The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-23
METAL WORKERS
OF SOVIET UNION
HOLD CONFERENCE
Raised Much Money for
British Miners Strike
Especial to The DAILY woRKER.)

Especial TO The DAILY WORKER.)
MOSCOW, (by mail) The 9th
conference confirms that the members
of the U. S. s. r. metal workers
union have completely fulfilled their
obligations with regard to the British
miners and by their active political
support and financial contributions
have realized the international solidar-
ity of the proletariat in deeds. At the
same time the Conference notes that
the Berne International of metal work.
ers has taken no steps for the organ
ization of assistance to the British
miners among the metal workers Of
all countries; the International made
no financial contributions to the fund
for the starving British miners and
their families.
The letter sent by the Plenum of
the &C Of the Soviet Metal Workers
Union to the International, in the
summer of this year, with a proposal
to open fund among the unions be-
longing to the International, remained
without reply or any practical results.
The 9Th Conference of the Soviet
Metal Workers Union wishes to en-
phasize that the Berne Metal Workers
International did not fulfil it's elemen-
tary obligations to the workers of
Great Britain. The Conference once
more appeals in the name of 100000
organized Soviet metal workers, to
the metal workers unions of all coun-
tries to afford support to those miners
who still continue the struggle in the
districts, and to those who have suf-
fered and are suffering from the fail
ure, thanks to the treachery of the
General Council and the Amsterdam
international, of the lockout.
The MWU contributes 10000 rpu-
bles from its funds to the fund for
assisting the sufferers and calls upon
the metal workers unions of all coun-
tries to follow its example.
For Real Units.
The MWU has always occupied and
will continue to occupy the position of
the fighting unity Of the international
trade union movement. In the great
struggle of the British miners, the
members of the MWU realized; as did
the whole organized proletariat of the
USSR, the achievement of unity in
deeds.
The Metal Workers international
has always been and will always be
the enemy Of international unity. It
showed this by its bargaining with
the reactionary leaders" of the Amer
lean trade union movement, who Joined
the international on condition that
this affiliation did not bind the Amer
lean unions to submit to the statutes
of the international, or to any demon
stratiOns of solidarity in support of
the workers of other countries.
For many years the leaders Of the
Berne International have demanded
that the MWU should acknowledge the |
statutes of the International and JUS
titled themselves before the metal
workers of all countries by pleading
their own lack of confidence in the |
MINUS real intentions to abide by the
Internationaps statutes.
The leaders of the international in /
America have completely exposed
themselves. They have demonstrated
before the whole world that the stat /
utes are of Importance TO them only
inasmuch as they may be used against
the revolutionary workers.
The 9th Conference of the MWU, in /
establishing this fact, summons the
metal workers Of all countries to the
incessant struggle for One Interna-
tional of Iron and Steel, for a world |
congress of metal workers, for the
united fighting front against trusti-
fled capital.