workers to join the United Mine
Workers of America.
On one occasion, when the miners
we're burying one of their brothers
who was victim of the coal oper-
ators' greed for profits in the mine ex-
PACoAOhy TIC 4OCol ullOu III lll6 OCC-
ton of Pennsylvania called upon the
party Office to arrange to deliver the
address at the funeral in behalf of
the organized miners. These incidents
in themselves may appear small, but
in reality they are straws Indicating
which way the wind is blowing for
our party in this very important in
dustrial section of the country. It is
precisely thru active participation in
the everyday so-called small strug-
giles of the workers that the party
can sink deeply its roots into the
masses and thus establish its influence
over increasing numbers of the Amer
lean proletariat.
cleveland Forms Committee to Aid
Striking Anthracite and West
Virginia Coal Miners"
THE movement to secure relief for
the anthracite miners who were
in the struggle against their exploiters
for nearly six months has taken on
considerable proportions in the last
few weeks. In New York, Detroit and
Cleveland, our party members have
engaged with special vigor in mobil-
izing labor Organizations to come to
the aid of the heroic anthracite
miners. Realizing that the miners
will be in dire straits for a few weeks
yet despite the settlement, our mem
bership is continuing the miners re-
lief campaign with renewed vigor.
These efforts are winning new friends
for the party not only in the anthra-
cite field, but in other labor centers.
From the above it is clear that the
party is very much alive today. OF
course, there is considerable room for
improvement. The party must be still
more alive. Our party can never be
too active.
We are on the right road. Let us
continue to smash to smithereens the