The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-04
The Miners Are Demanding
a National Strike

to which he was rightfully elected that
he would have called national strike
for national settlement and all of
the non-union miners would have re-
sponded; they have faith and con-
fidence that they would not have been
left out in the cold as they were left
in 1922.
Today Lewis and his henchmen have
not the faith and confidence of the
rank and file berause the miners feel
<tbat Lewis and his henchmen are not
capable of leading the miners any
longer, the miners sentiment towards
them is that they have mislead them
long enough, they now want true
leaders.
This fact has manifested itself III
the last election of the miners
union when the miners who did go
to vote, voted for Brophy and the
ones who did not vote, because they
saw Lewis steal elections felt it was
no use to vote; then the Lewis ma
chine voted them anyway also adding
for themselves 50 many votes that
they could not show where the num-
Der of members existed. More infor-
nation about the miners election can
be had in John Brophy's circular of
May 28th, 1927 to the International
Executive Board of the U. M. w. of
A. and to the membership, and in the
tabulated report of the election in the
union.
THE non-union miners are working
under such conditions that l have
my doubts as to whether the public
would believe that human beings can
live under such conditions.
For instance man got job in one
of the mines of the coke region under
the following conditions: If he would
work in place to put it in working
condition; then he would be allowed
to work in that particular place to
earn his living. There was practically
three weeks of hard labor in this
place which this unfortunate miner
had to agree to do with NO PAY. He
knowing that this was the general
conditions in the non-union mines, got
down to work and completed it in two
weeks time. then the boss told him to
get to hell out of the place which the
man was forced to do without any
appeal, and the boss put his brother
in-law in the place which was prom
lsed to this man if he worked for
nothing the whole time required. Con-
ditions like these are very common
in the non-union fields.
| JUST short time ago, within the
last three weeks, there have been
several spontaneous strikes in the coke
region. At Allison mine over three
hundred non-union miners came out
on strike, at Mt. Bradock over two
hundred non-union miners came out
and at other places there are spon-
| taneous strikes, but still we see the
officials of the miners union paying
no attention to all of this.
THE officials are not even trying to
offer any help to the unfortunate
non-union miners, but they are spread
ing this poison among the rank and
file of the union, eve do not want
the non-union miners to come out on
strike, because if the non-union min
ers come out on strike then they will
come to the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and
other coal companies mines who are
trying to break the union who ran
their mines on union basis before"
Brothers can you imagine such low
down rot, such illogical arguments
Are we going to sit and allow the
tools of capitalism to sell us like this
If the officials of the miners union
are not, tools of capitalism consciously
then they are tools of capitalism I'M
consciously.
EFT US all get hEsy and raise the fol
- lowing issraes Organize the unor-
ganized. A ns%0nal strike for a ma
tional settlement. Decentralization OF
the miners union. Organize a Labor
Party. Get behind the Miners Relief
Conference" of Western Pennsylvania
No efficiency union out of the pres
ent union of the miners, but on the
contrary, to make the union a more
militant uniop out of the present
union. Force TIM officials to take up
the interests of the workers, by bring
ing pressure upon them from the rank
and file with the above slogans, by
letting the whole wrold knew what
we the rank and file desire.