The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
Trade Union Educational League Resolutions

/ the non-union miners are only wait
ing for an opportunity to unite with
their brothers for the common strug-
gle, but they have been practically ex-
cluded by the policies of Lewis & Co.
In spite of their comparative isola-
ton, the Colorado miners have put up
a struggle that has inspired the whole
working class, and thrown fear into
the hearts of the employers.
"The bloody suppression of the
miners in this present national strug-
gle by courts, gunner, police, cos
sacks, and militia, has been a new
black page in the history of crime of
American capitalism. Many miners
have been killed in the Pittsburgh
Ohio struggle; six Colorado miners
were slaughtered and 20 were
wounded in the wanton massacre at
Columbine. Thus are the traditions
of the miners struggles of the past,
of bitter suppression by the opera
tors and resolute resistance by the
workers, from the early days of Il
linois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, thru
the Ludlow massacre, the civil war in
West Virginia, etc, carried over into
the latest days of capitalist pros
perity' and expansion. But, while the
miners struggle just as heroically as
in the past, they are betrayed in to-
days struggle by a misleadership
worse than anything previously
| known in the labor movement.
"To save their union and to prevent
themselves from sinking into slavery,
the miners must remove their mis-
leaders and replace them with mill
tant leaders, re-consolidate the union
on the basis of inner-democracy, re-
store the broken-up district organi-
cations by drawing in the masses of
unorganized; aggressively reach out
into the non~union fields with or
ganization; unite the forces of blum
nous and anthracite miners with the
j agreements expiring simultaneously;
place the coal industry, in it's dealing
with the workers, upon a national
basis; move aggressively for the ma
tionaliZation of the mines; establish
the shorter work day; prevent all
wage reductions, sever their officials
connections with the capitalist parties
and move for the formation of a La
Dor Party.
"The strikes in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Colorado must be won. The
miners should conduct their strikes
militantly, violating the shameful in
functions and other restrictions on
picketing. The railroad men should
refuse to haul scab coal. The back
door conferences of A. F. of L. lead
ers with Coolidge and other enemies
of the workers has served only to de-
feat the miners. The strikes can be
won only by militant action of the
whole body of miners, supported ag-
gressively by the entire labor move
ment.
"All workers everywhere must come
to the assistance of the miners who
are in the front lines, holding the
union trenches against overwhelming
odds. Money in large sums must be
raised for the relief of the Pitts
burgh- Ohio and the Colorado striking
miners. The T. U. E. l.. calls for
generous and enthusiastic support of
the relief campaigns conducted by
Pennsylvania Ohio Miners Relief
Committee, Gil Penn Ave, Rm. 307,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
and by,
Colorado Miners Defense & Re
lief Committee, H. j. Childs, Secre-
tary, Z. 0. Box 81, Walsenburg,
Colorado"
Greetings to Mooney and Billings
"To Tom Mooney and Warren K.
Billings
1.-THE Third National Conference Of
the Trade Union Educational League,
three hundred delegates present,
representing militant section of the
working class, sends you warmest
fraternal greetings and pledges to
carry on the struggle for your liberia
ton throughout length and breath of
the labor movement.
Greetings to Colorado Prisoners :
Colorado Prisoners:
"The Third National Conference Of
the Trade Union Educational League,
speaking in the name of the militant
section of the working class greets
your heroic struggle and pledges its
support in your defense and it's aid to
the fighting miners of Colorado.
Pennsylvania and Ohio Miners.
"The Third National Conference of
the Trade Union Educational League
pledges its fullest support to the
miners and their families of Ohio and
Pennsylvania in their great struggle
to save their union and repel the at
tack of the coal barons and their gov
eminent.
Resolution on Labor Defense.
Every struggle of the workers for
better conditions of life and work in
the United States and elsewhere has
brought victims of class justice This
prison, the gallows and the electric