The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-12
Workers Write About tie Workers life
DAILY WORKER, CHAMPION or
The MINERS, We SALUTE YOU

all over the nation in every industry.
Hated and cursed by the trinity of
capitalists, labor takers and polite
ians, it is getting more influential and
powerful as each day passes. That
the workers will work their fingers
off for the perpetuation of The DAILY
WORKER is evidenced by the latest
drive when their paper faced a crisis.
NTHEN the anthracite strike came,
w the capitalist daily newspapers
of all America, some 5000 or more,
Immediately cast their line into the
camp of the operators. They defend
ed the companies, their attitude and
position in relation to the strike. But
one paper, daily paper, could be
found whose sole fight was in the in
terest of the rank and file, the ex-
preston of the membership of the
membership Of the Miners Union,
and that was The DAILY WORKER.
In this strike, when the progressive
miners initiated their campaign in the
anthracite fields among the masses of
the miners, every capitalist yellow
journal on the Atlantic seaboard
screaming against them. In their
fight for higher wages, better working
conditions, a minimum wage, for a
labor party, the six-hour day, and all
other demands they put forth the
progressive miners had but one friend,
The DAILY WORKER.
WHEN our mass meetings we're
w broken up by the police and thugs,
our speakers and comrades and sym
pathizers arrested, the progressive
miners found but one friend among
the thousands of daily papers in
America. While the capitalist rags
painted us as beasts and firebrands,
characterized us as "red vampires,
red wolves, "off-springs of degener-
acy," while they editorialized and raved
about us in headlines, urging we be
deported or sent to federal prisons,
The DAILY WORKER was in the
field championing the cause of the
progressive miners in their fight a.
gainst the capitalists, the coal opera
tors and the labor bureaucracy.
Alex Reid and the writer were sent
up on a six month sentence for IVA
grancy." The yellow journals thruout
the east commended the actions of
the lackeys of the anthracite coal
operators for this railroading. The
capitalist press in the anthracite see
thed with hatred for the workers who
were in prison. Several copies of The
DAILY WORKER were sent to us
there. The DAILY WORKER defend
ed our cause and placed before the
workers the actual story of what was
going on in the anthracite fields. None
can appreciate a friend and champion
more sincerely than under these cir
cumstances.
THE DAILY WORKER is an inte-
4 grail part of the working class
movement for freedom from economic
servitude. The DAILY WORKER, by
it's militant and fearless championing
of the cause of the exploited workers,
is recognized by the workers as their
paper, they will defend it, they will
work for it, they will keep it going,
they, the workers, will make this
workers paper a mass organ of the
workers of this country. Workers
recognize they must do this-recogn-
ize this effective fighter must reach as
many thousand others as possible
must be built and fortified to fight
their battles that are in the future.
The DAILY WORKER is our leader
our champion-in our fight for the
proletarian dictatorship.