The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-02

OOAA teduGE OF the IuluSEaS eslAu WAlOio
families of strikers in Ludlow. At the
foot of the Ludlow monument to their
martyrs the miners again have organ
lied for struggle. The shadow of
Ludlow lies over the whole state Of
Colorado, and in this shadow Governor
Adams, the progressive" is mobiliz-
ing the military forces of Colorado to
repeat, "if necessary" the Ludlow per
formance of Governor Ammon, the re-
dictionary.
Governor Adams was elected as a
progressive while Governor Ammon,
in 1914, was the open tool of the Col
orado Fuel and Iron Company, The
first working class struggle after
Adams election reveals that the
governor has changed only in
name. The servility of the gov
ernor Of Colorado to the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company remains I'M
changed. Capitalist politics is blessed
with two-faced Janus-head. When
one face is dfscredited, it turns the
other. A different face but the same
head; a different expression but the
same sinister purpose of keeping the
workers chained to the tread-mill Of
profit-production for the bosses.
Working conditions in the larger
unorganized mining territories of the
Rocky Mountain states are miserable.
The official, labor leadership aids the
capitalists in the maintenance Of
those conditions by doing absolutely
nothing to organize the unorganized
workers. This criminal inactivity is
even made the basis of condemnation
by the state authorities of the pres
ent elemental revolt of the coal min
ers Of Colorado. The acquiescence of
the official trade union bureaucracy
in the miserable working conditions
of the mine Slaves of Colorado is de-
clared an american" quality, while
the revolt of the workers against
these conditions is branded Gun
American" rebellion by Governor
Adams. The leaders of the strike,
who are members of the l. W. W.,
are branded professional trouble
makers, while the criminal inactivity
and open betrayal of the strike by the
reactionary officials of the United
Mine Workers of America is COM
Fnaended as the responsible action of
legitimate1labor unions"
All this blabbing about legitimate
and illegitimate labor struggles is
smoke screen for murderous
struggle against all aspiration of
the workers. The capitalists and
their retinua of presidents, gov
errors, judges, ETC., put the stamp
of approval and legitimacy on no la
Dor union. They do approve and le-
gali2e only the treacherous tactics of
labor leaders. If the Farringtons and
the Fishwicks and the Lewises betray
the miners of Illinois and the rest of
! the United Mine Workers they earn
the app9atlse Of the operators. But
this applause is for the traitors and
their treason and not for the union
they betray. In West Virginia, west
ern Pennsylvania, Ohio and other
places, the coal operator friends of
Lewis are now bitterly attacking the
Legitimate" u. M. w. of A, are ham
strtnging it with injunctions and are
! trying to destroy it by all means
within their power. No legitimacy is
/ accorded! No quarter is given to the
"Anerican" u M. W. of A.!-when il
fights. -,
/ Militancy is the prerequisite of vic
! tory in any workers struggle. 1t is
rnilitsncy of the workers that is fear
ed and hated by the capitalists. 1t
is the miljtancy Of the Colorado min
ers that earns them the condemnation
Of the coal barons. And it is the
militancy that commends them to the
sympathy and energetic support of
the workers of America.
! The workers of the Colorado mines
demand decent wages. Governor
Adams denounces this demand of the
workers as "un-Ameriean" and pro-
poses to answer the demand Of the
workers with the bullets of the state
militia and airplanes6 Against this
outrage of capitalism and its tool, the
governor of Colorado, the Workers
= (Commuuist) Party protests, and
pledges its unreserved support to the
striking miners of Colorado and to
their leadership. 1t calls upon the
workers of the whole country to pro-
test against the capitalist regime of
terror and to support their fighting
brothers in Colorado.
we call upon the workers every
where to organize mass meetings, to
protest against the mobilization OF
the forces of the government of Col
orado against the striking miners who
are fighting only for the most ele-
mentary rights.
We call upon all workers every
where to help defend the victims of
the treacherous conspiracy Of the