The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
The Fight for the British Miners
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ain directly supports the employers.
'The latest reports concerning the
mobilization of the policy to protect
the strikebreakers give a special cor
roboration of this fact Some British
trade union leaders still do not or will
not grasp this fact, but every honest
proletarian knows perfectly well that
the conservative government is deter
mined to crush the miners at all costs.
British Unions Themselves Laggard.
"The situation of the miners, which
would in any case be difficult enough,
is worsened by the lack of sufficient
material support from the information
al proletariat and also from the lead
ers Of the trade unions in Great Brit
ain itself. This fact leads directly to
starvation and to inhuman sufferings
for the miners and their families.
81 believe that an estimation of the
whole situation shows that the miners
are now as before Isolated in their
struggle, despite the fact that the
leaders of the British trade union
movement declare that they are sup
porting them.
I'VE Do Our Class Duty"
"All these things together must
cause serious concern as the outcome
of the struggle amongst those who
feel themselves bouud.}with fraternal
bonds to the heroic struggle of the
British miners. We,A the representa-
tives of the Soviet labor unions, as
well as the whole working class of the
Soviet Union, are doing everything
possible to assist the British miners.
Up to the present the coppers of the
workers of the Soviet Union have been
collected and have resulted in a sum
Of approximately five million roubles
being handed over to the Miners Fed
GRAFTON of Great Britain.
I'VE do not consider that as any
thing very special, deserving praise,
for that was our simple class duty to
our comrades in their struggle. We
shall continue to do our duty in this
respect even more persistently and
theoretically than before despite the
calumnies Of the British bourgeoisie
which it pours over cur honest and
fraternal attempts to assist the Brit
ish miners in their struggle.
Must Have More Help.
1--WE are of the opinion that our
assistance alone is extremely little
and cannot make victory safe for the
miners, and for this reason we sug-
gested the calling of the Anglo-Russi-
an committee for the sole purpose of
placing the support action upon
broader basis. We wished to discuss
the question Of strengthening all ways
and means, material and moral, in
order to obtain support, in Great Brit
ain, the Soviet Union and also upon
an International scale.
Unfortunately as has already been
reported in the press 1t was not pos
sible for us to discuss these ques-
lions at the Paris session of the An
! glo-Russian COMMITTEES, which took
place about a month ago.
I'VE have discussed these questions
nav at the session of the Anglo-Russi-
an committee which has Just ended in
Berlin, in all their phases. If the re-
/ suit Of this session is not the imme-
diate support Of the British miners,
then we hope that every worker will
know that this was not our fault.
Until the delegation has reported
to the central council of the Soviet
labor unions l can give the press no
details concerning the sessions.
say with all clearness and wish to
stress the point, that the contention
/ that the Soviet labor unions wished to
dictate to the British trade unions is
a malicious calumny.
1.-THE British bourgeois press is do
ing its utmost to spread this calumny
and to break the fraternal bonds be-
| tween the British workers and the
workers of the Soviet Union. Those
people in the camp of the reformists
who are dissatisfied with the existing
relations between the British and Rus
sian trade union movements are do
ing the same. sC
Want Unity.
I'VE have often declared and de-
clare again now that all that the So
Wet labor unions want is to give fra
ternal assistance ands thus insure
joint struggle against the offensive of
capitalism. We are led by no other
desire than to see the establishment
of real unity inside the trade union
movement of the world
Workers Unity Must Not be Broken.
I'VE consider It to be our proleta-
rian duty to the workers OF the So
Wet Union and OF the whole world to
give our opinions Of the leadership of
the British general strike openly, but
we are convinced that the tactics of
the leaders can only be determined