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ance men and bituminous miners join
the strike can the union be saved
from disaster, Reid declared.
Union Funds Used Against Miners.
In regard to the trial of the thirteen
zeigler, ILL.,, miners, he showed how
the funds of the United Mine Work
ers, thru the treachery of District
President Frank Harrington, are be-
ing used to frame-up these progress
sives.
They are falsely accused of assault
with intent to murder" in order to
force them out of the union, where
several have been elected to office as
champions Of the rank and file, and
dangerous opponents of the ku klux
khan.
Loeb Discusses "5oss" Unions.
That the betrayal of the workers
by union bureaucrats in alliance with
the bosses and the khan is but one side
of the shield used by American i'm
perialism to defend itself against or
ganized labor and to intensity ex-
ploitation was brought out graphically
by Moritz J. Loeb, business manager
Of The DAILY WORKER who analyz.
ed the growing menace Of company
unionism and the part which the t.
U. E. L. must take in combating it,
around which the evenings discussion
centered.
The last speaker, Jack tombstone,
national T. U. E. L. secretary, in re-
viewing the left wings mistakes and
achievements in the recent l. L. G.
w. U. and Furriers' national conven-
tons warned progressives against the
danger of allowing their successful
resolutions ito go to rest in the union
archives"
"The adoption Of progressive resoIu-
tlons by large bodies Of organized la.
Dor, the shift Of the left wing from a
minority to a majority in both local
and national unions, places a new
responsibility on the T. U. {. L. fore
ing it to reorientate itself, to change
from an organ Of propaganda and agl-
tation to an instrument Of action" de-
clared tombstone.
"The answer of the T. U. E. L.
must be to bring all workers into the
drive to carry out its program, with
the added duty of making this pro-
gram thoroly understood. Rank and
filers cannot continue to be merely
dues-paying members of unions con-
trolled by few officials but must be
fighters for the policies to which
previously they have given only vot-
ing support.
A Program Of Action.
Joint meetings of workers in diff
ferent unions must be called to go
over their common program, to de-
eide on joint action, to put the resolu-
tions passed into practice. Respon-
sibility must be placed on the rank
and file, drawing in all workers thru
shop meetings, formation of mass or
committees. Wherever pos
sible, campaigns for amalgamation,
for organization of the unorganized
and for a labor party, must be car
fied by the l. L. G. w. U. and the
Furriers into the Amalgamated Cloth
ing and the Millinery Workers unions.
Only by a reorientation of progress
sives from agitators to actionists can
a powerful T. U. E. L. be built"
Growth Of Company Unions.
That company unions predominant
in the heavy industries and are backed
by the biggest capitalist interests, by
Gary, Rockefeller, Armour, Morgan,
etc. was stressed by Loeb, who made
it clear that company unions origin
ating after the world war, came as
the result of the expansion of Amer
lean imperialism and the need for
greater exploitation of the workers al
home in order that more surplus
profits be available for investment
abroad, for exploitation of colonial
peoples.
From 225 company unions in 1919,