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

The British strike its sixth month with British coal
production than 10 of normal proving that the
miners 100000 w have been driven back to the pits
by downright starvation negligible factor in breaking
the strike.
The stern endurance miners direct contrast to the
coardce eachey their leaders and the leader
ship the Trade Union General Council
desertion the miners by the calling OF OF ce
general strike the refusal institute embargo scab coal
Words words wordbut action from the official leadership OF
British contented itself with calling Premier Bald
win accusing" hihe spokesman Of the capitalist
class Of Britain-of aiding the coal owners.
OF course his job 1t his job when ne In
dued the trade union general the general strike
and lob now this he
is being aided by the British trade union Cook with
whining acceptance the Judas kiss Of the reacdona at the
Bournemouth congress, to Thomas and Macdonald
British industry is in desperate condition The beginning Of
November according dispatches will the transfer of huge
orders from plants other countries the coal strike is
not settled closed dozens of textile
mills unable pay the high price exacted by the thrifty importers
Of foreign
The BOurnemouth Trade Union Congress
strike It had only to show united front to the British gov
call for the whole trade union movement to refuse to
COAL the would have had capulate
British Imperialism at home and abroad is
desperate that it needs but determined stand by the work
ing class to bring it to its knees
But this is exactly what Thomas Pugh Cramp,
Cook Tne Purcell Of them with few
possible exceptions the upper afraid Of
They impeass spite of their brave words from
time time.
The miners must battle thru for another they viii
Perhaps they may not be able to resist entirely without
any except that Of scant financial support
capitalism which it will
page British labor history has been written than
records the betrayal Of the glorious struggle of the
likewise betrayal of the whole British working class
of the world There is who has
followed Britain but that knows that the
file of labor thuou the world thrilled and inspired
general strike they had not been since the Russian rvo
ready aid in had the British
Council issued the call for incorporating
support every front that the masses expected
Such eaey has fareaching effects and already it has
Generalization the ranks of British labor and
couraged the workers in other lands.
British Communist Party and the Minority
Movement unions would be in full retreat and the victory
Of British capitalism all but complete.
the organized left wing rally
ing struggles preventing desrton of the unions
preparing establish leadership free from the damnng
faint of British Imperialism
section of the British workers has said that the
agents British Imperialism in the ranks of the labor movement
whether they masquerade under left phrases like Purcell and Cook
the class like Thomas and Macdonald
go.
has entered period The end
strike will mark not end of struggle the reactonary
leadership hopes but the beginning of the fight to organize the
British movement for the struggle for power