The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-29
President Coolidge PIeases the Coal BarOns

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of Labor who appealed to him.
The coal barons hide their gee dispatch
from Pittsburgh the New York Times dated Nov 27 says
the operators ublant declared they had anticipated
such decision and also that consequently was NOI
sight (Our emphass)
The coal barons interpret the position Coolidge correctly
said that they proceed with their on the
union by and all means that any interference will be for the
benefit of the coal barons.
Crowdng closely the wires the dispatch quoted above
stating that damage suit for $00O00 to be
filed by the of western Pennsylvania against the
United Mine Workers of America The coal barons demand that
pay campaign of terror staged by the
police against and their families Prepa
ons for the damage suit began Immediately after the state
supreme court Iegaized evictions.
According officials evictions taking place faster
than the union build barracks to house the victims Winter
is here and food clothing shoes and needed
Misery stalks the mining camps Pennsylvania and Ohio
What are we to say of union officials
gency conference Pittsburgh Nov IA and adopted policy
whose main point appeal to President Coolidge?
Did they believe that Coolidge the erand boy of Andrew
the mu-milonaire dominates the of Penns
aa much the that Rockefeller dominates Colorado
would do anything to help the miners?
they believed this they fools who should not be trusted
with the fate of the labor movement.
If they that Coolidge would do nothing but aid the coal
they crime against the striking miners and
their families and against the labor movement by creating hope
which would be shattered and by strengthening faith In Wall
Street tool which is demoralzng.
Coolidge and the against charity for the
strikers Coolidge like the coal baron wants starvation to do its
work and Pennsylvania courts have said that relief of sort for
the strikers is illegal
Coolidge the federal and state njunctions
the coal and iron police with their guns and bakaks the coal
barons their allies Tightening the
about the neck Of the United Mine Workers and its members and
their families.
coldbooded calculation watch winter
take its toll they weigh with wachfu of food
that into the in the relief funds they send their
cossacks out harass the hungry miners
The governor Pennsylvania stakeholder coal
panes attorney for coal He the head and
front of the drive against the union Pennsylvania just Cool
idge is it's head nationally.
WINGED by this time that the in all its branches car
out the of the coal baron then is ncompe
tent and ignorant to guide the struggle.
government instrument of coal
barons and the Of the capitalist class then labor odom
aiding the the miners union and the of the labor
by discouragng nunctions failing
organize by advocacy of the support
ddates the tickets of the capitalist parties and by continuing
its fight the militant section of the union membership
Rank and file miners who demanded militant policy
thrown out OF the pittsburgh conference The labor officials
wanted be respectable at Pittsburgh They going
the President don't you see?
They have the president The president has spoken
Even John L. Lewis member of the republican national commit
who supported Coolidge the last election could get
fort from his liege lord
Official make they have
always hadthey fight surrender But past experience
teaches that fighting that will be will be by
the militant workers whom officadom trying
out of the labor movement.
The drive for miners relief go forward Mass violation
of nncons must be organized organization campaigns the
nonunon fields must be started and labor established for
the 1923 elections
The whole labor movement must be organized for the struggle
against nunctons The attack the United Mine Workers
only the beginning of drive against the organizations and living
standards of the American working in which the
plays its historical role of instrument of the capitalist
may only coincidence politicians in the borough of
Queens the for their official
testified that Queens paying for three
and four times much other boroughs We always had
suspicion that capitalist politics smelly business.
Now that they have captured the city of Reading Penny
wanna the socialists have manashon and confessed
that they not socialists at all but capitalist officials This
a off of