The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10

the strike the Capitalist press rarely
mentioned II outside Of the immediate
location Of the strike itself.
Takers Praise Agreement.
The United Mine Workers Journal,
with a few sheets of the other bu.
reaucrats, are praising the settlement,
and clapping each other on the back
for the settlement. 1t is we'll they do
so, as they are the only ones that have
temporarily gained by the settlement.
The workers have nothing to be
thankful for as result of the settle
ment, as every miner knows he has
received the greatest betrayal in the
history of the union.
The mine owners are keeping silent
about the settlement, knowing the
least said the better at this time. The
miners officials are praising the settle
ment, and making a campaign thru
out the field to cover up the betrayal
On every hand the takers have their
agents busy trying to make the min
ers believe that they won a victory,
but the anthracite miners know bet
ter, and they have repudiated the con
tract already in many local unions.
Lewis to Washington?
We are not any surprised at this
attempt to cover up the real meaning
of the agreement. Any person who
has an inch of unionism in his make
up, and had any connection with this
betrayal, would want to cover up the
stencil, but it wont go down, even in
spite Of all the oratory and Shiny
articles from the takers. The miners
lost every demand they made. Not
one demand was granted to the miners
that they made at the June tri-district
convention.
1t is necessary that the capitalists
press keep quite about the settlement.
Their agent, Lewis, must not be en-
barassed at this time with a victory
claim by the operators. lewis is
slated for the department of labor, as
its present head is the choice of the
Wall Street crowd for governor Of
Pennsylvania or the U. S. senate"
And again the stencil of the settle
ment it yet too strong to add to it by
victory claim by the owners.
The hard coal miners are bitter
enuf against the agreement, and
against Lewis, without adding to that
bitterness. Yes, it is great deal bet
ter that the owners keep silent at
this time. Lewis must be given time
to jam the contract down the miners
threats. This cannot be done very we'll
with the operators claiming victory,
hense the silence.
Election Approaching.
The bituminous miners also must
be kept in the dark about the real
meaning of the contract, as the
miners officials, some of them con-
nected with the settlement, are look
ing for the International presidency,
when Lewis goes to the department
of labor. If the miners knew the
truth it would result in complete de-
feat Of the bureaucracy at the next
election in December, so a campaign
will be carried on from now until
next election to fool the miners and
Insure the election of the traitorous
officials.
The miners must be on their guard.
They must organize in their local
unions to insure the defeat of the
traitors at the December election. A
full ticket of Progressive Miners will
meet the coal diggers at the next
election, on a progressive program,
and it will be the duty of all miners
who have the interest of the u. M. w.
Of A. at heart to work for the election
of the ticket, that their union will be
once again the union that it was in
the days gone by, real instrument
of the working class instead of the
weak class collaborating excuse that
IL is now, under its present incompe-
tent, and treacherous leadership. Or
ganize for the progressive miners
program. A wage increase. shorter
work day and week, organize the un.
organized, national yearly agree.
ments, unemployment benefits, and