The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Red Rays

| THE nice governor Of Colorado has
decided that an instruction exists
around coal mine where the state
police killed five striking miners and
wounded twenty. Martial law is de-
clared and the troops under the direc-
ton of the democratic, liberal, gov
| ernor will shoot down more miners,
unless they bend their necks to the
yoke and their backs to the economic
! lash of their masters. Government by
/ the people, Of the people and for the
people! This is just what they have
in Colorado.
| Holm D. ROCKEFELLER continues
q to play golf and his sanctimonious
son, founder of the company union in
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
mines, continues to lay the corner
stones of churches and continues to
contribute millions to charity" II
| his thugs in Colorado continue to be
quick on the trigger he can afford
to continue playing the role of the
| generous, public-spirited citizen. Gov
eminent by the people, of the people
and for the people in Colorado means
government, by, of and for Rookie
teller.
| EVEN the murder of miners in Colo
- RADIO has not succeeded in pushing
the struggle in the bituminous coal
fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio and In
diana off the front page. In those
Ie+0+ l,o ,y,i, ;,J,,etx,xy
ting into its stride. What do you
think? In a certain district in In
diana the striking miners are pro-
hibited from attending church which
is patronized by scabs. What is to
become of the strikers immortal
souls? What the devil does the opera
tors judge care about souls? 1t is
regrettable that some striking miners
ere still under the influence Of the
sky pilots.
and John L. Lewis and William
IA Green made a big point of this
in their appeal to the president to do
something about the bituminous sit
uation. What is the country coming
to if strikers are prevented from at
tending religious services? No doubt
Calvin thot this was regrettable, but
no doubt he also thot of the million
dollar Mellon wedding. We must
have million dollar weddings, even if
a few thousand souls go to hell. What
was hell made for anyway, except for
proletarian souls that do not exist in
law-and-orderly bodies
BESIDES, what could strike-break-
- ing president think of labor
leaders who came to him with an
humble petition for relief for the coal
miners, but who, instead Of laying the
blame on the operators, blamed the
railroads? And it so happens, that
Tweedledee owns the mines and
Tweedledum owns the railroads. And
Tweedledee and Tweedledum are
closer than the Siamese twins. Cool
idge, the coal-owner's servant will do
nothing to help the miners. This
would be in violation of the principle
of non-interference in industrial dis
putes-on the side of the miners.
|
WHEN a young miner representing
" several locals-practically all the
live locals in the Pittsburgh district
got up at the recent conference of
labor leaders in Melons city, to de-
mand militant action, he was given
the buns rush out of the hall Fol-
lowing the meeting, Lewis and Green
crawled all the way from Pittsburgh
to Harrisburg to lay the miners case
before governor Fisher and after Civ
ing their belly-sores a chance to heal,
crawled to Washington to plead with
the president of the United States.
They crawl d figuratively, not
literally. They don't have to crawl
or even to walk. Lewis was wise
enough to increase his salary to $12,-
600 year at the last miners con-
ventlon. Green is serving the work.
ingclass for the same yearly allow
ance. They can afford to be SYM
pathetic and discreet.
If the labor takers expected that the
employers would permit them to
pose as the guardians of the workers,
even in effigy, in return for their as
sistance in fighting radicalism, they
are doomed to disappointment. The
capitalists are determined that the
workers shall have no other gods be-
fore them. The capitalists are short
sighted. They are not doing the
right thing by their labor lieutenants. Z
The liberal New York World, as slirny
a capitalist sheet as ever polluted a
cess-poo, points out that Rockefeller
erred when he drove the United Nina
Workers out of Colorado, thus leav-
ing the field to more radical or
ganization. This is what the World
says and perhaps thinks, but rebels
are made by oppressive conditions
rather by preambles.