The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
EDITORS NOTES
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ooes not IRAN residents for participation in govern
ment." Which means in frank language that life in
mill village is slavery for the workers. and nothing
short Of it. But these conditions are still waiting
Tor an organizing campaign to bring the workers
INTO the unions and to enable them to fight success
fully against this regime of slavery.
THE sinister angle in this move Of The southern
churchmen is the attempt to induce the employ
ers to organize company unions and by this to fore
stall the coming of real, genuine unionsm into the
southern mills. These churchmen complain of "tbe
general absence of labor representation in the fac
tories" and nnocently advance the idea that cit
would be helpful and desirable for employers to have
proper share in making and enforcing the regula-
tons by which industrial plants are controlled"
7 UNDOUBTEDLY, the first real attempt at union
- ization Of the south will make the EMPLOYERS
very susceptible to the plea for company unions
And 1T is reasonably certain that the trade union
reacuonarles VIII seize upon such opportunity
TO cooperate with the bosses to prevent the es-
adjustment Of real unions by planting instead some
acceptable to them modification of company union
ism. But the workers must not be fooled by anv
such proposition. They must fight for the thing
that they need namely, militant unions to fight
the employers and protect the workers.
is very essential that the nature of the develop
ing struggle of the miners be clearly understand
Hesitation in prosecuting the fight confused notions
as to its scope, will only weaken the strikers and
strengthen their enemies. The strike must be made
national bituminous strike. Only in a national
strike can the miners bring all the resources of their
power to bear in the struggle, and win the strike
Any lack of determination to extend the strike ts
full length any hesitation in making the tie-up COM
plete In the entire bituminous coal industry NAV
prove fatal for the outcome of the strike This
angle OF the situation miner should lose sight of
Tor single moment. The slogan of the progressive
and left wing elements in the miners union must he
made reality. NATIONAL BITUMINOUS
STRIKE FOR A NATIONAL AGREEMENT.
DOR the successful outcome of the strike IL is Of
decisive Importance that the unorganized coal
fields be struck quickly and fully as possible
The coal barons and the capitalists generally are
placing all their hopes on an uninterrupted supplv
OF coal from these fields. The miners, too must
centre their attention on this point All the re-
sources OF the union must therefore be concentrated
on bringing out on strike the unorganized miners
A MOTHER essential to be remembered is that the
fate of the entire labor movement of America
is bound up with the struggle of the miners This
Will be difficult struggle requiring the utmost
concentration of effort And it is a struggle that
must and win be won if the American labor move
ment stands by the miners and does its full DUTY
The of the miners is the cause of the entire
working class of the United States
TN this struggle the miners will meet the combined
opposition of employers and government assisted
by hesitation and sabotage from the reactionary
bureaucrats in the union. The government strike
breaker is sure to be the job, as ever to crush
the resistance of the workers But there is nothing
insurmountable in the combined power of the capt.
talists and the government if the labor movement
presents united front in support of the miners and
IL the struggle is prosecuted with the necessary
degree Of determination and political understanding
POLITICAL consciousness, understanding of the
role OF capitalist governments in the class strug
gle, and readiness to engage in political struggle
these are the things that the miners will meet and
will develop in the conflict. The movement for
Labor Party viii thus receive added impetus The
struggle for the naturalization of the mines will be
given more practical content and the labor move
ment as whole is likely to make considerable
step forward in the direction of more class con-
seriousness and more mitancy.