The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-27
MINERS RELIEF AND DEFENSE.
The First Order Of Business For The Labor Movement

At CentervIe crowd o gathered the mouth of
mine which had resumed operations under S. day
replacing the $3.50 scale the miners demanding.
The mob forced the mine by tear gas reformed
and had to be dispersed second time by FEW 1
WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE OVERCOME BY THE
FUMES AND LEFT BY THE ROADSIDE.
Special dispatch to the York Times
Des Mones, Iowa. Sept "a.
War being carried by the baron their gunner
and the government against the wives and children of the strk
coal miners against the miners themselves and against the
union.
The open mobilization of the armed state
governments the enlistment of federal judges and nunctons
has been carried rather slowly up to the present but with the
Saturday of the decision Of the Illinois coal
tors association to attempt to operations at SIS wage
scale, merciless drive on wide front will be started
Winter is coming The union miners have all been idle
the first of April many of them unemployed for months
before the strike There misery every mining camphe
misery that known only by workers. and the wives and chill
ren of workers. who fight with the stubborn other
class displays in spite Of hunger cold and nhuman attacks by
me mercenaries of the bosses.
southern and eastern Ohio where federal
nncton place United States marshas and their deputies
the service of the coal Pennsylvania the
state constabuary and the coal and IRON police armed
orays the strikers Iowa. where used ndscrmn-
atey women and children pckeng nonunon mines
illinois, where attempt to the mines under
scale from Walk $3.50 have been cut challenge to the whole
labor movemet of that great industrial state all def
nitely in the of open conflict.
The miners their families clothed Shell
ter must be provided for those who are eved Defense funds
must be furnished for the hundreds of miners who will be jailed
in this life and death struggle the United Mine
Union and prevent return to serfdom in the coal fields
Relief and defense work be organized national
scale The required enormous the struggle will
for months but every worker understand that only
life of the miners union at stake but all probability life
of the whole labor
The coal miners have been singled by the capitalists
bear the brunt of the drive labor The full purposes well
the meress methods of this drive apparent
coal barOns intend short of nothing the destruction
CT the United Mine Workers and will hesitate for
to invade the coal fields and them American imperial
ism has done in Nicaragua
The American working class if it fails the basic
Importance of this struggle decisive section of the working
class not drawn into the fight for the miners and
defense for the miners does become major activity the
labor movement if the utmost of which working
class capable is eXerd against the local
state and national will in smashed unions
cred wages and loss of political power
The United Mine Workers of America that splendid fight
ing industrial union which abolished serfdom the fields
has been brought to its condition by the corruption
action and ncompetency Of its official leadership Instead
strengthening the by extending morgan
lied fields the Lewis machine struck blow after blow
most loyal and militant elements of the barons
waited until they believed the sufficiently weakened
then began the present drive.
But the United Workers of America does not consist
merely Of the Lewis machine 1t is made up quarter of
million workers whose only weapon the union choice
IS the union slavery Slavery they will thou
sand battefields from Colorado to West Virginia testify
The United Mine Workers be and reorged into
an Irresistible of the miners The Workers
must be and can be saved in spite of the Lewis machine
Support miners relief defense Make it an issue in
every local union cooperative and fraternal society,"