The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
The Solidarity Of Labor
Is Developed Thru Wiping
Out All Nationality Lines
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL

"A Roosevelt, Wednesday, April IS. (By Mail from
CherbourG, France. This morning at two o'clock the
ship dropped anchor in Plymouth Harbor Plymouth,
England. But it not until a curously shaped boat
alongside out of the night-a mail tender-bult
to carry thousands of sacks of mail its flat top, that
one fully realized the shores Of a foreign land had
finally been reached after week of nothing but water
This realization thru the medium of the faces
and voices of different peope-the Englshmen There
fully two of them, under the direction OF
British postal officials at the receiving end of long
chutes that led up to the main deck of ship They
grabbed the huge sacks Of mall placing them in desg-
mated piles to aid in forwarding them to their separate
destinations. They joval and bosterous for the
most part at their work. these Englshmen.
Up main deck two members of our large
~ German revolved in huge, human Wheel almost
silently not but ominous touching the chues
at the boats railing the side, dumping its load and
then returning to reload from the mountains of filled
mail sacks piled in the decks center
No greeting did see hear, between these German
and English workers Altho the sides of the two boats
touched, these German and English workers might
well have moved in two separate, farremoved worlds
The newsboy came aboard from another tender that
alongside to take off the passengers bound for
London and other points in the British Isles. American
money good had merely crossed the border
into Canada, from Detroit Niagara Falls.
got copy of the London Daily Mail and found that
the Prince of Wales had only yesterday pressed the
button that had in motion the AZ printing press units
in its home in Northciffe House 1t all thoroly
covered in pictures.
But the itsm that should interest workers in the
United States, especially the coal miners, told of the
thousands of woudbe emgrAnts from Scotland to the
United States who have applied for visas in the Gas
gov, Edinburgh and Dundee consular 1t
stated that these consuates have waiting list of $4,000
applicants, than $4,000 of whom live in South
Western Scotland Scotands share of the British quota
viii this year be not than $4,000
But this migration is the and must be assim-
Hated by the working class in the United States largely
by the coal miners because into this industry much of
the immigration flows This is something for the coal
miners to think about, and to steel them greater
efforts in the struggle raging.
Thousands Of these Scotchmen coal miners who
will want jobs in American pits. Their funds prac
ticaly depleted. They will not have much more than
passage money. They doubtless in the same cir
cumstances the large number of Irish who to
the United States this its last trip westward
the Atlantic steward told me they were all
practically down to their last cent. They will work
They want jobs.
The standofsh attitude Of the Germans on this gov
eminent owned United States Liner, President Roose-
ve and the Englishmen the mail tender "Sr Francis
Drake support of capitalist class immigration
laws of the United States will help The solidarity
Of labor will.
In this series Of articles the coal miners struggle
cite the favorable position enjoyed by the anthracite
mine owners in 1885, when they managed to crush the
strike of that year largely because of "superabun-
dance of labor turnout the anthracite regions By this
time the southern European workers coming in at
rate which made their competition formidable for the
miners Of north European extraction who had be-
fore them. Differences in language and customs made
their assimilation difficult and their lower standards of
living and willingness to work for lower wages tended
to dsplace native" workers. Yet these same "immi-
grants" have later become of the best MEMBERS
and fighters Of the United Mine Workers of America.
In this respect the problem of the anthracite is also
that of the bituminous fields In fact the development
Of the struggle in the two wings of the industry have
been very similar
It may therefore not be out of place to recount some
Of the other features of this anthracite struggle in 1885,
that may be duplicated at any time in the present btu
minous conflict
At first the Lehgh operators had refused to consider
the demands of the workers for remedyng the evils of
the industry. As a result 10000 men went out on
strike. The Reading Company agreed to increase of
wages for its While working the Reading miners
contributed money to the support of the Lehgh strikers
But the Reading miners discovered that the Read
ing company supplying the Lehigh selling agencies
with COAL The effect of this would ultimately be to
starve the Lehigh strikers into submission in spite of
the support they getting, when the Reading
pany in its turn would reduce the wages of its miners
This is excellent example of the working the
Lewis policies in the present warfare between miners
and owners.
Refusal the part of the railroad workers to load
coal and to switch designated for Lehgh agencies
led the discharge of those who refused and brought
crisis with both the miners and the railroad work
ers of the Reading Company. The trouble tempo
rariy smoothed out, but because of delay in sending
the kilograms which ordered the to return to work.
many failed to report. The company had stipulated that
those who did not return to work at the agreed time
would be discharged and result 5000 railroad
were let out. On Jan. l, 1888, agreement having
been reached $4,000 Reading miners went strike.
The ensuing bitter struggle brought congressional
investigation The committee of investigators concluded
that the Reading Company had delayed the kilograms in
r1ar IN ptafo orr lQO hat fho Had